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by fanzhang 8y ago
The paper says: Metformin, Psora-4, Rapamycin, Rifampicin, and Allantoin. I don't recommend humans just take this cocktail. I imagine the paper combinatorially tried a ton of different chemicals and this set happened to work well. In
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by fanzhang 8y ago
> Airbnb is a parasitic monster that squats over cities and hoovers up vast sums of money through its slimy proboscis. I wonder whether the author would still have a problem if AirBnB were a nonprofit (e.g. took 0% of the cut). That wou
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by fanzhang 8y ago
The lack of confirming evidence is a strong sign the Bloomberg reporters were played. It's interesting to wonder who might have done that though -- US businesses who might gain? Those from within the administration? Regardless of the
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by fanzhang 8y ago
Works for me still.
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by fanzhang 8y ago
Like that other poster boy Donald Trump?
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by fanzhang 8y ago
Would you say that a filament that burned for a few minutes is a light bulb? Perhaps it would be better to term it light-from-electricity. (But then after you invent that word, wouldn't you say light-from-electricity was invented by
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by fanzhang 8y ago
Why are all the examples of bad political news ones that have a right-bent to them?
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by fanzhang 8y ago
Maybe it didn't feel that bad in the cockpit, and the pilots were hoping they would wing it. They may have thought it would have endangered their jobs (which it certainly will...) Usually in times of partial emergencies, there is a th
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by fanzhang 8y ago
It's widely acknowledged in behavioral economics that biases have their uses. In fact, usually the phrase used to describe them is "Heuristics and Biases"[1]. It's first and foremost a heuristic -- a reasonably good way
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by fanzhang 8y ago
Maybe with more traditional businesses charging not in cash, but in data, we can finally establish an equivalency between the two. This can be useful in proving how certain companies (maybe Facebook, Google) can be monopolies in overchargin
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by fanzhang 8y ago
That's probably also the answer to the time series question as well -- i.e. why construction is more costly today in the US than 100 years ago. Interestingly, I think those complexities are not imposed by any monolithic person or organ
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by fanzhang 8y ago
I think it's a matter of privacy rather than capability. The airlines unions don't want their conversations to be easily accessible.
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by fanzhang 8y ago
What is an accelerator or a funding group for whom the portfolio is not following that power law? For example one where the top 20 companies each comprise say appx 2% of the portfolio?
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by fanzhang 8y ago
Banks absolutely do lend out deposits. An average bank will take a $100K in deposits, have $10K in equity, and then lend out $110K in a mortgage. > Banks lever their capital And with what do the banks lever up their capital? (What is t
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by fanzhang 8y ago
If you want to run your file sync client in a container, I think that limitation alone removes a huge amount of value from a low-friction file sync tool.
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by fanzhang 8y ago
What does this mean for the future of science and technology? I find it fascinating that so much interesting physics has been discovered in the last century -- for example I only recently found out the neutron essentially a post WWI era dis
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by fanzhang 8y ago
This is not a problem inherent to machines. If I teach a baby the word "tank" by pointing to a picture of a sunny tank and the word "forest" by pointing to a picture of a night forest, the baby could be correct in deduc
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by fanzhang 8y ago
In this view of the world (where the prisoner can play "I expect to die today" exactly once, there is actually not a Nash equilibrium where the executioner is guaranteed to win. In other words the judge's sentence can't
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by fanzhang 8y ago
Lest someone mention that this doesn't affect the content of the article: it actually does because it provides the author a financial incentive to rank the higher paying links up in the page / more.
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by fanzhang 8y ago
Wait, so as a professional harmony-seeker (having one role of arbitrator), you're against a quote that sacrifices harmony for something else? No doubt the quote by itself it broad generality is not helpful. Does that quote apply to as
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by fanzhang 8y ago
The philosophy behind HODL is that you need to hold for 5-10 years plus in order for the strategy to work. The 1-year timespan in the graphs on the site are way too short. If you want to cherry pick a point to "disprove" HODL, ju
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by fanzhang 8y ago
Is it still a greyzone? Yes. Has the grey gotten lighter with a personal opinion on the SEC site? Also yes.
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by fanzhang 8y ago
In that video, does the Tesla try to brake, and brake hard? This seems to be the case -- if you watch the video the Tesla is at a full stop about 10 feet after the car, implying it must have hit the brakes hard way beforehand. In that case,
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by fanzhang 8y ago
Are you joking that the low wages are flowing through to VCs? Some people wonder whether the VCs will even make out their invested money in Uber/Doordash cases. I've heard that in many cities Uber/Doordash/friends are s
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by fanzhang 8y ago
The problem is that rent seeking, in the colloquial sense, is an attempt to paint a normal activity, like getting paid rent for housing, with the same brush as bribery type behavior. It's very similar to say, how Trump co-opted fake ne
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by fanzhang 8y ago
Actually sad to say, at least in the USA, it is not generally illegal to discriminate against someone because they are too young (any age under 40): https://www.eeoc.gov/laws/types/age.cfm . I know from other comm
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by fanzhang 8y ago
Probably depends on the domain. I really don't see it for carrying bricks, but I can totally see it for abstract math research.
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by fanzhang 8y ago
Totally. The vault is supposed to stand up to unseen man-made disasters, and variability in a known trend caused a breach in integrity? I'm not sure this says that global warming is much faster than predicted by the most aggressiv
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by fanzhang 8y ago
Price crashes do seem to be a disincentive for a 51% attack for owned miners. How much would the price tank versus the gain possible with an attack? The two don't seem interlinked strongly. The price-tank disincentive is multiplied b
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by fanzhang 8y ago
Having a unique ASIC algo would raise the problem of the traditional 51% attack though. Whichever fab produced it would have a huge hardware advantage in mining. They would mine themselves and just use 51% of their physical units (versus r

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