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by kongolongo 5y ago
>We need to flip the approval process on its head -- from "safe until proven otherwise" to "unsafe until (independently) proven safe". The tally of harm to all life caused by these chemicals is on a massive scale that
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by kongolongo 5y ago
Not sure about the ejaculation point. Especially with zinc, the amounts released from ejaculation are far less than the rda and the same is also true with the other trace minerals present in semen. Even if we account for multiple ejaculatio
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by kongolongo 5y ago
Agreed people tend to fixate on the engine/motor, which might be less complex (even that's debatable), but the rest of the system supporting that motor is complex in it's own right.
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by kongolongo 5y ago
It's still a logistical challenge in places without high charging accessibility though. That 20 minute charge might add another 20 minutes or even more depending on where it's located.
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by kongolongo 5y ago
A major reason for the rise of the medication side is because for many acute mental health episodes medicines, like lithium for example, are extremely effective at treating the episode. Even the most anti medication psychiatrist must acknow
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by kongolongo 5y ago
Yeah it's a really tough problem with no clear answers. Microplastics and other pollutants with potential long-acting health impacts are very hard to predict far in advance. Strong evidence for or against any adverse health effects wou
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by kongolongo 5y ago
I agree with that last sentence, but IMO even in a well-served market things like brand loyalty, familiarity, and social momentum can often be major deterrents to switching just for the sake of quality and often times unless the major playe
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by kongolongo 5y ago
I agree with your point that this article does use a lot anecdotes and not enough strong evidence to back up the terrifying conclusions it suggests and throws around "may" quite a bit. I will say though, that similar to investigat
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by kongolongo 5y ago
Personal vehicles also have a much larger carbon footprint in general (from manufacturing, maintenance, etc) aside from just emissions during operation of the vehicle.
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by kongolongo 5y ago
Well in the case of urban areas, outside of some select locations, the charging infra is just not there for BEVs. Even if there were good EV infra in urban areas, a compelling case could be made for improving and upgrading public transporta
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by kongolongo 5y ago
I'm not sure how relevant it is today but IIRC a couple of NY schools were in the initial partnership designed by a US gov initiative (SEMATECH) to make US-based semiconductors companies more competitive in the 1980s when Japanese comp
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by kongolongo 5y ago
He doesn't strictly stick to evidence-based approaches. I don't know if he does it in his clinical sessions but on many of the more casual streams (which are often presented as if it were a session despite the ample disclaimers th
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by kongolongo 5y ago
Idk is that very useful? There will dubious reviews on any popular product. Isn't the true utility in fakespot that it makes a decision on the credibility of the overall rating of the product for you based on some aggregation of the to
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by kongolongo 5y ago
I've posted a similar comment before, but on what basis do you trust fakespot? If they were being paid to promote or even outright manipulate the analysis how would we know? Or how would they be immune to the same review manipulation b
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by kongolongo 5y ago
I've posted a similar comment before, but on what basis do you trust fakespot? If they were being paid to promote or even outright manipulate the analysis how would we know? Or how would the be immune to the same review manipulation by
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by kongolongo 5y ago
Not really because smoking produces hundreds of not thousands of compounds that make it practically impossible to trace the metabolic path of all of these compounds in the human body from just theory alone
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by kongolongo 5y ago
Well that's not a very real distinction. No observational study can ever claim to prove causation at most it can provide data that supports causation is highly likely. The conclusion and how it's presented will naturally be in ter
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by kongolongo 5y ago
The often quoted prices do not take into account the actual price paid by consumers, the type of insulin being compared, or relative purchasing power of the countries. I don't actually know how if insulin is actually all that much more
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by kongolongo 5y ago
Costs aren't static though, have we reached the limits of how much we can improve on nuclear tech? If we were having this discussion a couple of decades ago, this reasoning would lead you to believe solar and wind have insurmountable c
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by kongolongo 5y ago
I guess not a physical science (although there was some crossover last year between some results in quantum computing and physics, there's probably lots other examples that I'm not familiar with too) [1] but it fits squarely in th
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by kongolongo 5y ago
Zappos and Zoox were also both $1 billion acquisitions by Amazon Why only consider acquisitions over $1 billion though? They have quite a few $250 million+ acquisitions that were pretty big or key players in their respective niches.
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by kongolongo 6y ago
No that is the entirety of your comment. Without the appeal to tradition there is nothing separating a random turtle god from an actual religion. If there is more than an appeal to tradition how would you argue for or against different reli
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by kongolongo 6y ago
How do you choose between a Christian denomination and being Hindu, for example, then?
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by kongolongo 6y ago
Ok ignoring the appeal to tradition, how would you argue for hinduism over christianity or vice versa? Both are 2k+ years old with very different beliefs at their core. Reincarnation vs an afterlife, single vs many gods. Nothing about havin
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by kongolongo 6y ago
>What happens when you tell one of those angry atheists that yes, you're a Christian, but you also find evolution to be very cool, you know that the universe is billions of years old, you are pro choice, and you don't believe e
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by kongolongo 6y ago
The reason fundamentalists are so appealing is because they at least try to maintain some level of consistency. How does one know which parts of the bible to accept or which parts are metaphor and which parts are literal or which version of
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by kongolongo 6y ago
Couldn't we assume P=NP and try this anyways?
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by kongolongo 6y ago
I also question them. It seems a lot easier to accuse Amazon ratings of being poor especially if it feeds into an already existing confirmation bias against Amazon. For all we know Fakespot could just be making all of it up right? How are F
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by kongolongo 6y ago
I'd agree there isn't a downside to being able to identify biases and analyzing your emotions, but that doesn't actually curb actions based on biases or emotions. You would have to prescribe biases with respect to what metric
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by kongolongo 6y ago
Maybe but as of yet there doesn't appear to be any clearly net positive solutions (IMO) that can both curb emotional appeal and cognitive biases without introducing harms themselves.

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