poorjohnmacafee

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by poorjohnmacafee 5y ago
Well it's easy to argue that most crypto projects are get rich quick schemes by their creators. A lot of people haven't even heard of OneCoin [1], but I think it's what most of the crypto community actually looks like when yo
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by poorjohnmacafee 5y ago
Hey late reply but thanks for taking some time for a thoughtful response. I'm going to dig back into research on this topic and see if I do indeed need to update my views. The article does bring up another key point that has also bothe
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by poorjohnmacafee 5y ago
There is nil escape to space from that band with today's water vapor level which is why it's not considered part of the atmospheric window. Do you have any research you can link to about your opinions on the 15 micron band? An ivy
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by poorjohnmacafee 5y ago
They are talking about the atmospheric window - the band of EM/heat that can be freely radiated out to space unblocked by our atmosphere. This is an important concept in global warming/ghg that you almost never see discussed. The
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by poorjohnmacafee 5y ago
Per the 2021 citation, here is the former CDC director claiming he believes RF tech in cellphones causes types of brain tumors. This was part of a lawsuit by plaintiffs with alleged brain tumors from heavy cell phone use: https:/&#x2F
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by poorjohnmacafee 5y ago
It appears some health authorities are in agreement? > In 2001, based upon the biologic and human epidemiologic research, low-frequency fields were classified as “possibly carcinogenic” by the International Agency for Research on Cancer
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by poorjohnmacafee 5y ago
Be that true or not, I don't think we should strive for "full of doubt", since uncertainty is also associated with fear/anxiety disorders [1]. Probably doesn't need to be said but if facing doubts ideally keep think
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by poorjohnmacafee 5y ago
I can't think of very many countries that don't have regulatory channels for selling stocks to their citizens. Generally wouldn't want to launch something that breaks local regulations if you serve nationals of those countrie
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by poorjohnmacafee 5y ago
Can anyone explain why regulators wouldn't just smack this down if got big? I can't imagine you can create a mirror stock market without going through some regulatory channels.
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by poorjohnmacafee 5y ago
Am technical and worked with some pretty poor non technical co-founders but also worked with an amazing one. The difference: Real, ridiculous charisma (like can totally work a room, will impress almost anyone they sit down with), very aggre
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by poorjohnmacafee 5y ago
[edit: commenter is right, the paper abstract rendered as "107" not "10^7" in browser, will leave followup question] Since it's a challenge to separate the products/byproducts in catalytic reactions that are ho
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by poorjohnmacafee 5y ago
Have you tried creating a business? People forget this is the most opportunity-filled, complex economy in the history of humanity. The idea of "spend your career at corporations" is only about 100 years old as a result of the indu
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by poorjohnmacafee 5y ago
Robinhood recently closed out an options position "automatically", selling it for 1/5th the amount I was seeking. They deemed it was "risky" yet the position was moving in my favor the whole week. I don't know
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by poorjohnmacafee 5y ago
Agreed chatbots have no future in their current crap state but really good chatbot that pass the Turing test (which hasn't happened yet), could I believe take over any human interfacing use case and we'd all actually enjoy it. Thi
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by poorjohnmacafee 5y ago
I agree that knowing only basic Python or JavaScript isn't that useful today. In the companies I've worked at we've never hired a fresh grad or career change person whose skillset was described as "basic Python skills.&q
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by poorjohnmacafee 5y ago
Which vaccine is more deadly? Reported minimum 6k deaths and double that in UK, only a minimum because the standards for incontrovertible linkage is high and fwiw Bret and co hear from physicians who claim their reports aren't being ac
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by poorjohnmacafee 5y ago
For well over a year. If folks don't know, in the third month of the pandemic he did a long form discussion with a geneticist about the surprising genome snippets found in the base coronavirus strain that the wuhan lab obtained from a
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by poorjohnmacafee 5y ago
Look I'm not anti vaxer here but to Bret's points, entries into the physician's VAERS database as well as the UK's equivalent already show it's the deadliest vaccine in history. Even v chief of medicine at Baylor is
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by poorjohnmacafee 5y ago
> Do children today have useful childhoods? Well articulated. I always felt a visceral sense that childhood, the school world, and even arguably college for many feels like we're being kept in some weird pin sequestered from the rea
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by poorjohnmacafee 5y ago
10+ years on you and creating a throwaway because good advice for young men can sometimes sound offensive. Being in your 20s: This is probably the best time in your life where you can freely explore the world of ideas as well as the geograp