SnowProblem

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by SnowProblem 5y ago
+1 for Argentina. There's an argument from the book Germs, Guns, Steel that in the past civilizations flourished most where geography allowed for trade to happen at roughly the same latitude, where all the same crops would grow and c
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by SnowProblem 5y ago
In my estimation, probably fewer than authorities think. US Census collect data on reasons for vaccine hesitancy [1]. #1 and #3 are distrust - of vaccines and of government - which anecdotally matches my network. If that's the case, th
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by SnowProblem 5y ago
Hey, this is exactly how I met my now wife and we've never heard anyone else with this story before! Long shot, but did this happen in Los Angeles?
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by SnowProblem 5y ago
Can't relate to the comments here. I usually just go with the "Amazon Choice" badge when there are options and it's fine.
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by SnowProblem 5y ago
A wonderful book that covers the history of the 2nd amendment along with its modern interpretations is The Second Amendment Primer: https://www.amazon.com/Second-Amendment-Primer-Authorities-C... . It has useful and interest
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by SnowProblem 5y ago
States are in charge of vaccination requirements for children. This needs to be a state issue, so that people can move, unless you want civil war.
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by SnowProblem 5y ago
And the reason for this, as we all know, is because the universe runs on distributed computers with no global state, where each computer simulates its own local physics and connects only to other nearby computers, and thus the so-called spe
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by SnowProblem 5y ago
More than you would think. Many health habits, both good and bad, spread socially. https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2007/07/obesity-is-co...
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by SnowProblem 5y ago
Two people in my circle were taking IVM pre-pandemic to treat rosacea and lyme disease. This is not an obscure drug in the 1st world. It also doesn't need to be an anti-viral to work on covid - it's already a general anti-inflamma
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by SnowProblem 5y ago
For a long time my model of the world assumed a certain level of corruption to exist in the West, but I assumed it was generally local, and that any large-scale corruption would become a national scandal, like the Church Committee, or Water
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by SnowProblem 5y ago
We have to get smarter and notice we’re being manipulated. Watch this debate. Both sides agree the New York Times sacrifices integrity now for engagement, because its drives revenue. It is only a debate of degree. https://youtu.b
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by SnowProblem 5y ago
1787: And what country can preserve it’s liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify the
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by SnowProblem 5y ago
Reminds me of a comment in the original Bitcoin source code: "Never go to sea with two chronometers; take one or three." One of the three was left as a todo :D https://github.com/trottier/original-bitcoin&#x
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by SnowProblem 5y ago
Like many other commentors here, I grew up playing primarily skill-based video games, like Legend of Zelda, RollerCoaster Tycoon, Counter-Strike, StarCraft. It was wanting to make these games that led me to become a software developer. But
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by SnowProblem 5y ago
Dr. John Campbell had a video on this last week: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20DxL8KhvgA .
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by SnowProblem 5y ago
In the FDA's press release yesterday [1], they justified Pfizer approval by saying the vaccine had a 91% effectiveness. But everyone knows that number is no longer true - the data was from March, before Delta. If the FDA were acting re
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by SnowProblem 5y ago
I like to imagine a future where space is unregulated, and some alternative LEO satellite Internet company begins to shoot down SpaceX's satellites in order to make room for their own. That in turn inspires SpaceX to deploy their own d
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by SnowProblem 5y ago
I have a 4" iPhone SE. Love it, but Apple has continued to push me away these last four years. I no longer use any other Apple products except for this 4-year-old phone. What alternatives are there for small phone fans? Sony used to ma
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by SnowProblem 5y ago
The side effects of HCQ were very overstated. The first study [1] that was pushed by the media to discredit Trump saying HCQ might be dangerous to the heart was later retracted [2] because the authors refused to share its data. The best met
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by SnowProblem 5y ago
Aytu BioPharma is a small company bringing UV light into the body, and the early trials on COVID last year showed it worked. The same was true for Hydroxychloroquine too. You fell for propaganda. https://aytubio.com/pipeline
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by SnowProblem 5y ago
Why do you think a lawsuit would be fruitless? Yes courts move slow, but there is clear harm here. The federal government bears responsibility over this land. If they don’t want it, then they should hand the land over to the states, or othe
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by SnowProblem 5y ago
Thanks. I enjoyed reading up on that today. As for the federal role, I think a lawsuit is exactly how to solve this. Both parties are for big government, and neither has solved this when they could.
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by SnowProblem 5y ago
Does California not have a role there? Or perhaps the suit should be against the federal government then, or both, but something needs to change. It doesn’t have to be this way.
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by SnowProblem 5y ago
California has by far the most number of wildfires and most acres burned each year compared to other states, no matter your measure. States can sue one another over water rights if one state is polluting water upstream to another state. Is
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by SnowProblem 5y ago
Appreciate the response. Regarding side effects, I picked those 3 because at least in my own family ~25% had those shortly after the 2nd dose, and are still ongoing. Their doctors think it’s coincidence, but it makes me skeptical how rare t
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by SnowProblem 5y ago
I don't disagree with you. In fact, I don't know what the correct policy should be. But we have focused heavily on preventing infection, and the vaccines have been amazing at this so far. Because now of variants and decreasing imm
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Curious, how does Ivermectin fit into your worldview? https://www.wsj.com/articles/fda-ivermectin-covid-19-coronav...
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by SnowProblem 5y ago
The information is out there for people to make up their own mind. But if you are confident that CSW is larping as Satoshi, let's have some fun and make it a bet.
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by SnowProblem 5y ago
Been hearing this since 2018. Meanwhile - Cryptofights alone did 600k transactions yesterday https://bsvdata.com - Hundreds of independent games, social media, wallets, exchanges, tokens, artwork, hackathons in general creativit
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by SnowProblem 5y ago
In practice, Bitcoin's privacy model was never even tried though. BTC fees are so prohibitively expensive that no wallet or user would generate more UTXOs or transactions than they have to, making it trivial to trace, yes. But if BTC h

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