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by strbean 6y ago
Can we short-circuit all this BS and just eliminate timezones completely? It'll take a week to get used to thinking in UTC, and then we can forget the nightmare of timezones forever.
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by strbean 6y ago
That articles take the mountains of evidence that changing schedules is terrible for our health, and misrepresents it as evidence that switching to permanent DST would be bad for our health. There are tons of terrible norms in our schedules
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by strbean 6y ago
I think drug prohibition is the lower-hanging fruit here, but it's certainly important not to overlook the deeper causes. Spiritual malaise, a feeling of disenfranchisement and lack of buy-in to society, poverty, and desperation are al
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by strbean 6y ago
> On a daily basis, patients get relief from pain In fact they get a dosage in excess of what they need for relief from pain. So, on a daily basis, they are just straight up getting high on opiates, and then withdrawing.
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by strbean 6y ago
> there are plenty of cheaper companies you can hire to do this Isn't McKinsey like the IBM of their field, though? Hiring someone cheap makes it harder to pass the buck if it doesn't work out. "Nobody ever got fired for b
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by strbean 6y ago
Along with the whole different release times thing. People obviously have different metabolisms, so the duration of effect was different for different people. When these people told their doctors that their dose didn't last a full 8 ho
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by strbean 6y ago
My flippant guess would be that time perception changing with age would be related to the NMDA receptor. NMDA receptor function decreases with age[0]. My personal anecdotal experience with NMDAR antagonists is that it feels like the `Turbo`
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by strbean 6y ago
It will be hilarious if far in the future we observe some totally unprecedented phenomenon with the Bullet Cluster that renders it irrelevant to this argument. Something like the gas clouds forming into a giant paperclip, mega-Dyson Sphere,
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by strbean 6y ago
MOND isn't a model, it's an umbrella for models that change `F=ma`. Seems like most MOND models still don't account for a large amount of observations, but it's probably worthwhile to compare the person-hours devoted to
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by strbean 6y ago
In my understanding, a defect in the RNA that affected the protein would necessarily result in a different amino acid sequence. So for prions to form, they would have to be misfolded initially due to chance / environment or re-arranged
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by strbean 6y ago
Seems to be working well so far for COVID vaccines. We're about to witness a very large scale test though.
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by strbean 6y ago
> when referring to multiple federal circuits and the supreme court, their result absolutely is the reality. > the more people bring these half baked cases in front of stupid judges, the more they keep crystallizing the reality. Hones
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by strbean 6y ago
Judges are fallible. Actually, if you dig through the history of precedent surrounding any particular issue, you realize judges are incredibly fallible. There are stupid judges, corrupt judges, and judges that simply don't care that
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by strbean 6y ago
Oh no, did someone post an unoriginal thought on the internet?
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by strbean 6y ago
Piping in with a very tangential thought: Privacy is in the process of becoming antiquated. It is sad, but I think it is inevitable. Surveillance technology advances with technology in general, and counter-surveillance becomes more and more
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by strbean 6y ago
There are some minor restrictions in addition to the nags. I think you can't change your wallpaper and some other silly stuff. You might also be limited in the types of updates you get.
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by strbean 6y ago
> It's playing whack-a-mole with illegal child abuse imagery. As opposed to the alternatives? Have a moderator sitting in a chair behind every single person using a computer? Outlaw storing/transmitting any user generated data,
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by strbean 6y ago
A 2018 meta-analysis by Maloney et. al. [1] of 10 studies claims that rFC performs better than LAL. Higher specificity, less lot-to-lot variability. Also, the method is old enough that the patent has already expired, and it has been include
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by strbean 6y ago
Goodwill is a 501c3 nonprofit.
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by strbean 6y ago
4-year old sister, I hope?
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by strbean 6y ago
Financial systems are an absolute nightmare, so it doesn't surprise me that some oddball detail in a small country eludes tests. Pretty much every processor, network, and country has a million of those oddball details, and they change
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by strbean 6y ago
That's what they're hoping for at Joby Aviation: https://www.jobyaviation.com/
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by strbean 6y ago
(000) 000-0000 also worked last time I checked. It frequently has gas rewards as well.
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by strbean 6y ago
> wives' families Fixed that for you. (sorry, couldn't resist)
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by strbean 6y ago
I worked with Haskell for awhile but never had it fully 'click'. That being said, I think that once someone is fully comfortable with algebraic data types, category theory, and functional programming, most of these extensions and
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by strbean 6y ago
Love rclone, thanks for all your hard work!
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by strbean 6y ago
That is amazing. Essentially neurolinguistic programming a la Snowcrash.
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by strbean 6y ago
rclone might hold some promise as an alternative, if you don't mind using Go.
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by strbean 6y ago
Seems like a big part of why shells are so much better for certain tasks is because of a failing of more general purpose languages. Working with the filesystem, spawning processes, and orchestrating io streams. Shells could almost be consid
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by strbean 6y ago
First it is protein shakes. Then creatine and other supplements. Then pre-workout stuff. Then the better pre-workout stuff someone at the gym recommended. Then you find out that pre-workout stuff was banned by the FDA for containing ampheta

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