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by ultrastable 5y ago
"Sapience time measurement is sophisticated and designed to be resilient to simple manipulatio nattempts. Merely keeping the computer on for longer or watching videos instead of working does not increase Input. Rather, it would requ
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by ultrastable 5y ago
nothing, it's just that buprenorphine has certain advantages that it lacks: because it's a partial agonist, it causes less respiratory depression/is much harder to overdose on/you can safely titrate it faster; high recep
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by ultrastable 5y ago
yeah you're both right, I just hope supply & cost get to a point where methadone can be replaced w/ buprenorphine whenever necessary. could save a lot of lives
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by ultrastable 5y ago
as a great man said, "Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun"
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by ultrastable 5y ago
I think this might be overly pessimistic. imo more people care about their privacy but feel powerless to affect change than don't really care about it at all
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by ultrastable 5y ago
not implying any direct link, given that I have no idea if the guy even still works at Twitter, but: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/twitter-exec...
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by ultrastable 5y ago
the "caught up in racist tropes" thing reminds me of an incident that occurred at my university. there was a speech by someone involved w/ the Israeli govt & during the Q&A a Palestine activist asked them a question a
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by ultrastable 5y ago
not only that but international law also recognizes Palestine's right to armed struggle, as an oppressed nation
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by ultrastable 5y ago
this is the latest hasbara gimmick, portraying Israelis as "indigenous" in a feeble attempt to mislead people into supporting their colonialism
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by ultrastable 5y ago
that's both untrue & grossly antisemitic
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by ultrastable 5y ago
no, they're exercising their legal right to armed struggle against a colonial oppressor.
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by ultrastable 5y ago
methadone is on the list but buprenorphine isn't... the WHO needs to step up
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by ultrastable 5y ago
thank you. it would be nice if there was more recognition of the whole energy chain rather than the pretense that lithium, electricity etc just spring fully-formed from the ether
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by ultrastable 5y ago
it's not rare in the US, and even mandatory for certain crimes in some states. on any given day there are 10k juveniles in adult US jails & prisons, & a lot of them haven't even been convicted of anything (pre-trial detent
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by ultrastable 5y ago
I think the perceived advantage is range? I don't really know anything about fuel cells but I'd be interested to know how they compare to battery power in terms of the environmental consequences of material extraction/manufac
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by ultrastable 5y ago
anarcho-capitalism isn't really anarchism, in the sense that anarchism is historically opposed to wage labour & private property because it represents a form of coercion. I don't just mean this in a normative sense - whatever
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by ultrastable 5y ago
not trying to be pedantic, sorry. I'm just pointing out that there are a lot of people who do awful things but are surprisingly unlikely to reoffend & so whose post-offence imprisonment doesn't actually make society any safer.
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by ultrastable 5y ago
on the subject of pointless employee "benefits": I recently started working as a courier for a big food delivery platform. the agency through which I'm "employed" emailed me the other day about the benefits they pro
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by ultrastable 5y ago
you're completely right about the barbarism inherent to the whole retributive mindset, but prisons aren't even effective for the more humane goals you're talking about - they're much more likely to push someone further o
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by ultrastable 5y ago
maybe this particular article doesn't expose the worst aspects of prisons, but overall there might be some room for improvement, eg https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/03/2..
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by ultrastable 5y ago
similarly, don't hide stuff in the freezer - it seems like a clever place that nobody will think to look in, but everybody else has had the same thought & it's one of the first places anyone even remotely experienced will sear
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by ultrastable 5y ago
Boyd's stuff is really interesting but yeah, he doesn't provide quite as much of a unified theory of everything as a lot of the Pentagon people seem to think. imo one result of the over-bureaucratized nature of the US military is
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by ultrastable 5y ago
not got anything against SSRIs or self-medication but given their low success rate & the withdrawal symptoms they can create, this isn't necessarily something I'd recommend
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by ultrastable 5y ago
what's the likelihood that Chia, if taken up, will have a similar effect on storage (supply issues etc) as BTC has had on processing hardware? I don't have enough technical knowledge to know how credible the claims in their whitep