DougWebb

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by DougWebb 10y ago
Sure, here's one: http://www.openbiome.org/stool-donation/
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Except it doesn't translate, when you're trying to handle the third dimension. And CICO isn't an effective basis for your diet when there are biological factors with large impacts that CICO simply doesn't address.
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I don't know exactly, and wouldn't be at liberty to say if I did. It wasn't easy for him to find a doctor willing to treat him, because of his cancer. He's now the subject of an ongoing experimental study though, and hop
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I don't know that I'd call FMT a dramatic treatment . It doesn't seem any more dramatic than a course of antibiotics, which we know wipes out most of your microbiome and tends to lead to IBS and weight gain, or taking probio
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It works both ways, but once people doing FMT realized that transplanting feces from an obese person to a thin person makes the thin person gain weight, they stopped doing that. All of the stool banks now screen for obesity and won't a
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It's kind of like measuring the performance of vehicles by looking only at the chemical energy of the fuel they use and how far they go on a given amount of fuel. Those seem like reasonable measurements, until you try to put jet fuel i
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A friend of mine has his microbiome wiped out by heavy antibiotics administration while fighting colon cancer. After his cancer went into remission, he suffered greatly from IBS. It got bad enough that his doctors thought his cancer had ret
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An FMT jumpstarts that process, by introducing a bunch of colonists from a healthy microbiome all at once. Then you just need to nurture the new arrivals with proper diet, which you'll start to desire thanks to their influence. That&#x
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For the medical industry, it's not the doctors that are ripe for being automated away; it's all of the administrative assistants managing paperwork and offices. If the mess that's today's US medical records, billing syst
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So, servants for the aristocrats, basically. Nice utopian future, if you're rich.
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I think I saw that movie a few times. Never seems to work out well.
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That sounds pretty much just like web application development, or any other front-end user-facing development. You can verify internal components through testing, but once you introduce non-deterministic random variables like browser softwa
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When you say "has largely left", that implies that we no longer have companies doing the work, that we've lost the capability to do the work. That doesn't seem to be the case, at least not based on these figures. If we&#
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Oliver Stone was on The Late Show last week, and he said that he's a storyteller not a historian, and that he couldn't tell the whole story in a two hour movie and make it entertaining without taking some liberties. However, he al
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Also, "all men" is referring specifically to white males, since at the time women were not treated equally and, you know, they had slavery back then. It's important to keep in mind the spirit of these historical documents and
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The Wikipedia article shows US production dropping 30% from 1967 to 2015. It's a loss, yes, but 70% of the production is still here. What's changed is that China and other countries are producing much more now, so as a percentage
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Good for heating in the winter, though.
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Half an hour? When you're first writing the code, you should know immediately if you're going to need to repeat it and what the abstraction should be. If you don't, then don't waste your time. Later, if it turns out that
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Probably something like "stop ruining our planet".
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I suspect their advice is for their benefit, not other website devs. They can save a lot of space in their archive if everyone's pages were smaller. Nothing compared to better image compression though.
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If your output is compressed (which it should be if you're worried about response size) then omitting end tags has much less impact, I believe. All of the tags should get compressed well because they're repeated so often, and they
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People downvoted you, but that's not a bad example. Cocaine is an early (modern) example of the food industry taking a natural product that's been used forever, coca leaves, and processing it to produce a much more dangerous food
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That's them, not us, but you're right that's a problem with the fashion industry. I don't think it's caused by the fads though; the clothing industry would still exploit the cheapest available labor, even if they we
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I'm specifically talking about the US, and in particular the majority of the US population. My understanding is that the rest of the world tends to be somewhat better (not as much industrialization of farming and breeding) and of cours
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As far as the actual food sales, most of the money winds up in the same small set of hands regardless of which fad is currently popular. They'll resist trends that switch from high-margin to low-margin foods, but only until they'v
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Many of the "simple ingredients" that people used 100 years ago aren't really available anymore, at least not in the US. That would somewhat true even with traditional breeding and cultivation, but over the past 100 years we&
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That's a human emotional response to an observation. We do it all of the time; we see beauty in landscapes, grace in the movements of animals, peace and tranquility in the sounds of a babbling brook. None of these are really out there
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That may be, but it may also be that when computers become better than a human at something, that happened because we gained a greater understanding of how to make that happen, and that greater understanding is what leads us to stop conside
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I would say those are analytical, but not creative.
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There's a certain pride in being able to provide for yourself and your family without depending on the charity of others. That's very ingrained in middle-class US society, and back in FDR's day that pride was strong among far

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