mountainboy

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by mountainboy 5y ago
The pandemic public policy reaction has deepened an epidemic of loneliness. ftfy.
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by mountainboy 5y ago
looks interesting. Can someone summarize the rest of the paywalled article?
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by mountainboy 5y ago
Hey lovelyviking. I just wanted to say that you are right, and I agree with you. The problem is that we are actually living in a medieval type of society. A pretty dark time actually. We have many people who enjoy exercising power over
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by mountainboy 5y ago
counterpoint. I do. every time. Using the term "pirate" or "piracy" for copyright infringement annoys the hell out of me.
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by mountainboy 5y ago
so how would a person go about making one of these for use at home?
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by mountainboy 5y ago
any hydrogenated oil is toxic. The article does not state if the tested palm oil was hydrogenated or not.
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by mountainboy 5y ago
like so many mozilla issues.
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by mountainboy 5y ago
hmm, I was going to experiment on this hackernews page, so I clicked on Extensions->BrowserFlow and it opened a window with a single button "Sign In". So it appears it does not work locally at all. Question: Is there a techni
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by mountainboy 5y ago
hmm, I installed extension, clicked on "Get Started", allowed permissions, and am then presented with a signup/signin page and no way to skip it. I just want to run some macros locally. Not interested in "cloud" an
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by mountainboy 5y ago
Kinda fun. A couple suggestions: 1. It would be great to add Capital Cities and perhaps population numbers also. And make each data-type optional. Eg, so that one could learn/quiz about Countries and Capital Cities only (no flags, lo
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by mountainboy 5y ago
to the extent that they involve dishonesty/fraud, yes. Arguably, when monetary supply increases are publicized, then there is no dishonesty, so not a ponzi scheme. They have another component though: legal tender laws that force peopl
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by mountainboy 5y ago
This Ponzi scheme stuff was a tired argument 6 years ago. Ponzi schemes have an element of dishonesty/fraud. Bitcoin does not. Find some new material.
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by mountainboy 5y ago
Question: What would it look like to be living on an electron, whizzing around a proton, inside a molecule, inside a living being?
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by mountainboy 5y ago
These countries should start by reading the book "The Invisible Rainbow: A history of electricity and life".
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by mountainboy 5y ago
Where I come from promising something, accepting people's money, and then reneging on the promise is considered unethical.
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by mountainboy 5y ago
not all of them. Hence the eth classic fork. A majority of eth miners and users decided to change the rules and ignore the promises of immutability previously made to all. Having a majority does not make an action ethical. Hence the term:
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by mountainboy 5y ago
> it’s even legitimately necessary I do not believe that your morals and mine are compatible.
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by mountainboy 5y ago
Somehow I already knew this even without a "study". amazing.
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by mountainboy 5y ago
as above, so below. It's turtles all the way down. pretty sure it's not mirrors though.
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by mountainboy 5y ago
nobody really knows... pretty much what Mises, Hayek and other Austrian economists have been saying for 100+ years. Fatal conceit anyone? "The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what th
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by mountainboy 5y ago
I can't think of a time when censors were ever on the right side of history. but hey, maybe this time is different! /s
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by mountainboy 5y ago
de-platforming simply encourages new platforms to be built or adopted by the de-platformed, which in a way makes them stronger. it is short-sighted and long-term self-defeating. but hey censors gonna censor.
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by mountainboy 5y ago
requires tokio / async. ugh. I'm out.
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by mountainboy 5y ago
1. not get in the car in the first place. unless proven out by 10+ years of human guinea pigs not getting killed. 2. life experience, software expertise, common sense.
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by mountainboy 5y ago
until the first pedestrian gets killed...
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by mountainboy 5y ago
looks like project winterhaven tech.
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by mountainboy 5y ago
not surprising to me. fasting has many health benefits. I've experienced it for myself. If interested, check out "The science of fasting" documentary.
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by mountainboy 5y ago
For me, imdb was much better when they had user comments/discussion. I never even posted on it myself, but browsing the discussions one could learn all sorts of trivia, inside info, speculation, etc about each movie. Since they (inexpl
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by mountainboy 5y ago
respect.
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by mountainboy 5y ago
Induction stoves are the highest EMF polluting device in a typical household. In particular they emit a large magnetic field. source: https://emfcaution.com/home-appliances-emf-readings/#1_Induc... You can do what you

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