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by s_q_b 10y ago
Well... paracetamol is a modern day denaturing agent. Under DEA influence, paracetamol is included many opiate painkillers to "deter abuse."
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by s_q_b 10y ago
...because it's hard to jump off a cliff and live?
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by s_q_b 10y ago
Nashville, Austin, and Boulder are peaking or have peaked. Tech in Philadelphia is right at the tipping point. To skate to where the puck is going, look to the Rust Belt.
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In DC, there's a big glut in foreign capital flowing in from foreign oligarchs and elites, particularly from Russia and China. Residential properties in so-called "safe cities" are both a form of investment and a potential li
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by s_q_b 10y ago
If you'd like to be closer to the East Coast, the Scranton area is beginning to gain traction, as it's very accessible from Boston, New York, and Philadelphia. Cost of living is rock-bottom (an actual Victorian mansion can be <
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by s_q_b 10y ago
Yes, the Federal government loves acronyms, and sometimes I forget these are not commonly known in most of the nation.
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National Business Park
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by s_q_b 10y ago
Nope, it's intentionally a James Bond reference. Never let it be said the CIA doesn't have a sense of humor.
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by s_q_b 10y ago
In-Q-Tel is pretty explicit about their mission: to support the development of private sector technologies that are of immediate use (within 36 months) to their IC customers. Their investments are sometimes public and they invest in pretty
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by s_q_b 10y ago
Does anyone know if there's a vehicle to short Monero?
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by s_q_b 10y ago
Here's an example, and the study cited here has been replicated in many American cities.[0] For the petty fines and eroded trust, this is from an advisory letter sent from the Justice Deparment to the judiciary of all fifty states: “In
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by s_q_b 10y ago
That's a solid theoretical argument. However, it is contradicted by the empirical evidence. What usually happens is that the police issue fines so frequently that they become considered an occupying force by the populace. In turn, the
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by s_q_b 10y ago
I'm not even close to a physicist, but it has always bothered me that such a huge percentage of the matter in the universe would be nearly unobservable. It's the sort of thing that wouldn't pass my normal sanity check in a sc
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by s_q_b 10y ago
This is simple. "Trigger warnings" are a form of censorship. "Safe spaces" are a form of self-segregation. Both are anathema to the academy. To address the proposed censorship policy first, universities are the birthpl
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by s_q_b 10y ago
You're right about that. Molten salt storage will even bring it down below the price of natural gas turbines used now. However, even with all the projected improvements and price declines in recent years, solar still will not be en
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by s_q_b 10y ago
I agree, it's a foolish stance. It's primarily an excuse not to save, sort of like a homeless man telling you he doesn't own a BMW because they're bad for the environment. Even stuffing cash into your mattress affects th
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by s_q_b 10y ago
That's a fair point. However, nuclear plants can be modularized and produced industrially. These are called SMRs, and in fact they are actually the recommendation issued in the joint letter to the President on climate change. https:&#
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by s_q_b 10y ago
Nuclear power isn't some counter-cultural fad. It's the top recommendation and consensus among climate scientists. This messianic fantasy that solar and wind will save us, to which every anti-nuclear technologist clings, is not on
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by s_q_b 10y ago
Nuclear, nuclear, nuclear. I've said this before, and the same climate scientists who first discovered anthropogenic global warming agree, that nuclear fission plants are the only technology that can bridge the gap between fossil fuels
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by s_q_b 10y ago
Yeah, over TLS, and I generally presume that a simple request for a package won't be logged and recorded for posterity.
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by s_q_b 10y ago
If homebrew is transmitting the packages you install across the internet, through Google's servers, and through homebrew's system, it is very possible that information could be swept up in a dragnet or stored on a server that coul
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by s_q_b 10y ago
And Eisenhower wanted to use nuclear weapons in Korea. It's also not the first discussion of a nuclear first strike. That would be with President Truman once prior the their use on Japan and again at the dawn of fusion weapons when dec
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by s_q_b 10y ago
Money placed in a 401(k) is generally invested in the market. The hypothesis is that retirement money is a primary source of capital for investment banks. Some young people hold the view that this is akin to financing the banks' unethi
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by s_q_b 10y ago
All discussions of entire generations paint with too broad a brush. We're having a discussion in aggregate, not targeted at you personally. Edit in reply: The entire article is about painting millennials with a broad brush, written b
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by s_q_b 10y ago
Yeah, I got that too. How is a $90,000 starting salary for a javascript bootcamp grad a sign of the end of days? It seems to me the problem is occurring as the "millennials" want to settle down in mid-life, buy a house, buy a car,
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by s_q_b 10y ago
They're the ones who mortgaged our future and blew up the global economy for short term gain. They're also the ones writing these articles.
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by s_q_b 10y ago
I get these too. They're very threatening, saying that you'll be sued and charged criminally. It's obviously bollocks, but I can see how an elderly or less savvy individual could panic and pay the money. Personally, I like to
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by s_q_b 10y ago
This is immoral, and amounts to censorship. The moment we believe an idea is too dangerous for our citizens to express is the day American democracy dies. Yes, Twitter is a non-governmental entity and has the legal right to do whatever it
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by s_q_b 10y ago
Agreed, however this tactic was also used in run of the mill cash-envelope and bid fixing schemes. I too am pleased with the outcome. However, the law is about fairness in process, not fairness in outcome. In a case like this, the judge is
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by s_q_b 10y ago
The MIT Blackjack team wrote a good piece on the housing crash, paying particular attention to the market distortion caused by short-term rewards. https://yourmortgageoryourlife.wordpress.com/2009/01/15/the-..

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