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by rusk 10mo ago
The UK actually did a report into drug use a number of years ago. Professor David Nutt identified the root causes of the phenomenon you identified and was sacked for it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Nutt
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by rusk 10mo ago
Anecdata
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by rusk 10mo ago
Like the worlds richest man claiming to be a free speech absolutist. Because you just know the sappy fuck has your best interests at heart. > You know a law is broken when its definition is defined by random people "knowing" wh
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by rusk 10mo ago
It was a clever riff on the current situation where business tells government
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by rusk 10mo ago
Ignore the fool
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by rusk 10mo ago
You said > Where does this kind of conspiracy thinking come from? Now you say > Microsoft pledged not to intervene like that again You are full of it
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by rusk 10mo ago
> Where does this kind of conspiracy thinking come from? The news in your jurisdiction might not cover these matters https://www.breakingnews.ie/world/trump-sanctions-on-interna...
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by rusk 10mo ago
You are speaking commendably from the point of view of diagnostics but from the point of view of physical operation you absolutely need that specialisation.
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by rusk 10mo ago
The present day meaning describes a continuum. The term could indeed be defined in the anachronistic terms you describe so it is anachronistic, which is a reasonable complaint when something enters common usage. We see terms redefined all t
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by rusk 10mo ago
> how socially acceptable someone I intuitively understand this but has it been clinically defined?
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by rusk 10mo ago
GP’s concern is that the quantisation scale is not representative of linear severity. It’s more like classification of disjoint characteristics tagged with colour
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by rusk 10mo ago
> I appreciate you taking the argument seriously Like I say, I have suffered similar delusion in the past and I never pass up the opportunity to help a brother out
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by rusk 10mo ago
> bed frames and box springs are mostly superfluous and a mattress on the ground is more comfortable and cheaper I was also of this persuasion and did this for many years and for me the main issue was drafts close to the floor. The key r
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by rusk 10mo ago
Reading this it seems to me that ISPs missed a trick by not offering privacy features. These features were already baked into mobile wireless it probably wouldn’t have been a huge big deal for them to provide it. That’s what happens when y
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by rusk 10mo ago
Good contribution
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by rusk 10mo ago
This is overparameterisation
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by rusk 10mo ago
> implementation of a skybox algorithm from 1999 How would you know? Do you have another AI scan for copyright violations? In terms of a false negative how are disputes resolved? Seems like a massive attack surface for copyright trolls.
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by rusk 10mo ago
Thus far I have found the native WSL2 graphics integration to be pretty disappointing in comparison to what I used to get with X-server setup. Unfortunately the legacy X implementation doesn’t have the modern API and application developers
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by rusk 10mo ago
Streaming as defacto metaphor for file access goes back to tape drives. Random Access patterns make more sense with today’s media yet we’re all still fscanf-ing Of course there are alternatives but the resource-as-stream metaphor is so ubiq
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by rusk 11mo ago
That’s what I come here for. To have stupid people who haven’t read up on their topic explain their perspective to me.
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by rusk 11mo ago
That’s why we have regulation LOL toxicity is not subjective Oh Lordy what has become of HN a load of fresh dummies with no grounding in the basic principles of libertarianism. All the fire none of the intellect. Just no sport.
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by rusk 11mo ago
Ever see the Fritz Lang’s metropolis? Like that but sitting down
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by rusk 11mo ago
What were they before? Quintember? Sextober?
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by rusk 11mo ago
Druid tells you
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by rusk 11mo ago
Ha. Guess you’ve not much grasp on how competition law works huh
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by rusk 11mo ago
This also solves the sports coverage issues. The clubs still make money but it’s the media companies that must compete on quality of service, punditry etc rather than it being an exclusive license to make money
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by rusk 11mo ago
I don’t think such an obvious scheme could escape the view of the monopoly laws could it?
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by rusk 11mo ago
> subjective thing There is nothing subjective about insulin quality you dimwit
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by rusk 11mo ago
Because it’s such a basic commodity with very little differentiation so profitability can only be achieved at scale.
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by rusk 11mo ago
Which may also be expressed as an expectation for a particular quality at a particular cost. There are no deadweights to exploit in insulin production. It seems to some people that regulation is the deadweight but without that quality gua

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