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by nwiswell 3y ago
In many other countries, patents do not apply to personal use, where there is no sale. Since Trikafta is a blend of 3 small-molecule drugs, is it possibly feasible to publish a do-it-yourself synthesis process? Or perhaps the community coul
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by nwiswell 3y ago
> Seems they would be more rare and more valuable. They are not. There are many, many, many cut coins, and often the cuts are "disfiguring" which will typically harm the "eye appeal" of the coin. Cutting coins was com
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by nwiswell 3y ago
Cut the ends off some rails, mount them at a 45 degree angle to the ground, and leg press it into low orbit
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by nwiswell 3y ago
I'd for sure go for a 4U short depth with those beefy front handles. Grab one or both handles and hurl it around discus-style.
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by nwiswell 3y ago
> Hard partial disagree. If only there was a word besides "hard" for this situation
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by nwiswell 3y ago
I'd guess that the odds of bug discovery is roughly proportional to the number of people looking at the source code times the economic incentive to find a bug. Both of these are astronomically high in the case of Bitcoin and Ethereum,
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by nwiswell 3y ago
> SE, 13, 14, 15, 15 pro This more analogous to different model years of a car, rather than entirely different car models. The customer immediately and intuitively understands 14 is better than 13, 15 is better than 14, etc. The main thi
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by nwiswell 3y ago
You mean new solar+battery will be cheaper than new coal plants, yes. This is a question of whether to turn old coal plants back on.
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by nwiswell 3y ago
But AI hardware is much, much more expensive than either of them. Clearly it's not acceptable to simply shut AI training off at night, so solar is not a complete solution.
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by nwiswell 3y ago
> Sexual assault would become a guaranteed prison sentence if a DNA db existed. It would be proof of sex, but not proof of assault.
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by nwiswell 3y ago
> Also it’s possible I overplayed how much of this was an SF phenomenon. Yep. This is a phenomenon everywhere. I don't have hard data to support this, but I'm under the impression that soccer fans in Europe are even crazier.
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by nwiswell 3y ago
Anarchist mobs? It was almost certainly some drunk kids in the middle of the Chinese New Year celebrations. But the question remains: what was the political ideology of these youths? Anarchists? Marxists? Fascists? Technocrats? Monarchists?
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by nwiswell 3y ago
> If $10m was just spent building a repository of well reviewed contracts What's your objection to Nolo Press? They seem to have already done that.
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by nwiswell 3y ago
> dash cams, phone mounts, or even my car's distance sensor since it is behind my review mirror. There are actually carve outs for these, although I agree the fact that the HUD is "transparent" makes it ambiguous (still, I
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by nwiswell 3y ago
Yep. No ridiculous sunglasses either.
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by nwiswell 3y ago
Mainly because laws. Refer to CA Veh Code § 23120 (2022) > No person shall operate a motor vehicle while wearing glasses having a temple width of one-half inch or more if any part of such temple extends below the horizontal center of the
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by nwiswell 3y ago
> Behind the scenes, so many athletes are already enhancing themselves during the off season in so many sports, this is an attempt to "legalize it." The thing that troubles me is that enforcing a certain degree of plausible den
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by nwiswell 3y ago
It's very unclear whether it's the doping that's predominantly responsible for the increase in mortality, or whether it's the constant bulk/diet cycles, or the intentional and sometimes extreme dehydration, the volu
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by nwiswell 3y ago
I got Rich + Rich = Richer Richer + Richer = Richest Richest + Poop = Trump
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For what it's worth, I don't think it's ugly. I think you're right that it's a personality thing, maybe connected to how strong the "rationalization drive" is? I don't know. I guess I'd rather ti
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by nwiswell 3y ago
That doesn't seem right. I think of the brain as a "rationalization machine". It observes environmental inputs, and reflexively seeks to ascribe a cause for those inputs. In so doing, a causal model of the world is construc
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by nwiswell 3y ago
... But if you're doing it illegally, you can pay way less money than you would for prescription Ozempic. There is a booming black market for bootleg Chinese Semaglutide (and Tirzepatide, and Retatrutide, and etc)
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by nwiswell 3y ago
The threat is to merchant shipping, not to Navy ships, which have countermeasures upon countermeasures. The current SOTA in anti-ship technology are the Chinese hypersonic missiles such as the DF-26, which are believed to pose a credible th
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by nwiswell 3y ago
You're right, of course, but also Bill Gates was a cartoon capitalist villain for decades and then suddenly he started saving millions of kids in the third world. Maybe Mark will have a similar moment of redemption, who knows.
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by nwiswell 3y ago
> sometimes he just says and does things to see what kind of reaction it gets from people pours cereal box out onto the floor "Some have called me a cereal instigator."
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by nwiswell 3y ago
> on salaries that have hardly moved for anyone except a few fortunate elites since the 80s. I assume you're talking about salaries in the USA, and this is largely because global salaries have risen to take more of their fair share
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by nwiswell 3y ago
> The billionaires really, really want you to perceive this distinction as a real inequality problem. When people making $30K are resenting/fighting people making $300K, the people making $300M are sitting back and laughing. But tha
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by nwiswell 3y ago
> subter-subter-infra-red To think that this was right there the whole time and we settled on "WiFi" instead!
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> Furthermore, I bet Beeper was outright hoping for a lawsuit from Apple Doubtful. Beeper has several legitimate causes of action to bring their own suit, if they really expect that outcome (and more importantly, if they have the financi
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by nwiswell 3y ago
I think philosophically when we talk about non-causal "free will" it is "not scientifically understood", but that's different than "supernatural". Just because our perception prevents us from predicting ou

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