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by notabee 6y ago
I think you're right on the money here. We just don't understand anything like a direct cause and effect between all the variables of personal gut biomes and genetics that create the metabolome. My n=1 experience has been that a f
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by notabee 6y ago
That's very true, In my limited experience, they are tools sold to non-technical leadership that are either thrown to technical staff to deal with and implement or require letting yet another vendor have network access to manage. It ad
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by notabee 6y ago
We had some folks try installing Amazon Linux images in our network. They spammed the network looking for a nonexistent link local metadata service, which is how we found out about them.
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by notabee 6y ago
Yeah. And the transmitter piece has been broken since Maria hit, so we've already gone quite some time without that capability.
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by notabee 6y ago
Recently had a similar "anonymization" experience in a workplace survey. There were a lot of short answer questions, and people's names were converted into numbers. The same number for each employee, on every question. Not ex
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by notabee 6y ago
We do need to remove emissions, but we're likely past the point where that will be enough. We've already triggered too many feedback loops. We have to do all the above and more. https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_relea
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by notabee 6y ago
In a way, it's a mirror to the lowest common denominator of human nature. As should be expected if you think about it. A lot of our instincts don't scale well, e.g. eating too much sugar and fat when it's in abundance, becaus
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by notabee 6y ago
You have a good point, but we also have many decades' worth of engineering improvements that could likely be used to mitigate some of the risks.
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by notabee 6y ago
Hope, yes. And yes, we basically need to invent wings before we go plummeting off of this particular cliff because the stopping option was probably lost over a decade ago. But too much forcing of positivity comes off as dishonest as well. W
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by notabee 6y ago
Hijacking this with a quick tip: don't hoard doxycycline. It'll wreck your kidneys if it's expired. https://boards.straightdope.com/t/expired-doxycycline-what-e...
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by notabee 6y ago
The brain is just another organ, and also vulnerable to inflammation and immune effects. And it can in turn cause or worsen them too in the rest of the body. Medicine truly must stop making psychiatric diagnoses without looking for systemic
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by notabee 6y ago
I am very, very familiar with this exact feeling. Hopefully at least those who are close to you understand this a little better and support in better ways.
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by notabee 6y ago
People have put numbers to it. Climate scientists have been literally weeping in interviews because of what they know. These are things that you just have to read for yourself to get a sense of the scale of the problem. But here's some
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by notabee 6y ago
On a positive note, doing this is a very good way to understand people. Even their bad actions make a lot more sense if you delve into some developmental psychology along with just engaging your intuition about what their inner 4 year old
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by notabee 6y ago
Yep, genetic diversity is a resource. It's painstakingly written natural code that solves various biological problems. We're just now getting to the point where we can start to understand this massive legacy codebase that creates
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by notabee 6y ago
That sounds like a good efficiency measure to use in addition to adding new zero/low carbon energy sources. If you only capture waste heat, the net total is still all coming from carbon-based sources. Maybe it's the low hanging
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by notabee 6y ago
There's a big difference between just running a bulldozer through a building (regulations bad because regulations!) versus fixing bad building work (audit regulations for effectiveness and loopholes). I'm not going to hire an elec
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by notabee 6y ago
This is why, if the U.S. can avoid becoming a failed state in the near future where laws mean nothing for those in power, the most important priority should be to change how voting is done to allow ranked choice and end the duopoly. It&#x27
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by notabee 6y ago
Trust is also very difficult and expensive to win back. It should be viewed as a fairly non-renewable resource. Even if you do something big to regain trust, that memory will remain as a cognitive anchor. Any semblance of the prior bad beha
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by notabee 6y ago
The immune system is insanely complex, and a great deal of autoimmune illness is not easily diagnosable with simple blood tests. Many types only get diagnosed after they've wreaked sufficient havoc to show up on radiographic images. Ma
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by notabee 6y ago
Yes, right before a massive civil war broke out that killed hundreds of thousands of Americans. I don't think you're making the point that you think you're making.
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by notabee 6y ago
It's even more difficult when the cause has been known for decades but doesn't jive with people's means of income or religious views and is thus roundly ignored or debated in bad faith.
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by notabee 6y ago
You make a good point, but I'm sure the rate of decay matters a lot in this situation as well. Properly treated wood used as building materials could last decades or even centuries without significantly decaying if planned and managed
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by notabee 6y ago
https://cdiac.ess-dive.lbl.gov/images/air_bubbles_historical... There are dozens, hundreds more studies, graphs, and other data to answer that question. At this point, due to the overwhelming amount of research data av
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by notabee 6y ago
Well, we're adding a bit over 30 gigatonnes per year (33 last year). 4000 (tons) * 1.102 = 4408.000 (metric tonnes). 1 gigatonne = 1,000,000,000 metric tonnes So each year we're emitting enough that this particular scale of captu
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by notabee 6y ago
I'd be interested in how you solved this, if you don't mind sharing. I tried writing a role to build source RPMs and it kind of works after doing some really dirty regex tricks, but only barely. I kept feeling that there must be a
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by notabee 6y ago
Here's an example: you can register the output of a task into a variable, but if you use the same registered variable for multiple tasks even skipped tasks overwrite the registered variable . Say you want either task A or task B to ru
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by notabee 6y ago
You have a good point about empathy. No one wants to feel unseen, or like their problems don't matter. The real thing that is required is that people have (most importantly imho) the willingness and also the imagination to think about
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by notabee 6y ago
I'm not trying to be adversarial, but you must truly live in a bubble if you think that the average person will be able to catch on to all the ways this can and will be abused. There are already huge problems with people being influe
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by notabee 6y ago
What a devastatingly concise comment. I keep trying to type out more to agree, but this just nails it.

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