fleetingmoments

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Comment · 2 years ago
And trans people still existed, just had impossibly harder lives than now. Why do we want to return to that?
Comment · 2 years ago
She was and remains a huge inspiration to many of us. I remember peering over her pages of "Transgender Success Stories" which chronicled trans people who led lives with some measure of success in the 90s and early 2000s. When I came out to my parents as a EE student and trans woman myself, her story was the one resource I made them read. To no avail, mind you, my father called me brainwashed and told me the journey I was on was the "Con Way". I didn't listen and although I never lived up to her professional achievements, my transition was very successful.
Comment · 4 years ago
A self-resetting breaker at the power box in the street rated for 10A (220V) or so?
Comment · 5 years ago
Are you saying they should get a stable genius in?
Comment · 5 years ago
Freely available hallucinogens at the pole would make things 1000x worse.
Comment · 5 years ago
We should also open up expired vaccines to whoever wants them. Expiry dates are usually quite pessimistic and medicines often have efficacy long after they're officially expired.
Comment · 5 years ago
Gold is intrinsically scarce. You can't fork gold and have Gold 2.0 which has the exact same properties of the original Gold.
Comment · 5 years ago
There are large interpersonal physiological differences due to so many variables that it makes getting high accuracy with machine learning models hard. Only way I see this accuracy improving is by calibrating those models with good reference data for individuals.
Comment · 5 years ago
Omg, is that how Americans pronounce "Ubuntu"? It's Oo-boon-to!
Comment · 6 years ago
Sounds like you need to move more processing and storage to the edge.
Comment · 6 years ago
But you can't reliably get beat by beat interval data from a wrist PPG under normal living conditions. Also, to get breathing rate from beat intervals only really works when the parasympathetic nervous system is dominating, and isn't very observable in older people.
Comment · 6 years ago
It's insane to me how people here are so libertarian when it comes to experimenting with drugs or legalising it, which has the potential to incur far more costs to society and harm to others than venturing into the wild, perhaps unprepared. For the record, I'm not advocating people be stopped from either, but IMO the latter will appeal to far fewer people, and so is a much smaller problem, and has more positive benefits.
Comment · 6 years ago
The 7.3% was taken at the end of April. It's likely well above that now.
Comment · 6 years ago
Have a spare screen that you can just slot in and carry on.

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