darpa_escapee

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by darpa_escapee 8y ago
Anti-vaxxers aren't known for their critical thinking skills. If the CDC was completely transparent, they'd find a way to spin that into evidence of anti-vax claims.
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by darpa_escapee 8y ago
> PWAs make sense today, but back then, they just came too early in the game. Seemed to work well enough on webOS for the Palm Pre.
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by darpa_escapee 8y ago
This reminds me of, and has me nostalgic about, TinyApps[1]. [1] https://tinyapps.org/
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by darpa_escapee 8y ago
Or buying cheaper phones. A Xaomi phone can suit a user's needs just as well as a $999 Samsung S10+.
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by darpa_escapee 8y ago
I mean, that kind of begets the problem. Addiction wouldn't exist if people could control their drug use in the first place. I'm sure plenty of addictions started with "I'll only do this once" or "this is just
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by darpa_escapee 8y ago
I know someone who is incontinent because of ketamine, and yet still chooses to do it. Not exactly the least addictive drug out there.
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by darpa_escapee 8y ago
Metrics are "will this push more users to use the mobile app/give us more ad impressions vs ???"
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by darpa_escapee 8y ago
No. It's buggy, slow and looks terrible on a desktop/laptop. Not only does it look awful via mobile, it is practically unusable on a phone. If they cared about usability or user experience, they wouldn't have 3 different remi
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by darpa_escapee 8y ago
Context matters.
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by darpa_escapee 8y ago
No. The CCP has literal ownership in Chinese firms in the form of equity.
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by darpa_escapee 8y ago
There are lot of things that should be the government's job, but aren't. In lieu of that, Google is responsible for its own actions, and Google is the one who is deciding to pay some contractors $15/hr.
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by darpa_escapee 8y ago
> Why are so many years of studies/paperwork needed? Why not just produce the drug and let people take it (who know the above risks)? That could happen as soon as this afternoon. We tried this and got snake-oil and Bayer Heroin. A
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by darpa_escapee 8y ago
Including "natural flavors" in an ingredients list is a way to incorporate any number of undisclosed substances in a product. No substance obscured by the "natural flavors" label needs to go through any safety testing o
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by darpa_escapee 8y ago
Dopamine blockade isn't significantly induced by doses of Seroquel used for sleep. Although it and its metabolites do have action at certain dopamine receptors, lower doses will first occupy other receptors that they have a higher bind
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by darpa_escapee 8y ago
> I don't know if you're allowed to do that, maybe there is no guarantee that every grain contains the same amount of medication? There are entire fields of material science dedicated to this problem. Generally, if a single p
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by darpa_escapee 8y ago
> You should definitely get your doctor involved in this process. Doctors are often ignorant of the need to taper benzos over a long-term period, and not rapidly. Some might see you coming to them with a problem quitting an often abuse
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by darpa_escapee 8y ago
> It was far more the over dependence on one variety and potatoes being such a large part of diet from tiny farms being so common. Presumably from having been divided too many times on inheritance. Tenant farmers, by virtue of their t
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by darpa_escapee 8y ago
How marketable do prescription drugs need to be to have their R&D funded?
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by darpa_escapee 8y ago
> That said, a lot of homelessness happens as a result of mental illnesses like drug addiction or schizophrenia, or degenerative diseases like Alzheimers Those with mental illnesses who are also homeless are more visible, but the major
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by darpa_escapee 8y ago
The Great Irish Famine is less about potato blight and more about an economic system that saw the majority of crops grown during famine exported for profit, while those who tilled the soil were forced to rely on a single monoculture crop to
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by darpa_escapee 8y ago
> I use a Macbook and a Linux (Kubuntu 19.10) desktop, and I vastly prefer the Linux desktop for UX. How's the battery life? I used to use Linux as my daily driver until about 2015, but grew tired of replacing batteries in laptops t
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by darpa_escapee 8y ago
If the user can verify their vote, then they can be coerced to verify their vote by, say, their boss, or be bribed into voting a certain way. Does this system address that concern?
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by darpa_escapee 8y ago
Which is irrelevant, because session cookies don't need a warning. There is no reason to equivocate session cookies with tracking cookies.
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by darpa_escapee 8y ago
I'm only damning MrTonyD's ignorance of politics, you're preaching to the choir.
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by darpa_escapee 8y ago
I can think of several gas stations, liquor stores and convenience stores that sell neither nicotine gum, patches nor lozenges. They all sell cigarettes, though.
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by darpa_escapee 8y ago
> My concern is not that e-cigs are dangerous (they might be, but they're very probably not more dangerous than actual tobacco), but that e-cigs' perceived safety might eventually get people, a lot of them, to start actually s
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by darpa_escapee 8y ago
Dupont, Monsanto et al. have been the target of leftist rhetoric for many decades.
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by darpa_escapee 8y ago
We also pay for it now through taxes: uncollectible medical debt from those who can't afford to pay their medical expenses will be written off at tax time.
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by darpa_escapee 8y ago
> Why do people take their health for granted? This is a very myopic view, one that I guess makes you lucky to have. Health insurance is expensive. On the individual market, premiums have more than doubled between 2011 and 2018[1]. Emplo
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by darpa_escapee 8y ago
> essentially turning all purchasers into unpaid neural network training practitioners. Pretty sure customer data isn't uploaded en masse to train networks at Tesla.

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