cleansingfire

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by cleansingfire 5y ago
He has done some exciting work, but he hasn't done any physics in ages. If you don't (by choice or ability) do the work to prove your ideas, you can't expect anyone else to. If he wants to revolutionize physics, he can't
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by cleansingfire 5y ago
P2P synthesis was the standard until it became hard to get (controlled) and that's when ephedrine and pseudoephedrine reduction became popular, despite much higher precursor cost. The reduction pathway is also easier, but because it&#x
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by cleansingfire 5y ago
No. The war on drugs was an acknowledged political act to disenfranchise black people and the anti (Vietnam) war movement. Lopez, German (March 22, 2016). "Nixon official: real reason for the drug war was to criminalize black people an
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by cleansingfire 5y ago
I've heard trespass used that way in the US (prosecute for trespassing) by police officers. It surprised me, but was perfectly clear in context.
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by cleansingfire 5y ago
I'd downvote this comment as irrelevant whining. Most people who read this didn't downvote you, so you're just wasting our time.
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by cleansingfire 5y ago
Almost: This anecdote is in the novel _Cat's Cradle_. His subsequent novels did not have indexes that I recall.
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by cleansingfire 5y ago
No, some people need more than the commercial supplements provide. That's the point. The effective range varies by an order of magnitude. The author denies the actual variety of human needs.
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by cleansingfire 5y ago
And not to be a dick about it (unless absolutely necessary.)
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by cleansingfire 5y ago
Sure, and I look forward to it. The quote was "everyone... now" but I agree with your modified sentiment.
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by cleansingfire 5y ago
I just splurged and bought a very used Prius for $3,400, when my $400 car was stolen. I can't afford an EV. Many oriole can't. That dictate just ensures fewer people will be able to afford a car. Which might work with decent publi
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by cleansingfire 5y ago
I personally frame any cancelled perq as an effective pay cut. Usually portrayed by management as somehow expected, & as if unearned in the first place, which I find galling. I also had an experienced coworker who pointed out that when
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by cleansingfire 5y ago
Also, dc was the math engine for the old RSA in five lines of perl. http://www.cypherspace.org/rsa/pureperl.html Clearly a powerful tool.
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by cleansingfire 5y ago
No Python on these although I love the TI CAS.
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by cleansingfire 5y ago
While the aliased sample is sharper, I experience an unpleasant artifact in that version based on the halftone dots lining up with pixels, with an effect like grid illusion. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grid_illusion?
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by cleansingfire 5y ago
If there was liquid with vapor benign in your use case, you could substitute that. Also, since you're doing compression, you would have less water vapor than with something like a water aspirator (vacuum ejector, or Venturi effect vacu
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by cleansingfire 5y ago
He tells compelling stories with intoxicating ideas, but little that's actionable or testable. _Blink_ basically claimed that our intuitive and first decisions are made for real reasons, and often have merit of their own. No surprise,
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by cleansingfire 5y ago
So to update, it has been appealed: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/federal-judge-orders-lo...
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by cleansingfire 5y ago
Interesting that no mention is made of appeal. Is the city willing to embark on this without challenging it? That's almost too much to hope for, so I hate to assume.
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by cleansingfire 5y ago
Love this since I saw it ages ago, and despite a bit of Burrough's woo, it helped me to be careful, and strive for physical grace, in the things I'm doing. Personally, I tended to physical extravagance, and enjoyed that as a goofy
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by cleansingfire 5y ago
It actually has a pretty clear meaning: 99.9% means that someone ignorant (or lacking integrity) wants to project unrealistic certainty. That's what that phrase communicates.
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by cleansingfire 5y ago
Slash and burn is ancient agriculture, too. While Wikipedia calls it sustainable, it was only sustainable with approximately no humans, resulting in functionally unlimited land. Larger populations can't wait for the forest regrowth par
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by cleansingfire 5y ago
Not being posh has been fashionable before. A fashion for dropping terminal g existed the upper classes in the 1920's UK. Dorothy L. Sayer's Lord Peter Wimsey did this, and it was fascinating to hear this affectation in the 1970&#
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by cleansingfire 6y ago
Assuming it works, I'm interested in its limitations. At various complexity levels, there are subsets of problems that yield easily, like unsafe primes in RSA, or trivially, how I can instantly get one factor of an even composite. Schn
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by cleansingfire 6y ago
Segmenting their market, just like overcharging for underperforming Tesla cards for ai loads. What if they just tried to make good stuff, instead of slicing & dicing to prevent us from using the hardware how we want. Contemptible.
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by cleansingfire 6y ago
They fixed the problem, but turning off the alert.
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by cleansingfire 6y ago
When I lived in East Palo Alto, it was the murder capital of the US. With a carjacking attempt 75' from my front door (foiled by returning with a pistol before they could restart my car) I miss that time not at all.
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by cleansingfire 6y ago
Now I'm motivated to make an Escher christmas cookie cutter. Thank you!
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by cleansingfire 6y ago
He chose to trust his love. He was not certain she would save him, since she was not certain herself. He knew she was jealous. Her had a choice between a quick death and a life without his love (which I wouldn't romanticise, love being
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by cleansingfire 6y ago
Determination is orthogonal to happiness. Survivor guilt over what may have been done to survive, demonstrates this.
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by cleansingfire 6y ago
After an aggressive post sales upsell call: "You must buy more licenses" I laughed at them, dropped them, and they went on my "I Don't Work With Bastards" list. Of course one doesn't always have a choice, but w

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