dudeofea

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by dudeofea 4y ago
man-made horrors beyond your comprehension, that's how.
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by dudeofea 4y ago
we're more chronically stressed now, which is the stress we are less adapted to. acute stress (followed by relaxation) is not only better than chronic stress, its better than no stress at all.
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by dudeofea 4y ago
If you're interested in a more nuanced view of hippies, read "Jester: Memoirs of a Retired Hippie" No one is objectively good because they are human after all. Hippies had good values, but also bad ones such as: uncleanliness
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by dudeofea 4y ago
I know electrical engineers that spend their whole day picking out doors for hydro-electric facilities and chemical engineers whose job is to sell various pipe valves. The programmer equivalent might be refactoring variable names to "i
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by dudeofea 4y ago
if what you are saying is that any deviation from the norm incurs a cost to your life, I agree. Some people are already abnormal so they can't pay that cost, but others can't pay simply because of some of the other choices they ha
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by dudeofea 4y ago
no, they just spent their (and other's) money on heroin
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by dudeofea 4y ago
Firefly was a mistake, in that the corporate machine made a mistake in not extracting all that it could from it in follow-up seasons, movies, sequels, etc. You know how good a movie is by how many sequels it took to kill it.
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by dudeofea 4y ago
Most people don't choose to be obese Obesity was rare a few decades ago Marketing and cheap price are the transmission vectors Both of which could be curtailed if the government chose PUFAs don't have to be cheap, just like cigare
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by dudeofea 4y ago
I can't speak to the second half of what you said, but for the first half: The jump is not as big as you think for any competent piece of automation. Using your example of a blacksmith upgraded to machine shop worker, then later upgrad
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by dudeofea 4y ago
I agree. Lab grown meat seems like a further step towards the preexisting industrialization of meat. Removing the sentience from cows does reduce animal suffering, though I wonder if other things couldn't be done to preserve genetic di
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by dudeofea 4y ago
The source of potato blight is from the genetic similarity of the potatoes grown, as potatoes clone themselves when grown from potato seed (small potatoes) rather than "true" potato seeds, from their flowers. They are naturally se
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by dudeofea 4y ago
does that include bioavailability of those calories to humans? from this anecdotal source: https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/sbfn6b/c... 1lb of grass to humans = 32kcals / lb 1lb o
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by dudeofea 4y ago
If it was evolutionarily optimized, it most likely is not the most efficient way of doing something but it most certainly is the most resilient way. Potato blight? soon to be available for: meat!
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by dudeofea 4y ago
catching covid always involves an infection of a respiratory tract (nose, mouth, etc) but not necessarily an infection in the bloodstream covid vaccines are always present in the bloodstream after injection, even if injected intra-muscularl
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by dudeofea 4y ago
how is it a nightmare? if you aren't getting that energy from natural gas, you'd mostly get it from a CO2 producing power plant, with efficiency losses going from heat (steam) -> electric -> heat (cooktop)
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by dudeofea 4y ago
"When Hausfather's team set pollution inputs in Hansen's model to correspond to actual historical levels, its projected temperature increases lined up with observed temperatures."
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by dudeofea 4y ago
Caveats: study is pre-omicron, and in a population that has a higher likelyhood of previous infection (nurses). Infection followed by vaccination leads to supposed "hybrid-immunity". These findings may not translate to those who d
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by dudeofea 5y ago
I'm not sure if that's the moral of that video. Just watched (had seen before), and his conclusion is that you shouldn't transmit power with low voltage because it means you need lots of current. HVDC has some tradeoffs over
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by dudeofea 5y ago
Also in Ontario: https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/long-term-care-pandemic-cov... >> Several of the assessments noted unsafe conditions that could help spread COVID-19, including instances where patients who
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by dudeofea 5y ago
having had a few hundred, I usually characterized mine as having the following timeline: 1. A few seconds of acute fear 2. 10 to 30 minutes of anxiety 3. An hour or two of cooldown before return to normal (initially it just drained all my e
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by dudeofea 5y ago
unlike many public health authorities, grujicd is forming a hypothesis and showing a method to attempt to prove said hypothesis. If you don't like it, you can suggest your own. In this way, a reader can deduce what they believe is the
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by dudeofea 5y ago
less oven space, need to replace entire stove, made in a factory and not at home. It is cleaner perhaps and more purpose-built. But I would not call that practical.
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by dudeofea 5y ago
You could try coppiced trees: https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2020/09/how-to-make-biomass-... They grow faster since they already have a root structure, the size is consistent and the wood is generally straigter (
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by dudeofea 5y ago
Haha, for a sec I thought you were going to link this: https://theethicalskeptic.com/2021/11/15/chinas-ccp-conceale...
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by dudeofea 5y ago
Dengue. The initial vaccine did not target all subtypes of dengue, causing "severe dengue" in infections after a naive individual was vaccinated. The same could happen if someone moved from one region to another, since the subtype
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by dudeofea 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec_Bridge#First_design_and...
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by dudeofea 5y ago
Here are some: https://archive.is/T23eV https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02187-1 I think it would help everyone if we all used specific terms when discussing covid infections. From what I&#x2
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by dudeofea 8y ago
Screw these other commenters saying you're a stubborn introvert. If I had a company, I would hire you. I have the same view. Micro management erodes trust, which deskills programmers. If you know the exact bounds of what a programmer t
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by dudeofea 10y ago
greate stuff! I feel that for things like this, the real problem to solve is getting it out to people, which might be why some programmers shy away from it. Though, I love stuff like this. Not everything needs to be disrupted by a pool of G