atmanthedog

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by atmanthedog 6y ago
I was 30 when all of this transpired initally (I had my surgery at the beginning of last September). I actually live quite far away from Cedars, in Illinois, but forwarded my local medical records to Dr. Schievink after a lot of online rese
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by atmanthedog 6y ago
I had a CSF leak repaired by Dr. Schievink at Cedars-Sinai. My diagnosis happened after I had an acute attack of intracranial hypotension shortly following a long and bumpy session of riding mowing. This attack involved a 'worst headac
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by atmanthedog 8y ago
Unfortunately, math doesn't really permit this type of truth: if your axioms are strong enough to prove general statements about arithmetic, there is no effective procedure to determine whether an arbitrary proof follows from those axi
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by atmanthedog 8y ago
Actually, I thought the post you were responding to was quite insightful. Depression can be chronic, debilitating and painful, but it definitely is not terminal. Terminal implies that there is a highly predictable progression of the disease
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by atmanthedog 8y ago
If you're willing to go to Sunnyvale, the HanKook Supermarket has like a kimchi/marinated meat bar, and is really, really good. Location: https://osm.org/go/TZML~TMik--?m
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by atmanthedog 9y ago
Well, personally, I subscribe to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_walk_hypothesis
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by atmanthedog 9y ago
It seems much more likely to just be invention of fire and control of fire. Turning cellulose into energy that promotes some sort of evolutionary advantage is pretty limited in the macroscopic biological world. Sure, cows and the like do it
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by atmanthedog 9y ago
That is true at the entire-species level assuming a uniform selection pressure against the entire species. However, evolution also occurs when a species adapts specific traits to fill an environment niche. Traits can still be selected for w
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by atmanthedog 9y ago
Yes, I agree. I guess the question is what is meant by inevitable. The meanings of biological and physical in this instance aren't really all that different, if the biological problem is a limitation of the underlying physics. Ultimate
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by atmanthedog 9y ago
My best guess would be that they are so because they are eusocial. As I posted in a comment below somewhere, I think it is the complexity of the nervous system that drives a tradeoff with repairable bodies. A brain does not want to have to
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by atmanthedog 9y ago
Molecules don't age, but any collection of molecules with distinguishable states will eventually relax spontaneously to a higher entropy configuration. Keeping a system a certain way requires an input of energy, and eating can satisfy
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by atmanthedog 9y ago
If all of a hydra's cells are replaced every four weeks, I would say that the hydra has a life span of about four weeks. Ship of Theseus and all that. But even if you don't subscribe to that particular view of what constitutes a c
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by atmanthedog 9y ago
I see adblocking as ethically justified because at the end of the day, I am only using my browser to ask for a resource from the content provider, and it is up to my computer, or by extension, the user controlling that computer, what to do
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by atmanthedog 9y ago
A lot of comments here talk about the defense padding, and that's certainly part of it when it comes to long-term, low level concussive hits to the head. The idea is also mentioned in other comments that the problem is not sufficiently
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by atmanthedog 9y ago
Not that this really adds to the depth of the conversation, but I thought it was interesting, and so will share, that this Marie Francois Sadi Carnot is the nephew of the Carnot that HN readers might recognize for discovering maximally effi