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by brippalcharrid 4mo ago
They can also tend to be harmful in combination, such as in the case of relatively unstable unsaturated fatty acids going on to be glycated in the presence of sugars (some moreso than others); it wouldn't surprise me at all if there we
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Strava removes 2.3M rides from leaderboards in clampdown on cheats(cyclingweekly.com)
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by brippalcharrid 11mo ago
Stated preference vs. revealed preference
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by brippalcharrid 1y ago
I don't know what's worse: a gradual realisation that there's going to be nothing that anyone can do to prevent your sudden, violent death or a gradual realisation that you're going to be slowly asphyxiated.
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by brippalcharrid 2y ago
The human brain can run on up to 70% ketones overall (this is not only safe, but it appears to have additional therapeutic benefits) and your body can synthesize glucose in your liver and kidneys from fats and proteins though gluconeogenesi
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by brippalcharrid 2y ago
That may be, but you know that in order to truly one-up him and show your dedication you're going to have to do it on rollers.
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by brippalcharrid 2y ago
You get this with anything that hasn't been mass-produced at a large scale and commodified for a long time. It's more remarkable that something like a car (or a mobile phone, or a CPU) is cheap than that something like an electric
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by brippalcharrid 2y ago
He's probably hesitant to do something that would be likely to bring his company's satellites closer to being seen as combatants in a proxy war between major powers, seeing as they were being used as an important part of Ukraine&
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by brippalcharrid 2y ago
Hiraeth is a Welsh word that describes a longing for a place that cannot be visited, perhaps because it no longer exists or has never existed.
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by brippalcharrid 2y ago
I imagine that for any small-to-medium sized avian a ~100lb robot could very easily become a threat.
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by brippalcharrid 3y ago
It's p̶a̶r̶t̶i̶c̶u̶l̶a̶r̶l̶y̶ pretty hard to obtain guidance systems and components or certain types of ruggedized electronics that haven't been deliberately gimped to prevent them from being used in supersonic or exoatmospheric m
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by brippalcharrid 3y ago
I don't think that the signer would be able to verify the authenticity of the data that it received from the sensor and image processing circuitry unless they were able to authenticate each other securely. I know that an attack on a sy
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by brippalcharrid 3y ago
Cryptographically verified recordings don't sound practical to me (sensors and video processing electronics sound like a lot of hardware to put in a secure element), but I'm sure we will see generative AI inflating away the value
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by brippalcharrid 3y ago
> Condescending attitude towards his s/o. Do we have a particular reason to believe that skydhook is a man, or is this an assumption?
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by brippalcharrid 3y ago
Following on from this, I imagine that being able to synthesise atom-level (or at least indistinguishable) copies of priceless works of art of great significance could also provide a path towards resolving diplomatic disputes, such as in th
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by brippalcharrid 3y ago
"Well, I don't think that's actually a weakness."
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by brippalcharrid 3y ago
Or offensive weapons; the classic prison toothbrush shiv can be a perfectly effective murder weapon, and its ergonomic handle can provide all the grip and support that an offender might need.
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by brippalcharrid 3y ago
It would probably just appear as faint noise, and then only if it happened to be at wavelengths that the sensors were tuned to detect, and which the machine's signal processors weren't trying to ignore, and if the image processing
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by brippalcharrid 3y ago
The bureaucracy- and accounting-related points of the article aside, though, the Department of Defense must regularly buy non-ferrous, non-sparking hammers with list prices of more than $600 (adjusted for inflation).
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by brippalcharrid 3y ago
https://archive.is/bqwQD
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by brippalcharrid 3y ago
Again, I'm not sure that's so clear once you factor in bioavailability, and even if you were to use nitrate fertilizers and to cover the hillsides in legume monocrops to then feed then to ruminants, that would still end up being o
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by brippalcharrid 3y ago
Last I heard, the subset of beans that have been somewhat developed for human consumption are nonetheless still full of antinutrients like glutamates and lectins that function as a defence mechanism and which mean that the nutrients that th
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by brippalcharrid 3y ago
> That sounds lovely, but this literally does not work in the anti-vaxxer camps. They fall into two categories, the leaders who are deliberately fabricating and spreading disinformation, and the followers who are willfully remaining igno
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by brippalcharrid 3y ago
If we had reason to expect that certain people would have concerns about developments like this, then it might be best for us to address any reasonable concerns that they might have about these technologies (as much as that is possible at t
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by brippalcharrid 3y ago
Unions are restricted to certain industries, and they are basically all controlled by the government, so that puts an upper limit on the amount of "trouble" in industrial relations. Much of the country is in a "developing&quo
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by brippalcharrid 3y ago
Same way that they pay less to send mail to the USA than people in the US pay to send mail domestically (but not the reverse); through treaties and long-standing trade agreements that provide opportunities for arbitrage by outsourcing thi
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by brippalcharrid 4y ago
> Trump was demanding that "China pay" and people were beating up random Asians who were just walking down the street Unfortunately, random Asian people getting brutalized when they're going about their daily business has
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by brippalcharrid 4y ago
Another risk of CBDCs that I hadn't thought of before will be the temptation for governments to (automatically) impose certain kinds of temporary restrictions on people who aren't individually suspected of a crime but who do match
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by brippalcharrid 4y ago
They have always been able to do things like this in a targeted way to particular people at some cost as well as at some inconvenience to judges and police officers, but not efficiently, programmatically, instantaneously, at scale, and inte
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by brippalcharrid 4y ago
That's an interesting thesis, but it wasn't one that I was putting forward; rather I was saying that the reality of divorce for men tends to be such that they are significantly less likely to seek divorce when their marriage is un

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