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by jmcgough 5y ago
I haven't taken European trains, but Amtrak in the US is often atrociously late. They pay to rent tracks from freight companies and have to cede right-of-way to not block them.
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> It also tends to then extend to things like pretending there are no sex differences and that everything is socially constructed (which I think is nonsense) Only a small minority of people believe that. > I won’t put pronouns in my b
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You might find that you hate trying to "do" something with your curiosities. It might feel more work than fun after a while. But I suspect that if you love learning about lots of different things, you'd enjoy sharing those th
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The difference is that it's very cut and dry with POC and LGBT. Across gender lines the difference is murkier in adolescence - one attempts suicide at higher rates, but the other succeeds more often.
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In the 20-44 age range, 1/500 - 1/1000 die. In 45-54 it's 1/100 - 1/200. And that's ignoring long-term complications from the disease. The numbers are a lot better now that vaccination is common, but how many p
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it's embedded in the very beginning of the article
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This was my first thought too, though not the only part of the puzzle for me. There was actually a study put out by MAPS recently where they found that MDMA can be effective in treating social anxiety for people on the autism spectrum.
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> You're starting a fight you can't win here I'm not starting a fight, I'm having a discussion, which I think is the point of HN. > Crypto means you will always know who has your money and where it goes. If a stran
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It's not quite the same. With cash, I have to meet them in person. I probably know their name or where to find them again. I can file a lawsuit, a police report. They have incentive to make things right for me because it can have real
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One of the biggest drawbacks for blockchain is that transactions can't be revoked after the fact (with the only exception being costly forks of the entire ledger), and there's no additional human oversight (like I'd get when
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by jmcgough 5y ago
> Boards just rubber stamp whatever the CEO wants Boards often want the same thing because members usually own stock in the company. Make a lot of money in the short term, pump that into stock buybacks, profit. Shareholders want the same
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by jmcgough 5y ago
The SFPD seems genuinely uninterested in dealing with anything short of murder. Bike or safeway theft rings, out of control vehicle break-ins. SF feels like such a hellhole sometimes.
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This is an excess mortality study, not going off of positive covid tests. And there's some meaningful research that suggests that those are relatively accurate because indirect deaths have gone up and down in a way that could be a wash
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I appreciate PHM for what it was - important from a technical perspective and a precursor for what was to come. But Trent was in his early 20s so not his most emotionally complex work ;)
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Hard to know if this guy was guilty or not, but online harassment forums are so toxic and yet there's no laws to really stop them. Reminds me of Near's sad death after years of harassment from kiwifarms ( https://kotaku.
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Prices are rising on oil because people aren't buying Russian oil. Russia is even trying to sell it at a discount to offload it: https://www.bbc.com/news/business-60584798
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I don't see it ever happening, capitalists are too powerful and this goes directly against their wishes.
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Right, but people will call "I Doubt It" on your last card to keep you from winning, so if you know the card you'll need to play you can dump cards here or there by bluffing to set up for it (or, as OP suggests, get that card
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If you haven't seen the AGDQ 2022 run mentioned in the article, it's extremely entertaining, short, and very worth watching just to see how broken the game is.
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Really interesting read - part of the challenge of proving a seed unwinnable is that there is a nightmarishly complex number of possible outcomes arising from small differences in plays, so as said in the article they needed to find a seed
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This was the first thing that came to mind. Still blows me away how amazing the art, music, gameplay, everything is. He even wrote some of the tools he used to make the game, like pxtone which he used for the music.
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Magic: The Gathering is Turing Complete (2019)(arxiv.org)
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iirc when the 2008 financial crisis hit, Putin said that he'd never let Russians lose all their savings like in 98 - so much for that promise I guess
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It's real, and there's some weird coma recovery cases (e.g. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/mar/09/usa.richardlus... )
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There will be no restarting - they are even closer to having nuclear arms than before because we abandoned the deal. It wasn't a perfect deal, but it was real progress and would have significantly slowed nuclear development (experts sa
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I mean most of us are, at best, sitting around and watching the news. At least they're doing something even if it's not very effective.
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https://mil.ru/ is returning a 418 ("I'm a teapot")
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I've found that reading helps a lot, even if it's difficult to maintain the focus at first it gets better. My brain was so hooked on the dopamine hits of constant online chat, phone notifications etc. Now I wake up and read a book
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The growth in octopus consumption is being driven largely by the USA. It's super healthy so I see more middle / upper class Americans eating it. Years ago it was a rare delicacy, now I can walk into most poke bowl restaurants in S
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by jmcgough 5y ago
Google search isn't optimized for usefulness - it's optimized for revenue.

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