castle-bravo

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by castle-bravo 8y ago
What astounds me is that dependence-forming drugs are handed out without any effort to educate the user (often a child) about possible risks.
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by castle-bravo 8y ago
I too watch Scotty Kilmer. https://m.youtube.com/user/scottykilmer
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by castle-bravo 8y ago
You have to give Dr. Greger credit for the sheer volume of material he goes through and how jam-packed his videos are with citations. He does a better job at performing credibility than any other diet doctor out there.
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by castle-bravo 8y ago
I suspect that it's cultural and derives from our economic relationship to animals. I remember seeing a film as a child that depicted a native hunter killing a deer and profusely thanking the spirit of the deer; attributing intelligenc
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by castle-bravo 8y ago
Well, Mike Pence denounced china on October 3 while speaking at the Hudson Institute[0]. He specifically mentioned the million people in detention in Xinjiang. I've provided a link to the video in case you want to watch. [0] https:&#x
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by castle-bravo 8y ago
[0] https://youtu.be/8-r-V0uK4u0
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by castle-bravo 8y ago
I'm so glad they banned me.
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by castle-bravo 8y ago
A paranoid person might conclude that there's an industrial scale effort to distract the population from any issue that might be even tangentially related to their real interests; e.g. their survival and that of their children.
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by castle-bravo 8y ago
There's something about the acidity of coffee and tea that makes most veggie milks curdle; the result tastes something like cardboard. There were some soy-based (So Good or So Nice branded) coffee creamers that my first-year residence
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by castle-bravo 8y ago
Just FYI, Go Veggie isn't vegan or dairy free (at least last time I checked), it's lactose free . Also, Daiya isn't the state of the art by a long shot. If you're adventurous and have a large grocery budget, Chao (serve
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by castle-bravo 8y ago
What do you consider to be the minimum for advanced type trickery? I ask to see if Ada might fit that criteria and and what features it might be lacking that would make it competitive with Rust in the type-trickery domain.
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by castle-bravo 8y ago
Am I paraphrasing this correctly: > Microsoft-branded ARM microcontrollers running an embedded linux distribution. Microsoft rolls out security updates over Azure to reduce the risk of the device becoming part of a botnet. It sounds grea
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by castle-bravo 8y ago
Not if RMS has anything to say about it.
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by castle-bravo 8y ago
I think what the parent post is saying is that exploitative labour practices enable the existence of elites with enough leisure time to create philosophical and technological progress. It's basically the argument that there would be no
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by castle-bravo 8y ago
Well, he did ask about band gaps. Is there a way to understand band gaps without quantum mechanics? I think you only need a little Fourier analysis to get the basics of band gaps. Anyway, that text and along with Kittel's are the refer
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by castle-bravo 8y ago
You don't need bandgaps to understand why conductors (other than thin films of ITO) don't transmit light. You derive it from Maxwell's equations and the fact that in a conductor, current density = conductivity * electric fiel
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by castle-bravo 8y ago
Now this I can get behind.
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by castle-bravo 8y ago
We're at the point now where you could put all the software required to control such a thing on a single-board computer the size of a credit card.
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by castle-bravo 8y ago
The way you describe it, it's as though American social media companies were used as tools to further the geopolitical objectives of the United States and its allies.
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by castle-bravo 8y ago
My incomplete understanding is that publishing in big-name journals provides prestige and improves funding prospects for academicians. Since academia is very competitive, researchers will do whatever it takes to publish in the most presitgi
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by castle-bravo 8y ago
I don't think you're alone in this. A lot of my coursework is presented as a series of exercises in memorizing solutions to special cases and applying those solutions in a treadmill of quizzes, assignments, and exams. I find mysel
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by castle-bravo 8y ago
> I wish there would be betting market for this kind of stuff. https://www.google.ca/search?&tbm=fin&q=NYSE:+LMT
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by castle-bravo 8y ago
Canadian engineering culture is a little different from American engineering culture. In Canada, you can't legally call yourself an engineer unless you are certified as such by a professional association. All students graduating from e
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by castle-bravo 8y ago
Care to post links? I'm planning to use Ada in my next embedded project.
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by castle-bravo 8y ago
GPL makes it harder to charge people for spyware. It also makes it possible (at least theoretically) for users to fix bugs themselves, which breaks the bug-fix middleman monopoly that aspiring spyware vendors seek.
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by castle-bravo 8y ago
That's why we're working hard to poison the water and replace the oxygen with unbreathable CO2. It's hard work, but we're getting better at it every day. Soon, terrorism will be nothing but an archaeological curiosity fo
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by castle-bravo 8y ago
I think that's what NVIDIA tried to do with their BB8 test car [0]. I don't know what came of that. [0] https://youtu.be/LVBBKppAaV4
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by castle-bravo 9y ago
I don't think it's about ideology as much as interests. In the 80s and 90s, the US was the world's most economically powerful country and was able to use free trade to further its own interests; the ideological arguments for
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by castle-bravo 9y ago
"The processor is, in fact, operating as it is designed" - Steve Smith (Vice President, Intel)
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by castle-bravo 9y ago
“We but mirror the world. All the tendencies present in the outer world are to be found in the world of our body. If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change." - Mahatma Gandhi

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