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by robbiep 4y ago
You haven’t understood the article. The decline in life expectancy in the US is not being driven by more rapid decline in the aging population but by young people dying earlier exerting influence over the entire curve. I can assure you that
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by robbiep 4y ago
I’m not sure if you’ve spoken to many people from other countries in the last 10 years, but america is absolutely viewed as a third world country (masquerading as a first world country) by much of the rest of the developed world
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by robbiep 4y ago
Can we hear some more stories?
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by robbiep 4y ago
1 in 6 caucasians don't metabolise codeine to any useful form and therefore derive zero benefit from it. Opiates are never a good lifestyle option for chronic pain.
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by robbiep 4y ago
no it is still a mainstay of treatment for those at high risk
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by robbiep 4y ago
I was in Vietnam once and buying a flight between Dalat and Da Nang. First searched on there .com and it was $3-400 AUD. Searched again on the Vietnamese domain - $75 AUD. Wild.
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by robbiep 4y ago
Flagstar decided ‘shit no, I’m not going to take over a book of shitty crypto assets valued at god knows what they could be a massive liability’. The key validator here is that they also dumped a heap of mortgages and loans that they consid
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by robbiep 4y ago
Whatever sort of minimal state you want to look at, who is going to pay for roads and public safety?
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by robbiep 4y ago
It’s because your human math for power output is so far off it’s hard to know where to start to point you in the right direction
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by robbiep 4y ago
It’s a LLM
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by robbiep 4y ago
Why neutrophils? They’re not implicated in solid tumours or the regulation of them. Do you know what function neutrophils perform?
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by robbiep 4y ago
Are you a LLM?
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by robbiep 4y ago
I’m sorry, but I’m having a lot of trouble following your tangential and, from my position, erratic, line of thought. You started off with the minute quantity of formaldehyde being the reason the combustion product of tobacco, which contain
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by robbiep 4y ago
What you're talking about is not some ideal state that we currently exist in where demographic trends aren't resulting in impairment of healthcare delivery (which is a fundamental human right). What you are talking about is the fi
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by robbiep 4y ago
You’re missing the bit where you can’t not give the 80 year old a hip replacement. Or look after them in their twilight years in a respectable standard of living. It’s easy to make hand wavy statements from where you are (maybe 20s?) - wait
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by robbiep 4y ago
If AI could do that, it wouldn’t be AI - it would be capital I.
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by robbiep 4y ago
I think you have the new = denser, old = lighter backwards? Old growth is denser, new growth is lighter
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by robbiep 4y ago
you're right, we should actively work to remove the advantages that those elites that can communicate clearly and effectively have. There should be quotas for positions that are dominated by the best performing communicators, as determ
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by robbiep 4y ago
That’s demonstrably not the reason why smokers get lung cancer and here is a thought experiment to prove it out. Alcohol is metabolised into formaldehyde. It’s one of the reasons why we get hangovers and definitively the reason why people w
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by robbiep 4y ago
Just the practical component. If you’re in a closed environment, and you want to reverse your CO2 production, you need to create new biomass roughly equivalent to the quantity of food you consumed that day. The practical consideration that
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by robbiep 4y ago
What person does a back of the envelope calculation and manages to equate 75kg of metabolic tissue consuming around about 0.8kg of oxygen a day is going to be cancelled out by a couple plants draped around the place?
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by robbiep 4y ago
Weed is now extensively available through e prescribing just about everywhere
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by robbiep 4y ago
That’s the bursting of a bubble - which is slightly different because of the speculative pressure that creates it, as opposed to pure oversupply
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by robbiep 4y ago
That’s how economics works. For real world examples, look at Mansa Musa’s pilgrimage (0) https://www.nationalgeographic.org/encyclopedia/mansa-musa-m... (1)
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by robbiep 4y ago
I also had this happen - unbelievable really
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by robbiep 4y ago
Jesus fuck people, the article is literally about new approaches to this.
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by robbiep 4y ago
That’s interesting - haven’t seen that
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by robbiep 4y ago
My Mazda has adaptive cruise control - it has absolutely revolutionised my highway driving. It is intuitive because the heads up display gives you a distance to the vehicle in front; and you can set the distance you want to maintain. It tra
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by robbiep 4y ago
To be able to maintain carry forward losses, you have to have capital. The boys didn’t have capital. They paid themselves what came in. If they had been maintaining losses, they wouldn’t have a house because they would have had to sell it.
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by robbiep 4y ago
How are you preventing the type of attack that is being described here? Thanks

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