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Comment Re:Unfortunately this doesnt look like an April fo (Score 1) 12

Aside from it just being a scientific research project, in practice even if they were produced in combination it's almost certain that they would be refined and purified for medicinal use.

But it would be much easier to not have to separate them and do one molecule per plant/field.

That aside your monoamine oxidase would prevent all but the psylocin from being orally active. Maaybe if the tobacco were very carefully dried and not fermented you could smoke it.

Now if they were to engineer in some harmaline/telepathine and put it into a tomato you could make some very special marinara sauce. The acids would act like a 'lemon-tec' and heating could perhaps be doing some decarboxalating. I have no idea if people experiment with mushrooms and ayahuasca simultaneously.

I can't wait for the Epstein Class to start raiding pasta shops to protect their black markets. :/

Comment Re:Unconstitutional (Score 1) 169

In New Hampshire people have, in RADAR cases, been able to subpoena the operators, the calibrators, the calibration certificates, and the source code, on these bases.

The judge allows it, the prosecution drops the case.

One strategy is to demand a trial on every small fine to tilt the economics in favor of liberty.

Comment Re:Maybe stick to the speed limit? (Score 1) 169

You are past having an ideologically driven opinion and now well into intentional blindness. No, what you say is not at all true. People can afford cars and alternatives to cars are often prohibitively expensive. Driving is not optional for most of the country, especially in rural places where they grow food. Also, most real jobs, like growing food, cannot be done remotely.

Submission + - Google Planning an Open Source Platform for Android Auto (caranddriver.com)

sinij writes:

Google has announced a new open-source version of Android Auto that the company is calling Android Automotive OS for Software Defined Vehicles, or AAOS SDV. The new system is a more powerful version of Android Auto (AAOS), similar to the new Apple CarPlay Ultra, with the Google version taking things a step further.

This is Step 1 on the way to automotive enshittification, where unskippable in-dash ads are played before startup and driver-facing camera is used to enforce ad-watching.

Comment Re:Go for Linux (Score 4, Informative) 38

It is somewhat correct. For one like Linux, Darwin is open-source. Many of the commands in Mac OS are also linux commands (grep, cat, etc..). It is a POSIX like OS (both take inspiration from UNIX). Also, both use the same file driven layout. (same slashes, same . notation for hidden files, etc etc etc). It is certainly more like Linux than say, Windows.

Submission + - Canadia to force companies to simplify police wiretapping (www.cbc.ca)

An anonymous reader writes: The Liberal government's second attempt at giving police and spies easier access to Canadians' information includes what's anticipated to be costly demands on a range of private businesses to change how they manage data. The government says it doesn't yet know how much the companies, or Canadian taxpayers, would have to pay.

Comment Re:Maybe stick to the speed limit? (Score 1) 169

So what you are saying that all engineering improvements over past many decades, from tire, suspension, and brake technology to all electronic safety features that monitor, warn and often intervene do not matter at all, because reaction times is what matters during normal driving. All I have to ask after this - have you driven a car before?

Comment Re:Maybe stick to the speed limit? (Score 2) 169

There is a reason for that limit.

Yes, lets talk about that reason. A reasonable approach to setting speed limits would be engineering - what would it take to for a modern car to stop in set distance modified to account for bad weather. As tire technology, automotive safety systems, etc. are implemented you would think that speed limits would be constantly increasing. The reverse is true - with some notable exceptions of highway speeds in some states - speed limits keep getting decreased. Why?

My answer to that is that speed limits have nothing to do with safety, this is just a pretext. Instead, they are set to maximize fine collection. It is a way to raise taxes on population with minimal political blowback as you can pretend this is done to punish wrong-doers.

A few years back where I lived they installed speed cameras. Municipality contracted speed camera installation to private firm, which calibrated them to ridiculous speed limit +2. Then they municipality started lowering speed limits. According to official statistics, by the end of the program about 40% of population got a speeding ticket in a given year. This resulted in political pressure to shut the program down. Thing is, before, during, and after there was no measurable effect on accidents. It didnâ(TM)t even work as a safety measure.

Comment Re:could have been different? (Score 1) 178

Nah, AWS provides logistics to military and intelligence and has for quite a while.

It's tough to argue, "these aren't military targets, we just rent the equipment and provide services to the military for hundreds of billions of dollars."

Which is probably what people will argue.

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