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by quesera 10mo ago
The web precedes commercialization, but many tons of money were pumped into the web post-commercialization, so a lot changed quickly after that. There were free ways to get on the net, and to host web pages, before 1995. And for many years
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by quesera 10mo ago
I agree that it's not all bad. But if I had to choose one or the other, I'd choose no ads. And that's only comparing "then" to "now". I'm confident that "now" will get worse in the future, m
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by quesera 10mo ago
The Internet worked before advertising. It was different, but it was great. I would absolutely go back.
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by quesera 10mo ago
Some quick numbers: 1/2500 .. What is the probability of being born blind? 1/100 .. What is the probability of having schizophrenia? 1/250000* .. What is the probability of both? 1/250000* .. What is the
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by quesera 10mo ago
Right, I think we agree on everything of substance. I'm just particularly bothered by sketchy research on the edges of contentious public health issues. I hope this issue is litigated to conclusion, and if Monsanto is found to have pus
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by quesera 10mo ago
Weeds are pests, as defined by the EPA at least. https://www.epa.gov/minimum-risk-pesticides/what-pesticide
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by quesera 10mo ago
> I think you might be overestimating the curiosity of the average person. Oh absolutely. But I like to optimize for the others. :) Also, the audience for consideration here is pretty ... rarified. 0.0% of people in the world, to a fir
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by quesera 10mo ago
I never claimed to be "in the field" or anywhere adjacent. One does not need to be an expert to know that dishonest research is bad for the world. Why are you OK with this?? And I'm not raising an issue. The article is. For t
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by quesera 10mo ago
This is outside my field. If you tell me that EPA doesn't have a better process than "dunno, seems OK", then I'll humbly defer. Not holding EPA up as infallible, just asserting that intentionally-deceptive research shoul
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by quesera 10mo ago
Ever the quandary: satisfy some people completely, or a larger number but incompletely. I concur with the suggestion of 2^19, because even though fewer people would recognize it immediately, many of them would question the significance, and
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by quesera 10mo ago
Herbicides are pesticides. Are you implying that I made a mistake with that word? I did not. Your other points are valid, but would you advocate for dishonest research to be acceptable as evidence that a pesticide is ready for widespread hu
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by quesera 10mo ago
Are you asking me to describe modern pesticide safety testing protocols? I'm not qualified to do that authoritatively. But I'm certain that "spray it everywhere for 30 years and see if people die" is not the way. Bypassi
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by quesera 10mo ago
OK, but that is not how you properly test pesticides for safety.
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The soap is a surfactant to make the vinegar stick to the weed leaves for longer. It's not necessary, but it probably lets you use a little less vinegar, so it's probably worthwhile. I don't add soap, I just spray straight 30
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by quesera 10mo ago
Only if you wait for them to go to seed. If it's important to you, don't do that. I let them grow. Dandelions are harmless.
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by quesera 10mo ago
Peer-reviewed science is the best scale of measurement we have. When that standard is subverted with intent to deceive, there should be severe repercussions for the beneficiaries. There have also been numerous, extremely confident and impas
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by quesera 10mo ago
Sure, but valuation should always exceed cash reserves. It's very odd when it does not. I think I recall that that SUNW (by then JAVA probably) was at one point valued below cash, prior to ORCL acquisition. If Valve's secrecy is s
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by quesera 10mo ago
To save my fellow ignorami some math, Valve is estimated to be valued at approximately 3.2% of Micron, or 0.2% of Apple. :)
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by quesera 10mo ago
There are many aspects of what we call "history" that are guesses, best guesses, biased guesses, ignorant assumptions, intent-driven narratives, or uncontested acceptance of plausible but currently-uncorroborated narrative. It&#x2
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by quesera 11mo ago
Close. Double EE and CS, with a Philosophy minor. I understand the confusion though.
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by quesera 11mo ago
> Sure, that's where the votes take place. Their job is not only in DC though. They have significant responsibilities in two locations, which could be a 16-hour plane ride away from each other. It would be more expensive in many l
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by quesera 11mo ago
Ctrl+D is the ASCII End Of File (EOF) marker. Software that takes text input should interpret that as the end of the input. Shells decide that end of input means it's time to exit. Terminals usually decide that if the shell exits, ther
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by quesera 11mo ago
That's a trap. We know that Caesar lived. We probably also know that Jesus lived. They are both real people (probably) and also icons. Zeus did not live, as we understand him, but the notional Zeus is derived from earlier prototypes an
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by quesera 11mo ago
As soon as simple, non-interpretable, facts get fleshed out into a story, you have a mythology. All story writers are fallible and often have an agenda. Caesar was born to a wealthy family, did lots of things, led armies, wrote lots of word
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by quesera 11mo ago
> Is there still a fundamental difference between what we ‘know’ about Zeus and Caesar? Yes! But both narratives are mythologies. This is an interesting example. What we think we know about Caesar has lots of documentation (much of it
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by quesera 11mo ago
You are putting way too much faith in the knowability of a historical thing, at the level of detail required to construct and cohere a narrative. That's convenient, if your preferred mythology matches up to your culture's mainstre
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by quesera 11mo ago
You can find definitions that suit your needs if you like, but it does not change the meaning of the word. A mythology is not necessarily untrue, although they do have a tendency toward expansiveness, which has a coincident trend toward fav
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by quesera 11mo ago
That's an incorrect conclusion to draw, though. A mythology is just a system of stories and beliefs. Nationalism, religion, fandom, etc. All mythologies based on a shared set of stories. Some are more true (and/or complete) than o
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by quesera 11mo ago
Definitely worded for clicks, but remember that "myth" doesn't mean "false story", it just means "story".
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by quesera 11mo ago
Got it, I missed the context. Agreed, now that I remember the self-training I had to do to avoid the issue, this is an obnoxiously awkward design choice!

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