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by Gatsky 4y ago
Not sure I agree. Take a look at recently developed antimicrobials. It’s not like there haven’t been any new ones. The problem is this: they are very expensive compared to older antimicrobials (so don’t get used at all except in wealthy h
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by Gatsky 4y ago
My question was genuine. Thank you for the suggestion.
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by Gatsky 4y ago
So… are the books any good? Or is that irrelevant now?
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by Gatsky 4y ago
Things get even worse where the application process is completely unaccountable to the future success of the applicant. When you hire someone for a job, you get some feedback on how that person does at said job. In Medicine for example, thi
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by Gatsky 4y ago
Well… except that many super rich had failed businesses, went bankrupt etc? I used to kinda think along the lines of this post. However, when examining the performance of top investors for example (eg Buffet, Templeton, Marks etc) it is cle
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by Gatsky 4y ago
Ugh, reminds me of my writing when I was in high school, not in a good way.
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by Gatsky 4y ago
After seeing this proposal a month ago, I contacted the authors of the large SSaSS randomized trial [1] (n ~ 21,000) which compared a potassium salt substitute (75% sodium, 25% potassium) to normal salt. There was no reduction in BMI in the
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by Gatsky 4y ago
Really interesting discussion! Reminds me of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_zombie
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by Gatsky 4y ago
Perhaps, I guess it depends on how much of the data we generate (tweets, video, blogs, text messages etc) survives into the future.
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by Gatsky 4y ago
So what I think is the most likely outcome is that we realise there are better ways to preserve the dead for reanimation, and nobody will ever bother working on how to salvage the crudely frozen/vitrified. I personally think the way fo
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by Gatsky 4y ago
I can scarcely believe you are holding up Murdoch as a paragon of impartiality. His newspapers are notoriously biased and scurrilous, and actively try to influence political outcomes. He doesn’t have to intervene much because he makes sur
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by Gatsky 4y ago
Sigh these ‘What is Elon Musk thinking?’ discussions are so tiresome, devoid of any useful content. Do we really need 600+ comments about this issue? Is everyone really so upset about some guy they don’t know?
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by Gatsky 4y ago
This isn’t necessarily the case if you are back linking blocks.
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by Gatsky 4y ago
“I’ve given a lot of thought to the optimal use of my time, and I simply do best operating by myself.” Just hearing someone extremely successful with effectively limitless resources say this, hearing that this is OK.
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by Gatsky 4y ago
I think in general parents overestimate how much what they do matters, and underestimate genetic effects. I worry that a lot of the advice here isn’t reproducible. My advice is to look at your own life first. If you (or the other parent) ha
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by Gatsky 4y ago
He has the quality of being unformidable. The guests are very relaxed on his show I find. Tim Ferris is similar. Contrast to say Sam Harris, who although very erudite, perspicacious and articulate, asks paragraph long multipart questions an
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by Gatsky 4y ago
Be that as it may, I think this initiative by YC is mainly because they noticed a lot of talented founders were starting Climate Tech companies. pg had a tweet about this a while ago.
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by Gatsky 4y ago
Yeah it seems a bit of a downer, but it’s mostly just noise. How many of us would actually invest money in Boom right now? Basically none. How many of us would short it if we could? Basically none. The fact that Boom exists at all suggests
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by Gatsky 4y ago
The bill says that sale of smoked tobacco products will be prohibited if the recipient was born after 2009-01-01. Just giving them a smoked tobacco product is also illegal if it occurs in a public place.
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by Gatsky 4y ago
Good things often have dubious or downright evil origins (which would never be justifiable a priori ). A relatively recent example: development of cancer chemotherapy began with the incidental finding that the chemical warfare agent nitrog
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by Gatsky 4y ago
Agreed, but the OP is obviously unconvinced by the moral observation that Big Tobacco hack people’s brains for profit while externalising the costs to society.
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by Gatsky 4y ago
Ah well sure but when the smoking rates drop low enough, smoking related healthcare costs greatly exceed the cigarette tax receipts. NZ is a small country and needs to contain the costs of its socialised healthcare. Is there a fundamental ‘
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by Gatsky 4y ago
Can highly recommend A Perfect Spy , one of the best books I've read, a bleak masterpiece.
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by Gatsky 4y ago
I would characterise it differently. The aspect of financial repression that hurts the middle classes the most is letting inflation run. This is because they tend to have cash assets and their way of life is in many ways predicated on the i
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by Gatsky 4y ago
Capital controls are one of the elements of financial repression. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_repression
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by Gatsky 4y ago
Some comments here seem ignorant of the key study: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35987213/ It’s very compelling - some sweeteners have adverse metabolic effects and it is mediated by the microbiome [1]. Aspartame and
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by Gatsky 4y ago
Yes, also a good example, although he seems more delusional than merely deranged.
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by Gatsky 4y ago
Well I enjoyed the piece. But it evinces a kind of derangement unique to modern life. Minecraft became so popular, and worth so much money, that the author couldn’t get over it. Another example is that guy who threw away a hard drive with h
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by Gatsky 4y ago
If you were designing a vehicle to help harvest organs, you would want a high chance of causing blunt head trauma but avoid major organ damage. You would also want the victim to be thrown well clear of the vehicle to enable quick access fo
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by Gatsky 4y ago
How much do these go for?

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