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I’ve pretty much only ever seen them sold at 500mg; are you regularly seeing them where you are sold in 1g form?

The .nl indicates the netherlands. Many people in the netherlands vent/joke about how the doctors here only ever tell you to take paracetamol and come back in two weeks if it's still a problem (recursive solution).

However the last time I went to my GP she scoffed at me taking the maximum and suggested I take literally double the maximum recommended dose 4-5 times a day which totaled I think 2.5x the daily maximum on the package. I am very much a "believer" in science and reasonable medical authority but this experience sowed the seeds of doubt, because from what I have always heard, that can actually kill you or cause permanent liver issues. I was also taking diclofenac simultaenously, and when I told her how many mg, she asked "where can you even buy such small doses, that's what I would give a small child" =/


They are common in France, but not in such packages: There are restrictions that prevent you from buying more than than 8g/day (theoretically at least, I don't believe they are strictly applied in practice).

The linked size is also quite common in Belgium.

In Europe for sure they're also sold in 1g dosing. I think the packages don't contain lots of pills, though. Definitely not US style buckets of pills.

No, it's "I'm a more important person if I ok deals with big numbers" that always happens in a bubble.

He spun that story into "he was saving democracy" so it sounds like he paid for that reason. He will do the same here, he never does a wrong move you just can't see the 76D chess.

It's 100% a fraction of $60B. That's not debatable it's just simply fact.

I dunno it seems pretty irrational to me.

The question is what's the denominator.

That is a project you can work on at any point in the future and the more you delay it the more certain your investment will be about what you really need. But those additions to the PnL are capped to the costs.

In the meantime if you work on revenue generating work, that side of PnL is uncapped. So you can either put some engineers on reducing your costs at most by 100% or, if they worked on product ideas they could be working on things that generate over 9000% more revenue.


Some people just never found what that thing is for them. And usually you find those things doing them the hard way while you suck. And then the reward is people will see what you do and recognize the work you put in. But if suddenly every person with a prompt does the exact same thing with zero effort, it does take away from the joy of doing it. At least if the joy of doing it is related to the feeling of liking to do "hard things" or liking to think of oneself as one that "does hard things". And I'd say that includes a lot of people and a lot of activities.

I bet a lot of accountants in the old days were really good at basic math, and proud of being fast and accurate and now there's calculators and the amount of people that work on mental math just for the love of the game is probably super small in comparison to when it was a core skill of many more people's jobs.


Are they on a blacklist or there was a random tweet from the president saying they are? Because sanctions and tariffs change day to day...

Haven't you heard? Under the new form of government in the US, random tweets from the President ARE government policy, superseding laws and any act of Congress.

The Supreme Court has blessed this new form of government, declaring that the President is immune to all laws, but retaining for themselves the right to reverse any tweet on the "shadow docket".


It’s funny that you say that tweets are US policy when the Supreme Court struck down Trump’s tariffs.

The tariffs were in all sense US policy until they got struck down. There is nothing inconsistent here

In the intervening 6-12 months, they were policy. Since then he's tweet^H^H^H^H^Htruthedsome new tarriff policies that are currently in effect.

You're obviously trolling. Those are called "truths", and you know it!

Anthropic is on a blacklist. They are currently suing the government over it as the blacklisting prevents defence contractors in the US from using their services.

This is the best link I could find quickly about it, a WSJ gift link so it can be read without a subscription:

https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/anthropic-sue...


Is my understanding of carbon dating needing an update or the precision to distinguish 100y difference on a 1.2k to 1.3k years base not enough?

If 100y is the difference it could just be that the tree grew for 100y and the at the end they used it?


That is not an issue, because the tree will have been absorbing freshly made atmospheric carbon-14 until it died, at which point it starts to decay into carbon-12. So carbon-14 dating pinpoints the time of death, if you get the methodology right. We apparently now use accelerator mass spectrometers to just outright count all the atoms of c-14 and c-12. But in the 70s c-14 dating was notoriously tricky and full of pitfalls to with calibration and contamination and estimation, and it looks like we've only reduced the last of those possible sources of errors, the need for estimation, and the rest of it is still sketchy.

But C-14 decay doesn't start with the tree's death, or does it? I assume that a live tree will also contain a certain amount of C-12. What would the result be if we carbon-dated one of the roots of the giant sequoia's in California, versus one of its branch tips?

It's nearly all carbon-12, yes. So you're asking how long it takes a giant sequoia to pump carbon dioxide from its needles [leaves?] to its nethermost reaches. Something like 80 feet. I don't know, but if it takes a year, I'd be surprised and impressed. Further investigation of plant respiration might show that every cell has to exchange gas with the outside on a daily cycle, but I'm not sure.

So as long as the tree was felled or died close enough to being used it'd still be accurate. Thanks!

Wood stored underwater is a thing. Lots of places use bog wood, drowned trees. Down deep, it just goes on being wood.

Tree ring databases are pretty good. I think they cross calibrate to radio carbon maybe.


In New Zealand 50,000 yr old ancient Kauri trees are literally mined in swampy ground.

Most likely they used trees that had grown for at least 100y, as that's how you get the hardest wood (wood from young trees gets all bent in humid weather)

People use dark mode because they think its cool and haxxor like Tactical Knives sell more than regular Knives. The rest is window dressing.

I use it for visual accessibility but I won’t lie, I do think it looks way cooler. My first computer was a 286 with DR-DOS. That could have something to do with it.

I really had a hard time figuring out if the post is satire.

Mackerels per second would be funnier though, if were making shit up.


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