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by klipt 3y ago
Atheists believe in evolution; evolution believes in religion.
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by klipt 3y ago
> ALS could be several etiologically distinct diseases that manifest similarly. What's the common factor - are they all autoimmune diseases? Would the "inverse vaccine" approach discussed here recently help?
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by klipt 3y ago
So for good bone density you need to pursue a high impact sport that might destroy your joints? Unfortunate if true!
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by klipt 3y ago
> One million nomadic groups to 10,000 tribes to 100 nations to four or five conglomerates. We have been in the endgame since the industrial revolution but AI will speedrun us to the end in decades, and perhaps years, not centuries. So O
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by klipt 3y ago
> Problem is first to adopt (assuming the AI is successful) will win. Question is, will win what ? Is potential human extinction worth winning?
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by klipt 3y ago
I believe there are different degrees of it and being a parent to a severe case is a much more stressful life long commitment than being a friend to a mild case.
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by klipt 3y ago
And of course the end result of all the knock on effects is impossible to compute. At best you can approximate it. Which leads to two observations: 1, consequentialism is really hard, actually. 2, most other moral systems are really just va
578.
by klipt 3y ago
No, you need mechanical stimulation to break up biofilm, aka brushing. Most effective are those Oral B electric brushes that alternately rotate back and forth.
579.
by klipt 3y ago
I've had several hygienists and dentists tell me Closys (sodium fluoride) is great for killing the bad bacteria without staining.
580.
by klipt 3y ago
We already have a reliable way to break up biofilm, it's called brushing ... unfortunately you have to repeat the process twice daily.
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by klipt 3y ago
Most of our ancestors just ate much less refined sugar, so probably had less need for dental care in the first place.
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by klipt 3y ago
Supposedly not all kefir does: > Does Lifeway Kefir contain any alcohol? > No. We have formulated our kefir to not contain any alcohol and is safe for the whole family! If you’d like more information about our process, please email in
583.
by klipt 3y ago
Kefir may provide much of the good bacteria without the alcohol.
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by klipt 3y ago
It's called realism, something doesn't have to be virtuous to be true.
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by klipt 3y ago
So you're saying Putin is a US puppet, who's deliberately crippling Russia for US benefit? Then I guess the Russians had better vote him out!
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by klipt 3y ago
Bad for the patients though because "efficiency gains" usually translates to "give patients expensive treatment they don't actually need"
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by klipt 3y ago
Vanguard is a co-op that's owned by its funds which in turn are owned by present and future retirees. Instead of investing in individual stocks like Microsoft, Vanguard's index funds make it easy to invest in e.g. an index of all
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by klipt 3y ago
Q: But if the robot has no nose, how will it smell? A: Awful!
589.
by klipt 3y ago
So why you want people's retirement funds to be "drawn and quartered"? Do you want all retirees to die in poverty, or just the ones who opened a Vanguard IRA account for their retirement savings instead of a Fidelity IRA acco
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by klipt 3y ago
> Capturing a gallon of gas worth of CO2 would cost $1-2 if we ramped the known technologies up. Capturing from the general atmosphere, or capturing at the moment of emission? I think those have very different efficiencies.
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by klipt 3y ago
You know Vanguard manages millions of people's retirement accounts and pensions right? It's not all controlled by a single trillionaire.
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by klipt 3y ago
It's generally easy to line up the interviews , at least at big companies you can pretty much pick your interview date. Then if you've done say 5 interviews (1 per day for a week), you can just wait for the first offer and use th
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by klipt 3y ago
Keep in mind lifetime risk includes the risk of getting it in old age, where it might be a case of if you didn't die of cancer, you'd just die of some other ailment (heart attack, dementia, etc) instead. Evolution only optimized o
594.
by klipt 3y ago
Can't they just make all employees wear lead vests? I guess the added weight would cost a lot in fuel...
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by klipt 3y ago
"People who experienced social isolation had a 32% higher risk of dying early from any cause compared with those who weren't socially isolated." https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/06/19/health&#x
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by klipt 3y ago
There have always been hermits even before modern times, but I agree it's a high risk life strategy. Loners are probably much more likely to die of say, having a heart attack and not receiving help promptly.
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by klipt 3y ago
I assume manny immigrants work just long enough to get a NZ passport then use the freedom of movement granted to work in Australia? Then once they get an Australian passport, they can use it to work in the US on an E-3 visa :-)
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by klipt 3y ago
I assume it's basically impossible to go from broke to billionaire in a single generation. But I also imagine you wouldn't have to go back that many generations to find some impoverished ancestors of billionaires. Effort over ge
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by klipt 3y ago
Ultimately we're all made of meat, and sometimes the meat goes bad.
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by klipt 3y ago
If men have extra duties (conscription) then shouldn't they have extra privileges to make up for that? Feminism wants to erase all male privileges, seems unfair to do that while still saddling men with extra duties.

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