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ss1996··on Ask HN: How could I safely contact drug cartels?
No, I meant what Gymbeaux said.

Since Fentanyl is so potent, it's mixed in such low volume. The dosage is still high enough to kill you due to the potency.

Let's assume the desired drug to fentanyl ratio is 1000:1 by volume. When you take a small random sample of this, there's a good chance that 0 parts of Fentanyl have been selected in this random sample. You'll get a clean test result, even though the drug contains lethal amounts of Fentanyl.

ss1996··on Ask HN: How could I safely contact drug cartels?
Fyi, Fentanyl strips are not full proof. This is because the amount of Fentanyl mixed is so small, there is high likelihood that no Fentanyl is picked up in the tested sample. In other words, high chance of false negatives. Test kits + narcan on hand is the best way to be safe.
ss1996··on Stéphane Graber has left Canonical
On a side note - has anyone applied to Canonical for a software job? Their first step is a written interview which requires as much, if not more, effort as a graduate college application.
ss1996··on Maine becomes first state to decriminalize selling sex
Everything mentioned in that arictle isn't a failure of legal prostitution. It's a failure of that specific brothel and of the Australian government for not doing anything about it. In other words, those issues would be present even if prostitution was illegal. Legalizing prostitution didn't cause those issues.

Legal prostitution isn't a panacea, just as, say legalizing weed, isn't. It's harm reduction and it's the first step in the right direction. Smart policies need to be made and excuted.

Also the author says "The media glamorises prostitution and presents the illusion that it’s sexually liberating for women, and sex industry lobbyists claim that it’s just regular work. For a long time I accepted this without question." I have never seen anyone glamorizing sex work and say it's liberating. Porn, yes, but never prostitution.

ss1996··on Kiss your free returns goodbye
The title had me thinking TurboTax lobbied some more, but it's not that kind of returns.
ss1996··on Geoffrey Hinton leaves Google and warns of danger ahead
In many cases yes, but definitely not in this. Geoffrey Hinton is as relevant as ever. Ilya Sutskever, Chief Scientist at OpenAI, is a student of Hinton. Hinton also recently won the Turing award.
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