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by nonce42 11d ago
Yesterday, I saw an interesting Lufthansa training film from the 1970s explaining how aircraft crews should respond to hijacking. (In the early 1970s, hijackings occurred weekly.) Most of the recommendations from security experts turned out
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by nonce42 6mo ago
This is nonsense, as one can easily verify by looking at Gray's Anatomy (30th edition, 1985) on archive.org: https://archive.org/details/anatomy-of-the-human-body/page/4...
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by nonce42 10mo ago
By the way, the author of the article is also the writer of the McMansion Hell blog.
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by nonce42 1y ago
I agree. The sudden influence of the separatist movement does match what that book ( Foundations of Geopolitics ) says: "Russia should use its special services within the borders of the United States and Canada to fuel instability and
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by nonce42 1y ago
Agree on the Donor Advised Fund (I use Fidelity). If you have highly-appreciated stock, you definitely should look into a DAF. Another benefit is that it is extremely easy to donate to a charity; click and submit and you don't have to
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by nonce42 2y ago
Important: If you've received a text from a wrong number, this article describes exactly the Pig Butchering scam that you're being set up for. Have you received a random text like "Shall we grab a coffee soon?", "Ho
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by nonce42 2y ago
A similar paradox applies to interpersonal relationships: in many cases, if you try to reduce someone's workload, they will take on more tasks and end up where they started. E.g. Wife: "I'm too busy; you need to do more"
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by nonce42 2y ago
Midazolam/Versed sedation seems pretty close to a p-zombie. You can have someone who seems completely awake, walking around and interacting normally, but if you ask them later they were completely unconscious from their own perspective
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by nonce42 3y ago
Thanks for the research. I did similar (but less extensive) calculations a few years ago and came to the same conclusion that ESR probably got negligible money from VA Linux. Also, having your net worth drop from $36 million to ~0 can kind
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by nonce42 3y ago
No. New HIV diagnoses in the US are 67% male-to-male sexual contact, 22% heterosexual contact, and 7% injection drug use. (BTW, I have no agenda here except accurate statistics.) From https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/basics&#x2F
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by nonce42 4y ago
What I find interesting is that this seems to be an obscure philosophical thought experiment, but it's actually highly political and turns up all the time on, say, Twitter. Specifically, how do you compare "factual knowledge"
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by nonce42 4y ago
I had no problem getting my colonoscopy without drugs, and I recommend considering this route. It's very cool to see what's going on—how often do you get to see your appendix? Discomfort was minimal; I get more pain from my abdomi
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by nonce42 5y ago
I came across a Wired article on McAfee from 2012 describing his life in Belize, and it's quite a story. Starting an antibiotic lab, hiring armed guards with automatic weapons, trying to clean up drug crime in a small town, sleeping wi
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by nonce42 6y ago
> The riots were most likely political AstroTurf before an election I noticed that that the BLM protests happened a few months before the 2016 election and then vanished. Then the same thing happened before the 2020 election. To make thi
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by nonce42 6y ago
That guy is not a BLM activist, but a provocateur called out in November for trying to infiltrate the Seattle protest community. A detailed thread from November (so this isn't post hoc): https://twitter.com/RebellionBab
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by nonce42 6y ago
Microsoft's statement confirms that they had malicious software in their environment: “Like other SolarWinds customers, we have been actively looking for indicators of this actor and can confirm that we detected malicious SolarWinds bi
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by nonce42 6y ago
There's been lots of confirmation about the brain's lymphatic system in the past 5 years, so you don't need to worry about reproducibility. E.g. https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/brains-fluid-dra
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by nonce42 6y ago
I read the linked paper out of curiosity. It's a theological paper arguing against forms of Christianity that are based on the world-view of whiteness; instead Christianity should move toward a "decolonial option". The paper&
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by nonce42 6y ago
I hesitate to support HN's obsession with random Alzheimer's theories, but there's been a lot of research lately on the glymphatic system, vessels that clean waste protein out of the brain during sleep. This study is in line
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by nonce42 6y ago
The strange thing is that I also had a sigmoidoscopy 25 years earlier and it matched your experience of being very bad; I was about ready to confess if it would help. But the drug-free colonoscopy was pretty smooth. I think the second docto
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by nonce42 6y ago
I skipped the drugs for my colonoscopy and I highly recommend considering that option.† It was a lot less discomfort than I expected--I get more discomfort from my abs routine at the gym, and I don't work out very hard. It was also e
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by nonce42 6y ago
>The system worked this time. I view the phrase "the system worked" as a red flag indicating that things went wrong in a way they shouldn't, not a positive thing. A successful outcome doesn't necessarily indicate thin
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by nonce42 6y ago
When the terrorist group ISIS rose to prominence in 2014, many product names and even company names were changed to avoid connection with ISIS. For instance, in the computer world, Cornell's Isis distributed computing library was renam
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by nonce42 6y ago
The Onion headline I think about regularly is from January 2001: "Bush: 'Our Long National Nightmare Of Peace And Prosperity Is Finally Over'". It was supposed to be a joke, but was prescient, promising a "Gulf War-
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by nonce42 7y ago
Serious question: what does it mean that Epstein paid $1.2 million into Ito's personal investment fund? Is that an investment fund that Ito ran? Or did Ito get the money personally? I did some web searches a couple of days ago but coul
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by nonce42 7y ago
The author seems pretty confused about rich kids. Having rich parents doesn't necessarily mean that you have a lot of cash in college. (Sensible parents are going to give their college kids enough money to get by, not enough to go on a
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by nonce42 7y ago
I've spent many years in the US at many income levels, and my conclusion is that the middle class in the US is genuinely very large and includes people making hundreds of thousands of dollars. When someone making $200k says they'r
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by nonce42 8y ago
> Swimmers (2%) The low rate of black swimmers isn't just an interesting quirk, but the consequence of historical actions to keep blacks out. For instance, public pools in New York City used to be kept deliberately cold on the theor
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by nonce42 9y ago
> If you have a colonoscopy done, the medication they give you will make it so you don't remember things or (I hope) feel things Maybe a bit off topic but I skipped the drugs for my colonoscopy and it was less discomfort than a trip
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by nonce42 9y ago
My prediction is in 20 years Asian will be considered part of white. Maybe it's just being in the Silicon Valley bubble, but it already feels much of the way there. (Not trying to offend anyone, but feel safer with throwaway account.)

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