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Huh, are you really this dense? Yes, they're criminals, because sex work is currently illegal (in the US at least). If it were not illegal, they would no longer be criminals. So how about we legalize it, then they won't be "sex criminals", and then you can stop crying about how your ideal authoritarian "Society" is crumbling because people are free to engage in consensual sex.

Here's one for code that I always hoped would grow, but I'm not sure if it's been updated for a few years.

http://symbolhound.com/

The most recent was 13.9GB compressed and ~65GB uncompressed. The version without images, talk pages, and revision history is 'enwiki-20180320-pages-articles.xml.bz2' here:

https://dumps.wikimedia.org/enwiki/20180320/

The article text contains Wikipedia markup which is a bit difficult to remove but not impossible, there are some existing projects for doing that. DBPedia would have the raw text, but it's not nearly as current.

I had the same though when I first read about the microwave auditory effect:

"In his experiments, the subjects were discovered to be able to hear appropriately pulsed microwave radiation, from a distance of a few inches to hundreds of feet from the transmitter. [...] According to Frey, the induced sounds were described as 'a buzz, clicking, hiss, or knocking, depending on several transmitter parameters, i.e., pulse width and pulse-repetition rate'. By changing transmitter parameters, Frey was able to induce the 'perception of severe buffeting of the head, without such apparent vestibular symptoms as dizziness or nausea'."

"In 1975, an article by neuropsychologist Don Justesen discussing radiation impacts on human perceptions referred to an experiment by Joseph Sharp and Mark Grove at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research during which Sharp and Grove reportedly were able to recognize 9 out of 10 words transmitted by 'voice modulated microwaves'."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microwave_auditory_effect

Actually .onion prostitution services exist already and have for a long time. There was at least one that was very popular around 5 years ago, but I don't remember the name.

But you are absolutely right, this is pushing sex workers further underground and therefore making their lives more dangerous.

I assumed that's what you meant and the grandparent poster may have meant the same too. But, it's worth remembering that humanity as a species may not be especially immune to the same conditions that are decimating other animal populations and reducing biodiversity in the last 100 years.

And the US mens curling team won in Seoul, featuring 4 guys from Minnesota and 1 from Wisconsin. Although it's a small state, Minnesota is a powerhouse contributor to winter sports like curling and hockey for the US.

Actually, we are in the middle of a mass extinction event:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction

Look up "green dragon", it takes ~1 month to make and ends up turning a very pretty florescent green. A single shot gloss of the stuff is very strong, and two shots would be intense even for someone with a high familiarity / tolerance to cannabis.

You can make a tincture by combining cannabis with strong alcohol though.

Your friend could have searched for the college before or after your discussion, or maybe even your friend had just been looking up old college friends on Facebook lately and that was enough to match up that ad and you. Not that I wouldn't put it past Facebook to do something like this, but it will be hard to prove from anecdotes because, ironically, Facebook captures so much other data that plausibly could reveal the same connections.

It's fairly obvious that if not for US military activity in the region, US backing of Lon Nol, and the massive covert US bombing campaign in Cambodia, that Cambodia would have never been destabilized to the point that a fanatical regime like the Khmer Rouge could have come to power. A lot of Cambodian people would make that connection too, just so you know.

That's questionable:

https://theintercept.com/document/2015/10/14/operation-hayma...

At the very least, they are not yet good at hitting only the intended target.

> The second you want a network that is private to you or any sort of hosted solutions for stuff like SQL databases, DigitalOcean folds.

Can you explain what you mean by this?

Eh, I've been on HN a long time and you are definitely on the wrong side of the consensus on this issue.

Yes, npm installs libraries locally so it avoids the need for something like virtualenv in the first place. Coming from Python, that immediately struck me as a better approach to package management.

Actually it does revolve around a guy who essentially hacked the laws around tenancy through extreme cleverness, and social engineered his way through a very peculiar life. This story is really wild and it looks like you and many others didn't actually read it before commenting. It's one of the best longform pieces that I've read in a while.

> cross an un-crossble line

And what line was that? Are you exaggerating the description of the beating or not? Not sure if you actually know what it looks to actually see someone getting beaten to death, and I'm not sure what justification there could be to do that to someone unless they continued to pose a threat to you until the very end of the fight.

