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by knuthsat 5y ago
Pain is systemic. There are lot of studies collecting data and showing that people with the same physical abnormalities experience varying degrees of pain. For example, my spine has lost its natural lordosis and is completely flattened yet
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by knuthsat 5y ago
That's true, I guess I was imagining more of a Newtonian approach, modern physics has everything.
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by knuthsat 5y ago
I mean, if you have perfect measurements of the state of the rocket and a complete model of it then it's just physics. Problem is that measurements are random variables and your model of the rocket is probably not perfect and now someh
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by knuthsat 5y ago
Tax revenues trickle down to society very quickly. The amount of money trickling down is ridiculous that one might even call it corruption. As long as it is fairly distributed and there isn't a fixed amount of players getting most of t
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by knuthsat 5y ago
I usually just don't do foreign keys, makes the queries insanely fast :D
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by knuthsat 5y ago
20g of flaxseed oil (180kcal) contains a bunch of ALA, pick a massively low conversion ration to DHA/EPA of 0.5% or 1% or whatever, and you'll see that you'll get very near if not over the recommended daily amounts of 250-750
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by knuthsat 5y ago
There are similar studies on meat/Neu5Gc being combined with fibre to reduce the toxicity - more carcinogens present the less fibre there is. There are similar studies on casein/whey. These studies do not make meat, milk, cheese o
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by knuthsat 5y ago
Cyanide in apple seeds is toxic in proper amounts, should I avoid consuming apple seeds, or apples completely? Toxicity of certain compounds in meat or other foods has nothing to do with the food itself being healthy or unhealthy. Similarly
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by knuthsat 5y ago
How am I misinformed? These doctors are exhibiting and supporting orthorexic behavior. I'm surely not going to listen to them. There's a bunch of papers on Neu5Gc, should I start being scared of meat toxicity? Diet containing seed
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by knuthsat 5y ago
Just like meat is not toxic, neither is seed oil. I've been eating large amounts (~1000kcal a day) of flaxseed oil, olive oil, pumpkin seed oil, coconut oil and there has been no ill-effect on my cardiovascular or general health at all
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by knuthsat 5y ago
If index is ordered, I imagined it as a flat array. I would go to the next bigger item using binary search. I guess SkipScan does a similar thing but the index is a btree. Of course, things get more complicated when more tuples need to be d
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by knuthsat 5y ago
But killing is not humane if the individual does not want to die. Humans give themselves incredible characteristics compared to other animals, it's like they are miles ahead of every animal when it comes to self awareness, emotion, rat
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by knuthsat 5y ago
Does anyone know why something like binary search isn't a first simple choice for skipping to the next unique item, if the index is ordered? Is it because of the tree structure of the index?
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by knuthsat 5y ago
The thing with most companies optimizing addiction (user engagement) is that they use these weird optimization loops that improve metrics one by one (+x% then +y%) but then end up with a product so far from the long-term equilibrium. There&
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by knuthsat 5y ago
Yeah, the same thing in European banks. It gets quite obvious when executives in local branches start pushing for shitty products. When I started working professionally, I always thought that eventually the best product wins. Then I was str
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by knuthsat 5y ago
Yep, I started my programming career optimizing stuff (traveling salesmen, roster, schedules) and the optimizing criteria in academia is very far from reality. The effects of not having slack are disastrous. Although, the effects start show
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by knuthsat 5y ago
I'm not trolling. There's a giant wave of misinformation all of a sudden scaremongering around another ingredient, sugar. And the individuals boast on how this was previously done for fat and how epidemiology makes everything canc
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by knuthsat 5y ago
I'm not. Fruit isn't apple. Apple is fruit with massive amounts of fructose.
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by knuthsat 5y ago
Of course not, because that study analyzes concentrates and not natural source of fructose. Eating the equivalent amount of fructose used in those studies in fruit will never get you similar effects to ethanol. These studies are interesting
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by knuthsat 5y ago
Exactly, yet all of the studies blaming sugar concentrate on fructose and glucose concentrate studies.
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by knuthsat 5y ago
I know that they are considering it but the variables are so noisy that the mathematics won't work. It never works when it comes to epidemiology. It works for physics.
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by knuthsat 5y ago
Impossible to regulate with a mathematical magic wand. Removing confounding variables works for physics, not really for anything else.
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by knuthsat 5y ago
This is not true. The Robert Lustig scaremongering is a big lie. In his talk he mentions the healthy Japanese but he does not mention that they eat more calories from fructose (in percentage of their consumed calories) than USA citizens yet
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by knuthsat 5y ago
Sugar is not bad. Just like meat or bacon is not bad. Why would sugar on its own be bad? Obviously it's the whole lifestyle and diet that is bad. There are cyclist that carb load by eatig raw sugar and have no metabolic issues like som
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by knuthsat 5y ago
Too many confounding variables that can't be removed by a mathematical magic wand. What about obesity, what about body fat percentage? Yeah, fat men have lower testosterone levels. Yeah, non-smokers have lower testosterone levels. I dr
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by knuthsat 5y ago
I mostly agree with Noam Chomsky’s analysis and comparison.
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by knuthsat 5y ago
Might be age. At some point most people stop fully enjoying things. I remember liking music to the point of learning all the lyrics to thousands of songs, liking movies to the point of knowing all the published dates and actors. At some poi
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Why are VPS providers giving out blacklisted IPs?
6 points by knuthsat 5y ago|10 comments
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by knuthsat 5y ago
Yeah, then he ended up being a bigger warmonger than Bush. But I believe OP meant other warmongers that got the prize too.
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by knuthsat 6y ago
Funny thing is that a bunch of human activities are pyramid schemes. From academia, pension funds, real estate or whatever.

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