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by md224 2y ago
I wish the US would legalize coca leaves. Our nation's drug laws are so goddamn stupid. Two different Popes drank Vin Mariani! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vin_Mariani
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by md224 2y ago
Something that continues to puzzle me: how do molecular biologists manage to come up with such mindbogglingly complex diagrams of metabolic pathways in the midst of a replication crisis? Is our understanding of biology just a giant house of
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by md224 2y ago
> Once, after injecting himself with a large dose of morphine, he found himself hovering over an enormous battlefield, watching the armies of England and France drawn up for battle, and then realized he was witnessing the 1415 Battle of
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Is Telegram really an encrypted messaging app?(blog.cryptographyengineering.com)
596 points by md224 2y ago|583 comments
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by md224 2y ago
Aw man, yours is way cooler than mine: https://matt-diamond.com/zeta.html Still, it's funny to see how many people have attempted this! It's a fun programming exercise with a nice result.
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by md224 3y ago
Why does HN automatically drop "This" in article titles?
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Cosmos CLI: A CLI tool for tracking satellites(github.com)
1 points by md224 3y ago|0 comments
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by md224 3y ago
> However, we also see that for only those combinations starting with a T (that is f(n - 1))... Why is that f(n - 1)?
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by md224 3y ago
One of my favorite films! Agreed that it's not for everyone, but if you're on its wavelength it's really something special. Just incredibly well made with terrific performances. That ending sequence with La Mer...
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by md224 4y ago
It's not just about conscious action but also perception, being conscious of things. I don't know how that could be a trick.
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How Not to Play the Game(bloomberg.com)
7 points by md224 4y ago|1 comments
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by md224 4y ago
> if you find just one experiment that goes against your model, you immediately invalidate the model Pierre Duhem would like to have a word with you: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/scientific-underdetermina... &
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by md224 4y ago
Wouldn't this mean that the author of this article wrote it unconsciously?
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by md224 4y ago
What if the person you're replying to really, really likes Zig except for this one aspect of it?
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by md224 4y ago
I don't smoke, but my understanding of that book is that it basically reprograms your associations re: smoking and quitting smoking. Before you read that book, quitting smoking is perceived as a loss of something that made you feel goo
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by md224 4y ago
TIL Substack runs on Heroku.
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by md224 4y ago
I thought it might be referencing an upside down G.
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by md224 4y ago
I think "this new standard" was referring to WebDriver BiDi, not WebContainers, so you might be misreading them. That being said, I agree that the blog post made it sound like WebContainers is some kind of standard, and I also fou
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by md224 4y ago
Maybe it's just me but this seems like a misuse of GitHub orgs...
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by md224 4y ago
I really dislike the concept of "rationality", or at the very least the way it gets used. I'm sure there are cases where everyone would agree that someone is behaving irrationally, but a lot of the time the label of "irr
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Bitcoin and the Energy Transition [pdf](global-uploads.webflow.com)
1 points by md224 4y ago|0 comments
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by md224 5y ago
The interesting thing about this is that YouTube is clearly trying to make it more difficult for non-official clients to stream video, as is evident from the required workaround described here: https://github.com/ytdl-org&#x
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by md224 5y ago
I think the person you're replying to is agreeing with you.
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by md224 5y ago
I think it's actually the opposite. Because so many people think they have a gluten allergy, restaurants offering gluten-free options don't feel the need to take it so seriously. "So what if there's a tiny amount of glut
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by md224 5y ago
> And if we were to take it even further? If we chose a subculture that was online, and we never went outside? Then all the stress would be gone; if one doesn’t walk down the street, one isn’t bothered by strangers in such close proximit
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by md224 5y ago
> I don’t think that works because the N-1 dimension is contained in the N dimension. I'm not sure that's right. Each dimension is linearly independent [0] from the others, which means e.g. you can't add up a bunch of wi
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by md224 5y ago
The "Concept" idea is very cool... seems like it would make it really easy to construct refinement types and build validation into the type system.
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by md224 5y ago
> Mathematical proofs don't use models. Maybe the person you replied to was taking a model theoretic perspective? https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/modeltheory-fo/
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by md224 5y ago
> “There’s no one trump card, no one criteria really that can tell us this is absolutely, without a doubt melanoma.” Does this bother anyone else? I really hope that level of uncertainty doesn't extend to too many other types of can
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by md224 5y ago
You're misreading this sentence: > I am of the opinion that resolving trauma that causes a person to "zone out" and sleep walk through life can have equivalent effect to psychedelics. The phrase "that causes a person

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