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by spfzero 5y ago
It’s not really a zero percent loan. To test that, tell the dealer you are paying cash, make your best deal, and then at the last minute say you changed your mind and want a zero percent loan for the same price. See how that goes. The money
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by spfzero 5y ago
Or, maybe something like the FBI knows who's behind it through other means (friendly foreign government, etc.). They contact them and let them know they are going to prosecute to the full extent of the law, long prison sentences. The h
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by spfzero 5y ago
But then it would be heavier, and need to be even bigger than 2x.
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by spfzero 5y ago
And that’s 10,000 1976 dollars. Today that would be at least $25,000, or more.
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by spfzero 5y ago
I think you can read the parent as saying the mice on the keto diet, were in another different experiment, to compare this one to. If I am reading it correctly...
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by spfzero 5y ago
Engineering a virus, in the sense that you're talking about, is not what was meant. Allowing the virus to naturally mutate in an animal host, over thousands of generations, will get you to the same endpoint. This is gain of function re
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by spfzero 5y ago
The whole purpose of the lab was to grow and study these viruses, and to promote their growth in order to study how they might grow. Hard to understand how they would not have had enough virus, as you say.
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by spfzero 5y ago
Its only recently that research labs could engineer these viruses. Only recently have you been able to engineer mice with human ACE2 receptors, and breed viruses in them. History is not what you base your conclusions on in 2020’s biochemist
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by spfzero 5y ago
But if you were looking for unswerving, leak-proof compliance, what better place... CCP can easily enforce that compliance, they have done so and continue to do so all the time. They even have a government controlled internet, to make sure.
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by spfzero 5y ago
So many discoveries were untestable at the time. Most, when it was possible to test for them, were disproven. Some were not. Who can say at the time what the future will prove? When you say "clearly" as to his motives, I might be
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by spfzero 5y ago
Boy those two certainly haven't gotten better, that's for sure, even though the money spent on "solving" them has skyrocketed. It almost seems like the more money that gets poured in, the more expensive everything become
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by spfzero 5y ago
Boarding houses used to be pretty common in the USA. Are they really illegal to build now? "Sober Living" homes seem legal to build, they're all over the place, and they meet the definition of "boarding house".
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by spfzero 5y ago
Wow, buying a house and leaving it vacant most of the year doesn't seem like a very good investment. In my experience when people I've known bought an investment property the number one thing on their minds was occupancy, and if t
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by spfzero 5y ago
It wouldn't be 10% of the population, though, right? It would only be 10% of the people who caught a case of the flu bad enough to be hospitalized or outpatient-treated?
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by spfzero 5y ago
As ironic as obesity being caused by low-fat, high-carb diet recommendations?
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by spfzero 5y ago
I don’t know why you are saying inheritance was invented for performance reasons? Is there any evidence behind that? Everything I was taught when OOP became mainstream in the late 80s, was that it was a performance trade off to afford code
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by spfzero 5y ago
I think only one state put COVID patients into nursing homes. A really bad idea, to be sure, and fortunately one that was not copied. Once you’ve made a decision as monumentality wrong, you’re not going to highlight the fact by correcting y
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by spfzero 5y ago
I think you've pointed out the fourth kind of luck, as described in the article. The people building the houses, driving the Bobcats, have a skill they've developed over time through their effort, that now affords them employment.
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by spfzero 5y ago
I have had that same experience with many people, re criticising other people’s timelines. But I don’t think that’s the kind of “fierce nerd” Paul is talking about. I rather think he’s talking about the person who is so involved in doing t
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by spfzero 5y ago
This is how I think about it as well. Though I make the decisions, I do that for a corporation. That corporation is not the same as “me”, though it may have only one owner at the moment.
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by spfzero 5y ago
It would be informal and cooperative, put together by people who liked and respected each other. It would not be run by a company trying to make money off of other people “coworking”.
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by spfzero 5y ago
Your friends can’t know if you are underpaid or overpaid. They can’t know what your job expects of you, or who and how talented your coworkers are. But you can always attain whatever level of education you feel you want to have. It doesn’t
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by spfzero 5y ago
As well the argument about power management chips not benefiting from Moore’s law. Yes, but that’s been the case for decades. Thermal and current requirements demand a certain amount of silicon regardless of how small you can make features
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by spfzero 5y ago
I am guessing since the sightings don’t occur over land that might be because no one is looking for them there. The Navy is very keen on sensor technologies, and trying out new, more powerful ones. These are always tested offshore. Any riva
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by spfzero 5y ago
That’s what I thought I said. Mars bad, asteroids worse.
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by spfzero 5y ago
I’m thinking it would be a rare CEO who both knew what they did to cause the stock price to go up, and not be involved in gaming the financials to make the stock go up.
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by spfzero 5y ago
One thing you can’t ever change about Mars is its gravity though. All of our biological construction over billions of years was in 1g. Maybe we could thrive from birth, for 100 years or so, in one third G, but I’m skeptical. Even more so on
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by spfzero 5y ago
For one thing, it seems like the change in fuel mass, and its centroid relative to the body center of pressure, would be kind of important. But this was super- interesting as is. I’m glad it was posted here.
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by spfzero 5y ago
Pretty sure it was not an isotope producible in an Earth fission reactor. A stable plutonium you could date back to only 10 million years old would be a different animal.
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by spfzero 5y ago
I’m curious. Does the CDC say the same for people who have had Covid itself? I was not able to read the post (paywalled). Or people who test positive for antibodies?

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