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901.
by estearum 5mo ago
Henry George was right about everything
902.
by estearum 5mo ago
The best thing you can do for low cost is 1) eat better food and 2) move more "More data" is quite literally irrelevant.
903.
by estearum 5mo ago
I already described very precisely what this particular researcher's work (if true to description) would be valuable for. Quantifying the harm of things we know is bad is very important for pursuing lawsuits and writing laws. Would you
904.
by estearum 5mo ago
FYI we've discovered precisely 0 (zero) things in cosmology or physics more broadly, or even material science, in the last 100 years that aren't derivable from relativity lol. Does your tirade copy/paste to that entire field
905.
by estearum 5mo ago
Realistically yes, science and academia are loaded with "waste". The vast majority of questions there's nothing interesting or useful to discover. The problem is that we don't know ex ante which questions fall into that
906.
by estearum 5mo ago
We already have a tool for dealing with this as it pertains to cell tower data. SCOTUS determined that merely having a cellphone, which is a modern necessity, creates too much privately held data that the telcos shouldn't be allowed ,
907.
by estearum 5mo ago
> This is a completely derivative conclusion from something I learned in molecular biology as an undergrad. The only "new" thing here is saying that poor people live in environments, since we've known for literally decades
908.
by estearum 5mo ago
Sure here's one revolutionary new finding in that timeframe: that a person's social/cultural environment affects DNA methylation and gene expression for the rest of their lives. Here's another one: a person's perce
909.
by estearum 5mo ago
I suspect, based on your disposition towards it, you actually are not keeping up with the latest in SDOH research, and so I'm not sure where your confidence comes from as to whether we're firehosing money into "standard model
910.
by estearum 5mo ago
This is a good point. There are times where lefties will deny science in an effort to avoid mass atrocities, which I think is a fraught situation. Inversely, righties tend to deny science in order to justify mass atrocities (like industrial
911.
by estearum 5mo ago
You know you can't just put one topic into the grievance bucket (science funding), shake it around, then pull out a different topic (orchestral hiring practices) and expect to have a conversation, right?
912.
by estearum 5mo ago
Note: There is always some seriously weird unscientific stuff being peddled literally all through the entire course of scientific history. Did you not study the history of science at all during your jaunt through academia? Not to say we nee
913.
by estearum 5mo ago
Just because the medical system hasn't adapted to the (frankly astounding) findings produced by SDOH research doesn't mean it's not valuable or should be stopped. The takeaway from SDOH is that social determinants are by far
914.
by estearum 5mo ago
The thing I'm pointing out is that even if you (the generalized plural) do not engage in reckless behavior, you are at the mercy of the lowest common denominator of fellow earth-inhabitants increasingly armed with superweapons via
915.
by estearum 5mo ago
To add some context, here was the Part 1 of this mobster style shakedown: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/trump-says-intels-ceo-m... Remember to point and laugh at your local MAGA for electing an actual crime
916.
by estearum 5mo ago
> unless you're irresponsible enough to connect an LLM to something that actually matters. Can't tell if you're saying this tongue-in-cheek or you're a bit out of the loop on what people are doing with LLMs. And a qui
917.
by estearum 5mo ago
My implication is that there are indeed large scale changes that are totally concordant with large scale endocrine disruption. Desire to mate, sperm count and quality, rising obesity, falling testosterone, increases in testicular, prostate,
918.
by estearum 5mo ago
Definitely interesting! Aren't people starting to describe testosterone as something more like "status-seeking?" But also testosterone presumably exists in animals with ~no concept of status... Just goes to show you how incre
919.
by estearum 5mo ago
Easy peasy! :)
920.
by estearum 5mo ago
It's not dodging the question. GP's comment says that one should consider the possibility. Essentially that we should follow what several federal courts have been doing and cease offering the government the "presumption of
921.
by estearum 5mo ago
I'm quite confident that scientists (and hopefully regulators) read the source journals. > I want to be able to trust in institutions to make informed decisions to improve environmental factors that require collective action. And yo
922.
by estearum 5mo ago
Ah but you have forgotten that HN is full of people who are so aloof and "above the fray" (compliments to their raw intellect, of course) that it would be beneath them to consider the realities of the political situation.
923.
by estearum 5mo ago
@gork what is a coordination problem and can you just like "shut down your participation" and solve them?
924.
by estearum 5mo ago
Yes this is also why if you're building a startup in the nuclear power space (empirically demonstrated Doomsday Device), then you can expect USG to come in and apply arbitrary, opaque, and unexplained rules on you, steal your assets, a
925.
by estearum 5mo ago
Not really. You can audit ballots and match their ballot signature to the registration signature. In fact this is done regularly. We know for a statistical fact that there is no meaningful amount of this type of fraud (unless you're al
926.
by estearum 5mo ago
Sure it is. People should be outraged about this and demanding vastly more testing, more research, and more regulation. The vast majority of information published anywhere at any time is not any more "actionable" than that. You
927.
by estearum 5mo ago
Do you mean potentially showing up as a global decline in fertility rates and multi-generational bioaccumulation of these compounds, threatening to destroy the foundational structure of modern civilization (population growth)? Well, do I ha
928.
by estearum 5mo ago
It... probably is unsafe for human babies (or even adults) to be ingesting compounds known to disrupt hormone production in mammals... Contrarianism has become a mental disorder
929.
by estearum 5mo ago
Not really. EDCs are showing up literally everywhere. This is an article about them in breast milk, but you are mistaking that to mean this is the only place they've been found. One of the challenges with disproving this hypothesis is
930.
by estearum 5mo ago
> Being transgender represents a misalignment between your internal sense of self and the sex you were born with. These thoughts, like every other thought anyone has, are mediated by hormones. I'm not saying any particular balance o

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