jboy55

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by jboy55 4y ago
It amazes me that the genome is only 29k long. If you were to write a computer virus now, it probably wouldn't be that short, let alone something that can infect and kill millions of people.
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by jboy55 4y ago
I would say the operation went off as planned. The capacity to ship gas on Nord Stream 1 was cut, but luckily, the pipeline hadn't been in use for a month at the time. According to this site, https://berthub.eu/gazmon&#
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by jboy55 4y ago
> You would want a USB-C connector so you can drive every device you own with one cable. Its far too early to claim USB-C will be the final version of USB cabling? Looking around, I have devices that use USB Type B (Scanner) USB Mini B (
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by jboy55 4y ago
Having read some 'digital archeology' where people gather data off old MainFrames and Minis, that at some point someone could just buy all of @NetZero.com, netscape.net or ZipLip's email servers and opening up all of the stor
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by jboy55 4y ago
I read it at first take as if it was "CVE-2023-32049: 'su' has critical privilege escalation venerability"
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by jboy55 4y ago
I've always felt the Game Streaming market was lower powered PCs, or something you can get "for the grandkids when they visit". People who have invested in having wired connections to their boxes (try pinging your wifi router
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by jboy55 4y ago
Given its either worth what you paid for it and there is a non-zero risk its work zero, there is absolutely no reason you should ever own it for more time that its absolutely required.
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by jboy55 4y ago
Or, A 10 year boom in SF tech real-estate is winding down, places will become more affordable, apartments will have to be rented for less. Non-tech workers will move in to replace those that leave, and for some, the gentrification nightmare
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by jboy55 4y ago
As a Bay Area resident for 2+ decades, SF was very much like this before the Twitter boom brought tech into SF. SOMA, Mission etc were never areas where you could, 'leave your car' and not expect it to be broken into. I read your
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by jboy55 4y ago
Not a control panel story, but I was in an elevator once with a small group and a voice came from the emergency phone. Voice: "Hello?" Us: "umm... Hello?" Voice: "Hi, this is MCI, you can save money on your long dis
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by jboy55 4y ago
If "Capitalism" involved the conscious coordination of all industry to maximize consumption, perhaps not. But in the terms of, raise money to buy a factory, have factory produce goods, sell goods, there seems to be a huge market f
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by jboy55 4y ago
There is only one class of drugs that lowers appetite outside of these GLP hormone drugs, those are stimulants like amphetamines. As someone on one of the GLP drugs for 3-4 months, and whose body tolerates it well, this is simply turning of
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by jboy55 4y ago
> Diabetes and Chronic Kidney Disease kill more quickly if not under control. These drugs keep diabetes under control..and diabetics like my wife are unable to get their meds because people are buying these off the shelf to lose weight.
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by jboy55 4y ago
I take a GLP-1, I do not feel any of these effects unless I eat poorly. I'm not saying these side-effects don't happen, but they aren't guaranteed. Testing has also shown these aren't prevalent in the majority of users.
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by jboy55 4y ago
>I've been dreaming about getting dirty with young Cleopatra. Get in line, plus the benefit of time machines is that you don't need to wait for them to be developed.
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by jboy55 4y ago
Come on, didn't you hear? Musk said in 2016 a meaningful number of people would be on Mars in 4 years. He has since extended that.... 2 years.
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by jboy55 4y ago
The odds of a storm of asteroids hitting Earth are pretty much the same as them hitting Mars. Except the atmosphere protects us against smaller asteroids, where they burn up in the air and on Mars would impact the surface. The chances of hu
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by jboy55 4y ago
>Do we bring nationalism and nuclear weapons to Mars? How soon after settlement until the first Martian war starts? Could a Martian colony even survive a war, if the life-sustaining infrastructure is attacked? Would a small Mars colony s
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by jboy55 4y ago
Humans will still be the ones colonizing Mars, the same humans who would theoretically make Earth uninhabitable. If we humans can't stop destroying Earth, we have no chance in making a Mars colony successful.
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by jboy55 4y ago
He didn't put his wallet on his server.
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by jboy55 4y ago
This is just my story, but I had a situation where a close friend's mother died from COVID. Someone else from the social circle, who knew that person well but was antivax, their first response to hearing them pass from COVID was, &quot
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by jboy55 4y ago
Did you forget he was pushing the US Post office to redo Amazon's contract to pressure Bezos to lean the Washington Post's editorials to his direction? Amazon's stock dropped 4-5% the day he announced he wanted the Post offic
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by jboy55 4y ago
Weirdly she's free until she has to turn herself in on April 23rd 2023. Somehow I figured when you got sentenced, to prison, you got taken away to prison. I guess when you are rich, you get some time to do some last things before you g
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by jboy55 4y ago
So what you're saying is I can get a selfie with SBF and Elizabeth Holmes in a Starbucks in Palo Alto? Since even though Holmes was sentenced to 11 1/4 years, she has until April 23rd 2023 to turn herself in.
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by jboy55 4y ago
I think I'm trying to describe the world we live in, and how the US copyright system works. A lot of creative work is just, 'Throwing shit at the wall and seeing what sticks', and essentially the business of 'curation&#x
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by jboy55 4y ago
I suppose the working model for this is if I created a website that generated art using AI, I don't own any copyright to the images produced. I would expect if I used such software a number of times, and chose the one I liked the best,
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by jboy55 4y ago
The most famous key component that was speculated or leaked, was that we lost the makeup and reason for the Styrofoam that holds the primary and surrounds the secondary. This research successfully initiated fusion, using a capsule of hydro
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by jboy55 4y ago
Or the US finds that after x many years bombs degrade in unexpected ways, and that while we were able to figure this out and fix it. Then we speculate that the Russians probably haven't fixed theirs in the same way and their bombs aren
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by jboy55 4y ago
I wonder if they achieved a high Q value decades ago, but using the targets more inline with the bomb materials.
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by jboy55 4y ago
At least ITER has a plausible, in a sci-fi story sense, way of creating a sustainable fusion reaction to which more fuel could be given. The fact the neutrons produced, if it did reach the high Q ratios, would irradiate and break down every

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