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Do you have a site you use to purchase your modafinil? And how did you decide dosage?

EDIT... and it looks like this is a controlled substance. I didnt know

Best Practice for Versioning of Software

Do many software creators tend for a convention on versioning when releasing software? For example Tomcat right now is v9.0.41. We would like to only update our internal stack when "major releases" occur. Would I wait until 9.1.x? I know some softwares call these LTS, but often that is nowhere to be found on their site.I think this is probably the type of question that could spiral into a...

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"The law of Small Numbers" chapter 10?
Re:Facebook Prediction Market Launches in US and Canada on Friday October 02, 2020 @12:01AM (#24658727)
The training that good judgement project gives you is a beautiful introduction to all sorts of evidence weighing, prediction, black swans, power dynamics of an outcome etc. Should be required for more professions and possibly democracies
Re:A vegan diet could affect your intelligence on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @05:48PM (#22174982)
*for those who can afford it. Also, sourcing sustainability isn't an exact science in most first world countries.
Check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome

Similar but with low earth orbit