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by jxramos 3y ago
There was an interesting claim I heard from Eric Weinstein regarding peer review that he characterized as a cancerous infiltration into all of science from some medical area? Aha, found it in my notes... """ 1:32:28 Eric: but
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seems attainable, doesn't sound far fetched technically. Maybe get a few universities to start the trend.
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awesome stuff, I love this line > Secure protein supply while valorising organic waste streams.
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by jxramos 3y ago
since California made this compost rule I visually see how much food waste there is, a lot being unedible for sure. However there sure is a lot when you see it all in one place concentrated in a bucket. It would be neat to convert it to oth
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brand name at the least
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yah that's an interesting angle, the default is corruption. This mirrors that line of thinking with poverty, which is the default in the state of nature is poverty. Just humans standing about trees and rivers and all the natural resour
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by jxramos 3y ago
I'm curious when things get that pervasive how a system wound up in that state. Did it start out that way, did it slowly creep, did it cross over from other societal interactions that predated it.
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by jxramos 3y ago
Interesting, haven’t seen this exchange till now. He’s basically talking about what is increasingly becoming identified as the “laptop class” who can do the whole virtual life, live in lockdowns indefinitely, carry on with delivery stuff, e
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by jxramos 3y ago
maybe even buy Uber if possible
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That’s interesting, catering to an employee(a) over catering to the customer.
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Poverty is known to directly attack the liver particularly hard.
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by jxramos 3y ago
there's an interesting middle ground virtual pinball case that's an approximation. This fella built his own case and everything in between. It was a fascinating project to watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jxil
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by jxramos 3y ago
it's stimulating in a whole different dimension. Hearing that steel ball smack the glass gives the thrill of being hit. Feeling real vibrations in the hands, lights hitting you from different angles, sound. Something akin to a hunters
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by jxramos 3y ago
Isn't this the same stuff found in Mountain View by Google? Ah yah it is. https://cumulis.epa.gov/supercpad/SiteProfiles/index.cfm?fus... So is this chemical very stable and folks just dumped it into pits or
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by jxramos 3y ago
“If you cannot write well, you cannot think well; if you cannot think well, others will do your thinking for you.” ― Oscar Wilde The above quote may be apocryphal (I tried to source it once but only found secondary sources) but I shared it
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by jxramos 3y ago
ha, that's the first time I ever heard that term "doomscrolling", definitely feels that way in many places. Makes me think of what the opposite would look like. Something in the direction of https://www.dictionary.
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by jxramos 3y ago
he's probably just surreptitiously using control center to dial things down. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202769 One thing I discovered recently was that iPhone volume buttons decrement the volume 1/16 a
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by jxramos 3y ago
I used to see homeless sleeping in the doorway/building entrances in DC in the evenings while it was snowing outside. It terrified me. They had a few blankets and would huddle up.
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See you right for what?
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by jxramos 3y ago
yah I can see that as a feature. Reminds me of stories I heard from people at google who preferred the contractor/contingent-worker lifestyle over permanent employees for the sake of avoiding all the HR rigmarole and office politic dra
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by jxramos 3y ago
lol, those mythical magic moments collaborating in the abstract, you never know where they're going to happen. It could be at the water cooler, or over that off color patch of carpet over there.
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that's an interesting angle, I wonder if this pattern of defaulting to "because we don't meet in person" is that a giveaway for some lacking of communicating in writing I wonder. Just people who can't get an idea ou
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by jxramos 3y ago
that is an interesting connection, the habit of chat in general. I never considered my days in the chat rooms as prepping me for life in chat. I occasionally see various critiques and complaints at work with some folks getting disoriented a
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by jxramos 4y ago
I love glass and use a lot at home, but one of its huge drawbacks is that its incredibly heavy and obviously breakable. Makes takin glass stuff on the road challenging. I wonder if someone could make reinforced glass drinking wares much lik
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by jxramos 4y ago
yah I always wondered about that, all this BPA free stuff always made we ponder "well what replaced the BPA and do we know anything about it?" Seems like it would have served some role and some substitute would have to have been f
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by jxramos 4y ago
> computer input devices Are you saying like having some keyboard and mouse being made out of metal? Maybe ceramics or glass?
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I dig it!
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very interesting intersection there, the unrepeatable song, like AI riffing never to be heard again. Pulling the digital into the realm of the ephemeral, almost like a live performance. What a combination of thoughts married up there.
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by jxramos 4y ago
yah but I think the lungs would connect more with the terminology of inhalation than intranasal. I think the language ties to different body parts, distinctions like show up in this random title I grabbed > Comparison of traditional intr
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I'm not sure if its ever been quantified anywhere. One way to sample it I guess is to aspirate all the time and see if any blood gets drawn up and start to aggregate some simple incidence rate on the number of occurrences one experienc

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