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by DoubleDerper 3y ago
Dr. Brad Stanfield - one of the few medical professionals who've challenged Dr. David Sinclair about his promotion of NMN and Resveratrol - has a couple of well researched posts about N-acetyl-cysteine (NAC) that are worth watching if
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Ask HN: Best Self-Hosted Chatbot
1 points by DoubleDerper 3y ago|0 comments
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by DoubleDerper 3y ago
Let's take a second to recognize the ironic branding of Yellow corporation. It's orange. Nothing yellow about it. Some person or group of people made that decision.
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by DoubleDerper 3y ago
animated gifs. lots of free tools available. substack probably has staff designers to make it extra pretty.
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by DoubleDerper 4y ago
Holy crap those images are fantastically realistic. Thankfully we have Twitter CommunityNotes as a source of truth :-|
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by DoubleDerper 4y ago
ranked choice voting can chip away at polarization.
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by DoubleDerper 4y ago
I disagree with the author. I know he's incredibly successful and right about pretty much everything he's ever said, but I've had some experience in this area and just finished reading through some of the archives and I think
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by DoubleDerper 4y ago
Paging Dr Brad Stanfield. Paging Dr David Sinclair. Lots of NR and Niacin boosterism that should be treated with skepticism. The timing of this post is interesting as the FDA has just banned NMN in the US... which seems fortuitous to certai
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by DoubleDerper 4y ago
i've lost interest in the qubit race. what can this machine do productively?
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UK Britain's Economic Crisis (astonishing similarities with today) (1976)(youtube.com)
3 points by DoubleDerper 4y ago|1 comments
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by DoubleDerper 4y ago
^^^ Thank you! ^^^ Came here to reccommend Connections by James Burke and glad to see someone else has mentioned it. It's a masterpiece of popular science production made better with the grainy film patina of the 70s and 80s. https:&
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by DoubleDerper 4y ago
Major change in the US begins with ranked-choice voting.
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U.S. ethanol plants are allowed to pollute more than oil refineries(reuters.com)
40 points by DoubleDerper 4y ago|18 comments
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by DoubleDerper 4y ago
Coinbase is notoriously poor at customer service, so this doesn't make sense. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27653022
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by DoubleDerper 4y ago
A certain "smart" speaker company replaced their expensive device's single functional button with capacitive touch. The product is worse, now less accessible.
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Ask HN: Can the US fix regulatory capture?
24 points by DoubleDerper 4y ago|13 comments
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by DoubleDerper 4y ago
Seems more like a lucrative "job" than a "business"
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by DoubleDerper 4y ago
Relative to which assets? Stocks? Cars? Forex? IP? Crypto? Genuinely curious because everything is more expensive than it was before. If everything is overvalued, then nothing is overvalued [relatively]
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by DoubleDerper 4y ago
Don't fire for the mistake. Fire for the inability of someone to own it, cover it up, or point fingers at others.
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by DoubleDerper 4y ago
"Luxury" buyers are less sensitive to interest rate increases due to the amount of cash they can deploy. If more housing stock isn't injected amidst a housing shortage, raising interest rates will disproportionately affects B
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by DoubleDerper 5y ago
Solidarity needs to be visible. Some here will chastise you for virtue signaling and not doing anything else. Choosing a side is a political statement, though, with a value greater than zero.
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by DoubleDerper 5y ago
"...anything related to the human body is super-heavily regulated" In the Western world this is true. Countries with less oversight stand to benefit from regulation arbitrage.
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by DoubleDerper 5y ago
There's no denying that Sinclair has propelled longevity research, but his promotion of certain molecular systems is generating some valid skepticism... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7u6esW3qVw
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by DoubleDerper 5y ago
The converse is equally true: most people don’t use RSS because the largest content platforms prefer to deliver monetizable algorithmic suggestions.
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by DoubleDerper 5y ago
Is DST a states rights issue in the US? What is the argument FOR keeping DST?
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by DoubleDerper 5y ago
One of the luxuries of train travel IS the extra time it takes. Take your time and settle in for a journey versus a cattle-call airport where everyone is angry and cramped inside of a tube 30k feet in the air.
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by DoubleDerper 5y ago
Prediction markets will exacerbate the "war on truth," and are illegal in the US, thankfully. "Shorting" is frequently accompanied by disinformation campaigns against a target. It's scary to think about what this w
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by DoubleDerper 5y ago
Ranked-choice voting could be make the most meaningfully positive impact on US democracy in decades. Regardless of your politics. More messaging, coverage, and support for ranked-choice voting is necessary, and we should all hope to see mo
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On-demand voter registration for Texas voters from their homes(thehill.com)
1 points by DoubleDerper 5y ago|0 comments
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by DoubleDerper 5y ago
Consumers relied upon ProtonMail's prominent and concise marketing claim. Consumers who signed up for the service are now in jeopardy, perhaps facing real [legal] injury based on reasonable expectation of not having their IP logged. T

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