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by slipframe 5y ago
This still doesn't sound like an overly broad definition of suicide-attempt to me. Somebody saying they want to die and giving themselves minor cuts seems like a pretty serious situation. Unless the supposition is that boys don'
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by slipframe 5y ago
I think that ubiquitous global communication is the "Great Filter" that prevents intelligent civilizations from colonizing the universe. Before any intelligent species can hope to tackle a problem like that, they invent somethin
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by slipframe 5y ago
My guess is lockdowns and school closures probably drive substantially more suicides than masks and testing. I doubt the latter two move the needle much.
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by slipframe 5y ago
How do you come to that conclusion? The CDC data is tracking the number of hospitalizations. If the suicide attempt results in a hospitalization, that sounds pretty serious to me.
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by slipframe 5y ago
Experimenting on the general public is unethical, particularly when your experiment is framed as a consumer-ready product.
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by slipframe 5y ago
Programmers want the social respect and salaries of real engineers, without any of the professional responsibility and accountability. We [loosely speaking] want to have our cake and eat it too. I think if society continues to let us get
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by slipframe 5y ago
> A current tactic of the Christian-right is to enter into alliances with people they would otherwise despise (radical feminists, "scienceologists" like Dawkins) on certain shared causes which are even more important to them
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by slipframe 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specific_phobia > Specific phobia is an anxiety disorder, characterized by an extreme, unreasonable, and irrational fear associated with a specific object or situation.[1][2] Specific
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by slipframe 5y ago
Hydrophobic dogs do fear water though. (Hydrophobia is another name for rabies. Rabies often induces a fear of water.)
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by slipframe 5y ago
I hope Tyler Ley does a video about it. He's a professor at Oklahoma State University who's all about concrete. He did a video about the I35 bridge collapse a few years ago that was pretty good: https://www.youtube.co
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by slipframe 5y ago
Well, most people aren't alcoholics, so I presume most people are able to reason that out and control themselves. But for those who do become alcoholics, I suspect it's because the question "what am I doing with this can o
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by slipframe 5y ago
From one of the tweets: > Turns out that Monster energy drinks are found in the "no content" door. So how did he find it? Obviously he went down the line of doors opening each one until he found it. If the doors were glass
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by slipframe 5y ago
Energy losses will be through the roof! To see what's actually behind half those doors, you have to open each one up instead of keeping the door closed and looking through it. Even when it's in "display the products"
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by slipframe 5y ago
You're correct and should not be downvoted: > Land reclamation, usually known as reclamation, and also known as land fill (not to be confused with a waste landfill)
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by slipframe 5y ago
Is this your experience with Apple as a user or as a security researcher?
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by slipframe 5y ago
I'm no engineer either, but it seems logical to me that a building would not even notice mild to moderate uniform sinking, but that differential sinking could split the building in half. Also, I guess that differential sinking can be d
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by slipframe 5y ago
I don't think it's a "computers are hard" problem. I think it's a "corporation sold a defective product" problem. Well charted territory.
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by slipframe 5y ago
I think we need to lean into the environmental angle to have a chance of addressing this in a better way. Frame this legislation as anti e-waste. Any computer device with an expiration date shorter than 10 years gets a 500% tax, or someth
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by slipframe 5y ago
How many My Book customers would even understand the meaning of your [correct] advice? When companies fuck people over with a defective product, we should resist the urge to tell the victims to be more tech savvy and not use those sort of
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by slipframe 5y ago
From conversations on this website about Apple's responsiveness/attitude to security researchers hunting bounties, I have gotten a contrary impression about Apple.
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by slipframe 5y ago
Hubble was botched initially, they had to send astronauts up to fix it before they could get usable images out of it. I wonder what the success rate for those spy satellites was. Maybe some of them were replacements for others, replaced i
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by slipframe 5y ago
Fascinating buried lead: > A NASA history of the Hubble,[24] in discussing the reasons for switching from a 3-meter main mirror to a 2.4-meter design, states: "In addition, changing to a 2.4-meter mirror would lessen fabrication co
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by slipframe 5y ago
What's the point of having phones thinner than razor blades, if not to facilitate carrying two of them? I think I could stack 5 or more phones and they'd still easily fit in my pocket.
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by slipframe 5y ago
> Not our military, not foreign country, and not aliens. That leaves… A prototype jet owned by Lockheed and flown by a civilian test pilot. That could be called "not our military" without lying. A weather balloon launched
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by slipframe 5y ago
Since all of this material was published together and is coming from the same sources, I think even just a few of the videos being debunked damns the rest of it. A chain is only as strong as the weakest link. I am confident they are lyin
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by slipframe 5y ago
> Interment [euphemism for] concentration camp "Concentration camp" is a euphemism when you're actually talking about death/extermination camps. The difference between an "internment camp" and a "co
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by slipframe 5y ago
Technology Connections had a great observation about this in his video about touch lamps: the problem with Google's knowledge graph is that it takes everything it reads on the internet at face value. https://youtu.be/
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by slipframe 5y ago
This was a fine enough message until corporations got us to forget that it was meant to be applied in that order . Reduction of consumption is paramount, but bad for corporate profit, so corporations promoted the idea of recycling being
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by slipframe 5y ago
Aren't they 'virtue signaling' by pushing a 'virtuous' agenda? These don't seem mutually exclusive to me.
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by slipframe 5y ago
> “Progressive Democrats of Nevada,” “Michigan Republicans”, “Bernie Sanders for President 2020,” “Liberty lovers for Ted Cruz,” “Philly for Elizabeth Warren” For classifying things like this as political, a typical bayesian 'spa

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