lil_dispaches

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by lil_dispaches 4y ago
When only criminals care about privacy, privacy becomes criminal?
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by lil_dispaches 4y ago
Explosives are surely up in revenue now (double, triple?) and the world is using about every drop of production for both (as with every supply chain). So, a +/- of $3B is a 16% shock to the fertilizer market. That is plus one year of e
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by lil_dispaches 4y ago
AFAIK, without going nuclear, the biggest booms come from organic chemistry.
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Ask HN: Could the fertilizer shortage be caused by weapons manufacturing?
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by lil_dispaches 4y ago
Why are fertilizer prices rising? Could it be that fertilizer is the same stuff as gunpowder?
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by lil_dispaches 4y ago
Why is this world so backwards? Humans have musical ability , and cognition requires training (that's opposite of OP). You don't train on music, you train on technique (and practice music, or play). You were not born with the
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by lil_dispaches 4y ago
I really hope that the U.S. sending these weapons to Ukraine is a clearance on outmoded military technology, not a strategic failure.
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by lil_dispaches 4y ago
If this isn't misinformation, I don't know what is.
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by lil_dispaches 4y ago
Lungs? Do they have a buyer in Wuhan?
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by lil_dispaches 4y ago
What is the name for people who call you a heretic? This forum is full of them.
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by lil_dispaches 4y ago
I wish. This is my fifth heretical account. They all end up in the ghostbin thanks to anonymous downvotes. Yet I have never cursed, sworn, or made any false allegations, only drawn out it very precise terms what I consider to be the case
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by lil_dispaches 4y ago
Yet "physicists" are staring deeper into the paradox with the notion that the image is perfectly logical.
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by lil_dispaches 4y ago
When you look through a lens, you will get diffraction around the perimeter. This is the kind of thing you try to reduce, i.e. as an astronomer or optical physicist. But it is there, with any lens, no matter what. I liken this to the para
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by lil_dispaches 4y ago
My feeling is that the cosmetics industry has a lot to do with micro-plastics. Where does the glitter go?
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by lil_dispaches 5y ago
Thanks. What reason do they give that these network weights cannot be computed? I am pretty hip to modern AI workings, and that is what I assumed they meant by compute. What I know also tells me that "compute" as a concept is lac
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by lil_dispaches 5y ago
6. Today, automobiles are housing a lot more people than any "homeless" numbers give. 7. While there is enough room on every street to build a row of houses.
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by lil_dispaches 5y ago
See also "break a leg".
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by lil_dispaches 5y ago
"AI will design AGI" People like to talk of very smart AI but what about the brute force kind? That is what we are making in this era. AI designing AI sounds like a way to make cruel, dumb, machines.
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by lil_dispaches 5y ago
It is terrible, they literally can't explain what they mean. They don't say what it means to "compute the A.I. network". Makes me think it is a bogus story, some academic runoff.
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by lil_dispaches 5y ago
Maybe you were looking for 2c-d "the tofu of drugs"? I would be >_> https://erowid.org/library/books_online/pihkal/pihkal023.sht...
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by lil_dispaches 5y ago
Was the answer harmonics?
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by lil_dispaches 5y ago
Did you notice Google's monopoly over online ads? Competitors can't make money. It's literally called anti-competitive.
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by lil_dispaches 5y ago
I know how to build a dream catcher.
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by lil_dispaches 5y ago
I am sure the regulators are not being totally honest. My folks in CA live in a gated condo residence, where recently Prop 65 signs in giant metal placards have been posted at the entrance, with the warning that "cigarette smoke and c
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by lil_dispaches 5y ago
Okay, well accidentally killng people as a result of bioengineering is war crime, if not a crime Alameda County. Yes, "lab leak" is exactly the phrasing the media uses to diminish the importance, to preclude the asking of more ser
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by lil_dispaches 5y ago
You have deep experience with viruses, via your biology. Science knows very little about virology, if you learned nothing but that from the pandemic. Your intuition is actually quite strong, as your whole body is a fractal complex of natu
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by lil_dispaches 5y ago
Virulence is not the only parameter. Damage caused by the disease is obviously more important. And in that case Sars-Cov-2 is way overpowered compared to previous coronaviruses. That virulence (contagiousness) is also evidence though. Yes,
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by lil_dispaches 5y ago
Ya, and the oil companies too are not simply pausing, but leaving large investments in the field.
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by lil_dispaches 5y ago
The first illegal thing would be the act of making it in the lab, not the release, accidental or not. Manslaughter need not have intent or motive. The actions or consequences that precipitate from powerful leaders of state who bio-engineer
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by lil_dispaches 5y ago
Is there somehow more evidence of natural origin than lab leak? By common sense, this is what I mean: the strain of coronavirus that caused covid-19 was very strong, much stronger than any previous strain, and we have seen many. Common s

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