olalonde

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by olalonde 6mo ago
22% of the global population are smokers according to Wikipedia. It's probably lower for younger generations but still significant.
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by olalonde 6mo ago
At least alcohol produces side effects that people enjoy. Smoking pretty much only has negative side effects once you get hooked.
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by olalonde 6mo ago
What about tourists and foreigners? Most smokers can't go more than a few hours without smoking... This will surely lead to a large black market.
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by olalonde 6mo ago
I disagree that the materialistic/scientistic view can be characterized as a "bubble". Unlike the spiritual camp, almost no one in that camp wishes it were true or fantasizes about it. I'm personally in the materialistic
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by olalonde 6mo ago
Sure, I didn't mean that the brain was releasing literal DMT. You said what convinced you was how similar NDEs are, but we have evidence that similar experiences can arise from known brain chemistry changes (e.g., DMT-induced hallucina
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Plzdontkillus: An experimental creator bootcamp about AI doom(plzdontkillus.com)
1 points by olalonde 6mo ago|0 comments
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by olalonde 6mo ago
Jacob's Ladder is a great movie based on this theme.
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by olalonde 6mo ago
> To be honest, I wouldn't believe it either if I had not experienced it myself. If you anticipated that others would find this hard to believe, why not write down those visions in detail at the time? That would have provided eviden
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by olalonde 6mo ago
> the brain dumping DMT Why do you exclude this hypothesis? It's well known that some drugs such as DMT do cause very similar hallucinations among people, even across cultures (as is the case with NDE).
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by olalonde 6mo ago
"extremely"
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by olalonde 6mo ago
That's covered in the article.
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IPv4 vs. IPv6 FAQ(tailscale.com)
3 points by olalonde 6mo ago|0 comments
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by olalonde 6mo ago
The cynic in me is getting "submarine"[0] vibes from this article. [0] https://paulgraham.com/submarine.html
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by olalonde 6mo ago
Rocky would approve.
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by olalonde 6mo ago
Not a country but Quebec has been 95%-99% hydro since the 1960s.
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by olalonde 7mo ago
Sure, my point was simply that many people discovered Git because of GitHub.
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by olalonde 7mo ago
Practically no one was using Git before GitHub (except Linux). Subversion was much more widespread.
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by olalonde 7mo ago
That's "Worse is better" rather than "Occam's razor".
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by olalonde 7mo ago
> I may have even had a small hand in some part of that. Quite an understatement. I'm pretty sure GitHub is the primary reason that Git took off like it did.
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by olalonde 7mo ago
Reminds me of that article from a few days ago about Chinese people buying apartments to store cremated ashes due to high cemetery costs: https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/trending-china/arti...
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by olalonde 7mo ago
From a financial standpoint, this makes no sense. First, they could just liquidate all their other BTC before moving the Satoshi coins. Second, even with a significant price impact, the net worth of an additional 1M BTC would surely outweig
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by olalonde 7mo ago
You find it likely that someone would give up their ~$70B fortune just in case it may reveal they are the creator of Bitcoin?
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by olalonde 7mo ago
Yep. Dead, lost access or in prison. I'm leaning towards dead.
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by olalonde 7mo ago
He could tank the price to $1000 and still be a billionaire. There's a much more plausible reason for why Satoshi's coins haven't moved.
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by olalonde 7mo ago
Maybe :) But seriously, Satoshi is most likely a relatively unknown dude. Why would you spend so much effort hiding your identity and then become a very public figure of the Bitcoin community?
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by olalonde 7mo ago
I didn't realize anything. Everyone and their mother has been saying that about Satoshi since day one... Also, Adam would have infinitely more to gain from being Satoshi than from Satoshi remaining unknown. He's been trying to tak
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by olalonde 7mo ago
All you need to know about this "quest": https://xcancel.com/austinhill/status/2041986130871251141 Plus, the most obvious reason that Adam Back is not Satoshi is that he'd absolutely take credit for
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by olalonde 7mo ago
Seems you are correct according to https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40609566/ : "The proportion of lean mass loss to weight loss was similar to other obesity treatments."
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by olalonde 7mo ago
It owns only like 25% of the for-profit and was essentially stripped off of all its assets (IP, trademarks, employees, etc.).
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by olalonde 7mo ago
I still don't understand how the transformation from non-profit to for-profit was possible legally.

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