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1y ago
Yes, there was a ton of psychiatric research on LSD. However the bar of required to perform pharmaceutical testing on humans is much higher now, and the quality of the data is much higher because of improved testing standards.
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1y ago
> It also makes me think about how much untapped potential might be hiding in the ordinary plants we pass by every day. A ton, which is one selfish reason the genetic diversity collapse is such a negative. In this particular discovery,
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1y ago
At first I thought this was crazy, but we actually don't know if there will be a passing star when the Milky Way collides with Andromeda which will happen before Sol transitions into a Red Giant.
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1y ago
The first really large text data I ever encountered was Google Ngram[0], the total size of which is about 3TB. I would have guessed it was closer to 3GB before I started downloading it. [0] https://storage.googleapis.com/bo
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1y ago
My goal has always been to type as fast as I can think, and if I need to move a lot of text around in a dumb way to use tools to help. Vim commands, text macros, refactor tools, formatters, etc. I type at about 90wpm, but when actively dev
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1y ago
There's two very established routes for setting cyber security standards. * Government regulation. * Insurance requirements. Mostly applies to businesses.
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1y ago
I'm not sure what you mean by "unlimited needs". These things are defiantly finite, and can be basic.
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1y ago
It seems like a democratic system could both maintain private property and make sure all of their citizens have basic needs are satisifed (food, housing, education, medical). I don't see how these two are mutually exclusive, unless yo
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1y ago
I found an interesting glitch where you could never actually reach a parked car, as you move forward the car also moved. It looked a lot like traffic moving through Google Street View.
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> No thank you, please just leave the package at my door. With where I live now, yes. I've had a previous address with about a 15% package-theft rate within the first 2 hours of package delivery. In this situation I started to use
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1y ago
> Imagine I'd claim that since you're not using {X} Usually on the third time someone recommends {X} I would have looked into it and formed my own conclusions with first hand experience.
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1y ago
Are you not using an LSP with your text editor? If you are then you'll run into the same issue because it's the underlying technology. If you aren't using an LSP then you're probably leaving some workflow efficiency on
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1y ago
> If DOOM released in 1994 or 1995, would we still remember it in the same way? Maybe. One aspect of Wolfenstein and Doom's popularity is that it was years ahead of everyone else technically on PC hardware. The other aspect is tha
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1y ago
The justice department does have a mandate to punish those that do not pay their taxes....
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1y ago
Fine companies to fund bridges.
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1y ago
I'm generally open to the idea of more frequent elections with cheaper voting.
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1y ago
Federal Aviation Administration keeps the skies a public utility. Federal Communication Commission keeps part of the wireless communication spectrum open to the public. National Park Service and Bureau of Land Management keeps some public l
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> differentiate dictatorships from democracies At first glance I thought this was hyperbole, but after reflection I'm not sure it's even an exaggeration. Too much critical infrastructure of power (voting, census, taxation, repo
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1y ago
Probably 80% of the time I spend coding, I'm inside a code file I haven't read in the last month. If I need to spend more than 30 seconds reading a section of code before I understand it, I'll ask AI to explain it to me. Us
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1y ago
Every city has traffic analysis data. It's how they make transportation decisions. What's neat about this program is that it removes some of the bureaucratic process of selecting bus routes and lets riders decide the routes.
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1y ago
I love budgeting and I love plaintext, doing more with textfiles than most people. I'm going to give some quick feedback as someone that should be in the target audience, but doesn't find this particular application interesting.
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1y ago
Alcohol is one of the few intoxicants that you can legally buy almost anywhere in the world that is well regulated, has consistent dosages, and can engage in publicly. Being able to consistently source an unadulterated supply is one of its
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It doesn't have to degrade to that level. There's definitely a population that drinks alone and has interests outside of alcohol. I've known plenty of divorced men that regularly drink while watching sports/TV alone, b
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1y ago
Really feels like the sender should be the one at risk and not the receiver.
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1y ago
There are a lot of stories like this where people accidentally get emails and then not read them. Why wouldn't you read the email?
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I was comforted by the idea that it is more expensive than $10m to crack encryption, but this was in 2013.
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It depends on if they are just repeating things without understanding, or if they have understanding. My issue is that people that say "I asked gpt" is that they often do not have any understanding themselves. Copy and pasting fr
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It's probably a net positive that ChatGPT isn't going around detecting zero day vulnerabilities. We should really be saving those for the state actors to find.
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I said "not less than 3". I've seen companies bid 2 people for 2/3bedroom moves. When it comes to the heaviest stuff, 2 is not enough to do the job cleanly.
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> Also buy a bunch of gatorade and water or other drinks and put it in a cooler with ice and tell them to help themselves to it, especially if it's at all warm where you are. Yeah I'm going to be stealing this tip next time
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