tarcyanm

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by tarcyanm 6y ago
Rubbish. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/01/080102134129.h...
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by tarcyanm 6y ago
But peroxide is not just some random thing like bleach. It's generated internally from superoxide dismutase in the normal process of scavenging radicals and is also an immune signalling mechanism. As mentioned, it is reduced by a react
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by tarcyanm 6y ago
Peroxide is directly virucidal through oxidation of the lipid envelope and RNA degradation. Whether lymphocytes would be activated in lung tissue in vivo is entirely speculative.
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by tarcyanm 6y ago
The dose makes the poison.
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by tarcyanm 6y ago
There are also those proponents of nebulizing (dilute) peroxide. While I wouldn't try this myself, peroxide modulates lymphocytes and would surely result in a decrease in viral load. Peroxide is not unknown to the body, given the vario
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by tarcyanm 7y ago
The deafening silence regarding the fudged OPCW reports is an indictment on most outlets (WP is mentioned explicitly): https://www.moonofalabama.org/2018/07/syria-many-media-lie-a... https://caitlinjohn
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by tarcyanm 7y ago
Bloomberg is unique in being somewhat independent of the AP-AFP-Reuters stranglehold that is described with appropriate skepticism here: https://swprs.org/the-propaganda-multiplier/ It would be interesting if that inde
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by tarcyanm 7y ago
It's undoubtedly aimed at musical audio generation and signal processing. A quick search will reveal the number of gotchas in implementing even a simple alias-free (bandlimited interpolation) digital sawtooth wave, never mind arbitrary
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by tarcyanm 7y ago
I am becoming tired of the word "curated" unless it is being used in a context implying a qualified curator. This could be someone's random list of browser links for all I know. Who are the curators of this list and how are t
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by tarcyanm 7y ago
The wispy, near transparent spectacles in some of them are a bit of a give away...
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by tarcyanm 7y ago
I wonder how many of those who run for public office would willingly present results of such a scan... I would bet money that that particular demographic would show an interesting trend.
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by tarcyanm 7y ago
The correct way to counter disinformation is with information. This does assume a sufficiently aware populace able to process its own confirmation bias (which is actually a learnable skill). Sometimes it takes incrementally more information
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by tarcyanm 7y ago
I have taken several CDs (mainly my Dad's, not my own) from unusably scratched to relatively pristine. The really bad cases need fine grit sandpaper (wet!) followed by plastic polishes. I generally start with Meguiar's plastic pol
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by tarcyanm 7y ago
Assange himself and the rape charges have been politicized to such an extent that I find it essentially meaningless to pontificate about what may or may not have happened in Sweden. His character has been debated endlessly, but when one thi
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by tarcyanm 8y ago
The cynical answer is that sleep medications (and I mean the more highly scheduled varieties) are among the biggest pharmacological money spinners. Melatonin is cheap and unpatentable (although there was several attempts at melatonin mimeti
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by tarcyanm 8y ago
The way I heard it is that the U.S. could not domestically provide an off the shelf end-to-end 5G solution. In addition, Huawei had at some point declined to install NSA backdoors. This was essentially the backdrop that led to Huawei being
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by tarcyanm 8y ago
I remember the hysteria regarding aluminum cookware when higher levels of aluminum were discovered in the brains of those who had had Alzheimer's disease. Then it turned out that the aluminum content may simply have been an effect of t
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by tarcyanm 8y ago
At the same time, this pales in comparison to what took place under the Spartan agoge system (at least to modern minds): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agoge
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by tarcyanm 8y ago
For me, the question of consciousness is more than a question of pure mechanism. The mystery for me is the particularity/locality of experience. It's one thing to say that we have encountered these thousands of clocks, and here is
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by tarcyanm 8y ago
I find Bellingcat about as credible as Crowdstrike... a lot of solid, interesting evidence, and then a tail end of questionable conclusions that seem out of character.
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by tarcyanm 8y ago
This is why the "STEPS Toward the Reinvention of Programming" (a.k.a. 20k Lines of Code) Project was important. It was spearheaded by computing luminary Alan Kay with help from some very impressive researchers. The final report is
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by tarcyanm 9y ago
I wonder if they're aware of Ian Piumarta's Maru and Cola ( http://www.piumarta.com/software/ ) - which are also tiny and self-compiling (although use C and IA32 as a basis, not JS).
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by tarcyanm 9y ago
You ought to watch "Zero Theorem" for some comic reflection... That aside, I think work has been debased because the values of currencies have been debased by central banks. The 1% fully and significantly invested in the stock mar
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by tarcyanm 10y ago
Err, the Parallel Computing Toolbox for MATLAB is specifically designed for cluster computing, multicore processing, GPUs, etc. As much as I detest the MATLAB licensing reaming (and sometimes the inelegance of the language itself), there is
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by tarcyanm 10y ago
I am as tired of hearing "curated" as I am of "artisanal". Both are effectively becoming meaningless and set my pretentiousness detector on high alert.
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by tarcyanm 10y ago
I love the idea of self driving cars but it scares me that no one seems to remember the history of the 5th Generation project (I was a kid in the 80s) and other AI hype-dreams over the years. It has always been the case that approximate sol