Earw0rm

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by Earw0rm 1y ago
Because the baseline of human-operated safety is "get law enforcement to do their job of getting rid of the bad actors."
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by Earw0rm 1y ago
For some reason law enforcement seem to be particularly reluctant to deal with this kind of overtime dumbfuckery when it involves automobiles. If you try something equivalent with building regs or tax authorities, they will come for you. Pr
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by Earw0rm 1y ago
That's true at least once they surpass human drivers in collisions per driver mile under equivalent conditions. It seems like we're pretty close to that point, but the numbers need to be treated with care for various reasons. (Rob
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by Earw0rm 1y ago
There are ways, but our individualistic, consumerist, convenience-first society is reluctant to implement them - as, same as gun control, they're incompatible with certain notions of freedom.
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by Earw0rm 1y ago
Ultra-long endurance drones and balloons for remote sensing are a thing, but this kind of approach doesn't scale well to higher cargo payloads.
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by Earw0rm 1y ago
If you look at the nearest survivor to flying insects' ancestors - the springtails - it seems that's been part of their strategy for a very long time. With controlled flight being a much later addition to the basic "gettheh
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by Earw0rm 1y ago
Friend of mine who's a group ride leader has a minimal turn-by-turn in a wireless earpiece paired to his phone, which sits in his pocket and runs a navigation app. Means he can lead rides confidently and fluidly while also being comple
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by Earw0rm 1y ago
"Bitch" by Lucy Cooke has a chapter dedicated to this if you're interested. It's pop sci but a great read and offers some new perspectives. Menopause seems to be a biological adaptation to this - most mammals don't
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by Earw0rm 1y ago
Which is in itself odd, as there's no obvious mechanism (at least in a developed nation inhabitant who typically have considerable fat reserves and ready availability of food) for the immune system to need resources which would be othe
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by Earw0rm 1y ago
They don't, as a rule, drink alcohol, which helps quite a bit for GI, breast and liver cancers. Wear modest clothing, cover themselves up from the sun. Although that can lead to Vit D deficiency when they move to high latitude countrie
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by Earw0rm 1y ago
Perhaps, but AFAIK similar things show up in other metabolically "different" animals - sharks, naked mole rats - whereas rodents adapted to a "run hot and fast" kind of a lifeplan seem to be especially prone. We know tha
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by Earw0rm 1y ago
I wonder what the evolutionary engineering trade-off is there. Put it another way, it seems our systems are balanced to regulate cancer during our youth and reproductive years to a low but non-zero level. Why hasn't evolution turned th
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by Earw0rm 1y ago
With the usual caveats about patents, incentives and monetisation. But yes, broadly this is accurate.
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by Earw0rm 1y ago
Ask a dairy farmer. Inflammation-mediated carcinogenesis is certainly a thing for some specific types. How much it's true across the board is speculative, but a lot of inflammation-related conditions also have association with higher c
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Scientists are discovering a powerful new way to prevent cancer(economist.com)
169 points by Earw0rm 1y ago|126 comments
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by Earw0rm 1y ago
Interesting article challenging today's popular understanding of cancer genesis and development, and outlining the increasing understanding of the role inflammation plays in stimulating the growth of cancer cell populations.
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by Earw0rm 1y ago
Four syllables and two or three words versus a single phoneme or kanji tells you something about relative priorities, though... If a culture has a word for cat which is "owl face bat ear dog" or something, sure it's got cats,
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by Earw0rm 1y ago
Even though I'm a touch sceptical as to how good LLMs are at coding, imagine developing world demand for LLMs via a cheap Android handset for $1/month. There's a lot of use case for the information retrieval side, especially
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by Earw0rm 1y ago
There's human behavioural factors yes, but I was kinda wondering about the virus itself, the R number seemed to fluctuate quite a bit, with waves peaking fast and early and then receding equally quickly.. I know there were some ideas a
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by Earw0rm 1y ago
I'm curious as to whether the consensus is that the observed behaviour of COVID waves was ever fully and satisfactorily explained - the tend to grow exponentially but then seemingly saturate at a much lower point than a naïve look at t
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by Earw0rm 1y ago
You'd think that boosters for a technology whose very foundations rely on the sigmoid and tanh functions used as neuron activation functions would intuitively get this...
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by Earw0rm 1y ago
It's unsurprising that certain strains would lead to increased cancer risk. We've known about this with bacteria (H. Pylori and stomach cancer), viruses (HPV and genital cancers) and fungi (carcinogenic liver toxins) for a long ti
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by Earw0rm 1y ago
They're a battle-tested technology but, like fossil fuels or pesticides, come at a price. We should aim to take a balanced, complete and holistic view of what that price has looked like, and looks like today. In general terms it optimi
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by Earw0rm 1y ago
Who still can't afford US universities, as UK professionals are (excepting the very top executives, public servants, finance and legal professionals, of whom there are relatively few) paid a lot less than the US equivalent. UK middle c
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by Earw0rm 1y ago
It's context collapse, the curse of a shared language. If you live in Australia or Florida and have Anglo skin, you'd best believe that's good advice. In the natural range of the Anglo skin type, Edinburgh or Dublin, not so m
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by Earw0rm 1y ago
It's because you're the same latitude as Namibia, Botswana etc. Even Perth is on the same equivalent (south instead of north) as Cairo or Kuwait. There's a reason the indigenous Australians stayed dark skinned after 40,000 ye
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by Earw0rm 1y ago
White people - depending on your definition, I mean pale-skinned Northern Europeans - are adapted to live north of about 45 degrees. Obviously they live lots of other places now, but evolution is slow to catch up. If you drive through Franc
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by Earw0rm 1y ago
Bear in mind that this study is about the UK, and London is on the same latitude as Calgary, give or take. The sun does get strong enough to burn here, but not for much of the year - especially considering the relatively high % cloud cover
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by Earw0rm 1y ago
The Passion Facade, marking Christ's crucifixion and death, resembles a skull; the Nativity facade is an, ah, biological representation of birth.
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Most fruits are highly bred, nutrition wise they're very different from their wild-type predecessors. Many of which are outright inedible, or close to it. That said, we've coevolved with technology of one sort or another (the broa

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