cryoshon

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by cryoshon 7y ago
>Each of our ministries now has a team that is charged to say if we detect that there is a disinformation campaign going on, but before it reaches the masses, they're in charge to make within 60 minutes an equally or more convincing
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by cryoshon 7y ago
the issues shouldn't be related. the point of UBI is to maintain liquidity of goods and a baseline level of demand for goods amidst a financial environment of increasingly extreme economic inequality which would otherwise cause sharp c
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by cryoshon 7y ago
i would say that 90% of people do not have the talent for science/engineering that is necessary to succeed. and even if they did, that would just dilute the wages of those fields and make jobs harder to come by because there would be t
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by cryoshon 7y ago
if i still worked in the lab, i'd be all over this product, even if it's pricey. everyone has had to sit through powerpoint presentations with terrible clip art where a well-meaning colleague tries to explain their new hypothesis
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by cryoshon 7y ago
>Management where I work attempts to pressurize people and I just laugh. Yes, the "hustle" culture is right--so your boss's boss's boss can make $20M last year while you have to cut coupons. yep, that's what happ
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by cryoshon 7y ago
the trouble is that the burden is wrongly on consumers to file complaints with the FDA if they find that their generic medications are not performing in the way that they should. based on my experience inside the biotech/biopharma indu
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by cryoshon 7y ago
i am praying the duffel secret doesn't get out, because it'll lead to a crackdown. my "carry on" sized duffel is verifiably 3-5 inches larger than the maximum allowed dimensions, but i bring it on without a problem every
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by cryoshon 7y ago
when i was a kid i would read megatokyo because webcomics seemed like they were new and cool to me. then, i stopped reading eventually due to a combination of factors: 1. the jokes got stale, or i grew out of the humor 2. the plotline moved
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by cryoshon 7y ago
>Eventually I'd like to make enough from my technology work to become the publisher of a small investigative outlet where I could pay other people to research and write. look me up when you're ready. i've wanted to do some
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by cryoshon 7y ago
>What's unethical is to have your countrymen in a fight with substandard equipment that you could have helped them improve. if the fight's imminent or already on, sure. but most of the time weapons are made long before there is
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by cryoshon 7y ago
not exactly -- it's more that the money is in whatever they can get passed through clinical trials. if that's a cure, great. if not, it'll still sell. there is no inherent incentive to deliver a cure from a drug product, prov
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by cryoshon 7y ago
>Why would you think this would ever happen? oh, i don't think it will happen. but it wasn't remotely on the table before trump, and now it is remotely on the table, as shown by the wall we're building, the deportations, d
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by cryoshon 7y ago
>Realistically speaking, American's lives are practically no different than before Trump was elected before, my foreign-born spouse and me didn't have a "how to bail from the US in a hurry when shit goes sideways and they
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by cryoshon 7y ago
>I wonder if there's anything like disciplined leisure, where you concentrate on one thing intensively for a while, and you intentionally force yourself to let go of those thoughts, divert your attention to something else and let su
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by cryoshon 8y ago
they have a plan for this: reformulating old drugs for new indications. if drug X was originally made for condition Y but there is some inkling which suggests it could work for condition Z, they can commission a new round of trials and even
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by cryoshon 8y ago
of course they're targeting the Boston area; our city is the country's nexus of research and development in a plethora of fields, our culture is welcoming to foreigners at a time when most areas of the US are positively hateful, a
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by cryoshon 8y ago
i bought a GR2 a few years ago and it's the best backpack i've ever owned. it's a pleasure to use. i promise i'm not a shill, it really is an exceptional product. it looks attractive, bears weight far more comfortably th
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by cryoshon 8y ago
the oil needs to be left in the ground. the fact that we can save some nice animals by doing so is a bonus. the reality of climate change means that by proxy, greed is an existential threat that we need to be taking an aggressive dispositio
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by cryoshon 8y ago
i agree with the general trend that new platforms drive new growth, which is great. but they don't necessarily work out for the participants in the platforms, and in fact the very platforms themselves can be highly exploitative dependi
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by cryoshon 8y ago
i must disagree that the appetite is not there. consider this indian TV station: https://www.republicworld.com/livetv you will note that on the marquee at the top, one of the statements reads "DECISIVE BATTLE IS NEED O
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by cryoshon 8y ago
that's because i think regus is a real place for people who want a small office and who don't want to pay for extra frills. i was very pleased renting from regus, and i got an entire small office to myself and my friend for the pr
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by cryoshon 8y ago
>The happiest employees I see (at least outwardly) are those that fully buy in to the Koolaid and do not consider the nuance of what a company or technology enables. yep, this. those who focus on what is directly in front of them at all
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by cryoshon 8y ago
serving advertisements is unethical. i never consented to being attacked and constantly distracted by an endless ocean of ads, and yet that's what happens. there is no ad that is good. furthermore, advertisers do not have my interests
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by cryoshon 8y ago
very interesting medical case history. i assume that the guy had a metabolic disorder of some kind, although a unique gut microbiome might have been at play too.
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by cryoshon 8y ago
yes, i was the same way. my interest was sustained by simon ostrovsky's dispatches from the war in ukraine as well as the gonzo documentary hijinks of david choe's quest to hitchhike across the US. they have fallen a very long way
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by cryoshon 8y ago
the perspective that i think is missing from the article is that a lot of the drop in extreme poverty isn't the result of organized work by the world to curb misery. it's a result of the chinese economic boom which created the wor
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by cryoshon 8y ago
there are many problems with this article. let us begin to unravel them. problem one is claiming that this article is "the facts". it is not the facts. it is a PR piece. the subtitle of the article is "We need your informatio
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by cryoshon 8y ago
>We earn money by providing value to other people. And consequently, >The money you've earned represents value you've contributed to society. >This holds across almost every asset class and profit-making strategy in the m
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by cryoshon 8y ago
i'm interested in this. do you have any other studies?
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by cryoshon 8y ago
there's nothing to clear up. the statement is a non-denial denial when you read it closely.

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