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by jagraff 4y ago
I said nothing about the link between crash diets and health issues in my post. I only addressed this point in the OP: > there's some evidence that the health risks associated with increased BMI are partially an artifact of weight l
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by jagraff 4y ago
This is nonsense. Obesity doesn’t cause health issues because of crash diets - the link between obesity and several bad health outcomes (insulin resistance/diabetes, hypertension, joint damage, to name a few) is extremely well establis
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by jagraff 4y ago
You can buy the L isomer OTC as a decongestant, but desoxyn is the D isomer, a stimulant, perscribed for ADHD and narcolepsy.
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by jagraff 4y ago
Didn't they threaten the same with Australia?
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by jagraff 4y ago
The charts presented in this article seem designed to be misleading - different scales, and large offsets from zero designed to make small absolute differences look large. Of course, I wouldn't expect anything less from a blatant ad fo
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by jagraff 4y ago
As far as I know none of the activists doing this have damaged any art. It was all protected by glass.
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by jagraff 4y ago
Non-inflationary currencies are a bad idea. Without inflation, hoarding is incentivized, and investment discouraged (or at least, decreased). Currency is most useful when people spend it - money in bank accounts is useless for society.
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by jagraff 4y ago
This has been extremely noticeable with the author of What We Owe The Future, he's been on every podcast I listen to over the last month or so
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by jagraff 4y ago
> Active users were younger (44 years vs. 62 years, p < 0.001), less often diabetic (23.2% vs 37.2%, p < 0.021), and more frequently active tobacco smokers (20.3% vs. 4.1%, p < 0.001) compared to non-users.
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by jagraff 4y ago
I'm not sure if it applies to red meat, which usually has more fat, but certainly you'll starve to death if you eat only lean meat. It's colloquially known as rabbit starvation, because if you only eat rabbit and nothing else
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by jagraff 4y ago
What about fiber? As far as I know you can only get fiber from plants, and we need some fiber in our diets to maintain a healthy gut.
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by jagraff 4y ago
I'm not sure how anyone could honestly support the filibuster. It's extremely undemocratic and has mostly been used to prevent civil rights legislation and keep racism enshrined in law in the US. It wasn't even an intended me
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by jagraff 4y ago
I disagree with your characterization. Of course, true protein folding computation is hard (literally NP-hard I believe) but the halting problem can be proven to be uncomputable, whereas protein folding is clearly computable - every time a
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by jagraff 4y ago
This has actually been done before - scientists have been able to image the same supernova multiple times from a gravitationally lensed galaxy: https://www.universetoday.com/151581/astronomers-saw-the-sam...
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by jagraff 4y ago
https://www.lesswrong.com/tag/rokos-basilisk
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by jagraff 4y ago
Agreed - fuel as energy storage is the future. Build out a lot of excess solar and wind capacity, and then use all the excess capacity to continually generate fuels by extracting greenhouse gasses from the atmosphere. So we still burn fuel
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by jagraff 4y ago
Care to elaborate? What makes you so sure that won't happen in the US?
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by jagraff 5y ago
Yep - when I was a kid, I had to put all my electronics in the kitchen at night, so I bought an old used smartphone that my parents didn't know about. Kids are crafty
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by jagraff 5y ago
This is huge. ~90% decrease in hospitalization rate could mean that we no longer have to worry about COVID spikes filling up hospitals, one of the biggest issues during the pandemic. This could make COVID like the flu - something to avoid,
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by jagraff 5y ago
Instead of a cap, why not just make student loans dischargeable in bankruptcy? Let the market sort out the expected value of degrees based on the expected probability of bankruptcy
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by jagraff 5y ago
It seems to me that you have cause and effect backwards. I think the most likely chain of events is something like this: Member gets sick Member gets rejected from the group (because for each individual in the group, it's better to avo
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by jagraff 5y ago
> evolution favors groups whose rejected members fall sick and die. Do you have a source on this? I don't understand how evolution could favor such a negative trait on the individual level, and as far as I understand group selection
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by jagraff 5y ago
No. Prions are misfolded proteins - they replicate by inducing correctly folded proteins to misfold when they come in contact. As a result, misfolded proteins build up in the brain, continually inducing even more proteins to misfold, eventu
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by jagraff 5y ago
I can throw a ball up in the air and catch it 99 times out of 100. Seems to me that my mind has strong predictive power.
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by jagraff 6y ago
This is incredibly cool: > Two novel techniques, atomic-resolution real-time video and conical carbon nanotube confinement, allow researchers to view never-before-seen details about crystal formation. The observations confirm theoretical
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by jagraff 6y ago
It evaporates out of the leaves of the almond trees.
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by jagraff 6y ago
Not to comment on Alzheimer's research, but room temperature superconductors have proven to be possible (and have been created in a lab) - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2801-z However, they haven&#x27
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by jagraff 6y ago
Do you have a source for that? I understand that there _are_ situations where your hair cells can actually start to ring noticeably (due to biofeedback mechanisms going haywire), and I've noticed that type of ring - an extremely loud,
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by jagraff 6y ago
I'd imagine a pair of candles would cause the cursor to jump around a lot because of the flickering - how did you solve that problem?
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by jagraff 6y ago
Once the blade started cutting through the skin and got to blood vessels, the resistance would go way down, so it would probably still work - just with a larger/deeper cut than more conductive hands.

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