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by mirimir 6y ago
Indeed. I believe that a downvote ought to cost perhaps 0.2 karma.
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by mirimir 6y ago
Also see Forces of Habit by David E. Courtwright for discussion about why coffee has been so commercially successful.[0] https://libgen.is/search.php?req=Forces+of+Habit+Courtwright...
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by mirimir 6y ago
Indeed, just what we needed. /s So why not instead come up with a workable micropayment system?
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by mirimir 6y ago
I can imagine being Black with an Asian name.
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by mirimir 6y ago
> Last I read, if Ivy Leagues were unaware of any racial identifiers, and simply had the objective criteria of SAT scores, GPA, extra-curricular achievements, Asians would make up 40% of their universities. Of course. Because academic ac
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by mirimir 6y ago
Not long after I started consulting, I had to get a D&B account. I don't remember why. But not long after, I was spammed by Yellow Pages. And it went on for many years. Maybe I was short sighted, but I couldn't imagine it bein
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by mirimir 6y ago
I don't recall the brand, but bamboo toilet paper was the last to disappear from the shelves last month.
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by mirimir 6y ago
Free beer? Maybe structured to generate tax credit.
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I agree 100% with the Alphabet/Apple approach. There's no additional absolute location tracking. But it's easy to get the contact histories for all those infected. If health authorities want to identify infection hotspots, th
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by mirimir 7y ago
Sure, but it's still data for the groups that they sampled. It would be better to have data for truly random samples. But even then, you'd want demographic data for each subject. And then you could compare appropriate subsets of t
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by mirimir 7y ago
> The problem is they give one body the ultimate authority on what is truth. Science, epidemiology & politics is more complex than that. That's an excellent point. > Google should instead have a list of allowed sources (e.g.
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by mirimir 7y ago
> Given YouTube's history with copyright trigger happiness, I wouldn't be so sure of these proportions, myself. Exactly. There's absolutely no reason to trust Google about anything. This is a totally CYA move. That is, Goo
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by mirimir 7y ago
Orchid creates multi-hop VPN connections using servers from multiple providers. It uses a private blockchain cryptocurrency to ~anonymously distribute value from users to VPN providers. That's useful because users don't need to tr
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by mirimir 7y ago
Sure, but it doesn't always work :( I had the misfortune of blowing out my right knee and acquiring a chlamydia infection ~simultaneously. And then developed acute rheumatoid arthritis. Which has progressed, albeit slowly, ever since.
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by mirimir 7y ago
> Except that VR and "blockchain" were duds. Based on limited experience, albeit going back about 30 years, VR won't become popular before visual and proprioceptive inputs can be synched. And I doubt that'll be practi
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by mirimir 7y ago
The full quote is: > Now that the death numbers are greater than the flu, we are still at the "those people were going to die within a year anyway" phase, and the "I am okay and have a BMI less than 30 so therefore people
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by mirimir 7y ago
Yes, very sadly, we are. And I'd say that it's more than some. But unless you get inside the filter bubbles, you might not be aware just how many there are. For example, given my anarchistic tendencies and love of the lulz, Trump&
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by mirimir 7y ago
> Well, yes, if no country had a military then no country would need a military. It's always seemed that way to me. Indeed, you could pretty much replace "military" with "national government" in that sentence. Bu
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by mirimir 7y ago
That's still one of my favorites :) I loved everything on "Below the Salt", really. But long before then, I loved "The Incredible String Band". And still do, along with the "Butthole Surfers" ;) And ... Ed
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by mirimir 7y ago
Huh. So I wonder. Say I'm old and have emphysema or CHF. And I got convicted of some crime that meant imprisonment. Could my lawyer argue successfully that a year or whatever in prison was tantamount to a death sentence? Is there any p
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by mirimir 7y ago
Searching "plain shirts" does in fact yield results for shirts without patterns. And "paisley shirts" works too. So it's not such a big deal that negation doesn't work. Also, "shirts -stripes" does se
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by mirimir 7y ago
Requisite mention: Jim Bell's Assassination Politics. I doubt that it'd ever work. Too few of the oppressed masses would ever be motivated enough to participate, or would risk it, even if they were. And so it'd mostly get mor
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by mirimir 7y ago
I doubt that they're "using very large doses in therapy". Compared to serious recreational users, that is. And in my experience, few if any "unpleasant things" occur with Psilocybe . What things were you thinking o
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by mirimir 7y ago
Freshly picked Psilocybe are tasty. At least, those grown on rice. Not so much when grown on cow patties, however ;)
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by mirimir 7y ago
Yes, I'd rather just eat the mushrooms. We used to grow them on autoclaved rice, in mason jars. Also, it's not at all obvious that psilocybin is the only active compound. And conversely, I wouldn't want to experiment with ana
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by mirimir 7y ago
And from the scenario:[0] > Event 201 simulates an outbreak of a novel zoonotic coronavirus transmitted from bats to pigs to people that eventually becomes efficiently transmissible from person to person, leading to a severe pandemic. Th
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by mirimir 7y ago
I've loved s-curves for decades. Way back in the lab, to analyze ligand-binding assays. And not that long ago, as a litigation consultant. > For technological changes, can the final level-off be reasonably estimated? It helps a lot
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by mirimir 7y ago
Me, a pro? Never. But I learned from some serious whitewater freaks. I quit because poor impulse control got me almost killed, too many times.
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by mirimir 7y ago
Actually, it's this, I think: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Creator/HannaBarbera
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by mirimir 7y ago
That is indeed quite the story. In case the YT link evaporates, I downloaded it. Also see the author's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/laowhy86

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