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by starkd 5y ago
Indeed. Not only does hormonal birth control lessen sexual desire, it also modifies who you feel attracted to. A development they've only recently begun to explore.
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by starkd 5y ago
The color customization didn't seem to work when I tried it. Perhaps that's just a custom feature he's offering. When selecting, nothing changes.
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by starkd 5y ago
I don't think that's the spirit in which the article was introduced. It's an educational piece. Of course, it's about the ideal scenario.
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by starkd 5y ago
I took the OP's comments as just being frank and honest about his attractions. Let's be real, first impressions do control us to a startling degree.
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by starkd 5y ago
Even supposedly "unattractive" or "aging" women can start to look more attractive as you get to know them. It's really amazing the transformation that can happen. So much of what is attractive is subjective. It&#x
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by starkd 5y ago
I realize Open source and FSF are different organizations with distinct purposes, but I tend to take a larger view of open source that includes both. They don't have to be mutually exclusive of one another. Perhaps RMS can be off-putti
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by starkd 5y ago
Another version of this is "don't lecture me with you and your store-bought hair cut"
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by starkd 5y ago
wow. What an amazing essay. I have not read much from her, but what a command of the language, what insight and wisdom into herself. This is the type of thing keep going back to, because you can't fully understand it in one reading.
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by starkd 5y ago
Interesting. It might be helpful to have the names attached to the faces. Many people use their code having never seen them. (On a side note, they seem to have left off Richard Stallman. Isn't he just as key as Linus Torvalds? )
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Contact tracing fizzles across America(axios.com)
2 points by starkd 5y ago|0 comments
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by starkd 5y ago
I couldn't help but think the same thing. Seems like an incredibly immature way to handle it. He could have easily set an end date and state nothing will be maintained beyond that date. It's not a good look.
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by starkd 5y ago
But, at this point, they are pretty much babysitting them, at least according to the account from the reddit poster. Everyone's talking more about the testing than anything else with little added benefit.
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by starkd 5y ago
That was true at the beginning of the pandemic, but we're long past that now. The recent variant is literally popping up all over the place. Despite the masks and the testing. And this latest variant seems to be extremely mild as in
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by starkd 5y ago
When a virus is endemic, it means everyone will get it. Which means most of these precautions are ultimately worthless - other than to flatten the curve and relieve the burden on services. But oh, how long have we been "flattening th
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by starkd 5y ago
Indeed, it's truly sad. It's an inability to deal with risk out of all proportion to the reality it actually poses. From his comments, I wonder if he actually thinks he will be dead from standing next to someone who just tested
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Red lipstick went from risqué rouge to a symbol of American freedom(nypost.com)
1 points by starkd 5y ago|0 comments
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by starkd 5y ago
Sorry, sometimes sarcasm doesn't come through in text. On the upside, the fact I didn't didn't detect it is a sign it is very good parody.
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by starkd 5y ago
There seems to have been a noticeable dropoff in new depression treatments. Sometimes I wonder if resorting to these options is a kind of desperation. I'm not saying these things shouldn't be investigated, but most of these ille
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by starkd 5y ago
>>The Agency is planning to track population movement for roughly the next five years, including to address other public health issues, such as “other infectious diseases, chronic disease prevention and mental health,” the spokesperso
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by starkd 5y ago
City life quickly becomes mundane and tiresome. People need suburbs for a place to go to get away from the craziness in the city.
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by starkd 5y ago
This victimization is hardly exclusive to the right. You can make a good case it began on the left and is merely being mirrored in some quarters on the right. Probably because of the success it has brougth to trial lawyers as we've be
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The US Postal Service tested a blockchain mobile voting system(engadget.com)
2 points by starkd 5y ago|0 comments
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by starkd 5y ago
The article doesn't say anything about vaccines. Just a sudden health issue. Is this a suggestion from the OP?
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Mumps cases in vaccinated people increasing, reason why is unclear(upi.com)
8 points by starkd 5y ago|0 comments
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by starkd 5y ago
Good to hear. Not sure what happened on the second attempt. Sometimes it doesn't like the image and returns a 404 Error. Occasionally, it is unable to decode the image. The webapp uses tensorflow to decode the image. I've seen
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by starkd 5y ago
The model it uses is trained on a discrete set of categories. Somethings will not return any results, simply because there are no images indexed. Things like images of animals, dogs, a bike, a building - known objects will turn results
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by starkd 5y ago
OP here. Here's a perceptual hash based on ML models. There's a demo at the link.
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pHashML: Perceptual Hash Based on ML(phash.dev)
5 points by starkd 5y ago|5 comments
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by starkd 5y ago
The harm communist regimes have had on culture is well documented. Whether its cooking or religion or whatever. I put the blame on the common ideology. Yes, I apoligize for claiming you were defending communism. But if you weren't,
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by starkd 5y ago
Who the hell knows why. Communism understands nihilism a lot better than building societies. So, the effects are a more random.

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