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by robbiep 6y ago
Whilst the amyloid plaques in Alzheimer’s could be considered a type of protein disorder with similarities to prion diseases in that a protein is aggregating in clusters that the body is unable to clear and break down (difference being, it
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by robbiep 6y ago
Very happy with my Air 16gb on resume - much faster than my 2018 air
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by robbiep 6y ago
I don’t know how true that really is. I have never used backup for WhatsApp but just the other day, out of the blue, every conversation from late 2017 to now that I had deleted popped back into my inbox. Can’t explain that one easily
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by robbiep 6y ago
The term as used by Robert Trivers (evolutionary psychologist) is ‘Strong Systemiser’
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by robbiep 6y ago
If you have an I-device use the remote on that. iPhone controlling Apple TV is delightful (even allows 1pass access to passwords for accounts)
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by robbiep 6y ago
Presumably not literally like in the case of a rocket or formula 1, but also literally as in, I could have used a lighter battery with less charge that goes faster
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by robbiep 6y ago
Or the token gets lost or the token is stored somewhere and goes down or ... a million other scenarios, that are just as easily served by a database?
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by robbiep 6y ago
You’ve made the same point about scarcity here but i think most people just can’t buy it. It is literally not scarce
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by robbiep 6y ago
I can understand it if wrapping crypto/some form of chain around a piece of digital media made it non-fungible. But that is horseshit (afaict), as the op’s analogy goes. It’s not making or scarce, it’s making up to a billion people be
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by robbiep 6y ago
It would be called having a fixed cost contract
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by robbiep 6y ago
That is roughly what transaction costs are. In some camps this prohibits the technology ever becoming a widespread method of payment. If we’re going for decentralised currency and 10 exchanges control all the low fee movement stuff...
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by robbiep 6y ago
There’s also this in Turkmenistan https://www.google.com.au/amp/s/api.nationalgeographic.com/d...
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by robbiep 6y ago
It’s the silence during Google meet calls that’s my favourite thing - my god my air was about to take flight every single time. I can’t believe how unoptimised that was. New M1 air offers enough performance for me for the next 10 years
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by robbiep 6y ago
Not to mention the persistence of these memories over long periods of time, or the protein infrastructure that would be needed to decode them in real time
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by robbiep 6y ago
It's definitely a prequel (REAMDE, that is) but you can actually see the story of Dodge taking shape through it. Having said that, Dodge could have been about 300 pages too long..!
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by robbiep 6y ago
I read Reamde after Dodge and it made a lot more sense
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by robbiep 6y ago
He's also in Dodge
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by robbiep 6y ago
Too many people who have genuine major contributions to fields make the mistake of thinking that because they’re an expert in one then they’re automatically qualified in others, or that because they nailed one thing their beliefs about some
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by robbiep 6y ago
I had a reply here but on further thought I decided I would do some reading on Hancock’s contribution to the Younger Dryas hypothesis. Wiki not only suggests that he wasn’t the first but that his contributions to theories largely amount to
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by robbiep 6y ago
I’m not hugely familiar with his contributions to this, but if you throw 10,000 darts at a board, you get one bullseye. It doesn’t make you a genius. As another poster said, his theories are interesting (I spent several days as a teenager r
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by robbiep 6y ago
He’s a great populariser of bullshit. Interesting theories but nothing over 30 years of building unsubstantiated theories out of thin threads of evidence that aren’t connected
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by robbiep 6y ago
Graham Hancock is brilliant at muddying the waters (saying this as someone who used to read everything he put out - i was enthralled at the mystery of an ancient civilisation that gave birth to all the rest, but nothing over the last 30 yea
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by robbiep 6y ago
To go right back to the beginning, this was Plato’s argument in the Republic (benevolent philosopher king better than mob rule). He argued that democracy would tend to mob rule (some good examples of that recently...) but history has also s
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by robbiep 6y ago
Thanks for clarifying, no that wasn’t the intent of the message - contraception and education are key
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by robbiep 6y ago
That works a little in reverse as well. If you can curb teenage pregnancy you significantly change the demographics of a region and lead to women being the power drivers in a community. It literally reverses cycles of poverty
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by robbiep 6y ago
Imagine using incremental counts as a file name for all your received files in this day and age
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by robbiep 6y ago
No idea why the downvotes here (at initial time of writing), that’s literally how the immune system functions, it’s a random process and everybody’s antibody DNA will be different to someone else’s antibody sequence against the same antigen
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by robbiep 6y ago
With the COVID vaccine, we’re now very close to being able to infect someone with vCJD through a pinprick, with technology that within a couple of years someone will be able to make at home. The difficulty with what you’ve asked is we don’t
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by robbiep 6y ago
You’ve asked the same question in 3 spots. You’re asking the question backwards and not reading the other comments here (for example, the particular response you responded to) There are some very good reasonable answers for why and how this

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