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What If PTSD Is More Physical Than Psychological? Evidence from new study(nytimes.com)
165 points by jcfrei 10y ago|103 comments
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by jcfrei 10y ago
This appears to be just in line with the typical lifecycle of a social network. There was a recent comment which outlined it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11829562 I'd say Instagram is entering stage 3 (locked
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by jcfrei 10y ago
I have a related question: Can the calorie count reliably predict the effect on a persons weight? Or is the amount of carbohydrates and fats much more important?
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by jcfrei 10y ago
Just a side note: The OPM is adjusted for inflation (set at three times the cost of a minimum food diet in 1963, updated annually for inflation using the Consumer Price Index, see: http://www.irp.wisc.edu/faqs/faq2.htm#
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by jcfrei 10y ago
You have a very one-dimensional opinion on consumerism. Increased consumption doesn't just mean selling twice as many shoes as yesterday for half the quality. It also means augmenting existing services: Like creating a telephone connec
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by jcfrei 10y ago
I agree. I think another fundamental flaw with (current) cryptocurrencies is that they are all too computationally expensive to replace a simple, trust-based system. If you look at it from an economic perspective, the incurred losses from a
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by jcfrei 10y ago
> After it collects Ether from investors — the deadline to buy in is May 28 — the D.A.O. aims to put the money into other digital currency start-ups. So the D.A.O. is just a very technical form of angel investing? I think a decentrali
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by jcfrei 10y ago
Just imagine if evidence of life is detected; it would drastically change our perception of our role in the universe. Isn't it a well established fact that life outside of earth is possible? And in fact very likely given the size of
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by jcfrei 10y ago
Some people have mentioned this before but I forgot who they were: The blockchain is very likely to disrupt the financial sector, specifically the whole industry which is now in place for settlement/clearing when transferring financial
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by jcfrei 10y ago
Tesla has yet to transition from a product first to a manufacturing first kind of company. Entry level cars are much more shaped by manufacturing possibilities rather than consumer demand. It's not unreasonable to assume that the Model
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by jcfrei 10y ago
Even the best AI in the world can't overcome the fact that different interest groups in a country often have orthogonal demands. It might just become better at lying than current politicians.
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by jcfrei 11y ago
Thanks, just to be clear: I'm not an advocate for TTIP.
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by jcfrei 11y ago
What is with all the tinfoil hat conspiracies in here? Can we please resume to a rational discussion?
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by jcfrei 11y ago
Usually not a fan of zerohedge, but they sometimes make some insightful graphs: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-04-01/waiters-and-bartend... They show how waiters and bartenders increased dramatically relative
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by jcfrei 11y ago
I'm not sure I fully understand your position. Price stability (with respect to some basket of common goods) is the primary function of any central bank...
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by jcfrei 11y ago
Ok, I think I can follow some of the points you are making. When I said I think you were being pedantic I meant you were taking the discussion to a meta level which is sort of beyond the scope of the interview. If you say we have to have a
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by jcfrei 11y ago
From your argument I take that you are very suspicious of quantum mechanics as well?
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by jcfrei 11y ago
I think you are being a bit pedantic here. His example merely demonstrated that if consciousness is a function of reality (and for the sake of his example he more or less explicitly makes the assumption that there is an observer independent
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by jcfrei 11y ago
That's exactly my problem with bitcoin as well. I'm just elaborating Hearn's points here; but as it turns out the incentive for miners (in order to pay their mining) is actually a deflationary good (so the value of their mine
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by jcfrei 11y ago
Shorting might be an option for the retail investor but I doubt it's so simple when your dealing with the amounts of a large bank. Banks usually borrow stocks and then sell them back (in order to short) and finding a counterparty for t
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by jcfrei 11y ago
Since when can we reliably test for prions? Could it be that those misfolded proteins have been around forever?
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by jcfrei 11y ago
Whether the technology works as advertised can be verified by a layman. For Theranos you'd need a biologist/chemist/doctor.
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by jcfrei 11y ago
Whether or not Antarctica gets exploited (at the very least by some non-democratic countries) depends probably on commodity prices. And most of them are pretty low right now.
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Varoufakis: Endgame for the IMF-EU Feud Over Greece’s Debt(yanisvaroufakis.eu)
2 points by jcfrei 11y ago|0 comments
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> Something is wrong and broken with "modern capitalism" if a mere 90,000 people have more wealth than 90% of the planet. Honestly, I don't think so. I believe we are merely returning to a state of the world that we&#x27
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by jcfrei 11y ago
I'm wary of ever using the term "Capitalism" in any discussion, it's been misused, abused and overused so often it hardly ever means anything specific anymore. Nowadays it appears to be just a cue for people to engage in
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by jcfrei 11y ago
>What will the robots build, sell or manage if noone has any money to buy anything? I don't necessarily buy that robots will remove all work. I believe we will witness the rise of the leisure economy. Most people who still hold jo
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by jcfrei 11y ago
Most important figure here. How could a "startup" design and build a commercial airplane and still be considered a startup? Either they get acquired before launching the final version of their plane or the company goes bust. The
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by jcfrei 11y ago
I've dabbled with the dev tools ethereum provided for a while and I can't imagine that the computations ethereum does will ever be fast enough for a general purpose, distributed computation platform. If I had to wager on yet anoth
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by jcfrei 11y ago
previous discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3808194 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2450973

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