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by grvbck 2y ago
> It fundamentally contravenes the Hippocratic Oath The Hippocratic Oath is from between the fifth and third centuries BC, and its relevance has long since been superseded by modern ethical guidelines. > Suffering can be alleviated, a
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>However from the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I don't want to be human! I want to see gamma rays! I want to hear X-rays! And I want to - I want to smell dark matter! Do you see the absurdity of wh
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> for any given claim in Philosophy, if you could find a way to either (a) compare it to the world or (b) state it in unambiguous symbolic terms… Not a crazy idea – that is called logic. Which is a field of philosophy. Philosophy and mat
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My pet peeve is that a lot of people who have never studied an hour of philosophy think that this is what people who study philosophy do. "Anyone can sit around thinking about things all day" is like saying "anybody can sit a
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> All the things in your diet are listed as "examples of not complete proteins" on that page. not quite sure what that means. Complete proteins contain all nine essential amino acids in consistent amounts. Most of those are stu
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That's how it works i EU (or at least the majority of it). Also, it as it is far easier to buy a phone with an installment plan than to get a cash loan, it's very common to see brand new, unboxed phones sold on the second-hand mar
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> Like, is "Denver" really a special crowd? As someone who frequently goes to concerts, I can absolutely testify that the audience can vary a lot between cities. You can usually tell if the band/artist is genuinly enjoying
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More info, for anyone interested: https://www.auntminnieeurope.com/medical-legal-and-practice/... > The nurse had tucked a total of 13 metal weights into the pockets of the vest, and it was these weights that pulled
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Interesting, I did not know that. However, the info also says: > If a ferromagnetic object becomes stuck to the magnet, do not initiate a quench. Quenching will not necessarily release the object and can be extremely costly due to helium
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There was an accident in a small Swedish hospital a few years ago, the patient scheduled for the MRI arrived with a 13 kg / 28 lbs weighted vest that he for some reason persuaded the MRI nurse to put on (I believe they were friends at
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Apple would make 16 GB the standard ssd size in all laptops. Fewer services would run locally. The typical user would probably not even care (or know) if their photos were stored on the phone or in the cloud. I don't think that much wo
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Same! Glad to see it wasn't just me. Trains here have been electric since 1920… EMU units have been a staple since 1990, though some routes still have locomotives of course. There is no lack of stupidity, however, at the system level.
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Sorry – I didn't mean to imply that using a Snoo is bad! Many cultures have used different forms of rocking cribs for ages, I'm sure it's absolutely fine if used with a bit of discretion. Contact deprivation in infants is a t
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> Citation needed? This is the sort of thing that people use to argue against sleep training, too, but I don’t believe much evidence has been found for that. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4088358&
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Further reading, for those interested: Hi-res scans of the manuscript: https://archive.org/details/the-voynich-manuscript_202008/ Declassified NSA seminar (1976): https://www.nsa.gov/portals/7
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> and long enough interval to start doubting a direct causality between the irradiation and the cancer A report from Los Alamos Scientific Lab (1979) draws the same conclusion: For example, a brother of [Hemmerly] also died of leukemia
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> What does it look like to look through? Do objects appear brighter? I suppose they appear brighter but also smeared out? Pretty much exactly so: https://youtu.be/ugkjNPH1J-4
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Sjunet is not air-gapped though. Clients can connect via vpn over the internet.
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OT: Many moons ago, I had one of those cheap Belkin 3.5 mm –> FM car adapters (my car didn't have bluetooth in any form, this was like 2003, but it made it possible to use my iPod instead of the car's cassette player). Anyway,
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Next week on Show HN: I made a fractal font with unlimited scaling
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Am I missing something here, or are the authors incorrectly using the term "deepfake" where "AI-generated" would have been more appropriate? There's a lot of comments here discussing how generative AI will deal with
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> Tablets aren't very useful. Well to do stuff Computers can anyway. Naya just perfectly summarized 80 % of the MacRumors forum in two sentences.
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Same on MacOS, press shift 5x to activate.
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The "vortex model" that went viral something like 10 years ago was more or less immediately debunked by scientific news outlets. It is beautifully made and intriguing but unfortunately not correct. See more: https://www
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If you're on iOS, there's an app called Solar Walk that might be fun to play around with. If you want orbits and a slider, there's < https://www.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/buac20-sci-ess-wwt... >
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> and the real reasons why only men are drafted are somewhere between biology and misogyny. Sounds about right. Historically, the military culture is obviously deeply rooted in patriarchy. Men are to defend their countries, in the same
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Not really a universal index, but interesting nevertheless: MIT Treepedia has indexed some cities based on tree canopies from Google street view. Some (to me) surprising finds, like Paris (8.8%) vs NY (13.5%). https://senseable.m
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This brings back fond memories of the various Blue Meanies easter eggs in System 7.0.1 on my first Mac (actually my dad's LC). "Help! Help! We're being held prisoner in a system software factory!"