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by garmaine 5y ago
To the best of my knowledge the first COVID vaccine dose immune response is not short-term, except in the sense that it is weaker and therefore will fade below an effective level in a smaller amount of time. But it fades at the same rate as
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by garmaine 5y ago
It requires no such thing. Police have argued (successfully) many times in many jurisdictions that the mere possession of large amounts of cash is suspicious in and of itself, and being able to show legal sources is pointless because the ar
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by garmaine 5y ago
No because once your money is charged (not you, your money) it is very difficult to get standing to fight it unless you luck out with the judge or something. And no matter the outcome the cop never sees consequences because of qualified imm
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by garmaine 5y ago
> so if a cop pulls you over you can prove it is documented/part of a ‘legal’ source Which the cop will promptly ignore and take the money anyway.
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by garmaine 5y ago
Don’t. Sorry but if you don’t understand an investment, don’t make it. If you do, consider whatever money you put in to be lost and plan accordingly.
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by garmaine 5y ago
It is Converse that makes these decisions, no? The IRS just does what it is told.
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by garmaine 5y ago
Having the labs make a new strain of vaccine is relatively trivial. You just change the sequence that is being replicated.
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by garmaine 5y ago
It’s already done. It just doesn’t have FDA approval…
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by garmaine 5y ago
Oh there was so much wrong with that book. That was just the final straw.
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Which, again, would be a fantastically amazing discovery, perhaps the greatest ever in the history of science. A physicist would be salivating at the possibilities. But iirc it started off with a whole history of physics grad students offin
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by garmaine 5y ago
Besides those authors others have mentioned in sibling comments, give Alastair Reynolds a try. All of his work is hard sci-fi and very good.
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by garmaine 5y ago
> I actually liked that concept, and I think if participle experiments unexpectedly stopped working a lot of scientists would lose heart. Actual physicist here. We LIVE for that moment when the experiment does something unexpected. That’
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by garmaine 5y ago
This is not my subfield so I may be talking out of my depth, but it feels like you are conflating two different concepts. There is a physics assumption that laws are universal, then there is a cosmological assumption that energy distributio
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by garmaine 5y ago
I thought it was the strong equivalence principle in general relatively, or the (nameless?) assumption that the same laws of physics hold true everywhere. Regardless, my question was about the part of the quote which said: "which we no
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by garmaine 5y ago
> for example, look how much relies off the idea that the universe is the same everywhere, which we now know as wrong What is this in reference to?
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LedgerX.
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by garmaine 5y ago
On BTC/USDT markets. It will collapse the USD/BTC markets that futures contracts use.
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by garmaine 5y ago
No. The proper boundaries are between galaxy clusters, which remain gravitationally bound to each other. If you can reach a cluster such that its gravity is strong than the expansion of the universe, then you can reach every part of that cl
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by garmaine 5y ago
Not with that attitude! Longevity escape velocity is achievable within our lifetimes.
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With or without JK Rowling?
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by garmaine 5y ago
I don’t know, and it doesn’t matter. Speculation only leads to bad outcomes for people who don’t deserve it.
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by garmaine 5y ago
If any of his books need a movie (or HBO series), it is probably Cryptonomicon. Even more relevant now than when it was written with the rise of crypto currency.
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by garmaine 5y ago
He is not. First of all there is nothing new or unique about the above. Cypherpunks we’re discussing digital gold for a decade and a half prior to Bitcoin. Second, during this time and until years after the release of Bitcoin, he has been o
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by garmaine 5y ago
It’s time may still come…
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…so?
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by garmaine 5y ago
That’s not what decode(“hex”) does though. It takes strings in whatever encoding and turns 0-9,a-f into bytes. In Python 3 it would presumably return a bytes object instead, which you could then hypothetically call encode(“hex”) on. But the
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What do people use instead?
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So? `.decode(“hex”)` still makes sense on a string, and was >95% of the encode/decode calls I had.
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by garmaine 5y ago
Another former Python dev, now rust dev… give it a try. I have trouble putting it in words, but Rust has the feeling of ease of expressiveness that makes Python fun to work with, but with a top notch static typing system. Lots of former Pyt
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by garmaine 5y ago
If the hash function does its job at mixing input, this is no different than applying just the final hash. (With the technical caveat that doing at least two serial hashes does improve the properties of the hash function by defending agains

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