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by rockfishroll 1y ago
I think this solution also misses the fact that certain kinds of people (like bored kids) will walk through fire for a free quarter. It's not even the money, it's the novelty. So if you have a population of people who consider the
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by rockfishroll 1y ago
One more anecdote. WADA, the World Anti Doping Agency, had to specifically address using hemoglobin based blood substitutes for doping. https://www.wada-ama.org/en/resources/scientific-research/de... This cla
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by rockfishroll 1y ago
You can see my top-level comment for more context, but I've seen other products in this space called "oxygen therapeutics" for exactly this reason. They're not really blood, they're an oxygen delivery system. It see
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by rockfishroll 1y ago
Biopure was a company doing something similar in the US. They imploded in the early 2000s, but they had created an "oxygen therapeutic" (blood substitute) by isolating hemoglobin based oxygen carrying molecules FROM COW BLOOD! The
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by rockfishroll 2y ago
I solved all of them. Minor nitpick: Since every criminal confesses to their crime, the fastest way to solve most of these is to query the confessions table for strings like '%i did%' or '%kill%'.
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by rockfishroll 2y ago
You see a similar trend again with "abandoned mental hospitals" as settings for horror in TV and movies. The trend of "deinstitutionalization" started in the 50s and 60s, meant that by the 80s and 90s many psychiatric ho
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by rockfishroll 2y ago
It's true that modern competitive speed climbers don't use that hold. The collective optimization of the route is hilariously serious (it's an olympic sport after all) and the different optimizations have names, like 'Th
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by rockfishroll 2y ago
It just goes to show how impactful online communities are capable of being. rockclimbing.com was in it's heyday right as I was discovering climbing. I was a bored kid constructing my entire identity around climbing and there was no oth
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by rockfishroll 2y ago
Spotting a refugee from rockclimbing.com on hacker news was not on my bingo card for the day. But I guess if I'm here (writing novels about route setting) then I shouldn't be surprised other people are too.
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by rockfishroll 4y ago
I think your first point ignores one of the fundamental insights of the Fermi Paradox, which is that while space on an astronomical scale is massive, so is time. The milky way galaxy is ~100,000 light years across. So traveling at 1% of the
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by rockfishroll 4y ago
There's a sci-fi book 'The Mote In God's Eye' that touches on this concept. Spoiler Alert... Humans discover an alien planet/race and eventually realize they've destroyed and rebuilt civilization many times. Th