westcort

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by westcort 5y ago
The reciprocal of e is about 37% and it pops up in a lot of places. Say, for example, you play a lottery 1000 times and there is a 1 in 1000 chance of winning each time you play. The chances you do not win even once is 37%, or 1/e.
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Learn Japanese vocabulary while you work (just push play)(locserendipity.com)
3 points by westcort 5y ago|2 comments
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Thank you. As a pharmacist, I am at the end of my rope when it comes to the war I fight every day against people who are disrespecting those who have died of this virus. What you are seeing here is the frustration of a health care professio
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You are exposed to millions of antigens daily, and almost none are FDA approved. This isn’t at all like a new chemical entity, it is a short-lived antigen that trains your immune system, then goes away. This isn’t 1960, it’s 2021. It’s safe
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by westcort 5y ago
You are exposed to millions of antigens daily, and almost none are FDA approved. This isn’t at all like a new chemical entity, it is a short-lived antigen that trains your immune system, then goes away. This isn’t 1960, it’s 2021. It’s safe
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by westcort 5y ago
You are exposed to millions of antigens daily, and almost none are FDA approved. This isn’t at all like a new chemical entity, it is a short-lived antigen that trains your immune system, then goes away. This isn’t 1960, it’s 2021. It’s safe
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by westcort 5y ago
You are exposed to millions of antigens daily, and almost none are FDA approved. This isn’t at all like a new chemical entity, it is a short-lived antigen that trains your immune system, then goes away. This isn’t 1960, it’s 2021. It’s safe
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by westcort 5y ago
The whole premise of protecting the replication of a virus at the expense of human life is an argument from ignorance. What if this and what if that and whining about not wanting a little inconvenience to protect my job and my life and my n
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by westcort 5y ago
Ending the pandemic in the US and saving lives.
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I didn’t think we would end up in a timeline where courts are trying to protect the replication of a deadly virus that has killed millions. Look at the results. Mandate->lives saved; no mandate->more death. I thought you all claimed t
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A catalog of books, music, films, and some other things: https://www.locserendipity.com/
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by westcort 5y ago
Images here: https://web.archive.org/web/20160304015426/https://settlemen... And here: https://space.nss.org/color-plates-from-colonies-in-space/
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I found the same problem, so I cataloged all of the books in the Library of Congress on archive.org, music, pictures, Project Gutenberg and created this: https://www.locserendipity.com
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by westcort 5y ago
Bitcoin is a bounty designed to force the government to reveal which algorithms are secure: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28860239
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What I want is a language that consists ONLY of GOTO statements. The Turing tape concept indicates that it should be possible.
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The E Prime bible reads better than other versions: https://www.generalsemantics.org/the-general-semantics-learn...
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This is GREAT news for people with kidney disease. I hope we will see this process improve and make transplants possible for more people.
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This is what Bitcoin was designed to do—-make the net safer by incentivizing the government to reveal the forms of encryption it can break, starting with SHA256: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28860239
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by westcort 5y ago
Schopenhauer used an equation with the answer of 42 to make a metaphysical point in “The World as Will and Idea.” I suspect this is the meaning Adams had in mind: As time has only one dimension, counting is the only arithmetical operation,
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Solumbra makes good sun protective clothing.
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Perhaps there is more plasticity built in than even the creators envisioned.
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Hashcoin whitepapers include some estimates of how many e-mails are sent daily to determine the delay needed. It is reasonable to assume that, in 2008, the total cost of the Manhattan project inflation adjusted to 2008 dollars would be an
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RSA falls first, limiting banking transaction safety, leading to a flight to crypto, then the government is forced to tip its hand. Yes SHA256 is theorized to be harder to crack with a quantum computer. The consortium is betting that the g
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China banned Bitcoin mining and many people have had their bank accounts shut down or seized: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/compass-mining-says-chase-shu...
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Unless you are the government, not an individual. Bitcoin threatens the government. SHA256 will be cracked as a result of inevitable quantum computing breakthroughs. It is not an if, but a when. If the government shuts down crypto, on the o
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Bitcoin is a bounty designed to force the US Gov to reveal SHA256 is insecure
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Not divine. Not relevant.
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Their “divine” power comes from belief in such power by the people they rule. Without that, they are the real straw man. And that is what they are, figureheads and cultural tokens. It’s not good for the Japanese people and it is not good fo
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I fail to see how any force can negate the power of world economies at this point. Even Germany had to pay back its war debt and had to do so after changing its political system, therefore the power of economies is--historically--far greate
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It is too convenient for a ruling family to have the mandate of the one true God. They are flesh and blood with DNA, diseases, and all of the other problems of humanity. But I won’t tell you what to believe. My view is that these are just p

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