Gatsky

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by Gatsky 4y ago
Hmm. So if you keep waiting for a better option, the chance of choosing the best one decreases after you've rejected 3.
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by Gatsky 4y ago
TikTok should be banned. India has the right idea. We should align more with them. Banning it isn't for geopolitical reasons although I think those are valid given the CCP's publicly stated agenda (Global communist revolution es
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by Gatsky 4y ago
I don’t agree on the ortholinear point, at least for the v1 product. The fact is you are cutting out a lot of people by going with a non-standard layout. This is the same point made by Dygma to explain why they didn’t go down that route.
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by Gatsky 4y ago
Is there something about writing an OS that helps recovery from addiction? Or perhaps the causality is reversed.
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Repurposed drugs don’t work for Covid19 (again)(nejm.org)
4 points by Gatsky 4y ago|2 comments
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by Gatsky 4y ago
It's not a zero sum game, is it?
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by Gatsky 4y ago
The modern tragic figures cited in the article are in this vein, few if any redeeming qualities. You know, the world has been quiet and pleasant for so long that people are happy to watch horrors on TV. I doubt Game of Thrones would have be
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by Gatsky 4y ago
Note that the study participants were healthy young individuals who were untrained ie. didn't do any regular resistance training prior to the study. Untrained people, particularly if they are young and healthy, often show large effects
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by Gatsky 4y ago
I think one just has to acknowledge there are no feasible solutions to these problems. The actual solution is to let the next generation do a better job, and believe that they can. Unfortunately, as people live and work for longer, the cycl
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by Gatsky 4y ago
Seems clear now that EBV causes enough trouble that we should think about trying to eradicate it if we can get a good vaccine. This will be horrendously expensive and difficult. But eradicating a disease has such unbounded benefits for huma
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by Gatsky 4y ago
The tragic narrative, like a lot of things, was fatally poisoned by World War 2. Amidst the countless tragic stories there, the most classically ‘tragic’ figure was Hitler.
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by Gatsky 4y ago
This is almost certainly confounded with other healthful behaviours. Eg people who sauna also eat better, exercise, go to the doctor etc
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by Gatsky 4y ago
In fact, cancer incidence and all cause mortality increase the further you are from the equator. Brown fat activation is not efficient from an energy perspective. If you live somewhere cold, with generally sparse food supply, burning precio
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by Gatsky 4y ago
These novel materials are fascinating, feels like modern alchemy. Even if 99% are academic vaporware. These fibres don't seem to be actuated by electrical current, rather heat or water absorption. This makes them quite unlike muscle I
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by Gatsky 4y ago
Can you explain what thermal forcing is in this context?
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by Gatsky 4y ago
I think part of the answer could be that the global population is older and wealthier than it ever has been. This has certain effects on our collective psychology.
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by Gatsky 4y ago
As others have said, it is currently unproven that this approach achieves anything. But it also isn’t that different to what happens anyway. Elites have superior mate choices on average, able to optimise for intelligence, education level, b
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by Gatsky 4y ago
Definitely. Unprecedented in human history. Wide-ranging social, cultural and economic impacts.
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by Gatsky 4y ago
This is very much a fair-weather first-third-of-life perspective. I see quite a lot of elderly people with health problems. The ones that are completely alone… it’s a pretty wretched existence, frankly. That’s the reality. Not to say all ma
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by Gatsky 4y ago
My experience of papers that went to top tier journals is that the peer reviews were detailed, interesting and clearly from people who knew what they were talking about. They were also somewhat harsh and demanding. It is almost certainly th
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by Gatsky 4y ago
Nonsense. The first and corresponding author on the original Nature paper, Andrew Senior, was not a few years out of grad school[1], he's worked at Google for the last 14 years, and started working at IBM in 1994 [2]. [1] http:&#x2F
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by Gatsky 4y ago
The lesson of AlphaFold is if you take some experienced senior scientists and pay them well to work on a big challenge, they make progress. This is so very different to what actually happens in academic research.
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by Gatsky 4y ago
It’s a bit like studying how to reduce your chance of lung cancer from smoking if you want to keep smoking. No mitigating factor will eliminate the risks from red meat, except not eating it. Also lifestyle or nutritional mitigation factors
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by Gatsky 4y ago
The 2012 plenary session in the biggest cancer conference in the world was about cancer causing viruses in red meat that wasn’t cooked to a certain temperature. It hasn’t really panned out since. In any case, the bottom line remains that re
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by Gatsky 4y ago
Not really. The key question is whether meat is carcinogenic or not. If you eat less of it, sure it will be less carcinogenic, but it won't be suddenly good for you. There seems to be a lot of people who want to eat meat and also deny
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by Gatsky 4y ago
Yes, they are animals in human care. But the fact is there is a difference between carnivores and herbivores across various species and animal lifestyles, which is strong proof that meat is carcinogenic. What factors mitigate this in the wi
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by Gatsky 4y ago
Yes I agree. But this doesn't justify blithely adding another potentially risky agent to the mix.
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The study I cited was of mammals. We aren't going to learn anything useful from the lifestyle of cold-blooded reptiles. For one, their metabolic rate is much lower.
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by Gatsky 4y ago
I think David Sinclair's track record of actually producing meaningful improvements in human longevity is zero. The whole sirtuin thing got big funding from pharma and then totally failed. I would remain very sceptical of what he says,
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by Gatsky 4y ago
Unfortunately meat is clearly bad for you in at least one but probably many ways. The most compelling evidence to me is that carnivorous animals have higher rates of death from cancer, see fig 2 of this fascinating study: https:/&#x2F

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