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by jbotz 3y ago
> [death is] an evolved strategy to allow newer models to replace us I don't think that's true and it's pretty difficult to argue that it is given how close to universal death is among living things... if it were true evol
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by jbotz 3y ago
No. It's just fun.
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Why America Is Losing the Tech War with China(nationalinterest.org)
5 points by jbotz 3y ago|2 comments
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by jbotz 3y ago
Well, it's called histamine intolerance in the literature, but it's not really an intolerance in the sense of an allergy, it could more accurately called "excessive histamine build-up". The likely proximate cause is a d
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by jbotz 3y ago
Animal organ meats, especially hearts, have the highest level of CoQ10 of any common dietary sources. I suspect quite a few common modern dietary deficiences are the result most people no longer eating the "whole animal".
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by jbotz 3y ago
NMN (nicotinamide mononucleotide) and even just plain nicotinamide. Taking a large dose of nicotinamide (3g/day divided into 3 spaced-out doses) has resolved several relatively minor issues which I suspected were caused by some geneti
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by jbotz 3y ago
So, IIUC, this is an alternative to the paper that was discussed a couple of days ago saying the Universe might be twice as old as previously thought. The "problem observations" both of them try to address are what appear to be h
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by jbotz 3y ago
Even if your devices can't produce or consume data nearly that fast, it's still good to have all that bandwidth at the link level because you'll probably be sharing it with multiple devices.
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by jbotz 3y ago
Curious... the article starts out by saying: "And the task of disseminating her canon and her influence is still, almost unbelievably, only just beginning" and then never mentiones the question of the copyright on her works. Simo
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Super-cheap gigawatt-scale rust battery greenlit for Minnesota(newatlas.com)
1 points by jbotz 3y ago|0 comments
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by jbotz 3y ago
I can't find a date on either of these, but they look a bit dated. The newest reference in the presenetation is from 2007 and uses graphs from 2001. I know that I heard something aout CO2 taking 20 years to get to the upper atmosphere
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by jbotz 3y ago
The same way you take any temperature... by sampling and then averaging over the samples. Obviously you need to have enough well distributed samples to get a reasonable accuracy, but this is all an old hat. Btw., I suspect you get that &qu
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by jbotz 3y ago
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The Evolution of Radio Sources Mimics a Nonexpanding Universe(iopscience.iop.org)
1 points by jbotz 3y ago|0 comments
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by jbotz 3y ago
A "large portion" is an exaggeration, and I don't know that any have been "refuted". Some of the studies around "priming" (Chapter 4 of the book) have been called into question for failure of being replic
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by jbotz 3y ago
I don't buy this, I think it's just an urban legend. Note that they provide no references for their claims. I heard similar claims about drinking distilled water decades ago, and determined that they were BS by self-experiment.
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Biochar as a negative emission technology (review paper)(acsess.onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
2 points by jbotz 3y ago|0 comments
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by jbotz 3y ago
Yes. I'd add a couple of items I have found to be important... 5) Limit consumption of (mostly) omega-6 polyunsaturated vegetable oils. Use virgin olive oil (mostly monounsaturated) and saturated fats (butter, ghee, coconut oil, even
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by jbotz 3y ago
> All dictatorships suck except for a narrow class of people favored by or directly benefiting from the regime And even they can fall out of favor and become victims in an instant. You only need to say the wrong thing or have someone re
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by jbotz 3y ago
Scheme is definitely a Lisp. One of its primary innovations over previous dialects of Lisp was lexical scoping, and most later Lisps adopted that, including Common Lisp.
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by jbotz 3y ago
What available DNA? We have some really well-preserved frozen mammoths as DNA sources... frozen aurochs, not so many. Or any, that I know of.
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by jbotz 3y ago
> This is true, though. The computer did take over many critical functions. But the Star Trek computer was just a fairly normal computer with an AI-ish voice UI. And there have been present-day ships which couldn't function properl
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by jbotz 3y ago
A drop in the bucket, no, a drop in the ocean. It's no good to plant trees , for a good start you need to plan forests . And you can't plant a forest by sticking a bunch of saplings in the ground and then walking away... you h
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by jbotz 3y ago
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by jbotz 3y ago
You can translate, although it can be quite difficult, and isn't really useful. In the case of Betelgeuse we don't even know its exact distance (to +/- 100 ly) or proper motion relative to Sol, so it would be a very, very ro
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by jbotz 3y ago
Sorry, I don't want to sound condescending. But it's just wrong, and it's a very common error so I thought I should try to do my little part to help correct it. The physicist Carlo Rovelli belabors this point extensively
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by jbotz 3y ago
> The supernova occurred when the year on Earth was 1381 This is the part that is wrong. The supernova (would have) occurred in Betelgeuse's reference frame which doesn't have such a direct correspondence to Earth's. >
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by jbotz 3y ago
I'll be pedantic here, because this is so commonly misunderstood... no it would not "have happened in 1381", because the moment in time we call 1381 only exists here on Earth. The most fundamental insight of relativity is th
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by jbotz 3y ago
NMN (Nicotinamide Mononucleotide) is believed to raise levels of NAD+, which in turn is a vital component of mitchondrial energy production (and levels tend to fall with age). I'm actually taking plain Nicotinamide (one form of Vitamin
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by jbotz 4y ago
Is it? Says who? This is an untirely unfalsifiable assumption. I personally don't share it. "It from bit"[0], I say, mathematics is fundamental, physical reality is just our perception of the underlying math. [0] Title of

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