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CosmicSteve

56 karma · joined May 7, 2018

Names's Steven and I wish you good vibes and good times.

"My country is the world and my religion is to do good."

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CosmicSteve··on When Adolescents Give Up Pot, Their Cognition Quickly Improves
We can do much better? What the hell does that mean? More drug prohibition? Yeah, that's been working out just peachy.

Portugal's decriminalization of all drugs has led to a sharp drop across the board in drug usage and an increase in effective rehabilitative outcomes.

CosmicSteve··on Vaping 'can damage vital immune system cells'
I think it could be safely assumed that vaporizing nicotine and propylene glycol would lead to some negative health implications. Still, great job by the researchers in building precident.

That being said, I'm personally curious above the health implications of dry herb being vaporized at a controlled temperature, that prevents any combustion, and controls the release of carcinogenic materials like Benzene/ammonia.(produced at around 400 degrees by marijuana vaporization)

Think of a scenario like this: what if one uses a Volcano Vaporizer with dry herb (marijuana). What are the negative health implications there at certain, controlled temperatures? What about the beneficial implications? Do they cancel out?

Or are the negative health implications on par with the sensationalized articles about eating cured meat giving you a whopping 2% overall increased risk of cancer? Basically, I'm very curious if there is a way to drastically reduce the risk of vaporizing with the controlled vaping of dry herbs vs. these e-liquids containing nicotine/other nasty things.

CosmicSteve··on First Successful Test of General Relativity Near Supermassive Black Hole
Cool news! I'm curious though, couldn't a quasar possibly cause the gravitational redshift that was observed?
CosmicSteve··on Visa card network crashes, causing increased decline rates across UK and Europe
Currently? Correct, hence I'm referring to a network properly scaling in the future. Ethereum currently has difficulties processing a image-based cat game, nevermind actual transactions.
CosmicSteve··on Visa card network crashes, causing increased decline rates across UK and Europe
If a decentralized cryptocurrency platform could properly scale in the future, likely with a stable cryptocurrency for currency usage, then this scenario will become a thing of the past.
CosmicSteve··on Big tech products are mostly useless
It is valuable for that person, that's how they're generating their income...
CosmicSteve··on Big tech products are mostly useless
No worries, soon enough we'll be rid of the horror that is "human interaction". I'm sure that this will have 0 widspread social implications.
CosmicSteve··on US government considers charging for popular Earth-observing data
Ah, just what I paid for as a taxpayer! Instead of having something freely available as a public good, the government can use it to generate a paltry amount of revenue....woo?
CosmicSteve··on Free Ethereum spam bots are ravaging Twitter
Agreed, it's getting absurd. Practically every post from an official cryptocurrency team's Twitter account gets numerous replies from an account designed to look just like the official account.

Typically, they post a poster stating that there is an Ethereum giveaway, and to enter: one simply needs to give a small amount of Ethereum to the wallet address in the poster. This is supposedly to have the wallet address made known to the "staff" and in turn: the user will receive several times more Ethereum back.

It's clearly still roping in people and is highly prevelant. I'm shocked that Twitter's staff hasn't taken much evasive action. These spam/scam accounts keep springing up left, and right with no end in sight.

CosmicSteve··on Our Attempt at Writing an Honest Privacy Policy
Hey guys, apologies for taking a bit: we've been hard at work! Speaking of which, we made some modifications to our site. How does the display look now on your ends?
CosmicSteve··on Our Attempt at Writing an Honest Privacy Policy
Hi Boulth,

We chose to disable all server logs because we feel that it's the right thing to do.

We felt that our website should reflect the same mantra that we carry along with our products: we don't want your data.

We do not wish to track you. We wholeheartedly believe that our users have a right to a strong degree of digital privacy.

GDPR increases that, but we wanted to go a step beyond for this digital security component of our site.

CosmicSteve··on Our Attempt at Writing an Honest Privacy Policy
Hey there, much appreciate the info/specs, and screenshot.

The site was designed using vw-sized fonts to maintain the same user experience no matter their resolution. But for really large monitors/resolutions, it can be jarring when users expect to see tiny fonts and need to scale them up. That said, we will add some CSS for larger monitors to address this, but it's a hack, as vw-width is true to the original design.

CosmicSteve··on Our Attempt at Writing an Honest Privacy Policy
Hey dsr,

I'll take a look via Firefox on desktop a bit later as everything seems fine through the mobile browser.

Not sure what you're referring to regarding the contact form though?

CosmicSteve··on Our Attempt at Writing an Honest Privacy Policy
Hi rococode, what are you viewing the site on? I'm curious if you're experiencing this is on something that's a bit out of the ordinary in terms of setup and whatnot. Regardless, I'm curious if we can do something.

You see, the font is indeed larger than other sites out there as NefLabs.com is designed in accordance with DOJ Section §508 best practices for the visually impaired. You can find additional information on this in the full Privacy Policy (https://neflabs.com/privacy/)

But, I don't think it should be as jarring as what you're describing. So, once again, I'm curious...