shmel

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by shmel 4y ago
What is wrong with nuclear plants in every region?
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by shmel 4y ago
It is depressing that deliveroo drivers as well as wine shops were considered "essential" during lockdowns while maintenance of nuclear plants wasn't.
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by shmel 4y ago
> But having decent sex that you enjoy and is another matter altogether. And that's before thinking about safety. Do you expect any of this getting better if porn vanished overnight? If anything, it would get much worse.
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by shmel 4y ago
I've heard about it, but never experienced IRL. Is it really a big deal?
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by shmel 4y ago
On the other hand, you can choose to not use Apple and your life won't be affected at all. I don't use Apple at all and don't feel I missing out. Apple doesn't have any network effect. If FB goes nuclear on me, I will lo
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by shmel 4y ago
I see your point, I even heard something like this from a female acquaintance: "oh, I dance bachata because I just love the dance, why are they all hitting on me?!" And yet, I can hardly believe that the dance where the main point
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by shmel 4y ago
> Also not a dating place, they are there to learn to dance. What is a dating place then? Do girls actually go anywhere specifically to date? In my experience any event/meetup/whatever that explicitly mentions dating/sing
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by shmel 4y ago
Agreed. Most of my labmates lost the desire to stay in academia by the end of PhD. Some of them didn't have it even in the beginning. Myself, I went from "I am not sure if academia is the right place for me" to "I am out
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by shmel 4y ago
This is really interesting! I live in the UK. I know exactly one woman who doesn't carry a purse and to a big degree it is due to an injury.
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by shmel 4y ago
It is only true when entry barriers to the market are low. Capitalism will give you a diversity of toasters or beer. Complex tech devices like phones have higher barriers, you can't just hack up a phone in a team of 5 people. Besides,
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by shmel 4y ago
Overwhelming majority of women I know always carry a purse. I have yet to see a phone that doesn't fit into the smallest purse.
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by shmel 5y ago
This is something that people have to accept: the target audience of scientific papers is other researchers, not laypeople. Ideally we need more effort spent on synthesis of prior research. In my field (ML) very few prominent researchers wr
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by shmel 5y ago
I'd love this to be so easy, just get a car then. I have already spent last 2 years trying to get driving license.
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by shmel 5y ago
Yeah, I wish we had some research about this. Somehow everybody on internet believes that covid will be always, literally always worse than vaccine side effects.
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by shmel 5y ago
I live without car my entire life and I am sick of it. I've had so many times when I thought "gosh, I wish I just had a car so I don't have to beg someone or pay someone". For the reference, I live in London. Yes, it has
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by shmel 5y ago
>Everything can be delivered to your door at the press of a button now. Right, could you provide me a solution if I want to buy an used coffee table off FB marketplace or something like that? Do I hire a van beforehand? What if I get the
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by shmel 5y ago
Yep, you buy a ticket and go wherever the government allowed you to go by adding public transit there. Which still relies on the roads most of the time. There are a lot more more roads than buses. During 2020-2021 I wanted to explore green
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by shmel 5y ago
Caffeine metabolization speed varies wildly across the population due to genetic reasons. When you compound it with multiple cups per day, you will get a quite different experience.
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by shmel 5y ago
It is well-known that people metabolize caffeine with different speed due to genetic reasons. Therefore people can experience wildly different peak blood concentration after drinking many cups per day. I suppose it influences how strong wit
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by shmel 5y ago
I can totally see ibuprofen helping against headaches as it is a very common painkiller. I just pointed out that it works differently than caffeine.
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by shmel 5y ago
I successfully reduced caffeine to zero a few times before (usually after reading posts like this). I didn't quit cold turkey though, I gradually tapered it off over couple of weeks. No withdrawal effects at all. If you consider caffei
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by shmel 5y ago
Actually ibuprofen is a vasodilator unlike caffeine.
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by shmel 5y ago
Medical care is a matter of personal choice in most situations. You can even have a DNR order if you want. However, covid19 vaccines are mandated in many places.
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by shmel 5y ago
> prevented vaccine herd immunity from being achieved It is easy to blame antivaxxers. Could you however name a few countries where vaccine herd immunity was achieved?
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by shmel 5y ago
I remember 6 months ago some researchers also said that Delta was so contagious that it is very unlikely that even more contagious variant arises. Oh well, sometimes unlikely events happen.
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by shmel 5y ago
Well, the symptoms according to the NHS are fever, cough and loss of smell/taste. If you have runny nose and sore throat, you don't have coronavirus symptoms. Technically. So you take a LFT, right?
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by shmel 5y ago
It is funny how much you are talking math. Can you put any hard numbers on your intuition about "risk drastically reduced"? Or is it your own psychological feeling of safety similar to the one when people are scared of airplanes,
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by shmel 5y ago
I didn't say they don't work. They clearly work to significantly reduce deaths and hospitalizations. I totally agree on this. But they didn't stop the spread anywhere in the world. If you want to paint me with your stereotype
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by shmel 5y ago
Will it even help? In what country did it help? France mandated vaxx passports literally everywhere (pretty much like you suggest) and yet they reported, what, 270k cases just today? Why do you expect a different result in the US from the v
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by shmel 5y ago
The answer is simple: it will stop when people decide it is over. Only non-compliance on massive scale will solve this. Science clearly said that Covid will be with us forever. We know that vaccines didn't stop the spread in even a sin

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