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by jp555 6y ago
Any thoughts about how the difference in telomere length in lab-mice vs non-lab-mice might also play a role?
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by jp555 6y ago
Hiwi group (hunter gatherers) in Papa New Guinea homicide rate: 1018 murders per 100,0000 population. https://books.google.ca/books?id=YtwSz2A12e8C&q=153&redir_es... But.... so what?
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by jp555 6y ago
Exactly - Houston probably needs that interchange with their big population. And not so for a city of 50K like Siena, right? The whole thing is pointless, that's my point.
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by jp555 6y ago
GDP: Houston, Texas = ~$500B/yr Siena, Tuscany = ~$11B/yr
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by jp555 6y ago
Hey, have you heard of "books"? over 1 million new books are published every year, and people have been writing them for like a really long long time.
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by jp555 6y ago
FYI: 12 Monkeys was not a documentary.
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by jp555 6y ago
Or maybe it's just a cynical oversimplification? Am I a product of the Oracle DBs behind the websites I use for free? How about credit cards? Isn't the merchant and issuing bank the customer there? As long as I pay off my monthly
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by jp555 6y ago
So the I'm a "product" of Wikipedia? WordPress? Blender? Linux? mySQL?
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by jp555 6y ago
For comparison, what kinds of diseases are not metabolic?
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by jp555 6y ago
60% of Amazon stock is owned by mutual funds & other institutional investors (like pension funds). 77% of Google is owned by mutual funds & other institutional investors. 62% of Apple is owned my mutual funds & other institution
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by jp555 6y ago
"in the case of Apple, the company’s strategy was doomed right up until it was illegal, or so it seems with the App Store." Ben Thompson ( https://stratechery.com/2020/apple-epic-and-the-app-store/ ) LOL
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by jp555 6y ago
Napster pitched a $10/month all-you-can-eat subscription, and the Music industry said NO WAY! Then they were crushed by reality and we got multiple suppliers of Napster's $10/month-for-all-music offer. Imagine if Napster ha
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by jp555 6y ago
I wonder if it's more than the dramatic savings we've gained by moving from desktops to mobile devices? I'm reminded of JBP quote “The fact that automobiles pollute only becomes a problem of sufficient magnitude to attract pu
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by jp555 6y ago
I dont know but I'd like to. How does that work?
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by jp555 6y ago
Have they been absorbed, as in reacted to create novel compounds? If the plastic does not react with the organic molecules in our body, isn't this a little like worrying WiFi will cause cancer (non-ionizing EM)?
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by jp555 6y ago
Imagine all the micro-petrochemicals in human tissue from the hundreds of thousands of years of inhaling volatile compounds in fire and coal smoke. Could we not argue that we have evolved under consistent exposure to petrochemical volatil
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by jp555 6y ago
It's not about just eye contact, but a whole lot of body language that we are totally blind to with a just video of someone who's not even looking at you. This body language is a very important part of communicating and can be me
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by jp555 6y ago
You can deliver a complete VR experience with just a normal webcam?
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by jp555 6y ago
Just added a video explaining one approach being taken - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3XcQtoja_Y And that's over a year ago...
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by jp555 6y ago
It will ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3XcQtoja_Y ), and VR already conveys MUCH more of the micro-interactions of being with people that we are unknowingly blind to in Zoom meetings, which is one reason Zoom meetings are
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by jp555 6y ago
Why worry about better horse bridles (Webcams) when the automobile is beginning to roll out ($300 PC-free VR)?
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by jp555 6y ago
Eric Weinstein talks about the DISC - Distributed Idea Suppression Complex. I had a friend get tenure at a university, and her stories added fuel to the fire in my mind that the DISC is very real, and everywhere .
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by jp555 6y ago
Ah nice thx!
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by jp555 6y ago
“When you mix politics and science, you get politics.” — John M. Barry from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Influenza
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by jp555 6y ago
First thing that came to my mind was.. "Guys, guys, Galileo wasn't actually cancelled. He just found out that free speech has consequences." @KonstantinKisin Good luck!
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by jp555 6y ago
look to the law MAKERS, not the law followers.
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by jp555 6y ago
UBI is interesting and may very well play some kind of a role in the future, but I can't help but think: Everybody gets equal UBI in the game Monopoly, and that never works out well.
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by jp555 6y ago
just "machines", or a key EUV machine that only ASML makes?
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by jp555 6y ago
The question required to justify a merger instead of partnership: Why would merging make things greater than the sum of the parts? If it doesn't, partner. I dont see any reason why a GM-Tesla merger makes any sense. But would be happy
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by jp555 6y ago
extracted? As in not through voluntary agreement? I think you're talking about taxes, and missing the point entirely.

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