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water8··on CISA: Election Security Rumor vs. Reality
If they don’t care enough to get an ID then might as well flip a coin because they don’t know what they’re talking about or voting on
water8··on CISA: Election Security Rumor vs. Reality
Perfectly reasonable
water8··on CISA: Election Security Rumor vs. Reality
That’s false it’s free in most states
water8··on CISA: Election Security Rumor vs. Reality
It all comes down to people believeing the ends, justify the means, instead of the means being the seed the ends grow from
water8··on CISA: Election Security Rumor vs. Reality
Open source does not mean unbreakable
water8··on CISA: Election Security Rumor vs. Reality
Mail voting is not secure and you’re not being honest if you say it is. you’re also not being honest, if you conflate absentee with mail voting, where the stark difference is that one is requested in the other one is disseminated en mass. Also states like California require a new voter ID to confirm who you are so yeah, you can vote as your relative who has dementia and doesn’t show up. people act like cheating in elections pretty hard it’s actually pretty simple. It just requires organization do it at a large scale.
water8··on CISA: Election Security Rumor vs. Reality
Oh, yay another government agency telling us exactly how things happened without any possibility of their mistake
water8··on First-time fathers show longitudinal gray matter cortical volume reductions
Most elite, save for Musk, think the earth is going to be over populated
water8··on Analysis of Apple Watch running data
Watch will use the phones GPS because it has a bigger battery unless you separate them and then it will use it on
water8··on Something I implemented today: “is void”
In general, you should know what objects you are sending and receiving, and it shouldn’t be a mystery that requires reinterpreting
water8··on Vaccine development against methamphetamine drug addiction [pdf] (2020)
touche
water8··on Ask HN: How to Deal with Being Unlikeable
6 people didn't ignore you, they didn't get your reference. However, the fact that you interpret it personally tells me that you are lacking in self-confidence. People are attracted to positivity and repelled by self-doubt.
water8··on US Wealth dropped $6 Trillion in Q2
Human behavior changes based on that very real number. The lower it goes, the less people feel like funding ideas
water8··on Ask HN: About to have a child, completely burnt out at my job, what do I do?
Sleep every chance you get
water8··on Vaccine development against methamphetamine drug addiction [pdf] (2020)
no penicillin doesn’t kill people. It’s the allergic reaction that kills people. A person who does not have an allergy to penicillin yet has never taken penicillin has no fear of dying from it.
water8··on Vaccine development against methamphetamine drug addiction [pdf] (2020)
When you take antibiotics, are you playing statistics with your life no. The antibiotics themselves will not kill you. you guys are substituting strawman side effects for mental castration should it go wrong?
water8··on Vaccine development against methamphetamine drug addiction [pdf] (2020)
Tell me one drug that kills people and people are like “ehhh it happens every now and then” that’s FDA approved
water8··on Vaccine development against methamphetamine drug addiction [pdf] (2020)
When you take antibiotics and they don’t work, they don’t destroy your entire motivational system for the rest your life. They don’t mentally castrate you
water8··on Vaccine development against methamphetamine drug addiction [pdf] (2020)
Just look up with the neurotransmitters regulate. The key chemicals in stimulation are dopamine norepinephrine epinephrine and acetylcholine.

Unrelated but another neurotransmitter fun fact: Serotonin is responsible for your feeling of self-confidence

water8··on Vaccine development against methamphetamine drug addiction [pdf] (2020)
You can’t play statistics with peoples lives. You can’t put out a drug because statistically it might help some while destroying a few. people don’t have the time or know how to understand the risks and that’s why it is imperative that imperfect treatments be limited to experimental use only
water8··on Vaccine development against methamphetamine drug addiction [pdf] (2020)
There’s basically 2 pathways: the dopamine pathway through amphetamines or the acetylcholine pathway via cocaine
water8··on Vaccine development against methamphetamine drug addiction [pdf] (2020)
No, no in medicine you need to be perfect or you’ll kill people
water8··on Vaccine development against methamphetamine drug addiction [pdf] (2020)
Vaccine to screw with your motivation system geee what could go wrong?
water8··on Vaccine development against methamphetamine drug addiction [pdf] (2020)
I’ve always found that the opposite of addiction is connection. People turn to drugs to fill a void.
water8··on Plasma Bigscreen
I don’t think the actual hardware components inside a TV are all that different from an SOC because they’re essentially doing the same thing.
water8··on Plasma Bigscreen
What makes the TV software better than OS software?
water8··on Plasma Bigscreen
You can have multiple displays connected to an HDMI hub with different refresh rates. I have this problem with a projector that runs at 240 Hz in a TV that runs at 60 Hz. It confuses my receiver.
water8··on Plasma Bigscreen
Ironically, this will probably destroy plasmas
water8··on Why Data Breaches Don’t Hurt Stock Prices (2015)
Bingo! The best criminals are the ones you never heard of, like Ralph84 =P
water8··on Ask HN: What is your opinion on electronic voting?
An obvious path towards crony capitalism, and anyone who thinks differently is a fool.
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