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I see it now as the person respecting their own time.
Counterpoint: Rich people still end up with Heroin addictions.
From what I've seen, doping is almost irresistible if you start down the path of high performance and have the cash to support it. People who are doping don't think they are destroying their body, they think they are unlocking their true potential. This is doubly true if you have enough money to hire a professional team to monitor/regulate your PEDs.
Are you sure about that? That goes completely against everything I've seen, and I come from an area known for high performance athletes. So much so that I used to eat lunch in highschool with someone who would go on to compete in the Olympics.
I associate sports, and especially their pursuit at a high level, with a high socio-economic background. Only the rich can afford the gym memberships, travel, gear(heh), time and energy to pursue sports. Every single Millennial I know who is serious about sports came from an upper-middle class or better background. 0 exceptions. I laugh hard about sports scholarships being really just a kickback for the rich. Every person who got one in my highschool class came from a family rich enough to put them through multiple camps a year, private trainers, fancy equipment. They were going to college either way.
Meanwhile, I like running and lifting weights and almost every older person in my blue collar network thinks it's stupid and I should work outside if I want to get exercise.
Holy assumptions batman. Homo sapiens aren't "superior", that's a terrible starting place for a hypothesis. There are plenty of metrics a human will never beat other species. Reaction time is a great starting place.
I love this. You are my kind of a person. I'm also a big fan of meditation, mindfulness, and taking care. I hope you find success in this goal.
"Sit." as a name for the app just doesn't work for me. I laughed out loud when I found out it was an app for meditation, as I think of "Sit." as a put down. For people who don't know, It's a commonly used aggro comment put in match chat when you kill someone, typically in a high stakes duel.
However, that association puts me in the exact wrong headspace for meditation. Probably just me though.
Another factor that I haven't seen addressed is that Passenger vehicles are much more apt to dive on the brakes to stop. My observation is that roads fail first where people are slamming on the brakes.
Not my experience at all. I use SMS more now than I did a few years ago. The aggregate hardly matters when it comes to individual choices.
> T-mobile and Google Fi > free wifi coverage.
Ha! Where do you live? This doesn’t hold up to any place I’ve been that isn’t the flatlands. Cell coverage sucks any place with real terrain.
I live in California within 25 minutes of a major metro, but in the hills. I only get one provider, Verizon, at my house, and only a few bars of LTE, no 5g. Any other provider gets no service at all. There is no place with free wifi within a 5 minute drive that I know of.
> funny because it happened to a scientist that invented a tool.
..for transferring fluids.
I don’t think much of Freudian psychology as a whole, but he’s got a relevant quote that is pretty good on Gallows humor, from Der Humor 1927:
> "The ego refuses to be distressed by the provocations of reality, to let itself be compelled to suffer. It insists that it cannot be affected by the traumas of the external world; it shows, in fact, that such traumas are no more than occasions for it to gain pleasure."
The comedy, in this light, is a result of the dissonance that someone smart and savvy enough to invent an extremely useful tool for moving liquids died in a large body of liquids not long after said invention.
My guess is that people who find the humor here relate more to the drowning scientist directly. Dying from drowning in an Alpine lake, or just drowning, isn’t that common of a risk, but if it is a risk you are familiar with you’re more likely to find the humor.
At least thats the case for me.
Meant this one:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38699883
Which was hidden because the parent was flagged, I guess for being petty.
Have you ever been to a "mystery" house/spot?
Addiction isn't binary, and either some people don't get addicted as easily, and/or different people perceive addiction differently. All I know is that some people can pick up and drop substances and be unfazed, and other people can't stop even as it kills them. I have a bunch of friends who can only drink coffee for a few days before it makes them too anxious. They definitely aren't addicts, but they will buy and drink an energy drink if they need the boost badly enough.
I have no doubt that Caffeine saves lives every year by keeping people alert in dangerous jobs.
Hard disagree on Korea. South Korea is a hell of an ally, very inconvenient for the PRC.
Imagine teaching your kids intolerance based on pseudo-science.
This is because at the end of the day it benefits farmers and grocers to deal direct. Better produce, no middle man. Produce is very straight forward to sell by the pound too.
No. That isn't printing life, that is taking already living cells, priming and transforming them into something useful. Regardless, I'd count it if we could make an entire living organism this way, but we cant. Creating a working organ is no doubt amazing, and proof that this technology is worth pursuing, but it isn't "printing life" any more than producing life saving drugs is.
In your example you are talking about being able to bioprint a person(they have to be a person to have that right) to squat a property. Bio printing an organ isn't an example of that, it's not even close. Saying that we are anywhere near being able to print a human to squat a property is pretty ridiculous.
for which the "unit cube"(block?) would be like 1" x 1" x ~2300 miles by my (fast, bad) calculations.
Man are researchers really this naive? These are small businesses, large cash transactions aren't gonna be recorded on Square. duh
Knowing a thing or two about the business side of farmers markets(having seen it from the farmer's side), I would expect that the correlation with earlier sale hours is related to those merchants having agreements with local restaurants/grocers or even other vendors at the farmers market to buy bulk quantities. You sell a good portion of your crops directly to a bulk reseller/food maker who pays you in credit. You record that in Square because it's your only CC transaction vendor.
>If you think you can fly and jump off the roof of a parking structure, the government can't disable gravity
The law can make it so you have guardrail on your roof if it is publicly accessible. The law can also make you put up suicide guards if it's really a problem, all of my favorite bridge have them now.
> The law doesn't address this by prohibiting rodenticides.
Rat poison has actually been getting more scrutiny lately, the traditional pellet form was banned this year in favor of bricks in the US, and non-professional exterminators are limited to buying it a pound at a time. Also, rats are a real pressing problem that is being handled with rat poison. Without it, we go back to food security problems related to controlling pest populations. The same can't be said in reverse, we don't have a real, pressing problem with an overabundance of safety.
How do you recon that, Apple 1 was Turing complete. We haven't printed life, that would be a tremendous accomplishment.
I think we're closer to Edison inventing a lightbulb as a step to computers being possible. Printing a conscious thing, at all, would be like the transistor. An Apple 1 analogue wouldn't be likely because of the terrible ethics of a "shitty" printed human.