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by drasticmeasures 8y ago
https://examine.com/supplements/melatonin/ See section 9.
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by drasticmeasures 8y ago
From the article: >The consensus stresses that melatonin is a very weak hypnotic. The Buscemi meta-analysis cites this as their reason for declaring negative results despite a statistically significant effect – the supplement only made p
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by drasticmeasures 8y ago
>well that's not good! The whole concept is a nightmare for our civil freedoms even if the tech was perfect -- precisely because of realistically being able to scale -- and must be protested until the whole idea is let go of. >in
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by drasticmeasures 8y ago
>Ignoring scale, I wonder how the tech's accuracy compares to london's team of human "super-recognizers." You can't ignore scale when it is the game-changer of automated facial recognition. The tech compares very
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by drasticmeasures 8y ago
It's a gradual worsening of civil freedoms and rights. Intrusive CCTV is intrusive. Facial recognition is more intrusive. It wouldn't be different from an impossibly high number of law enforcement officers keeping watch on everyon
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by drasticmeasures 8y ago
What are you going to do about it?
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by drasticmeasures 8y ago
And in gun-controlled areas? They would have to control the printers and the digital blueprints as well.
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by drasticmeasures 8y ago
It's on the Internet, so this goes beyond the US. I'm thinking gun-controlled areas or conflict areas. I'm also thinking how this potentially shuts down for the FBI entrapping wannabe-insurrectionaries by posing as weapons de
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by drasticmeasures 8y ago
Right now, people are commenting this will enable 3D-printed plastics , but there are mildly expensive (about $1000-$3000) 3D metal printers, and with a bit of metal-working and gun-smithing skill it should be possible to mass manufacture
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by drasticmeasures 8y ago
What way is that?
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by drasticmeasures 8y ago
How are they going to get bullets in gun-controlled places?
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by drasticmeasures 8y ago
Might as well title it "Woman game-dev and meant-well co-worker lose their jobs over immature 'mansplaining' Twitter fight turned political." The chain of events: 1. A woman game dev posts something work-related. Innocuo
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by drasticmeasures 8y ago
Because of the zombies.
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by drasticmeasures 8y ago
Publicizing having removed an egg from a salad emoji makes sense in the corporate definition of "inclusiveness". It's a cute, out-of-touch PR move.
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by drasticmeasures 8y ago
What is "the N.R.A. for the Left"? If they mean "an important organization for loosely-grouped together political factions" then they didn't have to annoyingly namedrop the odious N.R.A. as if the two should ever fa
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by drasticmeasures 8y ago
What I'm finding instead is that, in some sub-fields, psychology isn't developed enough to give life advice that's not going to be contradicted later, no matter if it's Stanford scholars or not.
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by drasticmeasures 8y ago
It is infinitely easier to pass a law than to change humanity. Personally, I accept the Internet as it is.
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by drasticmeasures 8y ago
I agree. You can know them well-enough for practical purposes; sometimes they will surprise you. As an aside, I think the antonym of "lonely" is "understood", and when you empathize with someone, you put yourself in thei
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by drasticmeasures 8y ago
Trying to fully understand a living person is as futile as trying to pin down a river so you can dissect it. That is, a person is capable of changing like the flow of a river, and while you can analyze who they were in the past, and -- if
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by drasticmeasures 8y ago
Is there a real solution to combat the hate filled and violent cesspool the internet has become today? A possible solution is to outlaw what fundamentally makes the Internet "free" and "open", destroying