InSteady

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by InSteady 3y ago
Careful, your tired old strawman is liable to burn up in the next round of wildfires.
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by InSteady 3y ago
>When people mention "willpower", everyone today is looking for a diagnosis as an excuse instead. >People don't understand the way they have re-shaped their brains from pretty much everything spawning from the internet
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> Conclusions Despite the ethical mandate and expressed values and mission of academic institutions, there is poor performance and noticeable variation in the dissemination of clinical trial results across leading academic medical cente
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by InSteady 3y ago
>Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents, and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look
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by InSteady 3y ago
Kind of funny that he spent some time talking about how movies shouldn't be made out of books. Short stories, sure, but not books.
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by InSteady 3y ago
What struck me is his processes of doing all his writing in the morning "because no one has had time to call me up and hurt my feelings." It sounds kind of silly, but it also makes a ton of sense. It's so hard to be creative
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by InSteady 3y ago
I personally find GPs agenda of promoting patience, common sense, and safety on the roads to be both dangerous and offensive. That kind of mentality is only a hop and skip away from becoming a deranged anti-car environmentalist.
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Also not generally being surrounded on all sides by other unpredictable gamers whose own split-second reactions are going to determine what their safest move should be.
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by InSteady 3y ago
Is your comment intended to mock people who are interested in the vagus nerve, people who are interested in self-advocacy in the case of health problems, or just everyone on hacker news in general? Gotta specify, I'm not sure who I&#x2
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by InSteady 3y ago
Sepsis occurs when inflammations goes from being localized to being spread throughout your entire body. The bacterial infection is obviously the root of the problem, but it's the inflammation that actually kills. Being able to turn off
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That's interesting about famotidine. This is also a treatment for MCAS, which is probably under-diagnosed because it's kind of obscure and the diagnostic criteria kind of suck currently. It can reduce stomach acid, so my doctor an
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Sure, and MLK should have stuck to marches instead of organizing strikes and other highly effective but risky forms of direct action. Kahle has stated from the outset that he wants to build a digital Library of Alexandria. He wants all medi
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This needs to be said in every single thread where the IA comes up. With all the pearl clutching about how "irresponsible" and "reckless" Kahle is, you would think he owes something personally to each and every one of us
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People applied the scientific method in trying to discover/create alchemy. Including Isaac Newton. In fact his investigations of alchemy is what lead him to discover the prismatic nature of light and invent color theory. Science is a p
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By your logic I can: Make a terrible analogy and then pretend it undermines your argument by way of false equivalence.
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by InSteady 3y ago
I've got SIBO and dysbiosis in my large intestines as well. Also possible mast cell activation syndrome, pending one more test to complete the current diagnostic criteria. Note: use both bile acid malabsorption and bile acid diarrhea (
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by InSteady 3y ago
That's fair. It sounds like they wanted to iterate on something that's been established on a preliminary basis, which makes the choice to stay within the parameters of of the original study likely the correct one. We have to be ch
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by InSteady 3y ago
>Mental stress releases CRP The body is full of these chicken-egg relationships. It really is a gigantic and bewildering system of positive and negative feedback loops (in terms of effect, not value judgements). Mental stress is one trig
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Is it possible that the process of getting access to trustworthy and complete datasets is more streamlined with these American companies than it is for TikTok? It's hard to imagine the researchers ignored TikTok purely as an oversight,
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by InSteady 3y ago
n=1 anecdotal reflection here. I've had have chronic low grade inflammation from two different disorders for a very long time, including a GI disorder that definitely triggers my liver to work overtime (experienced in the form of gener
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by InSteady 3y ago
I could be wrong, but I believe naloxone isn't really orally bioavailable. Most of the very limited research focuses on low dose naltrexone (LDN) instead, naltrexone being another opioid receptor antagonist with paradoxical properties,
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by InSteady 3y ago
Mast Cell Activation Syndrome would be the main one. Mast cells are an integral part of the intestinal epithelial barrier. When they become over-sensitive, even small amounts of dietary histamine (present in a large number of foods) can tri
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This has been found to be effective, although it has a huge list of potential side effects [0]. Anecdotally, among people with GI problems, especially IBS, it can often cause reactions such as nausea, anxiety, and bloating (some practitione
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by InSteady 3y ago
The viral angle is fascinating to me. From the article: >Viruses can trigger ER [endoplasmic reticulum] stress, perhaps explaining why ME/CFS and related conditions often arise after infection. Since you mention herpes, I'll br
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An individual gun, let alone bullet, kills so few people you can practically treat it as zero if you zoom out far enough. Therefore any regulation whatsoever is meaningless. Yeah, this is a very convenient rhetorical device for someone look
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More like having to fight established precedent in the courts is much more dangerous and expensive than to continue your lobbying efforts as you always have and write (or repeal) laws at your convenience. Of course we aren't talking ab
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Content is not necessarily preserved for the good of humanity of no one alive today is likely to access it during the productive years of their life. Who knows what the future holds legally, politically, or more broadly. Whether they are li
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by InSteady 3y ago
It's ok. They did the right thing, and continue to do so even without your approval or sympathy. You can move on with your life, they will continue to fight the good fight as they always have.
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Thankfully we have record companies acting in good faith to recoup that gulp 400 million in potential lost revenue on behalf of those long-dead artists and their deserving kin.
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Believe it or not I've seen it done with a burly e-bike and custom made bike trailer. I've even seen someone hauling a 12" tall potted tree on a trailer, and that was back before e-bikes were a thing. Not that I'm arguin

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