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by xyzal 6y ago
Anecdote: I have suffered from anxiety since I can remember. I had the opportunity to take psilocybe a few times (always took about quarter of a dose than my trip-mates, out of fear of a bad trip, and most of the times had just subtle perce
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by xyzal 6y ago
"The findings are consistent with previous research. Health experts have long said a mask provides only limited protection for the person wearing it, but can dramatically reduce the risk to others if the wearer is infected, even when s
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by xyzal 6y ago
Sorry, there is correlation between graft function post-transplant and length of the so called "cold ischaemia time". https://www.kidney-international.org/article/S0085-2538(15)3...
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by xyzal 6y ago
Related question: what is the best way to publish code so it is censorship resistant?
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by xyzal 6y ago
While playing AI Dungeon in the Dragon version, I managed to trick the NN to write an essay for me about the future of humanity. The first sentence is my trigger, the rest is generated. It totally blew my mind. In the following essay, I wil
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by xyzal 6y ago
Would someone please explain why was this post flagged?
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by xyzal 6y ago
I hope this does not come across as too sentimental. I am 38 years old, and I can see my parents getting more frail every day. Talk to them while you can. I could not shake off the teenager-like attitude of being too busy to spend quality t
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by xyzal 6y ago
Is it just me, or did anyone else try to clean up their monitor from dust, realizing eventually the "dust" is the websites background image?
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How Hong Kong Was Lost(sinopsis.cz)
8 points by xyzal 6y ago|0 comments
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Apple allows streaming games on iOS, but there’s a catch(arstechnica.com)
2 points by xyzal 6y ago|0 comments
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Uighur Muslim teacher tells of forced sterilisation in Xinjiang(theguardian.com)
19 points by xyzal 6y ago|0 comments
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by xyzal 6y ago
Why they don't just make purchases on iPhones 30% more expensive?
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by xyzal 6y ago
Anecdote: I got my first programming job while in the middle of a SpaceChem run (previously, I was just a hobby coder). I quit the game in a few days after starting that job, as I found it required the same "brain juices" I had al
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by xyzal 6y ago
I am SO waiting for Mozilla to give my ANY endpoint to throw my money at, and I bet I am not alone. Why cannot I have an Firefox mug? Or get that VPN running in Europe finally?
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Dissecting the Anatomy of Beijing’s Internment Drive in Xinjiang(jpolrisk.com)
32 points by xyzal 6y ago|6 comments
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by xyzal 6y ago
One of the linked articles references Magic Wormhole, which appears to be just the file transfer tool I have been missing all the recent years. https://github.com/warner/magic-wormhole summary and example -> https:
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Why’s Beijing So Worried About Western Values Infecting China’s Youth? (2017)(chinafile.com)
33 points by xyzal 6y ago|4 comments
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by xyzal 6y ago
I understood it so as well. It seems to be the most horrible application of machine learning I have heard of lately.
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by xyzal 6y ago
I opine that "accountability culture" is becoming quite hyperthrophied, and support my opinion with an excerpt from Taibbi`s other article: "A bizarre echo of North Korea’s “three generations of punishment” doctrine could be
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by xyzal 6y ago
This post from Taibbi is in my opinion also worth a read: On “White Fragility”, A few thoughts on America’s smash-hit #1 guide to egghead racialism https://taibbi.substack.com/p/on-white-fragility
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by xyzal 6y ago
I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. -- Voltaire
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John Cleese: Political Correctness Can Lead to an Orwellian Nightmare (2016)(youtube.com)
101 points by xyzal 6y ago|96 comments
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by xyzal 6y ago
I suspect the redesign was motivated to make ads look more like regular content. At least I seem to click ads looking like regular posts frequently since the redesign, and in my opinion, it is an underhanded tactic.
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by xyzal 6y ago
How about removing Slack from your phone and using only the web interface while in the office?
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by xyzal 6y ago
While we are at it, we could also eliminate unix zombie and orphan processes, and genocide in the form of killing all children should also be forbidden.
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by xyzal 6y ago
Bartosz Milewski's lectures on category theory are great. Also, the accompanying book is well written (and free)! lectures -> https://www.youtube.com/user/DrBartosz book -> https://github.com&#x2F
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by xyzal 6y ago
In case you are thinking twice about getting a degree due to education costs, please take note that many European public universities offer free education even for foreigners.
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by xyzal 6y ago
Oh my, I empathize a lot with the author. In january, long periods of sitting brought me a slip of the L5-S1 disc, and now I have to exercise every hour or so in the office for several minutes to be able to walk home with manageable amounts
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by xyzal 6y ago
I find the joke actually hilarious. While being funny in a Ricky Gervais way, it is critical of stereotypical thinking at the same time.
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by xyzal 7y ago
It should be noted that Mendeley encrypts user database, presumably to lock in its users: https://eighty-twenty.org/2018/06/13/mendeley-encrypted-db

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