doingtheiroming

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by doingtheiroming 4y ago
One of the challenges faced in the early days was simply to get the bacteria to reproduce. It’s not clear for any given bacteria what substrate and food source is useful. Not being able to do that was an obstacle to the analytics since much
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by doingtheiroming 4y ago
I can't. But there's good evidence that inflammation is linked with depression and steroids unquestionably reduce inflammation. They may well have further effects. They are certainly not something I want to take consistently.
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by doingtheiroming 4y ago
Cursive is still taught with ferocity in Dutch primary schools. When done well it's pretty, enables rapid writing and note taking, and at least part of learning to write that way is to learn how to read it. Since everyone older than yo
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by doingtheiroming 4y ago
It's likely the inflammation that's causing the depression rather than any particular molecule produced by a bacterium though. I have the same experience with UC to the extent that taking steroids causes almost immediate relief of
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by doingtheiroming 4y ago
I find it odd that people acknowledge the fearsome complexity of the gut biome with one breath before saying that they hope to isolate a single molecule made by it to positively affect another complex phenomenon, with the next.
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by doingtheiroming 4y ago
The same promise was held out for Ulcerative Colitis / Crohns. Composition of the gut biome clearly plays a role in both illnesses. But the search for small molecule drugs building on this observation seems to have been fruitless. That
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by doingtheiroming 5y ago
A regional conflict like India / Pakistan is far more likely than a superpower apocalypse and nuclear power would be hugely helpful in that situation. The same goes for a major volcanic eruption or any number of other disasters we migh
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by doingtheiroming 5y ago
One more reason that we need nuclear power. It keeps going when the sun doesn’t shine for whatever reason. If the Netherlands’ greenhouses switched to electric heating, they can produce food year round. Indoor farming is an unsung hero of m
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by doingtheiroming 5y ago
Horrifying. So much human ingenuity and energy burned in a process seemingly designed to prevent the thing it is supposed to encourage.
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by doingtheiroming 5y ago
Nuclear weapons are reasonably well controlled. I’d love to know that they were better controlled than they are though. The same applies to virus research.
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by doingtheiroming 5y ago
The borek spanakopita wars are eternal. And don’t get the Bulgarians started on Banitza.
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by doingtheiroming 5y ago
Is it not a feature given how many security issues come out of parsing? There is virtue in the thing you’ll edit files with as root being as simple as you can make it.
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by doingtheiroming 5y ago
I’ve bought a few over the years, particularly when Borders had its great magazine sections. They were uniformly turgid and boring and I was consistently disappointed. They are their own worst enemy.
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by doingtheiroming 5y ago
When has the housing market ever been normal? It’s had periods of equilibrium. Is that a synonym for normality? If we are thinking it terms of common features over time, perhaps the housing market mostly appearing to be demented is actually
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by doingtheiroming 5y ago
Surprisingly high number of happily married stoners in here.
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by doingtheiroming 5y ago
It’s a trope in British politics that the real division is not between left and right but between roundhead and cavalier. It’s a useful way to think about things. The British tend to prefer a bit of the cavalier in their Prime Ministers. Th
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by doingtheiroming 5y ago
I've been reading, "The Man on the Donkey" over the last few months or so (so much for the 50 books...). It's a historical novel set in C16 England written in the 1950s. It's an immersive experience using language a
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by doingtheiroming 5y ago
Reading Rose and Leowentin's "Not in our Genes" was formative for me. I read it when I was 17 or 18 and very political. Even then, though the book was clearly anti-sociobiology (as it defined it) it had nuance and drew a dist
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by doingtheiroming 5y ago
The odd thing about opposition to lab-leak hypotheses is precisely that it defines itself by that opposition. If the wet markets were the source surely vigorous campaigning against wet markets would be of more utility that vigorously scouri
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by doingtheiroming 5y ago
It’s only a conspiracy theory when people I don’t like say it.
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by doingtheiroming 5y ago
The fact that the current version was published 2017 (so 2016 info) and IPv6 is still a moving target? I suspect that isn’t the reason to post it but it’s relevant.
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by doingtheiroming 5y ago
Isn’t the problem you’re raising here simply that the studies tend to look at populations rather than individuals or even sub-groups? It’s a neat way to demonstrate the problem. The challenge is that as long as we treat the RCT as the prima
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by doingtheiroming 5y ago
$600T costs of climate change by 2100. Assuming current global GDP of $90T (which itself makes the claim that global wealth amount to $300T today questionable), and average global growth across that time of 2%, global GDP will be something