Yep, I load an enormous list of lexemes (including multiword expressions) into a bloom filter and use it for text segmentation.

I use them for natural language processing. There are cases where the performance increase is enormous (as in I wouldn't be able to afford the computation without them) and the downside of false positives is or can be made irrelevant.

I'm not a doctor, but AFAIK it's best to just get an IV straightaway if you're really dehydrated and continually vomiting. The pain from an IV is not bad at all and it seems beneficial for children and everyone else to be able to tolerate a minimal amount of harmless pain.

I am an American living outside the US for ~5 years. It's become very difficult to plan for the future now that I am in a permanent relationship with a non-US citizen (we would be married already if not for the various complications associated with being different nationalities). Especially since she is from a so-called "shithole" country, one of the poorest on earth, we have doubts about whether it's even worth ever trying to go back to the US longterm. What if we do everything right, go through the green card process, and then suddenly green cards just no longer exist? That statement might have sounded crazy 10 years ago, but can anybody really assure me otherwise now?

I know 10+ people who are educated, hard-working, and have every qualification yet are denied a simple tourist visa to the US for whatever reason. The process is lengthy, costs a decent amount of money, consists of filling out ridiculous forms on antiquated websites and attaining sponsors from the US, and then results in a 5 minute interview where some prick essentially makes a snap judgement about the candidate. We got lucky once with the tourist visa process, but that was pre-Trump.

The US is an utter embarrassment, and if it weren't for my family still being there, I wouldn't really care much about never going back.

Calea Zacatechichi too.

I totally agree, yet the established and 'informed' take on this is to disregard any such observations of emotion and other complex behavior in animals as anthropomorphism.

> In science, the use of anthropomorphic language that suggests animals have intentions and emotions has traditionally been deprecated as indicating a lack of objectivity. Biologists have been warned to avoid assumptions that animals share any of the same mental, social, and emotional capacities of humans, and to rely instead on strictly observable evidence. In 1927 Ivan Pavlov wrote that animals should be considered "without any need to resort to fantastic speculations as to the existence of any possible subjective states". More recently, The Oxford companion to animal behaviour (1987) advised that "one is well advised to study the behaviour rather than attempting to get at any underlying emotion".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropomorphism#In_science

After years of casually observing stray cats, for example, I would nearly bet my life that they experience complex emotions like love, embarrassment, and depression, but I know better than to draw that conclusion around my biologist and zookeeper friends. While the scientific motivation makes sense somewhat, I think it's pretty clearly a feel-good default notion that allows us humans to keep eating, experimenting on, and otherwise subjugating animals for our own purposes (not that I'm not guilty of some of these).

And he also posts on HN, but last time I checked his account is shadow-banned.

For sports injuries and the like I avoid pain killers because I want to get as much feedback as possible from my body about how the injury is healing.

Olive or coconut oil typically. I go for things like kale, carrots, cauliflower, beets, sweet potatoes, okra, squash, asparagus, etc. It's really easy to make these taste great without much cooking skill. I always add a little salt, but otherwise I don't want to overpower the natural sweetness and flavor of these vegetables with anything else.

Sure, but the accounts of thumbprinting I've read made it seem like there is a strong sensation almost immediately after touching it. I also know people who have described a contact high from laying sheets of LSD. Hmm... I could be wrong though.

From everything I know, that's not true of crystal LSD. Ever heard of thumbprinting?

> (with limited fat of course)

This part, in my experience as someone who is muscular w/ a low body fat percentage, is not necessary. I actually find it easiest to get very, very lean (< 7-8%) by adding more fat to my diet, along with fiber-rich foods like green vegetables.

I am American too and otherwise totally concur with what you've written. It's shocking how badly Americans eat, and how distant their diet is from what I consider the basic staple foods that humans should be eating. My dietary suggestion to anyone looking to lose weight would be to cook large batches of high-fiber vegetables and eat those before each meal. The combination of fat and fiber is key to feeling completely 'full' and satiated while maintaining a moderate level of caloric intake. Beyond that, eating a wide variety of foods and eliminating sweet drinks / packaged food gets you 90% of the way to a healthy diet.