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Proofreader, ahem, sorry, could not resist, I am not really bothered...
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Given that historically the push for criminalization often had its root in a legal mechanism to pursue minority groups perhaps the opposite is true, I've had conversations with police and criminologists regarding the chilling effect on
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Often they don't sell raw tobacco, they add quite a lot, https://ec.europa.eu/health/scientific_committees/emerging/d... First group (CMR properties in the unburnt form, sorted by content/frequency
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“It is my belief, Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.” I've lived in both, I'm happier in a
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by tudorw 5y ago
thanks for the fascinating background, I stumbled upon this in the rabbit hole of algorithmic art and NFT :)
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And how fast do you think the first steam engine went? I think we are all familiar with emerging technology that improves over time.
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Food As A Machine Gun (Official Lyric Video) - Enemy Radio, Public Enemy https://www.google.com/search?gs_ssp=eJzj4tVP1zc0TCtJMra0yDY...
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Algorithmic Botany, Biological Modelling and Visualization Software(algorithmicbotany.org)
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I should have just said it's rude to call people irrational, we are all humans, we are not computers. Also, how could you tell if something was rational or not without knowing the full circumstances.
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Far more rational to convince a few people to give you millions of dollars you burn through in 8 months not launching a product no-one wanted leaving a burnt out team, disappointed investors and a dozen second hand Aeron's...
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Here's a list of the top 132 Open Source IPFS projects, I don't know how many are being actively developed, but the space does have a fair amount going on. https://awesomeopensource.com/projects/ipfs
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France is bacon...
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Yes, I imagined a populace having independent control over some form of portable digital secure financial instrument as being an exciting thing. Here's a piece from 2002, https://www.wired.com/2002/01/egold&#x
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I can tell you if a rollercoaster looks exciting without knowing if it's safe, I am being overly cautious perhaps.
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I'm not willing to comment publicly that this or that project is legit, rife with fraud is quite the understatement and I don't have the resources to vet anything, nonetheless, if you use google and follow people rather than proje
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For me, a globally distributed database running on open source software is interesting and novel in itself, just because no one can find anything useful to do with it yet doesn't invalidate the novelty, wasn't electrical effects s
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Cryptocurrency discussions on HN often feel like 90's me discussing how fax machines would be obsolete, not because the Internet offered a better solution at the time, digital signatures were not binding afaik so this was a real barrie
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"An estimated 19,452 iPhones were sold every day in the UK in 2019", give them a break, obviously struggling to get traction.
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I'm a layperson, on a read through this appears to have content that would a) enable a new testing method for covid that could offer higher throughput than PCR and b) describe functional changes brought about by covid that persist for
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'BAY AREA LEADS NATION IN COMMUTERS TRAVELING AT LEAST 3 HOURS EVERY DAY, STUDY SAYS' https://abc7news.com/super-commuters-bay-area-traffic-3-hour...
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Also, if we model a brain effectively, then study that model, would our brain not develop new skills from reflecting on such a model and therefore develop again beyond the model?
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As it's an axis I'd be interested to know if there are any studies looking at effects in the other direction, can our brain modulate the presence of the gut bacteria in some way, it would seem that for a beneficial symbiosis commu
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There is certainly lots going on inside, loads of areas of study at the monment look at gut-brain axis (GBA) and stuff like 'Gut bacterial taxonomic abundances vary with cognition, personality, and mood in the Wisconsin Longitudinal St
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Maybe this is where we will find consciousness, we're just mobile meat based storage for parasites to hang out in...
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nice :)
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Is my NAD AV receiver the only device smart enough to know I want the LED power indicator off when I watch a movie, either that or someone wired it wrong?
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Being HN hugged to death right now, give them a little time here...
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This is the way.
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hopefully the beginning of this movement not the end, good to see the need for this recognised in legislation, as someone who would like to see more progression along this route this is a meaningful event.
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That's possibly a fair assessment, it might also be true that with better support to manage mental health issues one might continue in their pursuit of what to others seems like an obsession, I am not certain there is anything inherent

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