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by gehwartzen 9y ago
Kind of a side thought but we have kind of a strange cultural definition of what constitutes a drug. There are plenty of common foods which have physiological and neurological affects.
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by gehwartzen 9y ago
I'm pretty sure it must depend on the method of consumption. Eating is probably fairly non-toxic but smoking pretty much anything produces partially oxidated hydrocarbons which aren't great for your lungs. There may be enough othe
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by gehwartzen 9y ago
Yup you can very often just buy the tool you need on CL use it for a weekend and sell it to the next person at pretty much the same price. I suppose this is actually a nice model as it forces you to not abuse the tool so you can still sell
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by gehwartzen 9y ago
I feel this way every time I need the use of a pickup truck. There are plenty of places I can go rent one but the time it takes to reserve it, drive there, do all the paperwork, and then repeat when I return it just doesn't seem worth
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by gehwartzen 9y ago
I suppose I'm asking why should we, in general sense, should care; i.e what is the philosophical argument. I agree human suffering is bad but if we are all to die "instantly" (relative to out overall time in existence as a sp
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by gehwartzen 9y ago
Why is it so important to spread humanity far and wide? And why would it be bad if humans went extinct sometime in the distant future?
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by gehwartzen 9y ago
It seems like Amazon would be much more likely to enter the Pharmacy market by going the ExpressScripts mail-order route by leveraging their logistical expertise vs going B&M
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by gehwartzen 9y ago
While I think its extremely interesting and exciting to colonize Mars, both out of curiosity and the trickle down of new technologies that would be developed in the endeavor, I just don't personally feel any particular emotional drive
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by gehwartzen 9y ago
Beyond the most efficient way of sending stuff to Mars I don't think it makes sense to send humans right away. In a decade, the earliest timeframe Musk envisions, robotics, AI, battery/solar technology will have likely advances to
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by gehwartzen 9y ago
"innovative ways to address the housing crisis..." So the bar for innovation has now been lowered to include fancy trailer parks and the resurrection of the 'company town'?
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by gehwartzen 9y ago
“(7) ‘prepaid access device’ means an electronic device or vehicle, such as a card, plate, code, number, electronic serial number, mobile identification number, personal identification number, or other instrument, that provides a portal to
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by gehwartzen 9y ago
From the actual trial: "Patients were randomized to either open-label placebo pills presented as “placebo pills made of an inert substance, like sugar pills, that have been shown in clinical studies to produce significant improvement i
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by gehwartzen 9y ago
Totally agree. A large dog usually keeps burglars from breaking in to begin with. Also install a visible camera and a sign
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by gehwartzen 9y ago
I was thinking more the opposite; You could already own the land and then someone else buys up everything surrounding it.
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by gehwartzen 9y ago
Couldn't medallion holders then sue whomever issues them since they aren't enforcing the rules/terms under which they were originally sold?
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by gehwartzen 9y ago
This is the argument I usually get into with my more libertarian friends who think property rights and individual freedoms don't impose limits on one another. What happens when someone buys the land all around your house and prevents y
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by gehwartzen 9y ago
How did Uber get around not having to buy medallions for their drivers? What prevented someone from operating a for profit ride program even before Uber without a medallion?
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by gehwartzen 9y ago
Cool! Thanks for the suggestion. I'm not a programmer myself so might be fun to play with and learn from until he gets a bit older to try himself
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by gehwartzen 9y ago
R&D Engineer working in composites (armor). Don't have any programming experience outside of a few college classes but found HN to be a great resource for discovering interesting websites, reads, and discussions. It's also usu
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Ask HN: Parents, what are your favorite resources for teaching your kids tech
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by gehwartzen 9y ago
What if the other colony evolves into something other than humans, the two groups becoming distinct species? Will it have been a waste?
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by gehwartzen 9y ago
Seeing a lot of comments sugesting that strictly controlling the supply side is bad because lots of people legitimately in pain would be suffering. So how do other countries deal with this? The US consumes something like 80% of the worlds o