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by surfpel 4y ago
The South Park episode discusses advertisements that are disguised as news to get clicks. That’s deceptive and bad. This is a product announcement from a startup. HN is all about products and startups and this one in particular is popular h
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by surfpel 4y ago
I use Amazon search for that. I’ve found some great books that way
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by surfpel 4y ago
> I was in horrific agony every moment of every day, stuck in bed 20 hours a day Surely not as a result of the diet?
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by surfpel 4y ago
"By this logic, not offering black & brown people mortgages and excluding them from status symbols is a form of racism..." Yeah that seems pretty racist actually.
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by surfpel 4y ago
With the volume of research being churned out of "publish or perish" institutions, I expect a peer review to inform me on the "Is this complete garbage" metric rather than give some assured level of quality / correc
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by surfpel 4y ago
Did some googling and found a study that doesn’t corroborate that. “…concluding that there are no significant difference of remineralization process obtained by using traditional toothpaste and Novamin.” https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.
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by surfpel 4y ago
> We humans have a terrible track record when it comes to using tech to try to counter environmental issues that we caused. That’s a potentially valid criticism but it’s also a heuristic that, even if a valid one, draws on a very short h
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by surfpel 4y ago
What are you even arguing? People posting here need to made less ambiguous, seething comments and stop assuming that people reading already know what they’re arguing. - The poster above mentions desalination and says tech provides a solutio
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by surfpel 4y ago
> killing like crazy but actually eating very little For a domesticated species it sounds like that is the main function. That is, it would make sense that humans domesticated multiple species (cats, dogs, ferrets, minks, etc..)[1] to be
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by surfpel 4y ago
> I want to work but I struggle with communication and being understood (or understanding) the world around me. I struggled with this a lot because it didn't come naturally to me at all. These particular resources had an outsized im
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by surfpel 4y ago
Not necessarily. They can still be infused with antimicrobial chemicals. The longevity of the plastic would then also be determined by those additives, since those would have their own half life too.
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by surfpel 4y ago
That’s exactly what plants, algae, etc. do during photosynthesis. Photons are self propagating electromagnetic waves, just another form of electricity.
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by surfpel 4y ago
It doesn’t need to not be exposed to microbes at all, but rather just not reach a critical mass / density to become a viable and readily available food source. Recycling and incineration come to mind, albeit impractical and environment
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by surfpel 4y ago
In my view this is the most likely way microplastics will be removed from the ecosystem, as there is neither the collective will to clean it up nor will there likely be a way to clean it up through human intervention within a reasonable tim
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by surfpel 4y ago
I think oftentimes the excitement doesn't come from the idea itself but rather the act coming up with ideas and exploring new things. ie: The topic was never really that interesting, but the curious process of discovery and exploration
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by surfpel 4y ago
> There is some very interesting and fun maths involved in this process that is beyond the scope of general investing. Are there some search terms or resources you would recommend looking into to learn more about this fun maths?
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by surfpel 5y ago
This is exactly what I do. I recently had a really awful rut that didn’t end until after I dropped acid. I don’t do enough to get hallucinations but it really does help break me out of whatever pattern of thinking / behavior I’ve gotte
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by surfpel 5y ago
Sunlight is from fusion, so really it’s all nuclear.
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by surfpel 5y ago
Such a passive aggressive comment. I don’t understand why people feel the need to be so vitriolic in the face of an experience that doesn’t match their own on this site
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by surfpel 5y ago
> We ... Perhaps this is the key point here. It's not 'We' for me. I don't have anyone else to rely on for this, like many others who can't afford the time.
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by surfpel 5y ago
> Plenty of vegetables can be eaten raw And this is what I do, but it doesn't meet my caloric needs unfortunately. I really wish I could sustain myself off of just that. Same with some of your other suggestions. I know because I&#x2
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by surfpel 5y ago
Nope you misunderstood. Having low variability in a diet is not good for you because you a good diet is also a diverse diet
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by surfpel 5y ago
What I do now is to meal prep when I can and eat 'unhealthy sugary foods' when I can't > as long as that isn't the majority of your diet, I wouldn't worry too much about it Exactly. For me this is the only practi
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by surfpel 5y ago
Have a life means different things to different people, but in the end the point is the same. Make friends, do hobbies... things that make life actually enjoyable. Is cooking enjoyable? Sure, but spending so much time on it every single day
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by surfpel 5y ago
The real issue is that not everyone has 7 hours a day to think about their diet (or someone else to do that for them). I tried this and after a month or two, I was burnt out and achieved much less of what I wanted to achieve outside of my d
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by surfpel 5y ago
Nah it was totally just a semi obscure vlogger and not myriad of lawsuits, lobbying from ifixit, changes in EU laws, a vocal Wozniak…
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by surfpel 5y ago
> you have opted in to indexing Most people outside tech won’t know that they’re opting into this or what the consequences could be. Children especially can’t be expected to understand that giving away all that personal data could have s
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by surfpel 5y ago
www.sciencedaily.com is what you’re looking for. This story, like most others, was published there the same day the research came out: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/10/201021112358.h... And they
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by surfpel 6y ago
> The increase in risk was not confined to the elderly and was not uniform across ethnicities > Rate ratios comparing patients with covid-19 and matched controls were greater in individuals aged less than 70 than those aged 70 or more
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by surfpel 6y ago
The most useful result here is to isolate the impact of covid hospital admission status on the probability of mortality, not the difference between covid and other hospitalizations.

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