Alex3917

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by Alex3917 3y ago
> let us get forward some legislation, adding criminal liability to the executives ignoring such things IIRC there is government legislation that effectively mandates that tobacco companies add polonium to tobacco. Something to do with t
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by Alex3917 3y ago
> Daniel Suarez had a very similar idea, although he referred to it as the bot problem I also wrote about almost the exact same thing as what Worldcoin is doing back in 2006: https://www.alexkrupp.com/fourwebs.html As pr
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> anyone, human or otherwise - can use that wallet. But there are only 8 billion people, which is literally an infinite improvement over the status quo.
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Honestly I think aerobic training is more effective than isometric training at reducing blood pressure, I think most people (and studies) just don't do enough of it to see the effect. You really need to be doing a minimum of 90 minutes
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Also, while Gymnopilus junonius probably does contain psilocin, I wouldn't really consider it to be a psilocybin mushroom. My understanding is that its effects as a nicotinic acetylcholine inhibitor are more prominent, at least from wh
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Astrology is a subset of astronomy, since astronomy is the study of things in space. But the part of astronomy that deals with how things in space affect life on earth is astrology. It's literally the definition. You can't just at
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> Maybe I'm reading it too literally, but I think the question is just badly formulated. It's not. The definition of astrology is literally the study of how bodies in space affect life on earth. And if you don't believe in
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This thread is super interesting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31306337
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Dick Garwin: https://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/24/science/who-built-the-h-b... https://rlg.fas.org/2020.htm
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Apropos of Oppenheimer coming out, the guy who invented the H-bomb currently works as a covid researcher. (Or at least an amateur one, not sure what he’s actually doing.)
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That's not entirely surprising. The whole point of grafting is to clone the plant you're taking scion wood from. Are there any examples where choice of rootstock can affect things like flavor? I've heard of rootstock affectin
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> Wild blueberries are smaller, with blue and much more flavourful insides. If you remove all the excess water from farmed blueberries, the taste is about the same. You just need to aggressively sweat them. This obviously doesn’t work if
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All of these. Jonah Peretti has a good explanation here: https://medium.com/matter/buzzfeeds-jonah-peretti-goes-long-... It's not impossible, but it is much much harder.
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> Aspartame could possibly hold the title as the most scrutinized chemical in history You could almost say that it's the Lance Armstrong of food additives.
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> Perhaps we just value it less here in North America. The reason we have less stuff like this in the USA is due to geography. We are a mostly flat country, rather than being mountainous or separated onto different small islands. Because
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IIRC each time you raise a round, your chances of success go down by ~10x. Can't find a good cite offhand though.
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> But in terms of total # of employees, total $ of turnover and profits I would expect it to be the reverse. In general, the less money that startups raise, the better their returns: https://techcrunch.com/2016/10&#x
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> But no less unusual than building a successful company to begin with. Statistically, companies that raise venture capital are vastly less likely to succeed than those that are bootstrapped. Think about it this way: from the perspecti
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Second hand knowledge. I have a friend who worked at one of the biggest botanical gardens in the United States.
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Most botanical gardens have a dozen or so, but they only bring out one that’s blooming when they think it’s a good year to fundraise. While it may be true that any given one only blooms every 20 years or whatever, in practice they’ll bring
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Interesting, considering how many people get liver damage from taking green tea extract and EGCg.
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> This is the talk that made him famous. He was already pretty famous before that from Magic Ink, if not even earlier work.
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Rule #1 is "Markets are conversations."
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> "Cluetrain" though seems far more like mush to me. The fact that you don’t see the irony of posting this comment on a web forum sponsored by a startup accelerator shows that it’s probably by far the most influential of the th
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You learn to speak Chinese.
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> This is a push from Congress to force programs into the open that are secretly capturing Russian/Chinese UAVs right? No. The USA has spent the last several decades putting most of its military budget into aircraft carriers, which
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> farmers spend a lot of effort growing things that aren't salable, or are barely so, like bones and feathers These are the main ingredients in Plant-tone. This product might not be as relevant to folks who live in cities or in rura
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This. They were literally torturing Chelsea Manning at the time.
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Is there a good explanation of the mechanism of action? Metformin is also a Mitochondrial Complex 1 inhibitor, so I would be curious about Annonaceous acetogenins.

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