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drsnow··on The rising human cost of sports betting
Would you provide an example?
drsnow··on It's dire: Raspberry Pi availability tracker
I don't get it. How is that possible? Is it just not profitable to sell ammo? Why aren't they scrambling to meet demand like a normal industry?
drsnow··on Play chess, earn money
We decided that the answer is yes, we have to monetize everything, when we let healthcare be a profit-oriented, privatized industry in the US.
drsnow··on Simulation of a 2B-atom cell that metabolizes and grows like a living cell
How on Earth? I can't imagine the difference between the computational power of all top 500 supercomputers is THAT many orders of magnitude far off from the computational power of all the folding@home computational power donated by the general public.
drsnow··on The money printing press that is chip maker TSMC
I think it's safe to assume there's a plan to exfiltrate the critical information to reproduce what TSMC has accomplished in Taiwan
drsnow··on Ready for an N95? Here's how to find a high-quality one that fits you well
Ah okay. Why do you think it would be bad? Genuinely asking.
drsnow··on Ready for an N95? Here's how to find a high-quality one that fits you well
Are you really afraid of it? Care explaining how it invokes fear?
drsnow··on Is Space Pixelated? The Quest for Quantum Gravity
is there any reason to believe space is in fact quantized? why should it be? genuine question!
drsnow··on History of Pepper
Mainstream in this case meaning legitimate.
drsnow··on Association of e-cigarette use with quitting smoking
I don't know it but I don't have to. I don't have to prove a negative. It's on you to show that it is harmful, otherwise it isn't.
drsnow··on Association of e-cigarette use with quitting smoking
Don't vape then. If someone in public is vaping near you, walk away.
drsnow··on United States IPv6 adoption over 50%
Because a firewall exploit means your thermostat is now controllable over the internet and you can conveniently preheat your oven over the internet too and now your house is burning down
drsnow··on Association of e-cigarette use with quitting smoking
Vapor is not problematic second-hand, smoke is. The two are incomparable.
drsnow··on The timing of evolutionary transitions suggests intelligent life is rare
>I doubt we’re detectable outside of a 100 light year sphere from earth and none of those stars look like they contain any habitable planets.

Do you have a source for that?

drsnow··on The mother of all crashes is coming and it won’t be fun
Can you elaborate? I'd like to know why this is the case
drsnow··on My Bose QC-35 II headphones burst into flames and left me with chemical burns
Why do you call it thermoplastic instead of just plastic
drsnow··on Cryptocurrency scams cost owners $7.7B in 2021, driven by DeFi-based “rug pulls”
Can you provide a source or two for these claims?
drsnow··on Web3 is not Decentralisation – it’s a Ploy to put Crypto Bros in Charge
People are legitimately making a living trading crypto, you know. It's actually putting food on people's tables. It's a tradable asset like any other, and its value is dictated by supply and demand, like any other. How is someone a fool for profiting from trading it?
drsnow··on Show HN: My wife is pregnant; naturally I made a baby-name app to prepare
of what relevance would such data be to the user who generated it?
drsnow··on Leaving Debian
Why didn't you just verify when co-working that yes, you are the one who is asking to have your key signed? Wouldn't that have solved it all in one go?
drsnow··on OpenWorm
Believe they meant the wood composing the chair came from a tree with complexity enough to be reasonably thought capable of consciousness (on some basic tree level)
drsnow··on A cautionary tale from the streets of San Francisco
We don't need god
drsnow··on China blocks Wikimedia from entering World Intellectual Property Organization
It's hilarious because China regularly steals trade secrets and intellectual property from any, primarily American, company they desire.
drsnow··on An ex-FBI agent's guide to winning people over
"I can't help but fear for the young people who will take them as gospel and act like a robot, moving through them as a checklist."

Why?

drsnow··on Introducing Age Verification
Lol, does it really take an entire AI system to autoban someone who says a bad word?
drsnow··on Introducing Age Verification
localbitcoins exists
drsnow··on New details on silicon, subatomic particles and possible ‘fifth force’
It is currently known that to probe the Planck scale is practically impossible, or implausible depending on your level of optimism.

That scale is the point at which we might gain some level of confidence that we know what "really" is a particle (or its constitution), whether it is truly a point particle or if it is just convenient to assume that at the present time.

drsnow··on New details on silicon, subatomic particles and possible ‘fifth force’
The latter.
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