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by lumb63 3y ago
All previous vaccines were aimed at preventing infectious diseases. None of them are (primarily) indicated for preventing recurrence of a non-infectious disease. Whether it meets the technical definition or not, we can probably agree this i
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Prohibiting someone from competing with you is not at all the same as forcing them to work for you. Furthermore, if an employee doesn’t want to be subject to a noncompete agreement, they could just…not work there? Also, non-competes don’t p
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Maybe those companies wouldn’t have existed without noncompetes, and not have provided those employees with jobs. Would you invest a large sum of money to build a site and hire a team if you knew it could not only vanish but also be turned
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I’ve been weight training consistently for more than a decade, keep up to date on the science, and I don’t find this that surprising. mTOR is stimulated by a rising plasma concentration of leucine. It can only be stimulated to a certain ext
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I don't understand this sentiment. It implies that an arbitrary web developer, who has never met someone, knows better how the want to portray that person, than that person themselves. It also feels very anti-hacker to me. A core ethos
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by lumb63 3y ago
Gizmodo should be ashamed of themselves. Running an article that says “there’s little to no evidence suggesting that ‘your devices are listening to you’” is obviously and provably false. Any device that responds to voice commands must be li
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It seems likely that there’s a common connection here between physical attractiveness and success and some third factor. For example, someone who is a harder worker or a perfectionist likely tries harder in all areas of their lives, of whic
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It’s humorous to me that we discuss “monopolies” over what are ultimately very discretionary sectors. Compare to the trusts of the 20th century, which were monopolizing oil or steel for example. These are (or were) the commodities required
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by lumb63 3y ago
Take a look at the Cortex R series. The Cortex M series still has lower interrupt latency than the A series, but lower processing power. I imagine for something like Bluetooth that an M is more than sufficient.
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A lot of realtime systems don’t have sufficient resources to run Linux. Their hardware is much less powerful than Linux requires. Even if a system can run (RT-)Linux, it doesn’t mean it’s suitable for real-time. Hardware for real-time proje
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by lumb63 3y ago
Anyone interested in this should read The Body Electric. Becker was loosely aware of this phenomenon many years ago.
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I can decisively say anyone advocating for roundabouts has not lived anywhere near Boston.
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Re-reading Orwell's "Politics and the English Language" [1] a few months ago showed me how often I speak imprecisely or use too many words. Often I use more words than are necessary, only to say nothing. The purpose of words
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by lumb63 3y ago
Have tried Boka, Apagard, David’s, and Elims. I have come to much prefer the lack of foaming (I think due to SLS) and they’ve helped my sensitivity slightly. I would recommend them to anyone over fluoride toothpastes due to the possible neu
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by lumb63 3y ago
As a lifelong US citizen, the idea that for some reason, other citizens, via the government, should pay for me, or anyone, to not show up to work, doesn’t make any sense to me. How do other countries rationalize this idea?
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by lumb63 3y ago
This was my experience as well. I found the first few chapters, which discuss the neurology and fundamentals, to be very interesting. The part that extended beyond individual-level habits started to lose me.
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by lumb63 3y ago
The Power of Habit has been fascinating to me. It has helped me to understand how I operate and also how others operate. It is amazing how much of our behavior is dictated by processes far beneath our conscious mind.
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In case anyone else also meant silicone and thought it was not a plastic, some research turned this up: https://lifewithoutplastic.com/silicone/
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I was under the impression that silicon-based substances were not plastic.
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I recommend taking some time to consciously assess your own values. When I went through this exercise several years ago, I wrote down things like “family”, “helping others”, “pursuit of knowledge”, “health”. Once you understand what is impo
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by lumb63 3y ago
Do you have any sources documenting the link between diabetes and Alzheimer’s? This is the first I’ve heard of that.
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by lumb63 3y ago
> As the rapid responses to the global financial crisis of 2007-09 and the Covid pandemic proved, governments can act speedily, collectively and decisively if the crisis is deemed big enough. We have been, currently are, and will be feel
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by lumb63 3y ago
I don’t understand this position. It feels to me like you’re proposing we financially exploit those who are magnanimous and duty-driven enough to tolerate public service. Do you have the same opinion regarding other organizations operating
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by lumb63 3y ago
I’m going to have to look into this more. Thanks for sharing your experience. I’ve had a seemingly random skin rash that happens on my forehead and my neck and shoulders from time to time and I haven’t been able to figure out the cause of i
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by lumb63 3y ago
Where does your idea that “the middle class pays pretty much all the taxes in the US” come from? As far as I can tell, the top 1% of earners pay 42.3% of income taxes and earn 22.2% of income. The average 1%-er makes 1.76 million dollars a
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My current company has no concept of “levels” within software engineering. Coming from a big company, where criteria for promotions and a whole process and ceremony around them existed, this was a huge shock to me. I’ve now been there about
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> Public education doesn’t have to mean public schools. This is eloquently put. I’ve never heard it said that way. There is no reason to believe that an entity like the government, great for accumulating and distributing the money requir
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by lumb63 3y ago
You and the other commenter above are speaking as if the post is full of citations to obscure cranks who are fabricating data and on rogue missions. He’s citing the International Panel on Climate Change and other large government organizati
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This doesn’t align with my experience at all. I expect outcomes vary depending on university and what area of “software engineering” one goes into. My college courses taught me about networking, operating systems, computer architecture, alg
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That we have not migrated to hydroxyapatite from fluoride is a mystery to me. It actually remineralizes the enamel rather than protecting it. It lacks the toxicity of fluoride as well. It’s more expensive, but I suspect that’s because it ha

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