thotpoizn

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by thotpoizn 9y ago
At this point, there should probably just be a generic "THIS PRODUCT IS KNOWN TO THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA TO CAUSE CANCER" sticker that companies can stick on pretty much anything they sell there. <eyeroll>
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by thotpoizn 10y ago
See my other question below. If there were a 10% chance that children who were exposed to your presence might sicken and die from a toxic reaction to your sweat, would you take steps to avoid any such contact? Would it be wrong to prevent
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by thotpoizn 10y ago
The hypothetical "pedo gene" is probably too emotionally charged; some may find it difficult to engage rationally as a result. Suppose instead there were a gene found which caused a toxic reaction in some children. Some, but not
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by thotpoizn 10y ago
I dunno, there are still places in the US where you can buy decent land, outside of any city limits, for under $1,000 an acre. And there are absolutely scads of places you can buy NICE parcels (including tree lines, water, etc.) for around
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by thotpoizn 10y ago
Just for argument's sake... Do you think the greater good would be served by protecting that politician's privacy, and that of several dozen school teachers who also carried that set of genes? Or would society be better off if t
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by thotpoizn 10y ago
Your question was reasonable. I wondered the same thing. Perhaps it was misinterpreted as signalling some sort of defense of conspicuous consumption / flaunting of wealth. To be clear, that would be an irrational and unfounded inter
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by thotpoizn 10y ago
I thought the same, but according to the article the Bison was actually named as sort of tongue-in-cheek reference to the particle.
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by thotpoizn 10y ago
FYI, I'm a chronic insomnia sufferer, and I also found melatonin was a "miracle cure". Even if/when it didn't help me get to sleep on time, I would still wake up feeling mostly rested and able to function the next
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by thotpoizn 10y ago
I think some of the most interesting (and hard!) problems are behavioral, centering around "spotting the bad apple." Which employee is most likely to steal, and why? What sorts of activities may be deemed suspicious, and merit c
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by thotpoizn 10y ago
Well, I admit that does sound like a promising concept, but it's not quite the same one described in the article. By my reading, this project seems oriented more towards correlating some number of searches and connecting the dots in a
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by thotpoizn 10y ago
I don't understand why this function is needed if the search engine performs its purpose. Shouldn't searching on any of those symptoms return results that suggest the possibility of pancreatic cancer? As designed, it returns tho
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by thotpoizn 10y ago
What strikes me as odd about apocalyptic "the perils of the singularity" navel-gazing is that we automatically assume that machines, and ONLY the machines, will improve far beyond our capabilities - perhaps even infinitely. Why sh
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by thotpoizn 10y ago
I wish I could provide such an example in good conscience, but a (very broad) NDA with a former employer precludes me from doing so. They might not mind, and he might not mind - but I would have gone back on my word, which I definitely wo
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by thotpoizn 10y ago
I am hesitant to engage at this level, but - you just couldn't be more wrong about Comey. I know him to be every bit as thoughtful and reasonable as your glowing description of Hayden. That doesn't mean I agree with all of his p
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by thotpoizn 11y ago
I'm sorry, but no. "Ironically, the only real way to achieve this" - is to achieve this. I met my wife almost 25 years ago. We were both homeless at the time. We found each other, loved each other, and despite ridiculous
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by thotpoizn 11y ago
This project immediately reminded me of the 1972 movie "Silent Running," which featured a couple of robots that tended plants on a greenhouse in space. Kind of a sad movie, now that I think of it. Hopefully this project ac
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by thotpoizn 11y ago
It's too bad that you had to say that in a public venue, but at least it's a niche like HN - where it's all tech geeks, and virtually certain that no one here actually knows or interacts with you on any regular basis. Expect
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by thotpoizn 11y ago
Just to play the devil's advocate, one might just as easily argue that the self-selecting of you and your like-minded peers actually made the NSA's recruiting tasks easier. If you have some moral / ethical / rational be
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by thotpoizn 12y ago
I am a little annoyed that I have to keep going through clickrobatics every time I change back to old Google Maps, and explain why each time. I've already explained a dozen times, quit pestering me. Also, get off my damned lawn.
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by thotpoizn 13y ago
... "But when we've practiced quite a while How vastly we improve our style!" ( - J. R. Pope, A Word of Encouragement. Collected in The New Oxford Book of English Light Verse, 1978.)
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by thotpoizn 13y ago
Perhaps you really are just that atypical corner case, I don't really know. But if you study some of the techniques for detecting "tells" and subtle cues that someone is lying (basically the works and/or derivatives of
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by thotpoizn 13y ago
This is exactly what I was thinking. What's to stop someone from pulling a "Oh, hey, thanks for the winning lotto ticket..." If the answer is "personal integrity and honor" then, well, call me a skeptic - but some
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by thotpoizn 13y ago
Is the "oxygen-rich environment" universally true, though? It's not as though oxygen saturation in the ocean is perfectly homogeneous. There are plenty of naturally occurring areas of hypoxia, and one could easily imagine a
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by thotpoizn 13y ago
> "...Cops improving a situation? Never seen it." I suspect that's really just an emotional lashing-out at a pervasive problem. But if it's not, I assure you - I have seen cops improve a situation, and I'm certa
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by thotpoizn 13y ago
In today's political climate, there's more than a passing chance that a politician who is not at the end of his or her career could survive the average scandal more or less unscathed, while the damage to the NSA would be catastr
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by thotpoizn 13y ago
"Hand-picked phrases are not be enough to discover this," "... are not be..." - AHA! We've GOT YOU! Now, tell me my future! ;-)
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by thotpoizn 13y ago
This would make for an interesting experiment. Anaerobic digesters would presumably make short work of any toxin proteins, and you could probably get a fairly high jellyfish to "other" feedstocks [ratio] while retaining a commerc
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by thotpoizn 13y ago
Well, the anarchy could have been forgiven, but individualism ? Put him up against the wall! I've looked at the blog in question ( http://hampsteadtrash.blogspot.co.uk/ ) - and it's obvious that the real problem
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by thotpoizn 13y ago
This. It seems pointless to me to proceed with so much hand wringing and "my science-peen is bigger than yours" posturing, when we have ample opportunities (and plenty of pigs and bonobos) to test the hypothesis via experiment.
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by thotpoizn 14y ago
Suddenly I cannot think of a single thing QUITE so intoxicatingly interesting as what the French might be up to with this radio station on Pierre sur Haute! Surely it must be just sinfully rich with secret sauce, mystery, and espionage! If

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