lambdaba

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by lambdaba 5y ago
I was referring to epilepsy. I will not get into further arguments with you re: the "crackpot", insult. Have a nice day.
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by lambdaba 5y ago
I mean, it's not complicated, when we allowed the tobacco industry to manipulate people for profits while hiding the disastrous health consequence of their products, people got ill in larger numbers It's the same for the processed
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by lambdaba 5y ago
chronically-elevated blood sugar is quite probably the #1 cause of vascular problems (heck, it's highest association is with hypertension, these go hand in hand), hypertension is itself often associated with a common magnesium deficien
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by lambdaba 5y ago
these both OFTEN have dietary triggers that are possible to discover with certain elimination diets again, I'm not here to go on long arguments while being called a loon, which I'm bound to when touching this subject sticking clos
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by lambdaba 5y ago
It sometimes is enough, sometimes not. But it does have SOME undisputed efficacy and it's an area of legitimate research.
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by lambdaba 5y ago
Sorry, I'm not sure I expressed what I meant clearly so I'll try again: I mean that it's sufficient to be motivated WHEN armed with the proper knowledge; I think many people fail DESPITE being motivated because they are simpl
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by lambdaba 5y ago
What's noteworthy is *vascular* health is particularly important, thus chronically-elevated blood sugar which is *eminently* resolvable by lifestyle intervention, is the main culprit. So I don't follow your comment.
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by lambdaba 5y ago
This. It's not hard to make the necessary changes if sufficiently motivated. In fact, formulating the motivation is kind of the only step, everybody, and I mean *EVERYBODY* can achieve appropriate weight and even above-average fitness
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by lambdaba 5y ago
Third point, and I'm going to end it here: I myself suffered from Multiple Sclerosis when I was younger; it was retrospectively very easy to correlate, at least in a large part, with diet and lifestyle. The changes I had to make to be
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by lambdaba 5y ago
Also, re: this caricature you make of these "keto" diet cancer plans, it's not true that the "body still runs on glucose", in fact only 25 grams of glucose are manufactured by the liver per day in the absence of die
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by lambdaba 5y ago
I am only replying to your incendiary comment to say that your characterization is insulting and wrong, "fucking keto diet"(s) are having results for many people, whether you like it or not Others, please research this person furt
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by lambdaba 5y ago
what? I said as I understand it the study is MODELLING infections and it's not studying actual infection events; this is something that's even somewhat admitted in the article itself, my point though was that looking at the cas
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by lambdaba 5y ago
this is such a strange comment for me, and I beg people not to reflexively downvote and instead join in for a discussion, but I'm part / have been part of communities where people ROUTINELY achieve remission from disease the medic
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by lambdaba 5y ago
I mean, why would we expect it too? Spending is about profits accumulating somewhere, so why would that have anything to do with optimizing healthspan? Note, I'm vehemently critical of the modern medical establishment, and a health loo
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by lambdaba 5y ago
But those "fit, healthy" (the genuinely so, I'm not sure I even agree with the characterization for many of the mediatized cases), are OUTLIERS. Yes, you are never invincible, but it's 100% correct to characterize Covid
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by lambdaba 5y ago
Sorry but could you point out the misinformation? As for "FUD", Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt is all we see nowadays anyway, don't think my comment read by a few people on HN is contributing much (if I even agreed it's wha
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by lambdaba 5y ago
Also perhaps we could have a more relevant discussion about the methodology of this. As I note in another comment, this study's conclusions are based on modelling transmission and not actual that from real-world transmissions, so I don
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by lambdaba 5y ago
Why are you being so aggressive? What did I say that was so awful? I'm just thinking out loud of the long-term implications of this. What is so unreasonable about what I said?
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by lambdaba 5y ago
Replying to my own comment, re: risk reduction, are masks the new seatbelts, as some like to point out? Are our bodies now to be considered as dangerous as vehicles, and so it's reasonable to enforce security measures when you "ta
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by lambdaba 5y ago
"medical mask" = "surgical mask" is that it? anyway, this one seems a bit fishy to me, as far I can tell, in the first wave covid wasn't THAT MUCH more widespread, when very few regular people were wearing masks, th
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by lambdaba 5y ago
This isn't studying the risk of infection per se, is it? It's calculations of probabilities of certain kinds of particles being exchanged between subjects in different situations, and making some assumption on the level of risk of
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by lambdaba 5y ago
I've read the article only once cursively, but enough to ask, if the conclusions are indeed correct, and the reduction is SO DRAMATIC (like in the order 40x reduction with a well-fitted mask using the numbers given), than in theory mas
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by lambdaba 5y ago
This is something I've seen described as "optimizing for deletion" which is the only way to have true modularity.
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by lambdaba 5y ago
But those are "writing techniques" and not the actual writing / stories. As long as you're having a "conversation" with a codebase by continually reading and editing code you know what parts of the code flow we
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by lambdaba 5y ago
In other words, code should be eloquent, it should be as easy as possible to understand why it exists and why the way it is written is correct (or give information as to why the author thought it was correct). Likewise, with regard to modul
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by lambdaba 5y ago
I couldn't (easily) find information about refresh rates and such, what I want is to know if this is usable for coding. Frankly I'm down to go with lower stats for this, because I so want to be able to use a computer with just nat
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by lambdaba 5y ago
It was myopic cargo-culting since day one. I used to think that over the years I'd gotten smarter and subtler from my initial libertarian leanings, but this has opened up my eyes on how bad authorities can mess up, and more worryingly
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by lambdaba 5y ago
There was a study recently published that showed that long covid was correlated with personal belief of having had covid and not having actually had it (antibodies), in other words, vast majority is psychosomatic which is frankly what you&#
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by lambdaba 5y ago
I'm not sure this is the right number. I have read the initial results for one of the vaccines (I think it was from Pfizer) and with my, admittedly cursory and layman reading of the data, the reduction of transmission in vaccinated vs
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by lambdaba 5y ago
I've heard a figure citing world GDP growth forecasted at 450% without factoring the costs of climate change, and 415% deducting the costs. If this reflects the consensus, why isn't anyone talking about this? The impression we som

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