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by h0l0cube 2y ago
I’m guessing it’s trickier because it’s harder to get biopsies of the brain mid treatment. It doesn’t help that it’s been treated as one disease and assuming a single cause for so long
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
So then "curing Alzheimer's" is akin to "curing cancer". If this is true, I wish this truth was better disseminated. Is the theory now that Alzheimer's just actual brain rot, of which their are multiple causes
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
Those religious dictates were well before germ theory.
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
You'd like this book https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Obstacle_Is_the_Way
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
> But again, we're talking about reality and compromises. Okay, now this I'll agree on. Apartments are compromises. > 0 to hyperbole You might have confused a thought experiment with hyperbole. I'm not saying the hy
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
> I'm fairly sure you're the one that downvoted my original comment, though. Turns out we're both mistaken. I don't care much for HN's monopoly money, my broader point is the righteous indignation around the poi
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
> HackerNews, the bastion of logic. > First of all, not having the energy to wait for an elevator (!!!) and walk across roads to get to a park sounds like depression. I hope that it was checked out. HackerNews, the bastion of decorum
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
Yeah, like I was. Apartments are liminal spaces. Most people with an option leave after they realize this after some years. Even if you're one of the exceptions, you couldn't be sure of that until you've lived that lifesty
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
> I'd live there in a tower in a heartbeat. I used to think this. Then I lived in an apartment for many years, and then I left. There's a big contingent of owner-occupiers in apartment buildings who don't stick around.
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
> would you rather live in poverty or be wealthy enough to afford one of the most exclusive neighborhoods in Los Angeles? What's that rhetorical question even relate to? Will increasing housing supply somehow make everyone more wea
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
> Your straw man here is absurd. I've lived in an apartment for a few years, and those were issues for me. The stumbling block of having to wait for an elevator and walk across roads to get to a park was enough to stop me from goin
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
> yet sad Doesn't everyone want to touch grass or have decent access to fresh air and sunlight? I guess if we could hypothetically build really cheap apartments deep underground, it would be sad if people didn't want to live t
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
> condo in Manhattan I can see how this relates to housing affordability. Would you rather live in the projects than a mansion in Bel Air?
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
> rental markets Specifically because the paper is about house price, not rental price. For most people, the issue of achievable secure home ownership is different to rental affordability. > multi-family housing units Not really the
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
We were (originally) talking about a mystical magical timeline where the two standards converge. You can make another hypothetical, where they converge, but only temporarily, but that's a new flavor on the hypothetical that was first
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
I was just engaging with a hypothetical - see my other replies to siblings in this thread if you need clarification. iDevices are my daily drivers, but I don't understand all the fanboys getting triggered here
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
> apple would add something new Once again, I'm engaging with a hypothetical. Indeed this is how it would play out in reality.
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
Never said it would be. Just playing hypotheticals with the GGP comment
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
If they were functionally equivalent, why signal a difference? What's the benefit, you think? I'm not saying that they definitely would signal a difference, but in this hypothetical, if the color difference remained, it woul
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
At least the false pretence would vanish if both support 100%
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
Yeah, it's definitely a change to the narrative for people outside of Ireland. The podcast opened my eyes to it, and also the Famine song by Sinead O'Connor FTA (for anyone's benefit): > In London, the realization that th
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
Another fun fact: useless buildings were commissioned as a form of charity to the starving poor under the guise of gainful employment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conolly%27s_Folly https://www.amusingplanet
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
It seems like an almost impossible task, especially if compromises aren't made on tariffs (I expect they will be). The US does have military leverage as the sole supplier of advanced weaponry to many countries, but I think the USD wou
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
A lot of nations staking their military capability on US cooperation are having quite the reality check.
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
Advanced chip fabs, and battery manufacturers are the first counterexamples that come to mind. The government doesn't need to invest, they just need to watch the free market realign their manufacturing to maintain access to the US eco
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
> Taxes usually take money out of the economy This is an oversimplification, they can change incentives, and sometimes increase investment. > lead to less activity I do agree money will be divested from the US as they become more and
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
I don't believe I have to point this out, but this is not a policy that I think is good, it's just one that will have the intended affect of onshoring manufacturing jobs. And I'm not talking about higher wages for quants, or
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
> They could totally inflate prices in the long term, and not just create inflation This will all happen. But as I said, this is a trade-off. Devalue the currency, incentivize local production, increase exports, revive the working clas
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
Protectionist policy, if applied consistently, will actually lead to more jobs (and higher wages) eventually , but also higher inflation and job losses in the short term, and a more insular economy. It's foolish to go so hard, and so
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
They will, out of sheer necessity. Local industries will be incentivized to restart. And of course, there are already carve-outs for the automotive sector that needs steel, overseas components, etc. I expect more carve-outs will be made,

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