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by legitster 4mo ago
That's fair, but it also exactly explains why there are weak positive effects of extra Vitamin D. There's a lot of unknowingly deficient people out there who get benefits from supplements. But the benefits are limited by the upper
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by legitster 4mo ago
That doesn't undermine OP's point. Being deficient is unhealthy. But that doesn't mean an overabundance makes you healthier.
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by legitster 4mo ago
Ding ding ding. People who are drawing blood and trying to find some correlation between vitamin presence and health at this point are just practicing divination. The fact that it can be published in a scientific journal without any sort of
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Your body needs vitamins in order to form complex aminos to operate. But your body only needs to make so many of them - especially if you are an adult, not pregnant, or not suffering from a disease of some sort. The very premise that loadin
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by legitster 4mo ago
I'm still gaming on a 980. I have never been chasing pixel perfection or the latest and greatest. I would say I am the exception, but hardware survey says otherwise. There are a lot of people for whom the Steam Machine would be at wors
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by legitster 4mo ago
Different value props. The target audience for this already has an extensive Steam catalogue. To buy a PS5 Pro is going to require re-buying all of your games for it. Also, you can build a decent PC for $1049, but getting it into a decent f
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by legitster 4mo ago
On the Steam store they've done a great job with their certification program for the Steam Deck. Also, I don't think their target market is people who don't own any Steam games yet. It's going to be people with already e
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by legitster 4mo ago
I'm tempted even at this price. I've tried various iterations of a gaming HTPC over the years, and they've all been pretty miserable. That lack of any reasonable or stable CEC solution this whole time so far has honestly been
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by legitster 4mo ago
> and thousands indirectly (i.e. cancer) though the count for that is disputed That's the thing, these numbers have been extremely inflated. The LNT model we've used for nuclear safety has never withstood any serious scrutin
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> Switzerland has an amazing opportunity to be the standard setter in the EU with nuclear though France got there first. They built out such a massive infrastructure of Nuclear that they are a net provider of energy in Europe. They are a
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by legitster 4mo ago
To be more specific, you would not have been able to detect Fukushima waste based on radioactivity, as the radioactivity would not have been detectable above the normal background radiation. They could only identify the waste by it's d
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by legitster 4mo ago
> Nuclear power is fundamentally expensive. It's large pieces of infrastructure, involving handling and securing extremely dangerous materials. The actual operating costs are extremely low. Most of the cited $/kwh figures inclu
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by legitster 4mo ago
They could do what the fossil fuel industry does and just disperse it into the atmosphere until it disappears behind background radiation. Realistically deep geologic storage is absolutely fine, and even if it's not happening now, all
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Ask HN: Why are LLMs so bad at board games?
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by legitster 4mo ago
All of this goes to show just how good of a deal the JCPOA was. It took 20 months to negotiate, it had everything the US had ever asked Iran to cooperate on, and Iran was not only cooperating but on a path away from extremism. It was blown
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by legitster 4mo ago
I think the complaint about ads is mostly a knee-jerk reaction by certain online communities. The ads are not particularly obnoxious - they are always off to the side and don't interfere in navigation in any way. Furthermore, I'm
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by legitster 4mo ago
It can be both. The amount of self-confidence and belief it takes to get a company through the funding rounds and burn through borrowed money to rise to the top requires an absurd amount of self-delusion.
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SpaceX had this similar mystique to where owning a private share was something rich people bragged about like having a rare Lamborghini. A lot of these modern bubble stocks are underpinned by a bunch of intangible collectibility reasons tha
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by legitster 4mo ago
It's more like "he was already rich before, but now more of his wealth is countable".
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by legitster 4mo ago
I use a lot of italian imports from my cooking, but it's less to do with the organic nature and more to do with a combination of terroir + refined techniques + heritage breeds of crops. I tend to suspect that the "gluten-intoleran
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by legitster 4mo ago
This is also incorrect. Many of the "organic approved" substances are also incredibly dangerous. Rotenone is a naturally derived neuro-toxin linked to Parkinson's. Pyrethrin is poison. Then you have a bunch of chlorine and am
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by legitster 4mo ago
The sloppification of the internet began before AI. Google was SEOing the open internet to death, Reddit had fully baked in a hivemind, and social media became dominated by professional influencers. AI is accelerating but also perhaps bac
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by legitster 4mo ago
> Bemotrizinol is the first new active ingredient added to an OTC monograph under the streamlined process established by the CARES Act. The irony here is that the CARES act was established to fast track vaccine approvals, which the MAHA
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by legitster 4mo ago
It's important to remember that Trump was actually relatively cash poor when he ran for president. If you get rid of all his insane statements about his own wealth, his entire fortune boils down to a skyscraper, a resort, and a handful
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by legitster 4mo ago
If you look up the medical definition of addiction I think you'll be surprised to see that in order for it to be considered a disorder the key is that is has to be past the point of self-abuse or adverse consequences. You can say som
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> I always buy my nails from Home Depot. It's probably not the nails, but there's a reason people always stick with a particular hardware store. (Also, I know that's a flip example, but there are absolutely brands of nails
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Yes, there's obviously a difference between addiction and a substance use disorder . But part of a key definition of a substance use disorder is that it has to cause harm . Something merely being addicting isn't enough for inter
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by legitster 4mo ago
This applies to any business that wants a repeat customer.
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I'm not sure what the smoking gun is here. Usefulness and dependence are mostly interchangeable. I'm "addicted" to computers, indoor plumbing, headphones, entertainment, etc. The crime here seems to be that they used a w
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by legitster 5mo ago
Kind of. I think the history is interesting here and complex. One of the hard things to grasp is that the industrial revolution was preceded by an environmental collapse. Part of the reason there was a switch to coal (despite being seen a

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