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by eigenrick 4y ago
I tend to enjoy sports and manual labor, so end up sweating all over my glasses a few times a week. Because of this, the oil removal process is the piece in which I'm most interested. I have used a glass cleaner spray bottle (which was
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by eigenrick 4y ago
My Indonesian friend introduced me to tempeh, which has to be one of the most versatile (and healthy) foods. You can toast it for a quick snack, but it disappears into nearly every type of sweet or savory dish, or it can be the main attract
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by eigenrick 4y ago
I absolutely agree that we should be conscious of privilege and (dis)advantages that we've had in life. I also agree that the focus should be on improving income, and being able to answer "yes" to all of the questions in that
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by eigenrick 4y ago
Oregon State has approved the dosing of psilocybin during therapy sessions, but only to be administered by licensed therapists. So far, there is quite a bit of evidence that two sessions of psilocybin dosing in a controlled environment does
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by eigenrick 4y ago
The first episode was rough, there are some stellar sketches and acting after that though. I'm only to episode 4, but I love how their writing and acting has grown up a bit. The apocalypse DJ really got me.
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by eigenrick 4y ago
I'm pretty sure that caffeine doesn't increase most people's productivity. Any mental performance ascribed to caffeine in studies is always due to removing withdrawal symptoms. It doesn't increase them past their baselin
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by eigenrick 4y ago
Twitter is definitely a bad place for nuanced discussion. I disagree about the 'and al', though. Other platforms are much better for for long form communication and open discussion, e.g. Reddit, Zulip, etc.
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by eigenrick 4y ago
As much as I worry about online bullying (not quite legally hate speech, but obviously hate speech) and also misinformation (anti-vax, etc), I think that anything that squelches the ability to have open discussions on any topic is wrong. I
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by eigenrick 4y ago
If people are participating in social media, then by that very nature, it doesn't qualify. If people want to yell "Fake News" on social media, then, they're participating in the debate.
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by eigenrick 4y ago
Touché :)
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by eigenrick 4y ago
Great quote, but it's out of context unless you use the whole thing. Specifically the qualifier where suppression should be used where people adamantly refuse rational argument and attempt to suppress the engagement of rational argumen
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by eigenrick 4y ago
Leveraging social media to create a divide is a symptom of the problem. The underlying problem is the sheer amount of money and power to be gained by winning in America's 2-party system. So much so, that winning at all costs is the no
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by eigenrick 5y ago
Absolutely. All he needs to do is dig up the 100 million dollars he has buried around his yard so that he can scale to the point that taking a 300% hit on materials doesn't affect him. Or maybe he should spend some of his billions to b
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by eigenrick 5y ago
> The fact of the matter is most small businesses are crap businesses. > They also abuse their workers in ways big business can't get away with, both illegally and legally. Really? You know this to be a fact? It appears that the
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by eigenrick 5y ago
Blindly attacking one side or the other, further creating a rift between the left and the right (or any groups within America) is the thing that Putin really wants. So congratulations. I'm not a right-winger, but I live in a very right
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by eigenrick 5y ago
> Several APIs that make powerful web applications possible are missing (e.g. WebUSB, various filesystem access APIs) and Firefox generally tends to lag behind Chrome when it comes to new APIs/web features. WebUSB may not be the bes
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by eigenrick 5y ago
I think this post assumes that Firefox is an inferior browser, and that the cause is mismanagement. But is Firefox an inferior browser? I think it used to be, but over the last couple years, it has made massive improvements in features a
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by eigenrick 5y ago
I was that guy. I didn't even know ISPs didn't like it. I thought that's just how you got into the interwebs without running that obnoxious, buggy faux winsock client.
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by eigenrick 5y ago
Interesting takeaway from the paper: The paragraph titled: "Airborne longevity appears similar for different SARS-CoV-2 variants" and Figure 4. So they take strain into account, and it doesn't seem to effect things. Note I&#x
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by eigenrick 5y ago
For a counterpoint: "How coronavirus survives for hours in aerosols" https://aip.scitation.org/doi/full/10.1063/5.0059908
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by eigenrick 5y ago
That's my hope as well, but I think it's mostly wishful thinking. Best case: Omicron gives everyone a baseline resistance, so that future mutations are more like the flu. We'll get new mutations a couple times a year. Some wi
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by eigenrick 5y ago
I, for one, thought he was hilarious. I wish he were my dad.
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by eigenrick 5y ago
> it doesn't sound honest to call them "hysterical", as the favorite insult goes right now. You're right. I don't blame the people for their excessive fear of the virus. I blame the media and politicians
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by eigenrick 5y ago
I'm not a virologist, but I interpret "omicron has a likelihood of 88% to escape current vaccines" as being rather ineffective. I've not found similar stats for Delta or other, but the authors of this paper seem to indi
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by eigenrick 5y ago
I think the issue is that public policy is based around two flawed notions that omicron has brought to light: 1. The vaccines will become decreasingly relevant, unless we can provide technology to update vaccines as quickly as they mutate.
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by eigenrick 5y ago
I agree about the vaccines. I misstated. I should have said "vaccines don't stop (or apparently slow) the spread of the omicron strain". Vaccines do help reduce the severity of symptoms, though. I guess my issue is that a lot
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by eigenrick 5y ago
As I type this, I'm infected with Covid. I have a wife and three kids, all tested positive. The oldest complained of a sore throat for one day, the others were "a bit tired" for two days. I've had it the worst. I had i
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by eigenrick 5y ago
I see this argument thrown around a lot. It seems like previous research has also indicated that this was the case. However, I have some questions: 1. If "The Rich" (This paper defines them as the top 1% income earners) having t
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by eigenrick 5y ago
I think the point is not that it's taking money from the rich. I mean, that's a necessary part of it. The point is that that money is forced to recirculate in the system. The thing people seem to forget is that taxed money doesn&
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by eigenrick 5y ago
You are correct. Murders in most cities matched or exceeded their previous records from the 80s or 90s. But the population in most of those cities is almost double. The population of Portland has increased by 92% since 1987, but the murders

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