kuhewa

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by kuhewa 5y ago
I'm being serious, I'm sure thats what happened here. I doubt the guy is just knowingly grifting for book sales, he probably just held onto this idea as a pet theory during his career and sort of compartmentalized it from his prim
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by kuhewa 5y ago
Good call. I can't imagine that it wasn't responsible to some degree. I wonder if cultures that grew rye/wheat/barley had a higher rate of attributable phenomena than those that didn't grow cereals that support Cla
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by kuhewa 5y ago
Not just the name, but the whole biological species concept can break down at times. I mean look at the wholphin https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wholphin which is a fertile hybrid between parents of different genera
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by kuhewa 5y ago
Is it? Because even the scientists who study and have named new hominids seem to disagree at times
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by kuhewa 5y ago
From what I understand they test for some fraction, like 1/4 to 3/8 ish of total number of known Neanderthal SNPs. Dunno quite how representative that is of the total but I imagine probably a decent correlation. However, around 20
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by kuhewa 5y ago
I think it's just when you retire, look back at the who enterprise of your discipline and decide life doesn't need to all be so grave, and decide it's time to have some fun with that one pet theory you heard about on field ex
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by kuhewa 5y ago
Yeah I commented elsewhere, if 30 eyewitnesses to mythical little folk (from an island with pop: 2 million) is good enough evidence of their existence, keep the author away from Tasmania, where he could probably find 1000 people that have s
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by kuhewa 5y ago
The archetypal origin seems parsimonious to me. Consider that people that would never have interacted with large lizards still had dragony myths, see the mo'o among ancient Hawaiians.
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by kuhewa 5y ago
This made me recall trip reports from erowid back in the day, apparently tripping on several grams of fresh ground nutmeg similarly was noted to result in hallucinations shared between tripping partners.
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by kuhewa 5y ago
those long periods of isolation and limited novel stimuli that were presumably common in pre modern times probably had a similar effect as the various mild hallucinations you experience during a long meditation session. Also, I don't h
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by kuhewa 5y ago
30 eyewitness accounts, eh? Can't wait for the author's book on how the Thylacine (aka Tasmanian Tiger) is not only not extinct but facing overpopulation, after he interviews the 1000+ putative eyewitnesses from the past few decad
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by kuhewa 5y ago
There's a legitimate reason what one might hold that impression, although I'm not sure to what degree it is at play. A home grown chook that gets a lot of its diet from foraging insects and eating various scraps probably will have
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by kuhewa 5y ago
I reckon accounting for generic variation in observational studies is more common then you are letting on, see mendelian randomisation. Also, in this type of research, race isn't the 'elephant in the room' that it seems you a
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by kuhewa 5y ago
An entire article on the subject without mentioning black swans or Nassim Taleb's other work on 'fat tails' gives the impression of a fresh absence of derivativity but also makes me wonder if it is missing something.
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by kuhewa 5y ago
I wanted to love kagi, but they still have the same fuzzy search that makes it about impossible to find something odd that shares keywords with commonplace things.
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by kuhewa 5y ago
For bipolar or other disorders, not much of a discernible effect for depressives
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by kuhewa 5y ago
Shit, we didn't even understand the implications of improvements in fracking and other improvements in extraction efficiencies from 'dirty' hydrocarbon sources would have, in the mid-oughts peak oil was on the horizon with no
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by kuhewa 5y ago
I reckon that's a reasonable way to think about it. I often see people blaming irrational nuclear fear or environmentalists for the lack of nuclear development, but really if they want to see it be optimized as part of the solution in
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by kuhewa 5y ago
That follows if you are playing Sim-City, or I suppose if you think giving the government absolute control over energy production and you want to leave the market completely out of it. I'm just talking the world we live in. To answer m
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by kuhewa 5y ago
> so it doesn’t point out how uneconomical this nuclear project is. It does insofar as it matters for capital. Who wants to invest in a plant that will take at least ten years (but probably more with cost overruns in the billions) before
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by kuhewa 5y ago
Some are low hanging fruit because training the immune system on a single specific protein antigen is sufficient to induce immunity. I don't think the RNA is too big of a deal because ultimately its role in the vaccine is to get cells
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by kuhewa 5y ago
Effort is going to go to diseases that they reckon have a high probability of success with just by presenting specific antigens. Herpes has had vaccine candidates in clinical trials that failed, chewing through hundreds of millions of dolla
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by kuhewa 5y ago
Most of the years skipped though was red tape, bureaucratic slog, fundraising, clinical trial participant recruiting, and having a high enough absolute risk of infection in the population that it was not long at all to have a significant di
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by kuhewa 5y ago
Different approaches just like for prophylactic vaccines, in some cases it's just like an old-school vaccine where dead cells or protein antigen is presented, but yeah cancer vaccines are typically therapeutic rather than prophylactic.
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by kuhewa 5y ago
Usually what is meant by 'cancer vaccine' isn't the HPV or Hep.B vaccine where the target is the viral causative agent of cancer. They are typically therapeutic rather than prophylactic, inducing immunity against cancer-speci
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by kuhewa 5y ago
Come to think of it, I'm not sure I've ever seen a strawwoman. Maybe as part of a straw couple as decoration at a harvest market or something
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by kuhewa 5y ago
It actually does get more official than a director's spoken words, but moot point. You are writing as if in the year since that largely pre-Delta point in time that the CDC's official guidance was that you won't carry the vir
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by kuhewa 5y ago
That's the wrong comparison though, you would need to compare a wild type booster vs an omicron specific booster.
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by kuhewa 5y ago
Actually originally the plan was to hope for 50% efficacy, even knowing that coronavirus immunity may wane after several months as is the case with seasonal coronaviruses
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by kuhewa 5y ago
> that vaccinated/boosted people can and will get sick or even spread disease to others Are you under the impression this isn't what they've been telling people?

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