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huytersd··on Atomic nucleus excited with laser: A breakthrough after decades
But then what happens? Does it expel an electron/release energy etc.?
huytersd··on Atomic nucleus excited with laser: A breakthrough after decades
If I remember correctly GPS is effected but the ultra precise version the gov uses can error correct pretty well. I would think greater GPS precision at a lower cost?
huytersd··on Google surpasses $2T market cap
People have been saying that about Microsoft for ages but it keeps growing and chugging along. I use a minimum of 7 Google products everyday, they came up with all of the research for LLMs, they have the only self driving car that actually works, run the largest smartphone OS in the world by a mile etc. They’re not going anywhere.
huytersd··on Apple MacBook Air 15-Inch M3 Review
Ah give up the hysterics. Sure they care about the environment. They do a lot based on the materials they use, packaging, power for their factories and campuses etc. but they also care about their bottom line like a successful company does. This sort of hyperbolic comment falls flat because it’s reactionary and lazy.
huytersd··on How to prevent Lyme disease this summer
I’ve never had a tick bite I could miss. They form a blister and itch like crazy for a couple of days. I wonder if the inflammatory response goes away if you get bitten too often. I know it happens with mosquitos if you get bitten too often.
huytersd··on A small lathe built in a Japanese prison camp (1949)
That just supports my argument that men shouldn’t have to try to get laid. It should be provided for free by the state.

“If you can’t afford your own wife, one will be provided to you by the state”.

huytersd··on Can science find ways to ease loneliness?
Some faces are irredeemable
huytersd··on Can science find ways to ease loneliness?
How are those the same thing. Unattractive people are repulsed by each other. You can learn to provide emotional support, you can’t change your face.
huytersd··on The walls of Apple's garden are tumbling down
3D printing has plenty of usage. I don’t think the “mainstream” has any need for it (atleast until the point where the printers can print multi material slices to print out entire products) but the people that use it are still a sizable segment.
huytersd··on How to prevent Lyme disease this summer
Yeah I didn’t know the difference. Multi drug resistant anything is what I meant.
huytersd··on How to prevent Lyme disease this summer
Yes but I’ve also used one of the plethora of telehealth systems before that will let you speak to a doctor within a hour and you can pick up your prescription in two.
huytersd··on How to prevent Lyme disease this summer
Antibiotic resistance almost never occurs in isolated situations. It’s hospital settings and large factory farms that are the issue. Either ways there’s a Lyme vaccine on the way. It should be available by 2025.
huytersd··on How to prevent Lyme disease this summer
Getting antibiotics maybe once a year is not excessive. Please stop being hyperbolic, I’m well aware of MRSAs and do my best to take them sparingly. Where I live between 50-70% of the deer ticks have Lyme disease so it’s not overkill.
huytersd··on Camus, Albert and the Anarchists (2007)
It would make the architect the boss because he would tell you what needs to happen next. That scenario with a client deadline means the “architect” is going to push you to finish before the deadline, prod you to get back to work if you’re lazing around and generally fulfill the role of a foreman. Anarchism is a theoretical mental exercise with no basis in anything in the real world. True anarchism is just current day Haiti where there strong rule over the weak because anarchism doesn’t provide any solutions as to how to build and maintain a society without hierarchies.
huytersd··on Camus, Albert and the Anarchists (2007)
Who can instantly recall them? A group vote or an individual? Because one of them is just democracy and the other is utterly unworkable. The first time someone doesn’t want to work, they’re going to “recall” the boss.
huytersd··on How to prevent Lyme disease this summer
If you take precautions, you might get bitten once a season. Taking antibiotics once or twice a year isn’t all that insane.

Why not just use permethrin or anti tick clothing if you’re regularly pulling off 10-20 ticks. It’s disgusting and you can get some other serious diseases besides Lyme like Rocky mountain fever, alpha gal or encephalitis that are harder to treat or have no cures.

I’ve always heard the 24-36 hour thing is a statistical probability figure. You most probably won’t but you could get it as soon as the tick attaches as well. Also if you squeeze the body of an engorged tick as you’re pulling it out, you force all the contents of its stomach (where the Lyme bacteria lives), into your bloodstream. Always use tweezers and go for the head.

huytersd··on How to prevent Lyme disease this summer
Anecdotally it’s useless. I’ve seen them walk right over DEET sprayed boots. They freeze up pretty much on contact with permethrin.
huytersd··on How to prevent Lyme disease this summer
Just go to your PCP and get your one time course of 2 doxycycline pills as soon as you get bitten.

I also spray my hiking/yardwork pants and boots with permethrin. DEET is pretty useless, I’ve seen them walk right over DEET sprayed boots onto my pants. They make it about 5 steps through permethrin. I’m surprised advise from Harvard is getting this wrong.

If you want even more protection, you can buy stocking like slacks and a shirt specifically made for this purpose on Amazon. I wear these when I’m weeding or clearing brush.

All the above methods haven’t failed me in 5 years.

huytersd··on IceCube observes seven potential tau neutrinos
Yeah but the question was about how familiar the people involved might be with the rapper. I would imagine any 30+ American or European (probably) would.
huytersd··on Judge acquits Backpage co-founder Michael Lacey on most counts
Based on your username, I’m not sure if you have HIV but EBT 101 has begun human trials as of last year and we should find out how it turns out before the end of this year. It’s from the same team that was able to eliminate SIV from primates using the same techniques.
huytersd··on IceCube observes seven potential tau neutrinos
Do you think the people that named this program knew about the rapper?
huytersd··on Judge acquits Backpage co-founder Michael Lacey on most counts
No one does that surgery unless you have very advanced lymphoma. It’s not a cure.
huytersd··on Judge acquits Backpage co-founder Michael Lacey on most counts
Opportunistic infections. TB is the number one killer of people with HIV that are medicated. Along with a host of other viruses, fungi and MRSAs. You might live for 30 years after contracting HIV but they’re going to be sick, medically expensive years.
huytersd··on Judge acquits Backpage co-founder Michael Lacey on most counts
If I’m not mistaken, animal cruelty is the number one reason for vegans being vegans. What exactly are you saying?
huytersd··on Judge acquits Backpage co-founder Michael Lacey on most counts
If treat means a lifetime of a much higher OI risk and a 2000% higher risk of cancer.
huytersd··on Asian American women are getting lung cancer despite never smoking
It’s still strange. It’s not like Asian women in America are cooking on wood fire stoves.
huytersd··on Judge acquits Backpage co-founder Michael Lacey on most counts
Good. Prostitution should be legal and regulated to begin with. People are getting HIV at an alarming rate because the whole system is unregulated.
huytersd··on U.S. Fertility Rate Falls to Record Low
Not particularly picky. Needs to be atleast a 6 superficially. I’m not attractive, probably a 4 or 3 and not white/black. But I am tall and if I can speak to a person I’ve often been called charming with a booming voice. I’m talking about the past (5-7 years ago), I’m happily married now.
huytersd··on U.S. Fertility Rate Falls to Record Low
You can speak for yourself. I’ve been able to “do it” with more than a 100 women because of dating apps. I can’t even imagine being able to do that without meeting women online.
huytersd··on FCC votes to restore net neutrality rules
Manmohan Singh was seen as exceptionally spineless (because he pretty much cowtowed to whatever the Gandhi family said). That’s not how Biden is perceived. At all. Biden has installed more justices than Obama and Trump combined. He has done it without the right freaking out about it. He has been incredibly effective if you delve past the surface.
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