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by gascan 9y ago
Caffeine certainly is a good, tame example. It's chemical effect is basically to block your brain from fatigue signals, perhaps analogous to anesthetic that blocks pain signals. It doesn't actually prevent fatigue, just as anesthe
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by gascan 9y ago
Rap is urban, and so is WeWork What do you call it when real life looks like satire? Maybe Silicon Valley will pick up on this.
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by gascan 9y ago
Hypothetically speaking, given the tremendous expense of accommodating cars and the necessary ridership needed to get public transit working well (e.g. the greater the bus ridership, the more routes & times), I could imagine this actual
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by gascan 9y ago
Yes, now thinking about it I think they had been asked about inventions of the 1900's.
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by gascan 9y ago
Clothes washing machines do seem to be one of the unmitigated "goods". Machines use less water, less energy, are gentler on clothes. Reportedly, manual clothes washing is also very hard on the body- physically laborious combined w
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by gascan 9y ago
consumer convenience often seems to be at odds with consumer well-being I've begun to think that's intrinsic, not anything nefarious. We long for convenience, laziness, sugar, etc. We're meant to want them, but never get mu
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by gascan 9y ago
I'm not well-versed, but the reason you see oxen dominant in antiquity is because the ox yoke is far simpler to make than horse collar. I'd be curious to hear about distinct advantages to plow horses. They must exist, otherwise no
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by gascan 9y ago
Mostly this reads like an argument for delta updates.
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by gascan 9y ago
If Huawei and ZTE put in back doors, and the CIA/FBI/NSA wants into your phone, then you'd expect they would want you to have a Huawei phone. After all, as oft repeated here, a backdoor is accessible to anybody, no matter w
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by gascan 9y ago
However, it is interesting there is no mention of Samsung then, right? Well, if you follow the news, apparently South Korea is beholden to Samsung, not the other way around ;) https://www.cnbc.com/2017/12/27&#x2F
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by gascan 9y ago
I'm a bit fuzzy on this, but I think any motherboard with DisplayPort 1.2 or better will do the job. DisplayPort has been ahead of HDMI on the 4K60Hz game. Picking a random NewEgg motherboard with AM4 & DisplayPort, it looks like i
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Conclusion: Going into physics was the biggest mistake of my life. I should've declared CS. I still wouldn't have any women, but at least I'd be rolling in cash.
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by gascan 9y ago
As vehicle combustion has gotten cleaner, simple evaporative emissions of raw gasoline has become a major contributor to smog & air quality. Old style half-empty gas cans in a hot garage are also hazardous, and have blown up many a gara