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by perardi 6y ago
I believe the folksy saying here would be “lipstick on a pig.” From the article: “Facebook said it would begin barring politicians from placing new ads on Facebook and Instagram, the photo-sharing service it owns, starting on Oct. 27. Exis
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by perardi 6y ago
As a former (very casual) spoofer…it’s far, far harder than it used to be. When the game was new-ish, and I was on Android, it was trivial. Just install a GPS spoofer, move the on-screen control, and you start walking. Nice when it was wint
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by perardi 6y ago
A real, robust knowledge of the relative danger of steroids is tough to develop. Because you can’t plausibly do a long-term blinded trial where you take a healthy population and dope them up. The in vitro data is enough to make any institut
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by perardi 6y ago
I don’t really know the etymology. I have just always seen steroids called “gear”, and then figured “on the bike” derived from that. But also how dare you suggest that the highest levels of competitive sport, where the margin of victory is
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by perardi 6y ago
Anabolic-androgenic steroids.
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by perardi 6y ago
A very reasonable line of questioning. Especially since at least one of them was at this early super-spreader event: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/coronavirus/article24194165...
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by perardi 6y ago
There’s a lot of literature about sex hormones and immune response. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6119719/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4701921/
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by perardi 6y ago
* The hand he overplayed was the application to the natural world—I think that will take longer to pay off than he predicted. * Not that I actually understand it, for I am a UI designer, but Wolfram’s recent physics projects seems to be tak
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by perardi 6y ago
Are there diminishing returns for an image sensor, given so many of your features are going to be waaaaaay bigger, given so much of the chip will be taken up by photosites, which have to be an order of magnitude larger for sensing the visib
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by perardi 6y ago
And of course, the Relief Line in Toronto. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relief_Line_(Toronto)
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by perardi 6y ago
Only if SNC-Lavalin does the final study for provincial approval. For non-Canadians: the “we must buy Canadian” (or to be fully cynical “we must buy Quebecois”) has not gone super well for our transit needs. https://en.wikipedi
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by perardi 6y ago
And before you say “you’re just a cynic, you have to believe in the power of disruption”, I want you to study the vast cost overruns and cost-disease of every public transit project of note in Canada in recent memory, and then tell me how m
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by perardi 6y ago
A memorandum of understanding from a startup to create a capital-intensive public transit system in a time where existing public transit is in severe financial distress, in a province that is in severe financial distress, and also one that
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by perardi 6y ago
In a province that is quite broke, and led by a retrograde politician who only thinks of oil. Unless this also happens to transport heavy crude, this will not happen.
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by perardi 6y ago
Let’s look at the actual text of the article. “Toronto-based startup TransPod has signed a memorandum of understanding with the government to study the potential of a high-speed hyperloop system and help it attract investors.” And let’s t
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by perardi 6y ago
“longer” is an understatement. The Andromeda galaxy, which is viewable by the naked eye, is 2.5 million lightyears away. And that’s the closest galaxy to us. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andromeda_Galaxy
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by perardi 6y ago
And so was Rush Limbaugh back in 2007. https://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/02/02/nobel-nominatio... A nomination is meaningless.
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by perardi 6y ago
I sought out adjustable dumbbells for a month. Ridiculous prices on Kijiji, and full of scams. Thankfully I eventually found a place out in Brampton that was welding their own, for relatively reasonable prices. (And thankfully my gym is now
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by perardi 6y ago
“though Apple Keynote is a superb software product” My theory on that: people at Apple actually use Keynote. I imagine it’s the part of that software suite that’s used throughout the company. See: WWDC presentations.
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by perardi 6y ago
Just decided to see how many scripts a popular website (CNN) loads. I count 36. And I'm running an ad blocker. Which seems a bit much.
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by perardi 6y ago
“As a final way of kindling your jealousy, DSSSL could treat inherited values as variables, and do math on them…” As per the article, this would have been a lot to implement back then, but sigh, what a wonderful world that wold have been.
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The Race Is on to Be the Peloton of Weight Lifting(nytimes.com)
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by perardi 6y ago
If you think the price of housing has anything to do with the craft and materials involved, versus zoning, mortgage policy, the race to get into “good” school districts…well, I have a bridge that goes to the newly available land in the Port
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by perardi 6y ago
The mask mandate for gyms in Ontario is…odd. You apparently don’t need to wear a mask while actively exercising ; you just have to wear it while walking around and in the locker room. Which seems like a hell of a loophole. https:/&#x
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by perardi 6y ago
I’m going to blithely ignore the article, as it’s from Forbes, and just segue into something I’m curious about: how are gyms reopening, or not, where you live? Here in Ontario, it seems like the many† gyms have gone to appointments, to deal
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by perardi 6y ago
Somewhat off-topic, but I just couldn't get into the second book, whereas I loved the first book. I think it's because Children of Ruin didn't have as much of the way relatable human (or Human, as the book goes into) characte
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by perardi 6y ago
You're going to need a way less hot take than "some cultures suck". Maybe "religion and family formation is associated with less suicide", or "inequality is associated with suicide", or "cultural norm
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by perardi 6y ago
Is it of questionable utility? I don't think it's a waste to look at the data and see if certain methods of suicide really stand out. It doesn't seem unreasonable to see if (this is a gross way to phrase it but here we go)
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by perardi 6y ago
I saw some snap reactions that boiled down to “he doesn’t want to deal with the potential antitrust firestorm”, but also, the guy is 60, and has worked at what I can imagine must be a frenetic pace for like 30 years, and maybe he just wants
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by perardi 6y ago
Not new. Obscure! But not new. https://appleinsider.com/articles/19/04/09/apples-t2-chip-ma...

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