Pharmakon

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The (Imaginary) Numbers at the Edge of Reality(quantamagazine.org)
2 points by Pharmakon 8y ago|0 comments
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by Pharmakon 8y ago
Have you already forgotten your own post that started this? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18297710 1. You are imagining current technologies at scale, but future technologies are likely to get cheaper and better. Ro
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The human gut microbiome in early-onset type 1 diabetes from the TEDDY study(nature.com)
2 points by Pharmakon 8y ago|0 comments
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The (Imaginary) Numbers at the Edge of Reality(quantamagazine.org)
4 points by Pharmakon 8y ago|0 comments
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by Pharmakon 8y ago
We’re talking about the Model T, not “early cars” in general as you’re trying to shift this to. Model T’s were not routinely blowing up, and were quite successful. Let’s leave the goalposts alone.
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by Pharmakon 8y ago
Plus you get the influence of colonial powers like France in North Africa. Tunisian for example is... challenging if you come at it from the perspective of something like Kuwaiti Arabic.
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by Pharmakon 8y ago
Horses can in theory, go anywhere, but in practice it’s not advisable, at least at more than a trot. If you’re going at a canter, or god help you a gallop and the horse’s foot finds an unseen and unexpected hole, stone, etc... you’re going
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by Pharmakon 8y ago
Not to mention that humans run on food, produce little waste heat, are portable, and regenerate many tissues as needed for decades until we enter EOL.
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by Pharmakon 8y ago
1. That car massively outperformed its competition, the horse. It didn’t buck you off or startle, didn’t get sick and die, didn’t shit all over the roads. It was able to go faster, longer, and more comfortably than a horse. That sounds like
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by Pharmakon 8y ago
Intelligence services are supposed to be bound by laws and under strict oversight, because frankly history is full of the horrors that emerge when they’re left to their own devices. I think it’s good to focus on the rule of law, but worryin
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by Pharmakon 8y ago
Ok, I see. Still it seems like the dream of cryptocurrency was total decentralization. If the supply is centralized does it matter if the transactions aren’t? It’s still a single point of failure.
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by Pharmakon 8y ago
You go from saying it achieves the goal of being decentralized, and in the next breath point out that it’s centralized. I don’t get it.
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Superfoods Are a Marketing Ploy(theatlantic.com)
3 points by Pharmakon 8y ago|0 comments
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by Pharmakon 8y ago
Sometimes I’m just amazed that people haven’t risen up in bloody revolt yet. Recently my mother had a flare-up up radiation-induced pneumonitis and the PPO insurance she pays $14,000 annually wouldn’t approve a single unit of Advair. It too
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by Pharmakon 8y ago
He utterly loses the confidence of his shareholders and customers, and probably leaves Apple. I don’t know if this story is true or not, but I doubt he’s going to be in a position to be proven outright wrong. I’d he were, I think he’d be ke
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The Problem with Popular Mechanics’ Love Letter to Elon Musk(theatlantic.com)
2 points by Pharmakon 8y ago|0 comments
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by Pharmakon 8y ago
In general no, but when it comes to plonking them down in front of a screen and turning on YouTube, that’s very much your choice. I don’t think that makes you a shitty parent either, but I think you’re misplacing your trust and it has a goo
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Security and eavesdropping in terahertz wireless links(nature.com)
1 points by Pharmakon 8y ago|0 comments
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by Pharmakon 8y ago
Patients are the worst at their own health, and often deluded about their ability to manage it. Gwyneth Paltrow and homeopaths don’t rake in money because people make great decisions. When you “empower” patients past their competence you ge
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by Pharmakon 8y ago
The problem is that some of the big questions in physics appear very simple if your knowledge of the subject lacks any depth. It is also very difficult for some people to gauge the depth of their knowledge. All of this is exacerbated by end