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by Alex3917 4y ago
> I was listening to Peter Attia on some podcast and he says to essentially throw out any BP reading that didn't occur after sitting down for five minutes. Or just assume that your systolic will be about 3 points higher if you weren
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You're not wrong, but it's ultimately the same background and skillset as what I'm talking about that enables that also. E.g. Simon Willison could easily sit down and write a bestselling book if he wanted to.
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Usually the person with the ability to create the best products and services is the one with the deepest reservoir of background knowledge and aesthetic taste that they can apply to a given problem. So, for example, someone who can producti
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> Being efficient at writing code can barely make someone a 5x engineer. In a winner-take-all economy, usually the winner is the person with the ability to do something the slowest. Not always, but usually.
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The key invention that made them possible was ball bearings. This is why the modern bicycle and the modern car were invented within a year or two of each other.
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> As though no progress will ever be made from this current moment in time. The issue is that the folks promoting chatGPT are for the most part incredibly dishonest. E.g. this entire blog post is about the AI having written a sales email
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This. Let me know when AI can write sales emails that convert better than emails written by the world's best copywriters.
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There are lots of nasal sprays that may potentially be protective against covid, e.g. Betadine Cold Defence, but almost all of them are banned for sale in the US. But you can buy pure saline nasal spray for a couple dollars at Target, which
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> Unfortunately the CFTC has another view and they both can’t be right Of course they can. Whether something is a commodity has absolutely nothing to do with whether something is a security. They are completely orthogonal concepts.
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> Well, it is something of a he said/she said between Coinbase and the SEC. Not really. The law has been exactly the same since the 1940s. Apparently though Coinbase has decided to go all in on SBF's strategy of pretending to b
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> We'll be able to buy HN comments by the thousand -- expertly wordsmithed, lucid AI comments You're forgetting the millions of additional comments that will be written by humans to trick the AI into promoting their content. Ev
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Got me multiple jobs and even more interviews, prevented me from getting caught up in a few rounds of layoffs, introduced me to some lifelong friends, brought in consulting opportunities, afforded me the opportunity to meet and work with so
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How credible is this paper? I see it's highly cited, but I also see that it claims that fungi are cancer causing but not also cancer preventing, which seems questionable.
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> I thought that was a myth of the past. Salt consumption has almost zero to do with blood pressure. Not accurate. Salt affects different people differently. But for many people, it raises their blood pressure substantially, but only tr
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> It's not so much demonising as knowing most people eat too many carbs That's not accurate. Complex carbs (e.g. beans) are the foundation of longevity, and most people don't eat enough of them.
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The obvious question here is why a social network considers itself to be primarily a technology company that should be led by technologists. It seems like Zuck is trying to pull a WeWork here.
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> I think I've gotten too bored with the same challenges that app development presents. Building the thing isn't supposed to be the challenge.
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> SVB might be the safest bank in America Except for that you can't log into their website, they don't pick up their phones or answer their emails, etc.
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> If this happens the companies will immediately close up shop. If their bank accounts get frozen for a week, they'll just lay everyone off and then hire them all back a week later with a signing bonus to cover their missed days. No
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Everyone knows that a ship with four smokestacks can't sink, so obviously a car with three cameras isn't going to crash.
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FWIW I recently wrote a Discourse plug-in proposal to help communities migrate their existing content from Google Groups to Discourse, while giving members who prefer email the ability to fully participate from their inbox without any major
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These drugs seem like a fad. What't the point of maintaining a healthy weight when not only are you not going to be getting many (if not most) of the health benefits, but you're also going to be at risk for additional longterm hea
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> I want my food to match my biological expectations, one of the largest being sweet = I just took in quick calories Except for that your biological expectations should be that sweet foods are relatively slow calories. We've co-evol
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Probably SMS as a 2FA option on Gmail, which is the real problem. Once you add your Yubikey and set up TOTP as a backup, you need to go back and delete SMS as a 2FA option. Had gmail been configured correctly, the SIM swap would have far le
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What are the benefits of allulose over erythritol? I’ve only had the latter, but they seem pretty similar.
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You can with cheese. Think of something like Jasper Hill.
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Metformin is suspected to act like a mitochondrial complex I inhibitor, at least under certain conditions. If so, there may be a risk of it causing progressive supranuclear palsy if taken in high doses or long term. If you have diabetes the
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> Probably yes -- but you would be deadly wrong. Sort of. Smoking was initially only modestly dangerous, but became vastly more dangerous over time. So the situation isn't entirely analogous.
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Which looks and feels like Facebook.
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> As a father to four little girls, though, it makes me feel really defeated. As a father of two girls who also runs a social network, this article is bullshit. They’re only considering social media that fundamentally looks and feels lik

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