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by daxorid 8y ago
The worse you feel the next day is entirely caused by dehydration This is demonstrably untrue, and trvial to prove to oneself. A more significant contributor is GABA adaptation and up-regulation by the CNS. I'm not downplaying dehydr
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by daxorid 8y ago
Your premise is reasonable, but the "mainstream media lies" movement is rooted firmly in reality, so root cause analysis points elsewhere. From the Russian collusion narrative, to the Avenatti client claims, to the Covington schoo
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by daxorid 8y ago
Indeed. Human beings have many, many examples to suggest that we lack agency, as well. Why do addiction, obesity, crimes of passion, etc exist? Without the baggage of the limbic system and dopamine-seeking behaviors, it's quite easy to
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by daxorid 8y ago
I'll agree that things are better engineered than they were previously. But this often comes at the cost that modern devices, in particular, are very difficult to repair. Growing up, when there was a failure in a refrigerator, televisi
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Correlation is still quite easy in that scenario, unless you're sharing that VPS with a thousand other people. NSA has your international traffic logged and timestamped. If you're doing nefarious activity from a non-MLAT country&#
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by daxorid 8y ago
Eyewitness testimony is also extraordinarily inaccurate, but courts overwhelmingly consider it as strong evidence of guilt. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/do-the-eyes-have-...
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by daxorid 8y ago
What is the moral (not legal - obviously she's entitled legally) justification that simply "being there" from the beginning entitles one to half of the fruits of a person's labor?
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by daxorid 8y ago
because it's more interesting to predict rapid advances than slow ones I suspect it's more that futurists think in terms of our engineering efforts being poured primarily into things that advance humanity, rather than the adtech
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by daxorid 8y ago
Do you have a source for this? My understanding is that IVF babies have more problems because you are scraping the proverbial bottom of the barrel in terms of egg (or sperm) quality to begin with.
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by daxorid 8y ago
A few key missing features: - You can't write off or expense three martini lunches and golf excursions with a PostgreSQL sales rep. - When you deal with unavailability, you can't point to the PostgreSQL support SLA's four hou
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by daxorid 8y ago
OP posted an ethical argument, not a legal one. The particular legal precedent in one's jurisdiction is orthogonal to the moral question of breaking a lifelong oath.
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by daxorid 8y ago
We already lack freedom of association. In the United States, a business is not free to discriminate against certain classes of people, or on the basis of certain things. The only question is what is the precise coefficient of friction on t
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by daxorid 8y ago
As a customer of Network Solutions, I can answer this: without persistent legal threats and follow-through, it's impossible to transfer a domain out to a cheaper provider. The transfer form doesn't work. Emailing doesn't wo
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by daxorid 8y ago
Waiters don't do ANY of what you suggest they do. 1. They can't choose a place to your liking, because they are assigned to specific zones of the restaurant. At best, you can request the host/hostess for a particular location
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by daxorid 8y ago
fmt.Printf() debugging is always a time-honored tradition.
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by daxorid 8y ago
Because 2018 sexual dogma is quite firm on the position that "N count" is entirely irrelevant when selecting a partner and that you are either a pig, a slut-shamer, or a misogynist bigot for even inquiring. Any evidence that &quot
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by daxorid 8y ago
I don't know what sort of luminosity a GRB would have at 8k LY. But if it's strong enough to be an ELE, that's still a pretty short timeframe, in case the expected GRB jets will be pointed at us. We'd need to not only ge
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by daxorid 8y ago
Because we already have a functioning fusion reactor. Utility-scale PV now costs only $43/MWh. Investing in developing fusion reactors makes very little economic sense compared with capturing the output of the fusion reactor we already
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by daxorid 8y ago
It's not just supermarkets. For most of recent history in the West, it's been fairly normal for homes to maintain a larder, root cellar, pantry, or other long-term food storage as a buffer against both economic and supply-related
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by daxorid 8y ago
NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/16/health/male-sperm-count-p... LS: https://www.livescience.com/22694-global-sperm-count-decline...
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by daxorid 8y ago
Proteins are broken down into constituent amino acids during digestion anyway, so as long as it has a similar (complete) amino profile as, say, albumin or chicken, it should in theory be fine.
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by daxorid 8y ago
Usually the kind of people who esteem journalists as philosopher-kings, and the organizations who employ them as paragons of perfect, unassailable virtue. The Fourth Estate is not to be criticized.
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by daxorid 8y ago
When a business with a fiduciary duty to its shareholders takes a political stance, it always is.
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by daxorid 8y ago
This is one of the stronger conclusions by, of all things, $TSLAQ Twitter. The conclusion is derived from the fact that Elon's plane made two very recent visits to D.C., that none of the actual salespeople were prepared, and that there
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by daxorid 8y ago
What changed my mind was holding my (unplanned) daughter in my arms for the first time. I've posted a little about this before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17473013
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by daxorid 8y ago
> We simply have a drive to have sex. What? Take even a cursory glance at any IVF, PCOS, or infertility support group, and observe the outpouring of fundamental NEED and the grief of unfulfilling that need. Humans absolutely have a drive
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by daxorid 8y ago
The truly important thing to realize is that the 10y yield has fallen back to 3.15% already. What this tells us is that no matter how much debt we rack up, the rest of the world will fund our profligacy at whatever bid we demand not only at
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by daxorid 8y ago
1. Most central bank economists have abandoned the standard of price stability, and now target a specific CPI number. The Fed targets 2%, for example. 2. A 50 car pileup will employ EMS personnel, hospital staff, tow truck drivers, road cle
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by daxorid 8y ago
Matt Prince already decided "what can be on the internet" when he banned Daily Stormer. As far as Cloudflare is concerned, that ship already sailed.
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by daxorid 8y ago
Thank you for your contributions to this site, Shawn. The thoughtcrime enforcement is unfortunate. There are plenty who silently agree with you, but are afraid to even so much as upvote for obvious reasons. Thanks again.

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