pazimzadeh

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by pazimzadeh 2mo ago
that's his point. anyone can get sunburned, and almost anyone can prevent sunburn through gradual exposure. except albinos, who are especially susceptible. melanin is also not the only factor in preventing sunburn/cancer. there ar
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by pazimzadeh 2mo ago
I thought this would at least mention 'Speaker for the Dead' by Orson Scott Card somewhere?
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by pazimzadeh 2mo ago
it could be that coffee acts directly on the endocrine system as they suggest, or coffee allows you to work out longer (or work out at all since you don't want to sit still) which leads to the effects they observed I'm curious w
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by pazimzadeh 2mo ago
> All three of the languages in the Persian inscriptions were a complete mystery: Old Persian, Elamite, and Akkadian > One of the languages (Old Persian) turned out to be related to modern Persian, in which Rawlinson was fluent, and i
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by pazimzadeh 2mo ago
I kinda meant about ancient persia, like a Ben Gurion or other epic but about persia. but yeah iranian cinema is good. surpringly self-aware sometimes, like the 2004 movie Marmulak (The Lizard)
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by pazimzadeh 2mo ago
Or just more movies about the Persians, where they’re not evil etc..
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by pazimzadeh 2mo ago
less than 1 is plenty
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by pazimzadeh 3mo ago
the farmed salmon were bred to reproduce and grow rapidly
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by pazimzadeh 3mo ago
you lost me, you seem to keep trying to guess my intentions and you ignore the data you don't like you might want biology be really simple and describable by simple equations but in my experience it's not paradoxically your senten
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by pazimzadeh 3mo ago
For sure that contributes to their higher ceiling for exposure, and also makes it harder for them to get vitamin D, which is why they shouldn't avoid going to the beach until the sun is down, since as a population they are quite defici
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by pazimzadeh 3mo ago
> you are fishing for confirmation of your theory instead of answers that fit the data If you say so. > left arm truck driver risk Truck driver sunlight exposure is spectrally different from ordinary sunlight. It is all UVA, over many
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by pazimzadeh 3mo ago
Cool anecdote but as I said, in the middle of the day you should go for a shorter amount of time (starting with just a few minutes) to get ideal UVB exposure. Tourists are an especially bad example since they often work indoors all year or
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by pazimzadeh 3mo ago
I like the idea of checking for that, but not sure the numbers add up. Anterior head + legs + arms = 31.5% Anterior + Posterior torsos = 36% > which would probably be similar to how many times the burns on the arms in terms of surface ar
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by pazimzadeh 3mo ago
Sure that’s a theory, but hasn’t been proven. If I recall, the study showed that heavy sunscreen use amongst sunscreen users was associated with higher cancer rates. Secondly, if sun exposure is really that bad then how do you explain why m
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by pazimzadeh 3mo ago
I agree, but you can titrate your exposure. So at the beginning of the season, in the 12-3 window you can start by going 5 mins without sunscreen for a few days, then 10 mins, then 20 etc. depending on your skin type. The worst thing to do
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by pazimzadeh 3mo ago
No, UVA is stronger and more harmful. UVA penetrates deeper in the skin, since it's stronger. UVB stimulates Vitamin D production, while UVA doesn't. So almost anything that is "UV-blocking" (sunscreen, UV-treated glass)
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by pazimzadeh 3mo ago
Which herbs
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by pazimzadeh 3mo ago
Interestingly the best time to go out is at solar noon, when the UVB/UVA ratio is higher. Just go for a shorter amount of time to compensate for the higher overall intensity.
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by pazimzadeh 3mo ago
viruses and transposons are a major source of creativity in life. the adaptive immune system of jawed vertebrates like us, which defends against viruses, only exists because the RAG transposon inserted itself into the gonads of our fish anc
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by pazimzadeh 3mo ago
actually, the 'little bit' one is probably correct, unless you are in a susceptible group like the elderly then probably vaccinate a lot we can also get better at predicting what each year's mutations are going to be, though
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by pazimzadeh 3mo ago
Here’s a fun read on that arms race The acquired immune system: a vantage from beneath https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15539148/ Basically saying our immune systems ensure that microbes get ever more devious However th
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by pazimzadeh 3mo ago
And every time you generate an immune response you are honing your natural receptors so although they are more specific to the specific virus at hand, they lose general response, so this can backfire for example if you over-vaccinate with t
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by pazimzadeh 3mo ago
spores are the reasons that labs use autoclaves instead of boiling to sterilize things. autoclaves are pressurized so can reach much higher temperatures
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by pazimzadeh 3mo ago
Apparently Dvorak was against net neutrality. He had the worst takes https://us1.campaign-archive.com/?u=d0e55f319709994434570865...
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by pazimzadeh 4mo ago
Sunlight does way more than just produce vitamin D: Photo-neuro-immuno-endocrinology: How the ultraviolet radiation regulates the body, brain, and immune system https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2308374121
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by pazimzadeh 4mo ago
Same with UV radiation (sunlight).
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by pazimzadeh 4mo ago
also his argument relies on consumers being in a stable situation. desperate people 'want' a lot of things which makes them easier to exploit
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by pazimzadeh 4mo ago
LLM's are in fact very good at translation and transliteration.
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by pazimzadeh 5mo ago
yeah stick blender = hand-held blender it's the same basic recipe
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by pazimzadeh 5mo ago
in the case of stage 4 cancer, what is the swing?

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