Earw0rm

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by Earw0rm 2y ago
Yep, I neglected to consider that the system isn't just self-regulating but also self-calibrating. Even if we can't _fix_ all those systems, getting reliable predictive/status markers would be a good start. Just being able to
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
So I absolutely think you're on the right track, but also you've got a product to sell. Certainly piqued my interest at least, depending on price point, how long it takes to demonstrate effectiveness and so on.
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
Yes, except that metal isn't a dynamic, self-regulating structure. The body is in a constant state of actively fighting against its own decay.
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
Would it be fair to say that it's causal in terms of process, but perhaps not in terms of initiation? That is, there's a feedback loop involved (or, likely, a complex web of feedback processes), and if a drug can effectively suppr
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
Certainly pop-sci but great on this topic: https://www.waterstones.com/book/why-we-sleep/matthew-walker... I'm not as optimistic as you that sleep will be a cure, but I'd be very surprised indeed if slee
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
This - it's more like an end-stage failure mode of a self-regulating, dynamic system which has drifted into dysfunction. A case of "lots of things have to work perfectly, or near enough, or a brain drifts into this state". Th
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
So as a lay person with an active interest in the topic, my reading of 2) is that in the treatment group, some people showed improved sleep physiology AND improved memory, and this was attributed to the treatment, but the group as a whole d
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
Makes me wonder if this or other viruses might have a role in the inflammation cascades that sometimes kill people after relatively minor head trauma. I mean there are literally cases like Gabrielle Giffords where people have a penetrating
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
Just to add to this. Pain is further associated with the fear-terror-excitement response axis, which can be thought of as the ability to anticipate and remember pain/loss and ramp metabolism in response. Fight-or-flight basically. This
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
Yeah, NEETdom is mostly a male thing, which kind of begs the question of what happens to the female equivalent - low-functioning, not much productivity, neither intellectual nor social skills. Some will end up getting landed with kids by me
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
On this topic, highly recommend this book, which provides a rather different perspective: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/50403455-metazoa Breaking it down - what we think of as pain perception is not
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
NEETs != nerds. Not to say there isn't any overlap. But whereas people who are smart but somewhat lacking in social skills can thrive in nerd-dom, for people in the lowest quartile on both, paid employment is a race to the bottom. (Sid
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
So I'm of an age with you, and I broadly agree, but I think we can't entirely discount survivor bias, and the sweeping under the carpet of a lot of stuff that people would rather pretend didn't happen, or were glad when it no
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
It's debatable. The IEA have an estimate of €190 per tonne. Which is €400 per passenger on a return transatlantic flight (assuming no mark-up). But there are already some taxes and surcharges on flights, and some of that is carbon-rela
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
"have to" being, to some extent, a function of these flights being priced at a heavy discount relative to their environmental impact.
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
I wonder what energy-saving optimisations the human body has which lead to worse outcomes in our energy-rich environment. I don't just mean fat storage algorithms leading to metabolic syndrome and T2D, but for example whether we could
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
This. It's good at Cmake, and mostly good at dealing with COM boilerplate (although hallucinations are still a problem). But threading and asynchronous code are implicit - there's a lot going on that you can't see on the page
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
Something about the psychology of front-end - not quite as hardcore technical, a little more humanities-aligned - perhaps makes them even more susceptible. The self-consciously cool kids are always going to be more easily swayed by fashion
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
Agreed, but it distorts the heck out of it for everyone in tech trying to do anything else. Salaries is just the most obvious way.
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
That's partly because of growth based valuations, and fast-acting network effects. The whole model is predicated on "get there fast, get the monopoly". Which you can't either with a traditional, non-scalable business (re
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
Given that most animals get it done in under a minute for fear of predation or other violence, I'm guessing the author is male. Chimps and bonobos, our nearest cousins, do have a pretty spectacular sexual toolbox of course that acts as
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
Not necessarily on that last point as it's something other than a linear relationship. There are people aged 90 who've needed 0 years of care, and others who've needed 30. That was kind of what I meant by greater proportion..
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
I think the problem with that approach, in today's market, comes when you try to hire. Junior engineers didn't cost more than any other recent graduate, and as you could get away with a few rough edges in production for quite a wh
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
The garden thing feels like a cultural bug. Sort of, everyone thinks they ought to have a garden, but most people don't actually, in practice, want to do the work to maintain one, nor do they want to pay the extra for the amount of spa
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
Despite what you might read in the news, occupancy per household is LOWER than it has been for a long time. Partly changing social customs - and you could, legitimately I think, argue some of this is down to immigration/multiculturalis
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
This. London can't grow much more - it can densify up to a point, but you can't build much more on the edges of town without some enormously expensive infrastructure upgrades through the middle. Which they should probably do anywa
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
Doesn't this create a situation where the old rely on their own younger generation to support them? And therefore inequality between older people who have families (or have families that care about them) and those that don't? I ca
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
Are we miscounting GDP? That is, if someone goes out for work instead of caring for relatives, not only do we count their work as GDP, we also count the person who has to stand in for them. So that's a large increase in paid work done,
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
That's an interesting argument, which makes the case for "it's what you make it do, not what it can do, which constitutes a violation" a little stronger IMO.
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
1) It's definitely copying, but that doesn't necessarily mean the end product is itself a copyright violation. (And that remains true even where some of the steps to make it were themselves violations). 2) Agreed! Where this becom

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