CadmiumYellow

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by CadmiumYellow 4y ago
The cost of hiring people to get around regulations so you don't have to waste your own time doing it is trivial to someone extremely wealthy. Those things really are not deterrents at all. They'd only work on the upper middle cla
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by CadmiumYellow 4y ago
Ikea actually makes really amazing can openers. I've had the same one for 8 years and it's still going strong. No signs of weakness at all.
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by CadmiumYellow 4y ago
Every 2-4 years?! That's wild. I live in a rental house that still has all of its appliances from the 90s. They definitely look dated - all white, lots of plastic, no stainless steel or water dispenser or anything - but they all still
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by CadmiumYellow 4y ago
The vegetable oil thing is really going to come back and haunt us. A lot of phenomena get called "the new smoking" but I think heavy use of cheap vegetable oils is truly going to be the thing we look back on in horror in 50 years.
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by CadmiumYellow 4y ago
"Universities discussing whether classes should be delivered in 10 minute chunks because students can no longer stay focused for 50 mins to an hour any more." Do you have a source for this? That's absolutely wild (though beli
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by CadmiumYellow 4y ago
The majority of my career has been in back end web development so lots of work on APIs and related microservices. Judging by the tone of this comment I've probably never worked on anything that you'd consider computationally diffi
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by CadmiumYellow 4y ago
Thank you, I didn't really understand the distinction there re: the spike protein!
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by CadmiumYellow 4y ago
Something I've been wondering about: has anybody tried to separate out the effects of the pandemic itself from the symptoms of long covid? So many of the symptoms of long covid are incredibly nonspecific. I believe there was a study on
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by CadmiumYellow 4y ago
This is extremely fascinating to me as a layperson. Can you explain how this effect would be unique to mRNA? Like, could you get a flu shot and end up with some of the inactivated flu virus spreading around the body and sticking to other or
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by CadmiumYellow 4y ago
> What is under attack is not the jobs of the current generation, but the value of human skill itself, for all generations to come. And, yes, it's the tail of a trajectory we have been on for a long time. Wow, yes. This is exactly w
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by CadmiumYellow 4y ago
I actually think a lot of modern and contemporary art is more technically difficult than it appears (though certainly not as technically difficult as making a marble sculpture or something). But fair point. Not sure I fully understand your
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by CadmiumYellow 4y ago
I've been thinking the same thing. I wonder if this might give rise to some kind of analog renaissance as people get sick of all the digitally regurgitated garbage. There has to be a point of diminishing returns for this kind of conten
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by CadmiumYellow 4y ago
I have a strong background in both and I think creating good art is worlds more difficult than writing good code. It's both technically difficult and intellectually challenging to create something that people actually want to look at.
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by CadmiumYellow 4y ago
This comment is so arrogant I have to laugh. This kind of attitude is exactly why people outside of our industry don't think highly of Silicon Valley.
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by CadmiumYellow 4y ago
Wow I thought "choreomania" was just the name of a Florence and the Machine song...this is crazy...
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by CadmiumYellow 4y ago
Absolutely, and the problem is that amphetamines will make most people feel better regardless of their underlying issue, because that's what they do to the human brain. If you're depressed and you start taking Adderall you will fe
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by CadmiumYellow 4y ago
Women have been having kids past 30 since the dawn of humanity. The only difference is that now women tend to be older at the time of their FIRST pregnancy. Before the modern era women would start having kids in their late teens or early 20
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by CadmiumYellow 4y ago
Exactly. Ultra-processed foods are a supernormal stimulus that drives an exaggerated response in humans, e.g. overeating.
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by CadmiumYellow 4y ago
One thing I found super interesting was that the participants in that study rated both diets equally tasty, which points to some other reason why one diet was easier to overeat than the other! My guess would be that the ultra-processed diet
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by CadmiumYellow 4y ago
Kevin Hall also did a fascinating study on ultra-processed vs less processed foods which found that people ate more and gained more weight on ultra-processed foods even when the two diets were identical in macronutrient composition! I would
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by CadmiumYellow 4y ago
Wow, do you have a recipe for this? I would love to try it!
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by CadmiumYellow 4y ago
Look carefully at the ingredients list on any packaged foods you're buying. Many things contain sugar in the US when the equivalent product in Europe does not. A particularly insidious example is pre-made broth/stock: nearly every
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by CadmiumYellow 4y ago
It's quite hard to study this stuff but here's an example: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7946062/ The study includes an appendix with photos of all the meals - it's very interest
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by CadmiumYellow 4y ago
Every time processed foods come up online someone makes this argument. I will assume you're being genuine but a lot of times it's done in an annoying "gotcha" way and it drives me crazy. Regardless, the NOVA classificati
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by CadmiumYellow 4y ago
I have had this same thought every time anyone brings up these longevity studies. For the most part the blue zones are isolated locations that would likely have genetically distinct populations. It may be that these groups are genetically p
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by CadmiumYellow 4y ago
Over the past year all of the paid parking lots in my city have removed their kiosks and replaced them with QR codes that open a website with a very unwieldy form. Very annoying if your phone happens to be dead or broken or you run out of d
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by CadmiumYellow 4y ago
Do you have any idea if this effect was found for the non-mRNA vaccines as well? I had the Johnson & Johnson vaccine with no boosters and I've been getting an unusual number of colds this year, though I assumed it was due to life r
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by CadmiumYellow 4y ago
I agree with you, but I wonder if there will be a point where this no longer works because things become so consistent and repetitive that they no longer hold people's attention? Will we maybe start getting some variety again? Or will
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by CadmiumYellow 4y ago
The standards only take into account collisions with cars in the same size class. That's why tiny cars can still have perfect crash test ratings but be absolutely destroyed in a collision with anything significantly larger. You can loo
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by CadmiumYellow 4y ago
Older millennials were still exposed to a lot of print media growing up! I'm 30 and we always had print newspapers and magazines in my house. We ordered clothes from catalogs throughout my childhood. In high school we all read gossip a

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