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by zkms 10y ago
Or just under an atmosphere of inert gas.
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by zkms 10y ago
> It only increases diversion to the black market by directly increasing demand. My own grandparents have had to buy pain pills in the past. Yes. I know people with chronic illnesses (of many types) who've had to resort to various b
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by zkms 10y ago
If you actually want to damage sensors of unattended autonomous vehicles you could do a lot worse than just like...shooting at it with a firearm. Delicate precision sensors don't take to bullets too well, also using firearms lets you b
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by zkms 10y ago
> I always wished a 5.25 mass storage HDD would come back on the market. How much would those hold relative to this? Google presented a paper at FAST16 about the possibility of fundamentally redesigning hard drives to specifically target
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by zkms 10y ago
> probably the gasket is buna-n because it's cheap No. Helium hard drives are laser-welded shut. See http://www.seagate.com/files/www-content/product-content/ent... for the details about what parts ar
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by zkms 10y ago
> That explains why most newer LED lamps flash at 120 Hz, slomo mode fails on cameras, and one gets wierd strobing effects with fast moving stuff... Yes. I hate it when LED light output isn't continuous or visibly flickery, especial
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by zkms 10y ago
> It's much easier to step the voltage up for power transmission. It used to be much easier to step the voltage up with AC, but now we have advanced enough power electronics to make the inherent increased efficiency of HVDC be act
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by zkms 10y ago
this is what happens when you take the term "bandwidth-delay product" a little too literally.
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by zkms 10y ago
> where only the relatively safer and lower-concentration forms of a drug are legal? Partial legalisation of that type is likely to be counterproductive to achieving such a shift to safer forms of drugs. Trying to enforce (laudable and c
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by zkms 10y ago
> Really I think she just must've been lonely. This week I found a copy of a book she gave me for my birthday after we met. She inscribed it, in part, "my heart melted the moment I first heard you speak." > I think I&#x
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by zkms 10y ago
This is entirely consistent with how weirdly cultish the "rehab/treatment" industry is in US: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13848273
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by zkms 10y ago
> Some things are too dangerous to distribute to consumers, no matter how they are labeled. opioids, especially the lower potency ones, do not meet this criteria at all. With tolerance, minimum effective dose increases, but so does the
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by zkms 10y ago
from OP, > chooses heroin over treatment instead Until people realise that this is a rational and sensical decision there won't be any solutions for these problems and these cases. The US drug "treatment" / "reha
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by zkms 10y ago
My argument isn't that opioid use in the time of opium dens was harmless, nor that opioids can be used willy-nilly without any harms. I am well familiar with some of the dangers of opioid use and do not wish to discount them at all. My
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by zkms 10y ago
> Is there any reason to treat these as drugs instead of just poisons? because they have useful medical effects, a safe dose, and a decent therapeutic index. They have accepted uses in human and animal medicine. That the effective (and l
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by zkms 10y ago
Ah, if the trend toward nastier and more potent fentanyl analogues was an expected and predicted consequence of opioid prohibition. That would have been nice to know! Before opioid prohibition deaths from opioid use were quite rare. You eve
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by zkms 10y ago
> Go back to the pointless arrow logo ah, the amtrak logo that looks utterly identical to the >>= haskell operator. I love it!
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by zkms 10y ago
Opioid users know about cold-water extraction. It's not rocket science. https://www.vice.com/en_dk/article/uk-codeine-addict-729
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by zkms 10y ago
> Maybe the answer isn't to make heroin available OTC at Walgreens Actually, in UK you can get actual opioids (as co-codamol) behind the counter, without a prescription. Funny how they don't seem to have a disastrous and deadly
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by zkms 10y ago
I bring the SDR, you bring the rifle? :)
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by zkms 10y ago
> To protect against that, you isolate userland and the Tor process in separate machines, or at least VMs. This applies as well to people who run Tor hidden services that are doorkicker bait (like drug cryptomarkets). It should be imposs
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by zkms 10y ago
OK so serious question -- utility companies tend to have high-accuracy, company-operated/maintained meters (that effectively measure the total use of a bunch of customers). They're meant for like, identifying non-malicious/te
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by zkms 10y ago
per the article, a Dranetz Products made PowerXplorer PX5-400 http://www.dranetz.com/product-services/current-dranetz-prod... here's the original paper http://ieeexplore.ieee.org.sci-hub.bz/documen
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by zkms 10y ago
This is a good reason for self-driving vehicles to use high-performance (read as "subject to ITAR", alas) IR imaging sensors alongside LIDAR. Detecting/identifying humans on bicycles (or, more generally, humans/wildlife
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by zkms 10y ago
> On the more potent point, almost(?) all of the more potent opioids are derivatives of fentanyl and iirc use fentanyl in the synthesis so probably won't become a street drug. You're alas wrong here. There's already deriva
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by zkms 10y ago
> "what if a meteorite hit my plane while it was in flight - maybe I should add three inches of high-tension armored steel around the plane, so that my passengers would be protected" I think this is a shockingly good example of
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by zkms 10y ago
also note that it's currently (idk how that will change with the clusterfuck that is REAL ID, though) legal and possible to board a domestic flight without any forms of ID. https://www.tsa.gov/travel/security-scree
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by zkms 10y ago
Except people only started dying when crackdowns intensified on legal, pharmaceutical, sources and prescribers of opioids. Crackdowns on "pill mills" and "overprescribing doctors" is what denies people a safe and legal s
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by zkms 10y ago
I feel like a nontrivial root cause of cost disease is USian land use restrictions that make real estate pathologically expensive. The devastating effects of bad zoning policies end up severely driving the cost of real estate -- and real es
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by zkms 10y ago
There's additional (comparatively) low-cost actions that can be taken to avoid intercept such as: Make it autonomous (to avoid the cost and complexity of air conditioning and crew oxygen). Use an ADS-B/Mode-C receiver, FLIR camera

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