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by portofcall 9y ago
Honest question: why? Have the stakes or the players changed so much? It’s not as though the original MKULTRA and other human experiments which have been acknowledged led to a lot of jail time or ruined careers. We’re the people who kidnap
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by portofcall 9y ago
I’ve never heard of a noa-name, and my attempts to Google frustratingly return only meanings of the name Noa. Do you have any good starting points for me to learn about this? It’s so very up my alley, and I’d love to learn more.
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by portofcall 9y ago
You’ve commented a lot on this, so I feel I have to ask, do you have a stake in cryptocurrency, or is this purely your sincere enthusiasm for the tech? After all, cryptographically secure elections with verifiablity don’t require blockcha
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by portofcall 9y ago
I agree with almost everything you said, minus the raid in London. It won’t be FB kicking it off, but the ICO and Electoral Commissions in the UK are already investigating them, as is the EU, and in the USA, the Massachusetts AG. Raids are
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by portofcall 9y ago
Most poeple aren’t a fan of LSD microdosing, including me. I’m a fan of studies which honestly account for confounding factors and draw a line between causation and correlation. This ain’t that.
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Water Wars: Conflict in the Maldives Between Major Powers(lawfareblog.com)
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Machine Learning Spots Treasure Trove of Elusive Viruses(nature.com)
33 points by portofcall 9y ago|3 comments
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by portofcall 9y ago
Very little, but the question raised by this study is how much lead leads to death. They’re claiming the answer is very very little, and further claiming that it accounts for more deaths than COPD, infections, and accidents combined. They
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The world’s largest SSD clocks in at 100TB(theverge.com)
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by portofcall 9y ago
From the study, Deaths from cardiovascular disease have declined strikingly in the USA over the past 50 years, but this disease is still the leading cause of death.1 In 2013, cardiovascular disease accounted for more than 800 000 deaths in
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Sierra Leone government denies the role of blockchain in its recent election(techcrunch.com)
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by portofcall 9y ago
It’s not just you, it’s a lot of the country that’s rapidly going from concerned to pissed. If they read more threads like this, they’d probably already be coming for us with torches and bad intentions. They’re worried that tech is full of
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Facebook Stock Tanks After Data Breach Report, Shaving Off Billions(theverge.com)
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Everyone Tries to Dodge the Tax Man, and It Keeps Getting Easier(fivethirtyeight.com)
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by portofcall 9y ago
Evolution doesn’t work like that, it’s not a force with goals except reproductive fitness. In this case our society compensates for their issues, and their reproductive fitness is maintained. In the wild they would disproportionately starve