Gatsky

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by Gatsky 5y ago
Well I see your point... but I just want to automate a few lights and blinds, and this stuff seems totally peripheral to that.
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by Gatsky 5y ago
Well their approach allows them to deliver software that works without being inundated by issues related to someone’s peculiar set up. I don’t think ‘hostile’ is a very fair assessment.
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by Gatsky 5y ago
Not my experience at all, HA has been unfailingly solid.
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by Gatsky 5y ago
It's hard to evaluate what this means without knowing, at least, the demographic make up of your part of the world, the vaccination rates, the vaccination kinetics, and health system capacity and access. I could equally cherry pick pla
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by Gatsky 5y ago
This is one view... but I suspect most people living somewhere that is a proper city as opposed to a resort would say similar things. Net migration rate provides a more objective view of whether a country has an 'average future'.
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by Gatsky 5y ago
This is pretty hyperbolic. Examination of global excess deaths would tell you that the lockdowns were successful in their stated primary aim. Australia and NZ had significantly fewer excess deaths during the first wave [1]. And if they cont
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by Gatsky 5y ago
Thank you for taking the time to compose this condescending and useless analogy.
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by Gatsky 5y ago
Aspartame is an amino acid right? Isn’t it going to be in all sorts of proteins then? Doesn’t that make it rather implausible that it is toxic?
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by Gatsky 5y ago
Interesting that there is more variation between people at the same age than there is in the same person across multiple decades. Some of this is certainly genetic.
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by Gatsky 5y ago
Yes, I did. Did you read the comment I was replying to? Isn’t it ‘endlessly amusing’ to observe one of the biggest banks in the world discover why the finance system works the way it does? And if it was ‘no big deal’ then why did Citibank s
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by Gatsky 5y ago
https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/16/business/citibank-revlon-laws... Just sayin…
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by Gatsky 5y ago
I have noticed that any HN front page thread about compensation has at least 300 comments.
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by Gatsky 5y ago
Science is also like this.
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by Gatsky 5y ago
This doesn’t seem to factor in the rates of covid over time. In Israel there was a huge run up of cases just before vaccination began [1], which then really plateaued. This is a much more plausible explanation for the shape of the excess mo
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by Gatsky 5y ago
Agreed, it would be quite an operational hazard and probably an unethical experiment to leave astronauts on the moon for long periods. Factoring in appropriate safety margins for equipment, supplies, physiology and rescue flights, they coul
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by Gatsky 5y ago
In practice you wouldn’t send a giant amount of fissile material in one shipment from the earth’s surface, you would put small amounts up at a time. Multiple trips to the moon would be needed anyway.
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by Gatsky 5y ago
Well yeah he isn’t the most polished, but he puts the guests at ease and the conversations benefit from that. He reminds me of Tim Ferris in some ways, who was often barely coherent, although Ferris was never quite believably authentic and
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by Gatsky 5y ago
Great article. Unfortunately medicine continues to attract endless applicants. Universities have worked out that people will eat broken glass and pay for the privelege if they think it will raise their status.
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by Gatsky 5y ago
It is interest free, and also has a repayment plan baked in. The credit card user is incentivized to pay it off each month, but the Afterpay user is incentivized to buy more stuff now.
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by Gatsky 5y ago
> I generally never buy anything online that I can't afford to pay for it outright so I have never used them before. They are designed to let people buy impulsively without annoying restrictions like not having enough money. Who wo
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by Gatsky 5y ago
Well the only human data is in figure 1, and it doesn't look that convincing. There seems to be a small difference in oxalate metabolism between people with/without coronary disease. They do a bunch of comparisons which aren'
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by Gatsky 5y ago
I agree with you that there will never be a universal cure for cancer after the person is diagnosed with cancer. The problem is not that each cancer is unique (in fact there are many common patterns and stereotyped responses to treatments)
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by Gatsky 5y ago
Skepticism is a tough gig really. If you are right then nobody cares, if you are wrong then you look like a fool.
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by Gatsky 5y ago
There is a whole religion in fact [1]. Uncompromising committment to non-violence. > Strict Jains do not consume food that has been stored overnight, as it possesses a higher concentration of micro-organisms (for example, bacteria, yeast
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by Gatsky 5y ago
In Australia anyway, there is a strongly ingrained cultural norm around the backyard. There is also the NIMBYism in the inner city suburbs which should be densified. These suburbs are filled with wealthy people who will not just acquiesce t
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by Gatsky 5y ago
Just to add that in Australia the housing market is also going nuts and presumably foreign buyers are suppressed or absent due to Covid. It is really quite bad, and nobody knows what to do about it. It is lose-lose now because there are the
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by Gatsky 5y ago
I think this is possible, but not likely. Historically companies with such high valuations and extreme popularity don't perform well in the long term. If you got in 10 years ago you've done exceptionally well of course. There is a
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by Gatsky 5y ago
From meticulously monitoring macronutrients and body composition over periods of 3 months, I find I can eat say 3/4rs of my calculated energy requirements and still get slowly fatter over time. This slow fattening effect is associated
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by Gatsky 5y ago
Just as an aside, eradicating small pox really doesn't get enough press. The day the last case of small pox happened should be a global holiday celebration. It is probably the greatest achievement of humanity in the last few hundred ye
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by Gatsky 5y ago
Drug production is pretty difficult. Pharma companies are high tech clean room manufacturers who operate at very high quality standards and large scale, with a significant amount of embedded knowledge and experience acquired over many years

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