octaveguin

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by octaveguin 6y ago
Politicizing science will make science less scientific and more political. It will not work the other way.
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by octaveguin 6y ago
They might see their own past. It seems likely that all species that make it to space might have similar pressures because they have a similar environment. See convergent evolution. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conve
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by octaveguin 6y ago
The Expanse also has UBI on earth. With it, most people still lack opportunity and live a rather destitute, powerless life. Seems like a pretty good perdition of our future, really. UBI recipients with no labor of value to offer won't
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by octaveguin 6y ago
How are you getting rapamycin? I'm interested in it's benefits for autoimmune diseases but it seems quite expensive (in the US).
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by octaveguin 6y ago
That's not true. Many people can self-learn. Those same people often cannot perform well in school because school is rigid and authoritarian. I'm definitely one of them and my career refutes your idea quite heavily. I'm absol
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by octaveguin 6y ago
There's actually a wiki article that lists the standard protocol that a lot of research papers also say. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helicobacter_pylori_eradicatio... I went through the research papers on the su
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by octaveguin 6y ago
A useful keyword in this is Helicobacter pylori. Apparently a huge percentage of people have it, especially in developing countries but not limited to them, and it is known to cause a lot of problems though there is debate about possible be
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by octaveguin 6y ago
I agree. That's a problem, too. The reason it became so pronounced is that social media got very good at it and then taught the lesson to traditional media. They, too, now use metrics of engagement to choose what they show. It is true
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by octaveguin 6y ago
This problem was created by social media by choosing which articles to show in your news feed based on engagement. That is, how much you'll emotionally react to it. The solution is not to add another layer of "fact checking".
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by octaveguin 6y ago
I don't want to go down this rabbit hole but a lot of people believe that terrorism isn't a large problem. The outsized response to it has been. Neither position is an absurd one to take.
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by octaveguin 6y ago
Isn't that horribly patronizing? I'd feel offended if someone treated me with kid gloves based on my skin color.
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by octaveguin 6y ago
Please explain because every bank in the world needs to report to the US about their American account holders. If you own a holding company in another country, you need to declare that and be taxed on it in addition to that country's t
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by octaveguin 6y ago
A lot of people here are concerned that taxing the rich will just make them hide their money offshore. It should be noted, then, that it's gotten a lot harder for Americans to go offshore with their money due to two recent things: 1. E
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by octaveguin 6y ago
There is no reason to believe telegram is in bed with the FSB. The company does not have servers in Russia, the software wasn't developed in Russia, etc. The only reason one could make the connection is that it was developed by a Russi
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by octaveguin 6y ago
So the most reasonable explanation is that Pavel is in a conspiracy with the Russian government and is living in exile as a cover huh? Sounds pretty complicated when a simpler answer would also exist.
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by octaveguin 6y ago
It's strange that whenever telegram comes up, there's an unfounded suspicion that it has some kind FSB/Russian government connection simply because it was developed by a Russian. This is insane and like pretty bigoted - not a
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by octaveguin 9y ago
That newsletter popup made me not want to read your post, nick. It's quite an annoying one.
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by octaveguin 9y ago
A solution to the housing a problem never mentioned is intentional communities. They seem to solve a good portion of the problems. Here's why they make sense: 1. They can be cheap because they can be built in places with low land price
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by octaveguin 9y ago
Interesting story but not very related to what the parent was saying. Examples of skinner boxes are everywhere in society today. They've been around longer than they were identified by Dr. Skinner. Anything that gives a variable reward
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by octaveguin 9y ago
Dinosaury time periods were often much hotter and much more filled with co2. They thrived. Plants thrived. The danger is in the change part.
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by octaveguin 9y ago
In any set of events, the story is up to the interpreter. If you make your story that you were victimized, then you'll feel like there's little you can do yourself to change that. Claiming victimhood is not at all productive. Inst
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by octaveguin 9y ago
If true, that's incredibly depressing. Magic Leap would become the complete rent seeking lead weight to the next platform revolution.
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by octaveguin 9y ago
Enbrel? They just received another patent extension, too. This is what government granted monopolies look like.
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by octaveguin 9y ago
I've thought a lot about this too recently while working as a contract software dev versus a regular employee. There's quite a bit of overhead in specifications planning and negotiation. There is, as well, a lot of overhead in com
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by octaveguin 9y ago
This is all based on smart contracts. A detailed description of how it's supposed to work was linked in a blog post of theirs: https://colony.io/whitepaper.pdf I'm interested in what kind of holes can be poked in
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by octaveguin 9y ago
There are more mundane ends to Amazon possible. 1. If shareholders turn on the company for some reason, it could cause a chain reaction as the margins are so thin and operations costs growing. Normal tech companies are more insulated from t
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by octaveguin 9y ago
That lecture has a 20 minute introduction. A long meandering of thanking and praising various funding organizations and people. A great example of what's wrong with modern academia.
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by octaveguin 9y ago
The law you're referring to is more about marketing investments. You're still free to give your friend 10k for a startup. It's to prevent boiler room style organizations that quite effectively convince people without much inf
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by octaveguin 9y ago
Here are two boring problems: Affordable housing and affordable health care. For each, the current system only wants to create more cost and not benefit the consumer. Somewhere the bottom will fall out. Maybe independent housing communities
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by octaveguin 9y ago
I've been using Vue for about a year now. It's been my lib of choice for rapid front end development. Quasar Framework with it is especially a productive combination. In comparison to react, it's always been more intuitive. T

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