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by ellyagg 5y ago
Sure. Did you realize that epistemically they don't have the power to reject explanations? It would certainly be news to Stephan Guyenet if they did have in this case.
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by ellyagg 5y ago
What kind of proof would it take for people to agree that the obesity epidemic is due to food being dramatically cheaper and more palatable than in our environment of evolutionary adaptedness?
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by ellyagg 5y ago
It's not "just" anything and it's definitely not just catchier. Toxic is a far more forceful word that is often used to convey more force than is deserved for the situation. It steals discussion territory without justify
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by ellyagg 5y ago
How do you disambiguate "long Covid" from the very real fact that people are incredibly suggestible. My father-in-law was convinced he had long Covid. He talked about it all the time. He was never diagnosed, but he had a cold near
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by ellyagg 5y ago
That's still really understating erlang's advantages though. Erlang is a lot easier to write working, custom concurrent and distributed systems in because of the design of its primitives and runtime. Erlang has a bunch of differen
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by ellyagg 5y ago
I'm sure that's what many ahtletes wish were the case, but the ones who we care about being interviewed are paid an enormous amount of money because of their entertainment value to fans. Of course we'd all love it if perks we
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by ellyagg 5y ago
Given their cultural history, is it possible Russians see the American sense of smiling as an individual asserting their superiority to others?
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by ellyagg 5y ago
You can't make more land but there's actually plenty of land. Some kind of policy disruption could happen to make the land we do have much more accessible. Obviously land barons will fight this tooth and nail as they do and always
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by ellyagg 5y ago
These headlines are so dumb. My dad has been a professional programmer continuously >45 years. I'm a 45 year old programmer.
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Docs.new opens a new Google Doc but did you know about all these?(github.com)
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by ellyagg 6y ago
The "private" companies live in a heavily-scrutinized regulaory environment, where politians also routinely demand that they take action. These are no longer private companies anymore.
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by ellyagg 6y ago
It used to be that we were not all indistinguishable cogs in machines designed to be as inoffensive as possible.
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by ellyagg 6y ago
Just change it to Crabclub.
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by ellyagg 6y ago
This is not how economics works, not even a little bit.
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by ellyagg 6y ago
IMO, Gogole having a monopoly on tracking me is clearly worse then the ability to track me being shared – and I can significantly hinder 3rd party tracking! I'm far more afraid of Google strengthening its monopoly, on general principle
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by ellyagg 6y ago
Good to see that the establishment's broad and growing power to censor speech won't be abused. We're in good hands.
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by ellyagg 6y ago
If you don't let production write to the filesystem, doesn't that get rid of one of the main advantages of WP, that users can configure the site by adding plug-ins and such? Or on the 100s of sites, you are responsible for all the
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by ellyagg 6y ago
Probably true for you and your team. Definitely not true if you fully grok all the advantages of the BEAM. Elixir is much faster to prototype modern web apps than alternatives and then also naturally seques into scaling if the need happens
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by ellyagg 6y ago
Ah, yes, threatening to murder people you're jealous of. This is the content I come to Hacker News for!
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by ellyagg 6y ago
The author is paranoid and delusional. https://web.archive.org/web/20160617140921/https://michaeloc... I'm big on permissive speech, but if anything were going to be modded away by its users, this s
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by ellyagg 6y ago
A rare violation of Betteridge's law of headlines: Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no.
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by ellyagg 6y ago
Interesting! Can you quote the part of the study where they say the results are not statistically signifcant when you control for diabetes and hypertension?
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by ellyagg 6y ago
It's useful to note that this study doesn't need to stand on its own as evidence. It contributes to a growing body. As most of you may have already seen, there is a lot of observational evidence that people with low vitamin D have
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by ellyagg 6y ago
N can be small when the effect size is huge.
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by ellyagg 6y ago
People dose themsevles with OTC vitamin D all the time, including me. It doesn't appear to be a crisis. C19, otoh... You saw the apparent effect size in this study, right?
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by ellyagg 6y ago
From the evidence I've seen, vitman D deficiency is a bigger problem than vitamin D toxicity. We already have dozens of RCTs showing that vitmain D supplements prevent respiratory infections. https://www.bmj.com/content
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by ellyagg 6y ago
Have you been poor and middle class? Because this description doesn't match my personal experience at all. Most of my adult life I was poor. I had a wife and child. I worked as a customer service rep for a well-known cellular provider.
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by ellyagg 6y ago
It's frustrating that when this comes up, this comment is always the top one, because it's not true. We have dozens of RCTs suggesting that vitamin D supplementation prevents respiratory infections[1]. There is a very good chance
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by ellyagg 6y ago
A single land tax that pays its surplus out to the citizens is my vote for Capitalism 2.0: Some libertarians advocate land value capture as a consistently ethical and non-distortionary means to fund the essential operations of gover
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by ellyagg 6y ago
Right, that's what the debate that is coming to. Are the platforms the townsquare for speech and should we hold them to a standard of free speech that doesn't just mean "no interference from government"? Also, a differen

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