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by gregwebs 5y ago
During this war there has not been legitimate danger of nuclear accidents, just a lot of concern about this hypothetical situation. To me it seems that Ukraine is trying to use nuclear concerns to stall the war and gain more international s
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by gregwebs 5y ago
The COVID vaccines suffer from a similar issue. By design they are non-sterilizing because they don't develop immunity in the nasal mucous. It's always been the case that with a large enough exposure the COVID vaccinated would sti
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by gregwebs 5y ago
That's exactly what is expected from a non-sterilizing vaccine. The polio virus will still circulate in the gut of the vaccinated and be visible in sewage, etc even though there are no poliomyelitis cases.
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by gregwebs 5y ago
The article doesn't say that this has been traced from anywhere. It just says the Malawi outbreak was traced from Pakistan.
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by gregwebs 5y ago
You might wonder how polio gets reintroduced into Israel or anywhere else. The polio vaccines we currently use are imperfect. The oral vaccine is a weakened form but it mutates in the neighborhood of one in a million cases to become effecti
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by gregwebs 5y ago
According to this all latencies improved dramatically except for SSD random read (disk seek only improved by 10x as well). Reading 1 million bytes sequentially from SSD improved 1000x and is now only 2-3x slower than a random read and for d
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by gregwebs 5y ago
re-enabling only works on Intel so I had to drop it :( Amethyst is the only alternative I know of but I am still trying to get it to use the shortcuts that I want.
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by gregwebs 5y ago
This looks a lot like Simplenote [1] at its core but adding on additional features that make it super instead of simple :) A big difference between the two though is that Simplenote is free whereas Supernotes is $6/month (free for <
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by gregwebs 5y ago
US government actions are probably also to blame for the cases in Afghanistan & Pakistan. The CIA setup a fake vaccination clinic in their effort to catch Bin Laden [1]. Another factor is just that eradicating polio with the current vac
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by gregwebs 5y ago
For Freddie/Fannie: some sources say that they support investment properties for conforming loans [1]. They have information about loans for investment properties that I am still trying to make sense of [2]. I have seen other sources s
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by gregwebs 5y ago
pre-approval doesn't amount to much. One thing you can do to compete with cash is to get a fully underwritten mortgage (you need to find a lender that does this). For a fully underwritten mortgage, the lender will give a $10,000 guaran
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by gregwebs 5y ago
This isn't discussed much, but I think homes would become noticeably more affordable for families just by having the government stop subsidizing the mortgages of investment properties (e.g. only one mortgage subsidy is available for ea
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by gregwebs 5y ago
My homestead deduction is a few hundred dollars a year while I pay thousands on property taxes every month. Rental properties are still eligible for all kinds of tax write-offs. I think the bigger issue is that the government is there to su
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by gregwebs 5y ago
It's worth noting that the author of this article, Vinay Prasad, is not someone that would normally be criticizing the CDC. He has consistently advocated for universal vaccination of adults and has criticized those arguing against vacc
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How the CDC Abandoned Science(tabletmag.com)
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by gregwebs 5y ago
Lightning is actually in use in El Salvador now for remittances and buying stuff. I don’t disagree that it should mature more but it’s already infinitely more practical than the majority of crypto related things.
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by gregwebs 5y ago
There’s similar issues with gold currency. Gold is a self custody asset like Bitcoin: https://www.lynalden.com/gold-and-bitcoin/ Just as dollars used to use a gold standard, Lightning is using a Bitcoin standard. So it
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by gregwebs 5y ago
There are some intelligent criticisms here along with some fundamental misunderstandings. The biggest misunderstanding that crypto critics and even many advocates have is that Bitcoin is a currency that people will buy stuff with. If Bitcoi
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by gregwebs 5y ago
They are making billions from retail indirectly now. Retail proper can break even. Advertising makes most of their profit outside of AWS. A large part of the advertising revenue is in retail from sellers paying to have their product offerin
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by gregwebs 5y ago
If I could only read one parenting book I would probably choose this one. Actually I listened to it on Audible. The author only looks at one hunter gatherer group. The rest are really just rural communities that have maintained a community
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by gregwebs 5y ago
The book Hunt, Gather, Parent looks at the Inuit and several other cultures. The findings are very consistent with this article. The book gives a lot more detailed information and a lot of examples and ideas about incorporating these concep
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by gregwebs 5y ago
> Why wouldn't ancient people have eaten wheat berries, boiling (like in a stew) seems like the easiest way to prepare wheat or other grain like barley. You can probably boil a cup of them and eat them and be fine. But you can find
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by gregwebs 5y ago
It's hard to understand if that is a good or bad profile the way the information is displayed. If you normalize the nutrient by the calories (2000 calories / 158 calories) then it is high in all of the listed nutrients except fola
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by gregwebs 5y ago
Chris Masterjohn theorizes that alcohol can have a beneficial hormetic effect by antagonizing vitamin A and the body adapting to supply more vitamin A. However, he theorizes the maximum beneficial dosage is about 2/3 of a single drink.
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by gregwebs 5y ago
Your citation doesn't backup your name calling: there is no information about failed attempts at replicating her results. There is an on-going study with 100 participants on the Wahls protocol. [1] If I had taken your point of view, I
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by gregwebs 5y ago
I don’t think our medical system has any mechanism to achieve high compliance for major dietary changes, so it’s very difficult to study. Drugs are very easy to study. It’s still an N of 1 case report from a medical evidence point of view
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by gregwebs 5y ago
It doesn’t seem like you have spent any time understanding Dr Wahls information. It took her six years to be able to ride a bicycle. I don’t know anyone with MS whose disease course went to effectively cured years, but I admit to being ign
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by gregwebs 5y ago
As a counterpoint example someone close to me was diagnosed with irritable bowel syndrome and told by doctors that there was no treatment and that diet did not help. When she adopted a paleo like diet with no other changes the IBD symptoms
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by gregwebs 5y ago
Dr. Terry Walhs was diagnosed with MS and became wheel chair bound. She came up with a protocol that was able to reverse her MS. I recall from previous interviews that her theory was that MS was a disease of the mitochondria. https:/&
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by gregwebs 5y ago
Have you looked at the use cases of small businesses? Dropbox being able to decrypt their files can be problematic in some cases. The IPFS-based ransomware protection feature seems not quite right in this context. Storing encrypted data in

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