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by perardi 6y ago
Is there any reputable study or sources for the amount of casual sex among young homosexual men? Because, anecdotally: plenty of casual sex.
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by perardi 6y ago
People are probably going to answer “safety”. But it’s also hideously expensive. Plutonium is, apparently, one of the safer ways to build these things, because it is easy to shield, and the power density is good. But plutonium, as it’s not
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by perardi 6y ago
Yes yes, I know, it’s trite to point out that boondoggle of a project. Except…NASA apparently spent all of $80 million on a helicopter that will work on Mars. One has to wonder what the military-industrial complex could accomplish with a bi
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by perardi 6y ago
This project will cost $2.8 billion…over the 10-year life of the project. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_2020 In government terms? That is nothing. We’ll burn that much on defective F-35 fighters in a year. And we
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by perardi 6y ago
Both the Air and Pro have a 16GB option. https://www.apple.com/macbook-air/specs/ https://www.apple.com/mac/compare/?modelList=MacBookPro-13_1...
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by perardi 6y ago
I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again: I don’t think macOS/Mac OS has added much in the way of UI enhancements for desktop usage since 10.6. And by desktop usage, I mean, literally, using a computer on a desk with a mouse and key
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by perardi 6y ago
I would second this recommendation. A great podcast, and said podcast lends credence to McWhorter not being some fire-breathing MAGA chud. His defense and explanations of creoles and African-American Vernacular English are wonderful. (On t
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by perardi 6y ago
Very heavy elements tend to “break” the periodicity of the periodic table a bit, because there are so many inner-shell electrons shielding the nucleus, and because of odd relativistic effects. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#
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by perardi 6y ago
I’m sure they do at the very very extreme of competitions, but even a tiny bit of testosterone has largely unwanted side effects for women. (I am hedging with “largely” there, as there’s a whole gender identity thing to wade into.) More com
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by perardi 6y ago
Above all else, Apple must do one very, very important thing to make this product succeed: Do not let Robert Scoble take a photo of himself in the shower wearing this.
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by perardi 6y ago
I asked this downthread, but to rephrase: are there any semi-objective case studies on blockchains being useful for physical items, such as the food supply tracking that IBM is doing? (I mean, I see plenty of blockchain startups promoting t
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by perardi 6y ago
Is there any analysis out there about how well these systems work, and why a blockchain works better than a traditional inventory management system? All I can find on these implementations are by blockchain startups who have a pretty obviou
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GM ‘Aspires’ to Sell Only EVs by 2035. Here’s How to Understand What That Means(thedrive.com)
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by perardi 6y ago
Immigrant to Canada, from the US, here. Do people in the States not pay for pet insurance? We sure did go for it in Toronto. Vets seem to charge by the pound (wait, sorry, kilogram, immigrant…) . Large dogs seem to come with large medica
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by perardi 6y ago
I know, I just chose an esoteric hacker-y thing for maximum hyperbole. But really, the vast, vast, vast, vast majority of people could not possibly care less about what people complain about in regards to the Mac on here. Is the hardware pr
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by perardi 6y ago
Gosh, sheeple, valuing battery life and speed above all else. When will these people listen to Stallman?! It is CRITICAL TO EVERYONE that we be able to compile Hurd from scratch.
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by perardi 6y ago
Depends on the state. And even depends where in the state. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_inspection_in_the_Unit... For example, I’m from Illinois, and you only have to have an emissions test in the Chicago an
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by perardi 6y ago
See the thread just down the page. Nobody actually pays that much for Truvada, the primary PrEP drug on the market now.
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by perardi 6y ago
Just confirming this. I don’t know anyone paying full price for Truvada. It’s either free, or whatever your insurance copay for drugs happens to be. (It’s annoying I have to go to a specific pharmacy with my drug plan, but whatever.)
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by perardi 6y ago
It’s frustrating that it’s so expensive for the most at-risk communities in the US. Because you can totally work the systems to get it affordably. Besides insurance, there are clinics, there are coupons, there are programs…but you have to h
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by perardi 6y ago
As someone who is in this high-risk community: good news. (Well, except for that price tag.) People, to a first approximation, are just terrible at pill compliance. Doesn’t matter the demographics, people just aren’t perfect at taking a p
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by perardi 6y ago
Ahhhh, wonderful, joining the eminent, definitely not a scam at all, no sir, firms like Nikola Motors.
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by perardi 6y ago
The day my god-forsaken fridge presents me with a Taboola chumbox is the day I go full Amish and retire to a hut on my farmland in southern Illinois.
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by perardi 6y ago
The US audience is not going to connect that “TD Bank” = “Toronto Dominion Bank”.
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by perardi 6y ago
I had a bit of a frustrating experience getting my elderly parents signed up for a jab today. They are patients of a local hospital conglomerate. (I realize that’s typical in the States, Kaiser et al., but I’ve been living in Ontario, wher
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by perardi 6y ago
“Nor do you want to invest your money in artificially inflated stock.” How does a SPAC possibly help with that? One of the more notable SPACs was Nikola, which had effectively no revenue, and was very unstable. https://www.goog
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by perardi 6y ago
Are we at the point that creating and editing a page in a JAM stack site is as easy as WordPress for non-technical users? Not a snarky or leading question, I honestly don’t know. I use Hugo for my own internal design things, because I want
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by perardi 6y ago
“steroid use is less common” Ha. Hahaahahahaaa. Haha. Wow. No. That’s the entire point of untested powerlifing federations. Have you ever been to a powerlifting gym? Those sharps disposal bins aren’t just there for the diabetics. https:&
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by perardi 6y ago
The parent comment was “I fail to see how in any world underweight is worse unless its a baby.” Pretty decent chunk of the world is seniors these days.
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by perardi 6y ago
Wow, no, stunningly wrong. Being underweight is highly correlated with poor health outcomes in seniors. ( https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16886095/ ) Obesity is obviously bad there, but being underweight is just as dange

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