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by starkd 4y ago
For anyone interested, the All-In podcast did an excellent job covering this on Friday. Particularly, David Sacks stressed this would not be a bailout, but merely backstopping deposits. SVB did nothing illegal or wrong, so it is not an E
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by starkd 4y ago
Made it 54 years without ever hearing about mdash/ndash/hyphen distinction. I've just been using the hyphen character for everything. Must have been absent that day in grade school.
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by starkd 4y ago
On the All-In podcasts, David Sacks discussed how he noticed something off with SVB that lead him to move his accounts. They all seemed to agree SVB did nothing illegal or wrong. It doesn't appear to be an Enron or Bernie Madoff situ
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by starkd 4y ago
I fail to see what difference in impact you mean. Sure, Houston gets a later sunset, but it is still only a relative gain of an hour. Minneapolis gets the same adjustment. How is the adjustment's impact on people's lives any di
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by starkd 4y ago
That it is killing people is difficult to show. You would need a control group. There are so many factors, there will be criticism of any such study conducted.
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Some of those images showed the infant with surprising muscle definition. With those arms, it looked like that baby was about to deliver himself.
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It all depends on what you are used to. Its just a standard. We have been switching between the two for decades now. Why did we adopt it to begin with?
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Even if passed, I suspect the same complaints will be made. Time is just a standard. It all depends on what you are accustomed to.
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by starkd 4y ago
From the article: >> But the firm learned that its limited partners were encountering issues using SVB services as they tried to transfer the funds — they weren’t immediately going through as expected, the person said. Quickly, Found
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by starkd 4y ago
But theoretically, the cannabis should have helped that. I also felt a lot of nerve twitches all over. It might have been too high THC, but it was not an experience that I cared to repeat. For the kind of experience you are talking about,
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by starkd 4y ago
>> Everything that exists in reality, from the observable beginning to the projected end, follows a pattern of abstraction that is exact and single. Drugs give you access to "suspension of disbelief" in experiencing fiction
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by starkd 4y ago
I find the same thing. Cannabis just makes me lose my train of thought within 5 seconds. It is very irritating. The one thing I found to help the most is excercise. Even moderate daily walking, but the more you do it, the more benefits y
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by starkd 4y ago
Excercise is also great for ADHD. Even a 2-mile vigorous walk every day. And it actually improves your health.
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Physical excercise can give you many of those benefits too. A good strenuous workout or run will give you a high without any of the harms.
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I don't think they have any shortage of patients in rehab. There is already a steady stream of them. Rehab counselors are often former addicts just trying to help others live through what they did. It is not exactly a way to get ric
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by starkd 4y ago
The study didn't mention anything about THC levels of the marijuana, but I would think that would make a big difference. As a general rule, dependence on any substance probably always entails a certain sacrifice to health. Even relian
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by starkd 4y ago
this is a good argument for its legalisation. The more you try to ban it, the more the allure is. But legalisation should be coupled with early childhood education warning about the harms. It is particulary bad for the developing brain to
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by starkd 4y ago
Its not that hard to believe though. When you have used something for a long while, its difficult to face the fact that you may have been doing something to the detriment of your health. I see it as a coping mechanism. I really don't
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by starkd 4y ago
But search warrants and subpoenas generally respect a due process. This reveals an elaborate government/corporate partnership to subvert due process. Not to mention free speech. The first amendment applies because you can no longer
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Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund Advises Companies to Withdraw Money from SVB(bloomberg.com)
5 points by starkd 4y ago|2 comments
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by starkd 4y ago
>> 41. The far worse scandal was “Project Birmingham,” in which thousands of fake Russian Twitter accounts were created to follow Alabama Republican Roy Moore in his 2017 race for US Senate. >>Newspapers reported Russia seemed
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by starkd 4y ago
<< 16. Their taxpayer-backed conclusions: the state should have total access to data to make searching speech easier, speech offenders should be put in a “holding area," and government should probably restrict disinformation, “e
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Twitter Files 16. Matt Taibbi Woodstock of the Censorship-Industrial Complex(twitter.com)
6 points by starkd 4y ago|4 comments
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Twitter Files: Statement to Congress the Censorship-Industrial Complex(twitter.com)
4 points by starkd 4y ago|0 comments
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by starkd 4y ago
I don't need to do it very often, but boiling the water seems like a real chore. (I know, call me lazy.) From my understanding, the risk of bacterial infection is extraodinarily rare, although I try to use distilled water.
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by starkd 4y ago
True. Most people have a deviated septum. Just a question of degree. For me, salt water rinsing helps keep the tissue moist. When the tissue gets dried out, sinuses don't drain.
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by starkd 4y ago
Interesting ideas. It seems to be mostly about revitalizing cities. Problem is we are so spread out now, its difficult to believe there is any one solution. We still need cars, because no matter how well we fortify mass transit, there i
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by starkd 4y ago
Stories like that kept me from getting surgery to correct a deviated septum. I have been able to avoid it up to now. The key that corrected most of my sinus problems was nasal rinsing with salt water. Always try surgical alternatives fir
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by starkd 4y ago
Ok, thanks for that. That is sort of what I had in mind. To the extend that it inhibits urban sprawl, I think that's a great thing. So many neighborhoods have been ruined by urban sprawl. There's one neighborhood near me that
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by starkd 4y ago
There also needs to be a firm consensus on how those changes get tweaked. Guiding principles that don't get changed with the legislation.

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