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by dmm 9y ago
The asbestos fibers have to get into your body in order to cause cancer so the physical form of the asbestos is very important.
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by dmm 9y ago
At least patents expire someday.
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by dmm 9y ago
Once the trust fund is exhausted, unless the law is changed, SS payouts are made equal to SS payroll taxes. This is projected to settle out to payments being ~70% of what has been promised.
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by dmm 9y ago
It's multi-faceted. Part of the desire to have kids is simply the desire to have children around. It's the idea that a community without children is incomplete. Children have many bad characteristics but they also have qualities t
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by dmm 9y ago
This is kind of a weird comment. The author wasn't really complaining so much about the physical process of creating a child as much as the burdens and difficulties of raising a child, which would be the same or worse with an adopted c
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by dmm 9y ago
Intel is also in trouble in the sense that they have multiple class action lawsuits filed against them regarding meltdown/spectre. Anything they publicly say will no doubt be used against them if possible.
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by dmm 9y ago
""" I state upfront that I have zero React experience because 99.999999% of tech companies want someone with 18 years of experience with a four-year-old JavaScript framework. I'm being facetious here but that requirement
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by dmm 9y ago
I was using the numbers for 2015. The years after that aren't significantly different. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/39/US_Feder...
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by dmm 9y ago
Social Security + Medicare + Medicaid is 50% of the federal budget. Defense is another 17%. So the purpose of the government is mostly income redistribution and defense.
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by dmm 9y ago
A short has an unlimited downside. A put contract has a fixed downside, the price of the contract, which is paid regardless of whether you exercise the option or not.
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by dmm 9y ago
Hopefully this is just growing pains and not the first signs of insolvency. MtGox stopped most USD withdrawals by June 2013 but didn't shutdown until Feb 2014.
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by dmm 9y ago
Google only asks you to login if it knows you have an account.
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by dmm 9y ago
You are wrong. Install the NoScript extension and you can see your site without js. NoScript also allows you to selectively enable js per site on a temporary or permanent basis. This is the default way that I and many other people browse t
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by dmm 9y ago
Pensions make a lot of sense mathematically. If I personally fund my retirement I have to save enough for the "worst" case scenario of living many years longer than average. A pension on the other hand only has to invest enough fo
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by dmm 9y ago
Beware the Cobra Effect! Incentives are hard, hard things to get right. "The term cobra effect originated in an anecdote set at the time of British rule of colonial India. The British government was concerned about the number of venomo
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by dmm 9y ago
ECC doesn't protect you from from all rowhammer problems because they can flip more than two bits at a time, the limit which ECC can detect. "Tests show that simple ECC solutions, providing single-error correction and double-error
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by dmm 9y ago
I've been drinking non-remineralized RO water almost exclusively since literally conception and I'm just fine. My daughter has done the same and she is fine. Water is potentially a source of minerals but a varied diet works just a
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by dmm 9y ago
You can use the in-kernel open source amdgpu driver with the proprietary opencl userspace by grabbing the tar and installing just the opencl .debs. Check out https://math.dartmouth.edu/~sarunas/amdgpu.html If you&#x27
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by dmm 9y ago
1. The vast majority of the cost of FDA regulation is in ensuring the effectiveness of medicines, yet whenever someone defends the purpose of the FDA they cite examples of medicine safety. 2. The FDA keeps arsenic out of our medicines and t
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by dmm 9y ago
Why not just package everything in literal money? People would dutifully rinse everything.
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by dmm 9y ago
It's very possible he never imagined* a non-mining full-node(as opposed to an spv node). Regardless full-nodes do enforce the consensus rules and reject invalid blocks. * Another phenomenon he didn't imagine was mining pools, whic
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by dmm 9y ago
You're right, a non-mining node still enforces the consensus rules. A non-mining node will reject any invalid blocks. Even if I controlled 100% of the mining hashrate I could not create a block that did something to violate the consens
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by dmm 9y ago
So if bought inflation-protected securities from the us treasury, they would have paid >300% from 2008 to now? Or does the us treasury use the journalist definition of inflation?
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by dmm 9y ago
UBI encourages marriage whereas traditional social programs discourage it. What's the problem?
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by dmm 9y ago
> Inflation is a monetary phenomenon. Is it? The US monetary base has more than tripled since 2008 but inflation since then is only 14.6%. For comparison between 1999 and 2008, the us monetary base increased by about a third and inflatio
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by dmm 9y ago
Hating people and life has always been popular with philosophers. Socrates' last words: "don’t forget to sacrifice a rooster to Asklepios". He's saying life is a disease and death the cure, warranting a sacrifice to the
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by dmm 9y ago
Here's a recent transaction with a $2 fee: https://blockchain.info/tx/704b0c6c19c8cfe1d16093552d5196a8f... For that $2 a transaction is forever recorded on thousands of nodes in a worldwide consensus network, sec
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by dmm 9y ago
> In practice this would probably look like a $5-50 monthly bill I divided my state's total transportation expenditures(including fed dollars)[1] by estimated miles driven in 2016[0] and I got 31.5 cents per mile[2]. Is that about t
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by dmm 9y ago
i386 in this context refers to 32bit intel x86 cpu architecture in general and generic pc compatibles specifically. OpenBSD currently runs on 486s and better: > All CPUs compatible with the Intel 80486 or better,[0] [0] https:/&#x2F
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by dmm 9y ago
Every port being self-hosting is a fundamental project value in OpenBSD. The reason being that they believe every port should be useful and functional, not just a novelty. And requiring that every port be self-hosting is a way to enforce th

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