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by jbotz 5y ago
Try taking a good magnesium supplement. It should be a chelate (for example magnesium glycinate), and depending on your diet somewhere around 2000mg/day of that (chelates are only about 8-15% elemental magnesium). Avoid magnesium oxi
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by jbotz 5y ago
You can do this with Firefox's containers. Containers are a Firefox built-in feature, but without a UI; install the "Firefox multi-account containers" extension to get UI for containers. There are also a variety of other pl
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It's cheap? No US-based pharma corps are reaping big profits from it? Btw., I live in Brazil, and I went with one of my daughters to see a GP a few days ago because she had symptoms of respiratory illness and was worried it might be C
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by jbotz 5y ago
Sorry to burst your bubble, but aging is not "just another biological process". It isn't even biological... everything ages and decays, even inorganic matter. Even rocks decay into clay. Living biological processes by the
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by jbotz 5y ago
Heh. I remember the day when a TTL of a week was pretty standard. Anyway, the since the NS records for a domain come from the next level up, i.e. in this case the .com nameserver which are also the root nameservers, if they had a short TTL
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Because it isn't a question of individual choice. I use Signal as much as possible, but here in Brazil it seems WhatsApp/Facebook has some deal with all the cellular operators by which the a) give customers "unlimited WhatsAp
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The problem isn't (wasn't) facebook.com's A records, it's that the authoritative nameservers for facebook.com are (were) unreachable. In theory someone could change the NS records for facebook on the .com nameservers to
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by jbotz 5y ago
Indeed, I came up with this CL thought experiment on my own before reading Permutation City, but I recently read it, and that was the first time I'd seen this idea explored in fiction, and really the only time I've seen this idea
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by jbotz 5y ago
Here's a thought experiment that may illuminate some of the deepest questions of metaphysics... First, any given configuration in Conway's Life (hence CL) can be said to exist regardless of whether it is being currently executed
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We are tool makers and users. We evolved to be this... we are not alone in this, but we are (a lot) better at it than any other animals on this planet. And a tool-maker needs materials, and the best materials aren't available everywh
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by jbotz 5y ago
> All food is organic. "Organic" is this context is a marketing term and nothing more. This is a straw-man. "Organic" here refers to the growing methods, not the food... no, the people who coined the terms were not
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by jbotz 5y ago
> Stuff like this takes a considerable amount of time, money, and effort. Indeed, and by far most of the world doesn't even have any "local zero-waste shops"... in much of the developing world the amount of plastic waste t
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by jbotz 5y ago
There are squirrels in Brazil. They aren't as common as the (about equally sized) marmosets, but they are not all that rare. They are called "caxinguelê" or "serelepe".
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by jbotz 5y ago
5-HTP is a non-prescription supplement that is said to help with lucid dreaming. Take 100 or 200mg the same way as they do with galantamine in the paper, i.e. wake up after first sleep, take 5-HTP, remain awake for a half hour, then go bac
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How long ago was this? My experience about a year ago was the opposite, btrfs held up really well on a failing drive and I managed to copy the filesystem with 'btrfs send' without suffering any data loss or corruption as far as I&
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by jbotz 5y ago
Depends on the drug; sometimes there are chemical differences, sometimes there aren't. Presumably there are also differences with respect to quality control and regulations, at least in some countries. But in general if the drug has
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by jbotz 5y ago
> it's very strange that an antiparasitic like ivermectin has become known among mainstream laypersons Who are you calling a "mainstream layperson"? ;-) Well, I'm not a medical professional, but I raise livestock, a
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by jbotz 5y ago
Ivermectin has been shown to be highly effective against hookworms [1][2] and so far no parasites seem to have developed any resistance to it. Curious that it's not on the list of drugs approved for treatment of hookworm in dogs in
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by jbotz 5y ago
This is interesting, but can you provide some references for it? Data sources?
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> Keeping deer confined in a specific area in order to concentrate the grazing requires much better fences I'm sorry, but this just wrong. Goats are the most difficult animals to keep fenced in... they climb just about anything (
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by jbotz 5y ago
I've been using a Thinkpad T470 for the past 2 years, and the hinges are really solid... they look like they'll last many more years. I had a couple of T400s before which basically disintegrated around the hinges, so I know whe
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by jbotz 5y ago
One more point for e-ink readers... they are rather more comfortable to read outdoors on a sunny day (which I do a lot) than paper. White paper reflects sunlight all too well, to the point of being painful or even damaging to the eyes.
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by jbotz 5y ago
> all non-drinking alcohol is poisoned ...in the USA. In many (most?) other countries pure ethanol can be bought easily over the counter, and where I live even at any gas station. Yes, you could drink the ethanol from the gas station he
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> Contemporary feminism... There is no one definitive "contemporary feminism", and most people who consider themselves feminists almost certainly don't hold the beliefs that you probably attribute to this mystical creed. &
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I agree with 2 and 3, but can you explain 1 more?
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Ultrawhite BaSO4 Paints and Films for Daytime Radiative Cooling(pubs.acs.org)
59 points by jbotz 5y ago|66 comments
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Ah yes, in the US they can't occur the risk of "fumes" from an affordable electronic device, that's why they need to charge people a year's income for a minor emergency room visit. Never mind the fact that for milli
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> the dosages are different, and the active ingredients differ Neither the dosages nor the active ingredients are different. Both for humans and for animals, the recommended dose of Ivermectin to treat parasites is 200 micrograms per ki
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This is just not true, or at least extremely US-centric. In large parts of the world most meat consumed by the public still comes from small to medium farms and family agriculture. The globalized neoliberal agro-industrial complex has bee
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Unlike you, he didn't actually label anyone, since he didn't talk about any specific assholes, he just described the category. Big difference.

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