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by logifail 2y ago
> Anyway medical research is focused on giving us on better quality of life as we age Polite correction: medical research is focussed on returns for those funding said research. Treating Americans is definitely a cash-cow for Big Pharma,
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by logifail 2y ago
> I personally would prefer to survive longer. If you don't, that's your business. Ideally I'd die in my sleep 75-80 +/- a few years having seen some grandkids. Doing daft stuff now to push that number further out ju
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by logifail 2y ago
> There's no evolutionary reason that survival instinct would turn off after a certain age Umm, without wishing to get too clinical or morbid, it's clear that once your offspring have reached adulthood there will always come a
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by logifail 2y ago
> Pretty much the entire point of civilization is not to be at the mercy of natural forces, including evolution The parent to my comment did bring up "survival instinct " (!)
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by logifail 2y ago
> Survival instinct is deeply hard wired into all animals, including humans. Survive and reproduce ... So if/when one has the reproduction bit out that of the way, the survival bit as such may not seem to be quite as vital. You k
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by logifail 2y ago
> Nobody expects to live longer and have dementia I think we can generalise that statement to "nobody expects to have dementia". Until you get it :/ There are people taking lots of vitamins, but with apologies to any vit
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by logifail 2y ago
> People want more healthy years ...but that doesn't really answer why , does it? To "do more stuff"? To "see more things"? To "earn more money"? To "learn more"? Why? A friend was
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by logifail 2y ago
> we want to live longer and not get dementia ...but why? Dying is natural. Dying is normal. It's what's supposed to happen. > I wanna know what happens I've reproduced three times so I've ticked that particul
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by logifail 2y ago
(Genuine Q): Why are people - or even just HN readers - really so interested in living longer? Both my father and my father-in-law have dementia. My father's dementia is fairly advanced (he doesn't know who I am and hasn't fo
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by logifail 2y ago
I had a "brain MRI with contrast" scan last year, I wasn't offered earplugs. It wasn't that loud, I certainly wasn't in any discomfort. With hindsight I'm not convinced about the informed consent re: the ga
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by logifail 2y ago
> Debian is a desktop operating system for human persons who are responsible for their computers Debian is many other things as well!
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by logifail 2y ago
> ...or visually impaired and thus use those announcements to understand what state the lift is in ...but only in lifts in the UK? No, that's not a credible hypothesis.
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by logifail 2y ago
> I genuinely don't see the harm of these things [..] they do reduce accidents It would be good to see actual data backing up this hypothesis. The cynic in me says another equally plausible hypothesis would be that this is entirely
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by logifail 2y ago
> To be honest this is a general problem with the UK Hotel lifts would appear to be another example of this. Automated "doors closing" / "doors opening" announcements seem to be present almost everywhere. Presum
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by logifail 2y ago
> I suspect that America's lack of work life balance, lack of social safety net, repressive moral culture, high gun violence Are Americans in therapy directly affected by those issues, or - how can I put this - merely worried about
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by logifail 2y ago
(Genuine Q) why do so many Americans [appear need to] have a therapist compared with - sorry, not sure how to put this - the rest of the planet?
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by logifail 2y ago
> Irish posties mean you don't actually need them I worked as a postie for a few weeks as a Christmas job when I was at Uni a looong time ago. My GF used to write to me regularly (yes, writing letters was a thing back then), we came
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by logifail 2y ago
> The models are trained on something. By definition you can’t separate the output from the input. I've watched my own three children learn to talk, then to write. The human mind is also trained on inputs.
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by logifail 2y ago
> I don't want to get into that quagmire I'm not sure it's a quagmire: iOS devices are more expensive compared with the competition. I don't think this is up for debate. Given that, a null hypothesis might be that s
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by logifail 2y ago
Wouldn't it be amazing if the organizers were to commit to ensuring everyone - VIPs included - were going to be forced to use public transit? Might even provide incentives to make sure the transit options work :) Otherwise this smac
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by logifail 2y ago
> There are a lot of ex-Dropbox people at Figma who might have learned firsthand that bringing your stuff on-prem under a theory of saving money is an intensely stupid idea Well, that's one hypothesis. Another is that "Every ma
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by logifail 2y ago
> it's written by a company that nearly got sold to Adobe for $20 billion (Apologies if this is a dumb question) but isn't Figma big enough to want to do any of their stuff on their own hardware yet? Why would they still be p
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by logifail 2y ago
> it's possible the blog post's primary purpose was a shot across bow to their AWS account manager Isn't it slightly depressing that this explanation is fairly (the most?) plausible?
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by logifail 2y ago
> That article is not obsolete just because it's 12 years old. Honestly, in PHP's case, there's not much you can say about it 12 years ago that isn't still true. The very first specific thing mentioned in the articl
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by logifail 2y ago
> We send kids to school, in the hope they get some education, but the reality is that we use schools for free childcare while we work We also send kids to school to learn social skills they can't learn by themselves. My kids someti
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by logifail 2y ago
> that was decided for Twitter and threads and the rest of the Internet by the LinkedIn vs HiQ web scraping case which said that content available outside of a login wall is fair game Q: Remind us who are the creators of all this valuabl
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by logifail 2y ago
> when we open them, they don't just display a page with an article. We get greeted with banners asking to consent to ad profiling My default browser is Firefox with the excellent NoScript extension. For the majority of websites I
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by logifail 2y ago
> I have kids now and I am glad I could possibly spot this. We have three kids and I struggle to watch videos of stuff like this. No drownings in the family, thank $deity, but we've had a fairly lengthy string of medical incidents o
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by logifail 2y ago
> If/when American law mirrors it or we sign a treaty, it applies to me. Until then, it doesn’t. The penalty could be “shoot on sight” and it doesn’t matter as long as I’m outside their jurisdiction. That's great if you never n
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by logifail 2y ago
> everything started to sound click-baity. "One important thing you have to know about X" just feels like a click-bait headline "X important things you have to know about Y. Number N will surprise you!"

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