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by lamontcg 3y ago
> There's also the worst-of-both-worlds: when you pay for something, and it still comes with ads, and introduces user-hostile changes to the UX - or otherwise leaves you with the feeling that you aren't valued as a customer (e.
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by lamontcg 3y ago
Probably 20 years ago now when I was reading about sugar and atkins diet some rando on the internet suggested that high intake of sugar told our bodies (or at least my scandanavian/scottish-genetics body) to start bulking up for the wi
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by lamontcg 3y ago
> Not too much to go on here without the paywall-locked pdf https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rstb.2022.023... that works for me.
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by lamontcg 3y ago
> Remember peak "Super Size Me"? By the time that movie had come out, portion sizes from McDonalds had already shrunk significantly. Then they removed the size option, but that wasn't the height of fast food consumption at
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by lamontcg 3y ago
Oh apparently you live in Arizona? Thought you were talking about Fry's electronics, I've never heard of Fry's Food and Drug before I just looked it up.
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by lamontcg 3y ago
When someone states "it makes me wonder what they all do", it is perfectly clear what they're implying. At some point being "charitable" or "assuming good faith" starts to look like being deliberately obtu
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by lamontcg 3y ago
> A house was burned down [..] Next time it could be something that you find much less clearcut. Someone had an abortion (if you favor abortion rights), someone bought a gun/ammunition (if you favor the second amendment), someone wa
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by lamontcg 3y ago
> That hasn't stopped the virus from spreading with increasing effectiveness It really doesn't. They've finally stopped talking about the idiocy of every single new variant being 2x to 4x times as transmissible as the las
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Colorado Supreme Court Upholds Keyword Search Warrant(eff.org)
102 points by lamontcg 3y ago|72 comments
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by lamontcg 3y ago
> Pro grade mowers are upwards of 10k and run hundreds of miles a day Guarantee you that the guys mowing lawns around here in their beatup pickup trucks didn't drop $10k on a lawnmower.
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by lamontcg 3y ago
The genetic clock was estimated from bat coronavirus mutation rates in the wild, not from SARS-CoV-2 mutation in humans. And virulence != transmissible. They got sick by inhaling everything that was floating around in that mine. To get mo
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by lamontcg 3y ago
> However in stores like Fry's [...] You're a little out of date. Target is also slowly circling the drain and will be death spiraling into worse service + experience.
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by lamontcg 3y ago
At some point the crypto ecosystem hits the real economy and miners need to pay for power and datacenter space with real currency. A lot of the people employed in the crypto space are also out there buying houses, cars, taking vacations, an
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by lamontcg 3y ago
It is more likely prior immunity. Everyone now has enough antibodies and T-cells so that even if we get infected it isn't anywhere near as likely to escape outside of the respiratory tract, and the anosmia-affected neurons are mostly
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by lamontcg 3y ago
Yes, you're still a thousand mutations away from each other. The FCS is tiny. The mutations are spread all over the entire genome--although the main areas are in spike RBD (which suggests that RaTG13 may not be able to use ACE2 at al
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by lamontcg 3y ago
I can't explain that. The DOE seems to have assigned "moderate" confidence to the idea of a lab leak on the basis of zero concrete evidence. Taking the assessment on the whole it seems obvious to me that the argument from the
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by lamontcg 3y ago
According to their most recent 10K (FY 2022 + FY 2021 data) their operational costs vs. revenue are: * 25% payment fees (google and apple app stores) * 28% developer exchange fees (they have to incentivize other people to build th
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by lamontcg 3y ago
The National Intelligence Council of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence found: > The IC assesses that SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, probably emerged and infected humans through an initial small-scale exposu
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by lamontcg 3y ago
RaTG13 differs from SARS-CoV-2 by a lot more than just an FCS
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by lamontcg 3y ago
That means they were several decades of evolution in the wild away from each other. It would take passage through billions of organisms to turn RaTG13 into SARS-CoV-2. Which is probably what happened naturally through many, many millions of
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by lamontcg 3y ago
"you will pay to be the product"
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by lamontcg 3y ago
Just looking at the Edinburgh study it is almost comically bad: > 4.5 ‘Before’ and ‘after’ surveys were also carried out at a selection of locations where the 30mph speed limit was retained. At these locations, average ‘after’ speeds in
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by lamontcg 3y ago
> "were not who they said they were" I worked with a guy who it later came out that he was convicted of conspiracy to commit murder when he convinced a buddy of his to kill his ex-wife and her new boyfriend. Probably should ha
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by lamontcg 3y ago
> I find it amusing how they did not interview one single person who thought he or she might just choose a different way of transportation, dropping speed limits doesn't do that. if you want netherlands, you need to invest in biking
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by lamontcg 3y ago
This might be the start of the recession. So many businesses out there with little to negative return on invested capital are looking at what happens if revenues decline and they need to borrow money in a "high for longer" intere
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by lamontcg 3y ago
I started with Consider Phlebas and never finished it, never read any more.
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by lamontcg 3y ago
UCL: https://github.com/vstakhov/libucl
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by lamontcg 3y ago
Yeah, so far this looks like home assistants which are all money-losing. There isn't yet a killer app, like google ads/search, which is sticky and pervasive and where an effective monopoly emerges.
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by lamontcg 3y ago
A large enough natural disaster in SC that took out the power grid and exposed the fact that the generators would fail if they were put to use, could cause a Chernobyl/Fukushima-class of disaster. A little bit worse than stubbing your
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by lamontcg 3y ago
Supply and demand. If you're going to die without insulin then your demand is fairly inelastic to price changes. If the producer doubles the price, then you'll pay it.

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