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by cowboysauce 5y ago
>Who is the "we" who wants to keep "in sync" with the Earth's rotation to such high precision? The military is a big one. ICBMs still use celestial navigation to determine their position and adjust their trajecto
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by cowboysauce 5y ago
Here's another viewpoint: just because there's no job that I I would enjoy doing doesn't mean that I don't enjoy anything. There are so many things that I enjoy doing, but no company is going to pay me 100K a year to jus
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by cowboysauce 5y ago
>And it's sad that people associate having a sugary beverage as a 'good time with friends.' Lets enjoy poison together?! :-/ Oh boy, just wait until you learn about alcohol.
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by cowboysauce 5y ago
The article cites research that shows that the percentage of Americans with 10+ close friends have dropped from 33 to 13 percent since 1990. I wonder how much of that can be attributed to a change is what is considered a close friend? Just
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by cowboysauce 5y ago
If you're traveling at 0.9c then there will be significant time dilation. Since velocity is relative, both parties will see each other as severely time dilated which can lead to somebody receiving a reply to a message before they send
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by cowboysauce 5y ago
A lot of chemotherapy agents works by causing DNA damage and are therefore carcinogenic themselves.
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by cowboysauce 5y ago
Despite my initial comment, I'm pro-hairdryer. If it works when nothing else does, then do it. I'm even pro-hairdryer in the sense that it could be used as a stop gap until the patient learns more effective ways to manage their OC
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by cowboysauce 5y ago
That's strange. My impression came from his article about the Chamber of Guf where he talks about pure OCD, but it sounds like he's only read about it and never actually met someone with it. I wonder if the disconnect is in taking
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by cowboysauce 5y ago
I've read most of Scott's blog posts and he rarely mentions OCD and when he does it tends to be "this is what I think people with OCD experience" and not "this is what my patients have told me" which leads me t
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by cowboysauce 6y ago
I don't see how that's inconsistent. Slice is used to describe things that are cut from a larger whole, particularly for food, while paper is manufactured as sheets.
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by cowboysauce 6y ago
>(brown dwarfs that very likely were red dwarfs before) This is incorrect. Red dwarfs will end their lives as black dwarfs. However, no black dwarfs are currently expected to exist because the universe is not old enough yet. Red dwarfs,
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by cowboysauce 6y ago
Most people who know ASL can also communicate in English, but language skills are a spectrum and some people may know enough to get by in daily life, but may not know enough English to understand more complicated topics. It's really no
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by cowboysauce 6y ago
> Knowing full well what it would think of James Joyce, I skipped over him I like to imagine that Finnegans Wake would result in a crash.
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by cowboysauce 6y ago
> It’s absolutely bonkers that two fairly different sign languages exist for the same base spoken language. Sign languages are not based off of spoken languages. Sign languages are languages with their own grammar and vocabulary. They ar
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by cowboysauce 6y ago
It’s more efficient to burn natural gas directly for heat than to use it to generate electricity which is then used for heating. Typical gas turbines are around 40% efficient, plus a few percent for transmission loses. Though apparently the
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by cowboysauce 6y ago
ERCOT does have shutdowns agreements in place, but there’s a limit to what you can do when simultaneously facing record demand and having ~30,000 MW of capacity go offline. For comparison, on Sunday evening demand was roughly 70,000 MW.
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by cowboysauce 6y ago
>This seems like more of a reason to push for rolling out wireless connectivity in places of natural beauty I cannot state how strongly I. disagree. Part of the appeal of these places is that you are completely cut off. Destroying that f
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by cowboysauce 6y ago
I'd explain it as being irrelevant to this particular conversation since credit/debit cards would also be affected by hyperinflation. Though you'd have the advantage of not having to push a wheelbarrow full of cash around.
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by cowboysauce 6y ago
>Has anyone found a use for cash outside financing criminal operations? I’ve gone camping and hiking in plenty of places that have no cellular service so cash is the only way to pay the fees. >The fact that a hundred dollar bill is wo
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by cowboysauce 6y ago
I’m skeptical that dead drops of items purchased on the dark net is common. It seems like too many competing factors that would make it impractical. Your customers are limited to your immediate geographic area and those who are willing to s
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by cowboysauce 6y ago
> The point of national parks isn’t to preserve wilderness for the sake of preservation. The point is recreation. The national parks service philosophy is very preservationist. They advise people to follow guidelines that are literally c
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by cowboysauce 6y ago
Public health agencies have been encouraging people to lose weight and exercise more for decades. I doubt that COVID-19 is going to motivate people where diabetes and heart disease have failed.
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by cowboysauce 6y ago
I guess I must just have a high natural tolerance to psychedelics, or maybe weight matters more than people say it does.
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by cowboysauce 6y ago
Posts like this always make me feel like I’m doing psychedelics wrong somehow because I can never relate to them. I’ve done mushrooms 3 times, LSD once, and I’ve never felt that way. I recently did 3.5g of mushrooms and yeah, there were fra
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by cowboysauce 6y ago
The wikipedia article for Psilocybin has all of the above. >Psilocybin [...] is a prodrug that is converted into [...] psilocin [...] This chemical reaction takes place under strongly acidic conditions And for metabolism >Psilocin is
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by cowboysauce 6y ago
The lemon-tek method of consuming psilocybin mushrooms isn’t related to this. Acidic conditions speed up the conversion of psilocybin into psilocin. This normally happens in your stomach, the lemon-tek method just does externally. This caus
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by cowboysauce 6y ago
Because it would increase the number of medications that interact with each other. E.g. you're taking medications A and B, but now A and B come with the potentiating compounds in the pills. So taking both of them could be dangerous. Yo
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by cowboysauce 6y ago
I wonder how the perceptual distortions of time that some psychedelics can cause play in with this hypothesis. Psilocybin mushrooms, in particular, can make time seem to pass incredibly slowly. They do have a tendency to make things more in
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by cowboysauce 6y ago
That layer of Venus’ atmosphere isn’t habitable even for Earth extremeophiles. It’s true that the pressure and temperature are similar to that of the Earth, but the only water there is contained in droplets of nearly pure sulfuric acid. No
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by cowboysauce 6y ago
Those regions contain an unknown substance that absorb UV light. There is currently no connection to this announcement. Though one of the possible causes of those regions is that they are caused by life in Venus’ atmosphere.

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