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by aphantastic 2y ago
Ok, I think we’re on the same page.
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by aphantastic 2y ago
Classic bayesian error. The population in question here isn’t the globe, but rather people who have already died from caffeine related causes. Naturally the rate of increased caffeine sensitivity amongst those folks will be different from t
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by aphantastic 2y ago
The cooldown period built into HN is there for a reason: taking time to reflect on messages and do any necessary background research makes for better discussions than impulsively saying whatever is top of mind. I suggest you use this time t
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by aphantastic 2y ago
That’s not what I was implying at all I have no clue how you arrived at that. I’m saying an LD1 does exist – it’s the dose that would be fatal to 1% of a population (and further a LD0.1 and 0.0001 exist). These doses are lower than the LD50
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by aphantastic 2y ago
1 cup filter coffee can be 170mg or more. And LD50 isn’t really relevant here, even LD1 levels are deadly to hundreds of millions of people. It’s entirely possible for what some might consider a “normal” amount of coffee to be deadly to man
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by aphantastic 2y ago
LD50 for espresso is roughly 1 gallon per 50kg body mass. I wouldn’t want to, but I could drink 2 gallons of water without significant issue. If we accept that some people will naturally have a lower tolerance (and that espresso isn’t the
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by aphantastic 2y ago
Teflon is known to not interact when it is in its stable long polymer state. But if we accept that it is breaking away from that state, we know it is not stable, and is potentially reactive. Personally, a touch of avocado oil in a coast iro
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by aphantastic 2y ago
Why do you feel a need to buy a new pan? If something about the coating has degraded, where do you think the offed material has ended up?
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by aphantastic 2y ago
Backgammon, most likely.
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by aphantastic 2y ago
What is the legal means to get it back?
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by aphantastic 2y ago
How do you actually get it back? Friend of mine has a portfolio website in their name they’ve been maintaining for well over a decade, they missed one payment and some scoundrel bought it up and is demanding thousands of bucks for it.
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by aphantastic 2y ago
Basically ASLR for DNA?
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by aphantastic 2y ago
Ah. Well that tells me all I need to know about your intellectual honesty.
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by aphantastic 2y ago
He’ll head the Department of Health and Human Services soon, little use debating what his position is here when we will see it play out soon. I do recommend you read his book, https://lfpl.overdrive.com/media/6093658 ,
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by aphantastic 2y ago
In that case, you should read the book RFK Jr. published with Dr. Brian Hooker that provides a treatise on the topic, referencing 100+ published, peer reviewed studies on the topic. A free sample of the first few chapters is a available her
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by aphantastic 2y ago
So not “anti-vax” but rather “pro-choice”.
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by aphantastic 2y ago
He is vaccinated and all of his children are as well. What specifically of his statements do you consider “anti-vax”?
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by aphantastic 2y ago
Yes, people can choose to do some things without wanting authorities to force them to do other things. Astutely observed.
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by aphantastic 2y ago
Yes, Florida for instance recently had their first documented cases of malaria in decades - immediately following the launch of a GMO mosquito manufacturing and distribution lab. Not to worry: the scientists at lab promised the two events w
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by aphantastic 2y ago
Right, the issue comes when a trusted writer is logging data that is sourced from an untrusted party. Imagine a transaction log being a blob per-customer with many lines corresponding to price, sku, etc, that additionally have some “memo” f
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by aphantastic 2y ago
Sure, but theoretically you could have a system where a distributed log of user generated content is built via this CAS//MD5 primitive. A malicious actor could craft the data such that entries are dropped.
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by aphantastic 2y ago
Sure! Another way you might take it is that the pointy stick is the most advanced: it started out before language, and has had considerably more effort put into modernization. What’s weird is asking the question and just nope-ing out of the
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by aphantastic 2y ago
Good point, a reasonable response to the who debacle would be to get the legislature to mandate that a HTTP headset similar to do-not-track must be configurable on a browser basis and all requests that hold it must be seamlessly executed as
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by aphantastic 2y ago
There’s an open question of who is to blame when poorly written legislation causes companies (with fiduciary responsibility to their shareholders) find ways to follow the letter of the law but not the intent and create end results that are
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by aphantastic 2y ago
I’ve held the same position on that since the beginning.
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by aphantastic 2y ago
You laugh, yet you laugh alone. Look in a mirror.
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by aphantastic 2y ago
Again, looking for a third party to confirm this is inline with the modern liberal groupthink and not just the rantings and ravings of some particularly murderous extremist.
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by aphantastic 2y ago
Indeed. A lady at a bar in Portland once inquired what I thought humanity’s most advanced technological achievement was, after a slight pause I said the modern microprocessor. She laughed in my face at the suggestion. But when I pressed her
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by aphantastic 2y ago
Those 400k humans were pointing their guns at you? And they deserve to die because of it? And the 400k humans on the other side too? Wild. Wild. Do you feel the same about the Iraqis, I wonder?
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by aphantastic 2y ago
Yes, I see that it’s been years. That’s why all your examples are ancient news. Consider other people might be active, and that you never actually refuted my point.

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