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by pton_xd 3y ago
Sure, by some metric masks are very effective at stopping viral particles. After all, in my example the mask will stop tens of thousands of viral particles from reaching you every minute. Another metric is, will that stop you from getting s
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by pton_xd 3y ago
> This is one of the reasons why masks are so important and why they don't need to be 100% effective. Just reducing the amount of viral load could turn a serious infection into something you might barely notice. It would be nice to
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by pton_xd 3y ago
People wasting thousands without realizing it through gambling mechanisms? Absolutely. But millions? I really doubt it. It's probably a buy / trade / sell money-laundering type of operation, and that player was pissed they lo
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by pton_xd 3y ago
Loan companies could model a population's exact historical credit risk by combining extensively detailed loan data, right? But they can't use that calculated credit risk to issue loans because it probably contains off-limits attri
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by pton_xd 3y ago
> I've been on dates that have turned into wealth interviews after the initial breaking the ice chit chat. I'd rather figure out if they're that type of person sooner than later. Easy pass on the second date!
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by pton_xd 3y ago
> And that works for what, 3% of the people that try it? Exercise is medicine! Far too few people understand that unfortunately. Something is wrong with our culture when the majority have the attitude that exercise isn't worth doing
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by pton_xd 3y ago
> It's really hard to explain to someone the agony of being hungry all the time - without experiencing it, they just cant understand. This can easily happen if you eat the wrong food and train your gut to prefer the wrong types of f
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by pton_xd 3y ago
> Weight has been increasing for nearly 40 years now in the US among all groups. Although interestingly it's still far lower among Asians in the US than any other group. Why is that? [1] https://www.cdc.gov/obesity&#
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by pton_xd 4y ago
Doesn't reflect poorly on the crooks as much as the government. You have no right to privacy. The government can and will spy on everything you do.
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by pton_xd 4y ago
Energy isn't included either. Kind of amazing they can get away with publishing an inflation stat that excludes every core household expenditure category.
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by pton_xd 4y ago
Agreed, there are several aftermarket ethanol content analyzer sensors available, easily installable onto the fuel line of any car. These supply an ethanol % reading to the ECU and allow for aftermarket tunes to adjust timings based on the
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by pton_xd 4y ago
It sounds like they need to rewrite it in Rust.
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by pton_xd 4y ago
> a) Web3 doesn't prevent centralisation. Look at NFTs and OpenSea and how it manipulates the output of the blockchain to flag/hide stolen NFTs. No one, including OP, is arguing that web3/blockchain/whatever is "
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by pton_xd 4y ago
> I guess some people don’t believe this is a prison > tear up the greenery we could have played on Can hardly believe HN is earnestly arguing that walled gardens controlled by Google / Facebook / et al are a preferable futu