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by gustavus 3y ago
So that has raised an interesting question in my mind. But as far as I know the only significant case of prion disease amongst human beings, excluding CJD which seems to be generically determined, was the instance of Kuru among the Papau Ne
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by gustavus 3y ago
My understanding is that one of the changes we made is we stopped feeding cow brains to other cows, which was the root cause of the problem.
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by gustavus 3y ago
If you must know some reasons I got banned is horrible awful terrible evil opinions such as - suggesting that COVID-19 was the result of a lab leak due to not following safety protocols - Questioning if the full shutdown of schools for a di
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by gustavus 3y ago
This seems inevitable for any effort that seeks to make a "platform" for "connecting market participants" it always ends up becoming awash with scams, shams and flim flams. It strikes me that this is enabled by the Inter
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by gustavus 3y ago
Now show us the percentage of those that are real people and not bots, and the number of accounts that are from previously banned users. I mean heck I've gotten to the point where I can only go 2 or 3 months before my account gets bann
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by gustavus 3y ago
Important quote from the article before this desencds into the same climate change vs anti-climate change arguments and doom posting > Human-caused climate change is likely playing a role, researchers said, but is probably not the only f
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by gustavus 3y ago
This is as much a suicide as Epstein was.
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by gustavus 3y ago
Relevant XKCD https://xkcd.com/1968/ Glad to see were going to start letting the justice system become dependent on black box stochastic parrots. After all the government + technology is always right and incorruptible
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by gustavus 3y ago
Fact of the matter is Psychology is at this point more pseudo than science. The biggest factor impacting the outcome of an experiment in psych is what the researcher conducting the study wants to be true. The whole subject is broken down in
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by gustavus 3y ago
That's just realpolitik. The fact of the matter is that we have recognized that a substantial part of a nations war capability comes from their unity and willingness to prosecute a war. Naturally with the Advent of the Internet and mas
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by gustavus 3y ago
A case of Poe's law in action. "We must destroy democracy to save democracy." EDIT: The OP strikes me as the kind of guy that would side with a group of religious extremists trying to unilaterally execute the democratically e
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by gustavus 3y ago
The problem is not that the ransomware attackers attacked. It's the fact that $10 says they've been systematically underinvesting in security and nows it's biting them in the a*. But it doesn't matter because they'v
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by gustavus 3y ago
Dell precision 5680 just moved from Precision 5500. Running Ubuntu mate 22.04 on the first and Ubuntu 22.04 on the latter. Not many major issues, on the 5550 everything worked pretty great except using VMs slowed everything to a crawl and s
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by gustavus 3y ago
So the TL;DR is a pair of activist investors have been submitting the same or similar proposals around carbon emission reduction repeatedly for years and Exxon is alleging that this is in violation of SEC rules about how often the same prop
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by gustavus 3y ago
Desktop interface design peaked in Windows 95 and it has been consistently downhill since then.
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by gustavus 3y ago
If purchasing isn't owning piracy isn't stealing.
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by gustavus 3y ago
It is very possible. For example Costco. At one point an executive tried to suggest raising the prices on their $1.50 hotdog and drink, the founder threatened to kill him if he ever suggested something like that again. That's a man who
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by gustavus 3y ago
> What concerns me is the possibility of a zero-trust society that nonetheless shambles onward by having a lot of law enforcement. I consider law enforcement a critical part of a high trust society. I can operate a business and offer low
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by gustavus 3y ago
Maybe, but maybe not. Once there was a young man who became a martyr under an autocratic and bloodthirsty regime, this young man's name was Alexander Lenin. Although his death was not circulated in the newspapers, or widely known by ma
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by gustavus 3y ago
I don't understand when it became this was FOSS was always about "Free as in speech." But for some reason it became "Free as in beer." and many of the arguments I see around dev pay seem to be conflating the 2. Open
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by gustavus 3y ago
I've seen this argument often but I'd guess 50-75% of the meetings in my organization could've been handled in an email. Often times the only reason we have a meeting in the first place instead of an email is because of the p
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by gustavus 3y ago
As a clarification this is specifically about the unreal engine asset marketplace. Not in general.
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by gustavus 3y ago
The government is also just as much bad actors whenever [insert whatever side you are opposed to] is in power.
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by gustavus 3y ago
Cycle of frameworks: Young dev: it is way too complicated to do something as simple as a todo or hello world app. You have to configure a dozen settings, install 10,000 dependencies and fiddle with too much stuff. I'm going to create a
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by gustavus 3y ago
This seems overly reductive. Why would you want to take business advice from people who weren't able to build a sustainable business. I get that starting a business is fraught with risk and there are factors outside your control that c
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by gustavus 3y ago
That's the part I don't get about people comparing this to slavery. You have the right to refuse. Everything I've heard from people actually in prison say they're grateful for it because it gives them something to do. Do
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by gustavus 3y ago
We've had these incentives since we started science. Remember Albert Einstein wasn't able to get a teaching position until after he was winning the Nobel. It turns out the people that really love science will do it even if it does
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by gustavus 3y ago
> It just requires competency, money and an infrastructure that isn't for profit. Uhhh.... Most of the nationwide infrastructure was put into place by the railroad companies that were definitely for profit organizations.
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by gustavus 3y ago
> Nope, you can’t the-free-market-will-fix-everything this one. The telco lobbyists wrote the government regulations Just a point of clarification, the free market generally means independence from government regulation. This isn't
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by gustavus 3y ago
Everyone I know that is an economic doomer is much more worried about inflation than they are about unemployment.

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