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    Comment #35291811

    well it still is delivered by guys with swords in a sense -- now they're just guys with guns and jumpsuits bearing the words "US ARMY."

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    Comment #34235539

    A 2.5mg/kg dose would be (extrapolating linearly) like a ~200mg dose for a 65-70kg adult. That's wayyy more that most casual users take, probably enough to induce a "k-hole" in the…

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    Comment #33901728

    "The so-called ‘psychotically depressed’ person who tries to kill herself doesn’t do so out of quote ‘hopelessness’ or any abstract conviction that life’s assets and debits do not …

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    Comment #28973418

    You need to switch the drivers from WDM to ASIO. Most DAWs have this as an explicit choice with WDM as the default.

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    Comment #28740857

    I think the author takes issue with it not being intuitive, which is understandable. They do seem to acknowledge the generality is beneficial, however.

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    Comment #28290083

    Because its the obvious outcome of the ancap principles that many on here are strongly in favour of. Company appeals to the largest market share by designing devices that work well…

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    Comment #28216428

    you should also get checked out for thyroid issues if you have hormonal problems. They can cause some/all of the symptoms you're describing.

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    Comment #27869733

    Yes. The lottery is (supposed to be) uniformly random. You cannot do better than choosing a random number. If you could do so provably, that would mean the lottery wasn't fair.

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    Comment #27791406

    If you provide historical options data that would be amazing.

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    Comment #25702685

    It has shown to be correlated with better outcomes. It is also correlated with being healthier, being active, and eating better. As far as I understand there is no strong evidence …

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    Comment #24730299

    Can't wait to see the bugs! GAN's are famous for some... interesting reconstructions. And better still, nvidia will have no way to debug it since the model is essentially a black b…

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    Comment #24444569

    mm hows that boot taste

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    Comment #23448533

    It's somewhat pointless without a female voice though. I don't think most players will assume you are anything but male unless you speak...

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    Comment #19830553

    Yes but physics != engineering. You really need very minimal higher math to do engineering work. As far as I know, at my school the furthest engineers go is a course in vector calc…

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    Comment #19830537

    Have to disagree with this. I'm a math undergrad but a good chunk of my algebra class this semester was physics students. Additionally, the author said they have a graduate degree.…

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    Comment #19829806

    I think it's incredibly disingenuous to call yourself a self-taught mathematician when you already have a masters in physics.

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    Comment #18852423

    I think the result would be the same no? Assuming the characters are stored in ASCII the result of a single bit flip can only possibly modify one character. Of course this assumes …

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    Comment #17760368

    In my completely amateur opinion, that is the one major reason why value investing is so much harder today. When Graham and later Buffett were executing this strategy to enormous s…

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    Comment #17537943

    But surely having 80% of some revenue is better than having 100% of nothing.

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    Comment #17444064

    > I think you're arguing on the side of "countries need monarchies because the people can't be trusted" and "printing presses allow seditious ideas to spread and must be outlawed o…

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    Comment #17439512

    Can you explain to me how to solve the decentralization problem then? It seems that with the current generation of blockchain, the problem is that eventually it will become no long…

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    Comment #17439493

    They even use one in an episode of the wire (circa 2003).

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    Comment #17439230

    > The interesting property of cryptocurrencies is that the supply of money is constricted and can't be manipulated by any nation's central bank. I don't understand how people belie…

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    Comment #17358885

    Why would anyone listen to anything he says at this point? The cognitive dissonance among the blockchain fanatics is incredible.