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by spopejoy 5y ago
You're cherry-picking negative responses from the wikipedia article, as opposed to the following: > The IAEA/WHO have often sought to justify their dismissal of eastern European epidemiological studies by citing questionable sc
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> They will become "the new oil" in N years. The existential problem with oil is climate change, not finite resources.
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How about the 2009 epidemiology study that estimates > 900,000 dead by 2009 with no end in sight? Quoting from a summary (easy to find the original): > In 2009, the New York Academy of Sciences published a book Chernobyl: Consequences
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> So the army will stay to control the population If this is the goal/expected outcome, this would support the stories that this is the FSB's war and not the army's, as this sounds like an impossible task.
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by spopejoy 5y ago
Nah, but nice job whitewashing QE as anything but a massive upward wealth redistribution. Instead, the bad CDOs and CDSs could have just been unwound one by one with investment banks eating the losses and a lot of rich people becoming poor.
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Not if the chain can scale -- ie not "fast finality" but being able to throw more resources at the problem as adoption increases (unlike Bitcoin, Ethereum and most single-chain POS systems however). Gas' true function is to s
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> This is blockchain specific, but you can definitely deep dive into how blockchains work to get to a point where you understand the concept of a "bridge", "price oracle", etc. Circuit breakers based on price/vol
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> Now you're basically trying to devise a heuristic of what every single attack might look like in terms of transaction volume increase. Is that really that hard though? It does require a price oracle but otherwise it's a prett
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> This destroys all your B-cells in your body, right? If you have DLBCL/FL, all treatments go after B-cells. CAR-T is just better at doing that and nothing else.
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It's at least better than most chemos. If CAR-T introduced a decent remission (1-3 years) and didn't invoke CRS, you can at least consider trying it again, unlike doxyrubicin etc.
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Also I think in these lines (FL/DLBCL) the costs have indeed dropped below the $600k range significantly.
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> The bad news is, as always, the price It's my understanding that this is no longer _actually_ a $600,000K+ price tag anymore but that drug firms are now in the "profit recouping" phase. Decide for yourself if that's
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Bitcoin is also a laughably primitive blockchain, and Ethereum is holding back potential applications with it's innumerable flaws. You're right that "it's not early" as crypto hasn't been able to progress as fa
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NFT for this use-case provides - the uncorruptible chain of custody. While it's well known for decades that "just a database" would solve ASCAP/BMI robbing countless artists because "it's too hard to track them
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I doubt you actually read any feminist scholars. If you did you'd realize that there's no way to characterize them as they are all over the map, especially since they can fall into so many disciplines (philosophy, literature, soci
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Why do downvoted and clearly negative comments like this nonetheless end up at the top of responses to the parent comment? Is it because it fomented a lot of responses? On another article today, again the top response to the top comment was
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by spopejoy 5y ago
Meh, if they're $5 headsets/earbuds they at worst harm themselves (so I pop out another $5 headset to last 1-3 years without issues)
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Subjective, so nope. It's more a tradeoff. Wires are reliable and "just work" (see title of TFA), so the small convenience issues you describe do not make them "sub-par". Indeed I think the terrible experience I see
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by spopejoy 5y ago
Haha what?? Look all over this thread, Bluetooth has just Stockholm-syndromed everybody, and the phone manufacturers are only too happy to drop the jack. My anecdata is that as an exclusively wired headphone user, my shit ALWAYS works. Mean
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#1 was explicitly mentioned in TFA, so not sure why this is an oppy to say airpods fixes common bluetooth problems, instead it seems Apple is equally burdened by them??
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Android isn't a fair comparison, since Apple is a single-manufacturer monoculture. Samsung-to-samsung: I can give anecdata only but moving to a new samsung phone was completely effortless. The only things that broke, broke because ther
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Debt is created by the lender to make a profit. Saying that somebody's credit history is inherently public is the same as saying their work performance history is inherently public. Nobody is forcing lenders to make loans, quite the op
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> Your landlord isn't going to accept crypto for your deposit because it would require them to invest a great deal of time and effort to learn about how to use crypto, force them to accept additional risk (of e.g. having their coins
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Because of said $$$ bug bounty. There have been countless mitigations since launch. The biggest one for me is they nerfed (locked down) Bitcoin script for security reasons, which reduced it's utility for anything but transferring BTC.
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Weirdly I find "legibility" a little ... reductionist. It's super-easy to identify the problems with e.g. Stalinism or modern China along these lines. The problem is that humanity is constantly failing in far more chaotic way
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Right, and responder is saying in a competition for resources, pay less for non-mem corruption bugs, which should mean they aren't as hard to verify. Is your point that all bugs soak up time to fix? If so pay the bounty and add it to t
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by spopejoy 5y ago
Isis is a common figure in everything from literature to disco lyrics. It's offensive to ban that name.
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If TFA is true, why not do like blockchain does (well, when done correctly) and have no stateful authorization at all, combined with a yubikey or similar to sign every request? Taking state out of the picture simplifies things tremendously,
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Rust hasn't magically solved concurrency safety either, as linearity is not enough. GC'd languages (Java, Go, Haskell etc) are safer than Rust by default, you just have the tradeoff of GC. Note that this isn't always a tradeo
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It's not offensive per ae but it is a worn-out canard that has been plied by the likes of Richard Rodriguez and apologists for segregated systems for decades. "I'm all in favor for equality but you're too late when it co

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