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by ve55 6y ago
Differential privacy is cool, but does Google actually use any of this themselves? I'm hard-pressed to remember a time where Google collected much less than what they were allowed to in order to respect my privacy. Edit: thanks for p
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by ve55 6y ago
I don't think it's unfounded, since once these companies have your DNA, they can keep it forever, share it, or even lose it in a data breach, and presumably over the next years/decades we will be able to make DNA information
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by ve55 6y ago
Diet and exercise being by far the most important and lowest hanging fruit here is definitely true. But even so, what percentage of people do you think even have a rough idea of what an optimal diet+exercise routine would look like for them
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by ve55 6y ago
Really looking forward to some of the startups in this area, specifically companies that A) help you measure how healthy you are, and then B) help direct you on how to optimize your own health. One would think this is a job for our current
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DNA Methylation Clocks' Predictive Capacity for Aging Phenotypes and Healthspan(ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
50 points by ve55 6y ago|21 comments
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by ve55 6y ago
Don't worry, it says they asked Google to not save everyone's voices! On a serious note, it does bother me how much Mozilla constantly uses Google, even when they have their own solutions They could easily choose not to, especiall
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by ve55 6y ago
That sounds pretty cool. It definitely seems like a lot of work was already put into it, but would look forward to that too. Nice work!
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by ve55 6y ago
I looked at it for a few minutes and it seems like it is mostly focused on there being a single presenter at a time, and then an audience for them. In order to better replicate the benefits from meetups and conferences in real life, I think
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by ve55 6y ago
I haven't seen that one, that looks pretty impressive, especially for administering it in a single dose that is that large. That's definitely a good data point in favor that some of it is direct causation though.
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by ve55 6y ago
Yeah, agree completely. I still take Vitamin D daily, and its among my cheapest supplements, I think somewhere around 3 cents per day.
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by ve55 6y ago
Although this is a notable finding it's important to remember that it doesn't lead to the conclusion that supplementing vitamin D will be very beneficial here. When vitamin D is produced in the body naturally via exposure to sunli
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Halifax Explosion(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by ve55 6y ago|0 comments
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Largest artificial non-nuclear explosions(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by ve55 6y ago|0 comments
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by ve55 6y ago
This seems to happen pretty often with some companies. They should be more careful to not make such silly mistakes!
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List of Discontinued Google Products and Services(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by ve55 6y ago|1 comments
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by ve55 6y ago
That's one of the more notable ones, but I do think he had some other things done as well
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by ve55 6y ago
I was referring to the general concept (e.g. think of OP's link), not Musk in particular. Edited for clarification, thanks
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by ve55 6y ago
He definitely started eating and exercising better. I personally think he looks great for his role.
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by ve55 6y ago
This reminds me when I once remarked that Elon Musk's various procedures to change his appearance likely were an ROI of >1,000x for him and have probably increased his net worth by billions if not tens of billions of dollars, just b
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by ve55 6y ago
AI progress including GPT-3, Biotech progress including anything related to solving aging and curing diseases, decentralization progress including everything from finance to chat to social media
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by ve55 6y ago
Honestly I was just randomly going around the Internet and found a Pleroma instance and thought it looked cool, so submitted it. I didn't see the Mastodon submission beforehand, which I'm also a fan of. I do think it seems decentl
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Pleroma: A Mastodon-compatible open and federated social networking server(pleroma.social)
247 points by ve55 6y ago|107 comments
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by ve55 6y ago
>companies reported earnings that show they’ve made billions during a pandemic that has put 40 million Americans at risk of eviction This type of phrasing really is terrible and unnecessary. Writers at Vice made a killing in profits off
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by ve55 6y ago
Very glad I'm not Facebook. No matter what choices you make, millions (or billions) will hate you. Is decentralization the only solution, if it even is one?
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by ve55 6y ago
I read the entire post, but I'm not sure if it.... actually said anything? I guess an expectation of some future releases related to easily spending or buying crypto perhaps?
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by ve55 6y ago
Reminds me so starkly of how much of the Internet has moved into single websites like Reddit. I definitely enjoyed browsing a huge variety of interesting forums in the past, but the amount I go to nowadays is much smaller. Convenience is ni
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by ve55 6y ago
As bad as it was this was leaked beforehand, once it is posted on Twitter by a news report, I would no longer consider it 'inside information'. Still, the entire scenario is very strange.
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by ve55 6y ago
Related, this is a great post by patio11 on one of the last large Japanese earthquakes and how it was handled by various systems: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2011/03/13/some-perspective-on-the...
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List of Longest-Living Organisms(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by ve55 6y ago|0 comments
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by ve55 6y ago
Tiktok is not a US-based software company, they're a private company from China: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bytedance There's been precedent set recently with e.g. Huawei: https://www.theverge.c

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