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691.
by medstrom 5y ago
You really want to give anti-vaxxers more ammo over a "potential risk"? But welcome to HN.
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by medstrom 5y ago
>It is thus possible that there is a progressively accumulating number of prions in the environment I really need to grow my own food.
693.
by medstrom 5y ago
You jinxed it, so I'll be the "some comment": prions won't spread everywhere all at once, so humanity will probably self-isolate in at least a few prion-free clusters.
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by medstrom 5y ago
I guess they're anthropomorphizing "the industry", treating all of them as responsible for what any of them do. But to steelman this viewpoint, industry should be unsurprised that consumers are filtering out UTM in the proces
695.
by medstrom 5y ago
Those addons are very basic, just what I'd have done in 2010 --- before Snowden! Since you have Firefox, you could sync with a community-developed user.js like Arkenfox (previously GHacks) [1], which seems to go much farther and still
696.
by medstrom 5y ago
As long as you induce it consensually, right? It sure would be uncomplicated, no real third party needed.
697.
by medstrom 5y ago
Here in Sweden, the train company SJ had tilting trains for the 2000 model and abandoned the concept for the 3000 model, because passengers complained of discomfort, or so SJ said. A small speed boost is not worth tilting the train.
698.
by medstrom 5y ago
Cui bono: who benefits? This seems an asymmetric affair in favour of increasing Signal's visibility (infamy is still fame) and in reducing people's trust in big tech. A win for privacy team, even if you can debate whether it'
699.
by medstrom 5y ago
Frankly stunts like this are comforting. If Moxie had been bought, I'd expect a much more subtle hand.
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by medstrom 5y ago
Karl Popper rests peacefully.
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by medstrom 5y ago
1. What do you mean by self-reinforcing? Self-replicating? 2. I think using the term reproduction for this is stretching the term to the point of uselessness. I mean, for example in a chemical solution you have a redox reaction where molecu
702.
by medstrom 5y ago
But humans are much more independent than the cells of a slime mold. This has always been a bit of a halting analogy for me.
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by medstrom 6y ago
Only some of the Deaf have this strong opinion, although you might meet cliques that are all this way. I'm sorry you've encountered them, but it's something of a non sequitur. It's possible to get hearing and still be in
704.
by medstrom 6y ago
I actually disagree with #1. I've kept food for months without issue. Like, eggs can be good for about six months past the use-by date. Yogurt for one month past. I bake bread dough and let it rise in the fridge for up to 14 days (lend
705.
by medstrom 6y ago
Not contradicting you, but I feel you focus too much on defending yourself. This is just HN. The important thing is people know to be wary of keeping garlic oil (even in a squeeze bottle) for a week plus. The rest of the facts (or who'
706.
by medstrom 6y ago
Well gosh, button mushrooms if well prepared, they taste properly awesome.
707.
by medstrom 6y ago
Well, there were reports a few years ago of people dying from homemade garlic oil. No canning needed, the oil is an anaerobic environment. You just put garlic in oil and let it sit in the fridge for a week and you have a lethal poison.
708.
by medstrom 6y ago
Especially when 1% is displayed as 5% or 10%.
709.
by medstrom 6y ago
I agree the scientific consensus is debatable, but I enjoy the way the man turns the policy debate upside down. At the very least, he's helped to de-politickize the debate.
710.
by medstrom 6y ago
I enjoyed this paragraph: > Tegnell, who is sixty-four and tall, with round glasses, has often said that lockdowns are not supported by science and that the evidence for mask-wearing is “weak.” His stance is a startling departure from th
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by medstrom 6y ago
That's a good way to put it, and I don't doubt you. It's just that the childless are frequently spoken to as if getting a family is the only way to unleash this potential, and I want to provide a counter-view.
712.
by medstrom 6y ago
There's a term for this (anyone know?) - when someone says life has improved and attributes it to specific events when really it would have improved on any number of other paths they could've taken too. The underlying factor is th
713.
by medstrom 6y ago
"Et tu" implies betrayal, but doesn't specify how.
714.
by medstrom 6y ago
Idk, to me it's not about time but effort. Rinsing is just pleasant.
715.
by medstrom 6y ago
Until you reimplement every language as transpilers to elisp, that's not the same thing at all. In this respect, Emacs is actually in the same tool category as VSCode or Vim. As you'd set up Dev Containers in VSCode, you'd se
716.
by medstrom 6y ago
Reproducible dev environment. Easier to reproduce some bugs for fixing. More certainty that it doesn't just work on your laptop because you have an undocumented dependency installed. Easier to test the setup process on a clean machine
717.
by medstrom 6y ago
Rinse until visually clean, then put in dishwasher.
718.
by medstrom 6y ago
From the article: > The most tragic aspect of this bug, howevere, is that it is intended behavior according to the YAML 2.0 specification.
719.
by medstrom 6y ago
But we have file timestamps, permissions and other attributes. There could easily be a "file type" field too, that seems more natural than shoving this metadata into the title.
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by medstrom 6y ago
Thanks!

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