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by vjk800 3y ago
Pseudoscience involving human microbiome seems to be very popular here in HN. Whatever health articles gets posted, someone starts touting their favourite internet theory on how it is all completely determined by the human microbiome, using
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I've thought about harvesting and eating seaweed which is basically everywhere near my home village. I've never heard of anyone eating it and I've been wondering why. How would I go about figuring out if a particular species
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> What often stops otherwise suicidal folks is that it's not an easy thing to do Is the take away from this that if all people knew how to kill themselves efficiently, the suicide rates in general population would be as high as they
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"...another disease people actually get but also many more people claim to have without evidence." Lyme disease can actually be detected. For IBS and long covid, you are making the "no true Scotsman" argument. Diagnosing
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I like this, and the comment you replied to. I think most of the things we have are the way they are because of reasons like these, not because someone rationally planned them.
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If all those points are true, why would anyone use the Western suppliers? Since they keep on business, someone must. It's interesting that China usually has the reputation of producing low quality crap, but somehow they get the large s
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by vjk800 3y ago
Good to know. Now how do I get one?
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by vjk800 3y ago
But I don't want to choose. I'd like there to be only one option.
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You can also ask it to change the style. Here are three (also asked it to make it more concise): *1. Academic Tone (Concise):* Detecting AI-written cover letters is tough, but here are quick tips: 1. Watch for flawless language. 2. Look for
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by vjk800 3y ago
As long as there is even a tiny patch of living stuff somewhere on the planet, things living on it will slowly evolve and take over everything else. Sure, it's a slow process and we will not live to see it, but I find it pretty arrogan
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The presumption becomes problematic mostly when the operator of the computer is the same party who is being persecuted. 1) It is difficult or impossible for any outsider to inspect the workings of the computer, 2) the operator has every inc
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The planet will survive just fine. Over enough time, whatever species manage to survive this, will evolve to thrive in the environment we have created. See e.g. the plastic eating bacteria. However, humans might not survive the major altera
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Can someone explain to me why there are so many category theory posts in HN? To me it's just a pretty obscure branch of mathematics and there are almost no posts about any of the more popular branches of mathematics.
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It's weird how all that stuff and much more is still available now, but no-one is in awe anymore. Of course the same could be said of the pre-internet modern era compared to, say the 1700th century. I guess human mind really is sensiti
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There are (at least) two ways to think about the law. One (which technical people tend to subscribe to) is that the law is analogous to a computer code for the society and the ideal is that it is followed at all times. The second is that th
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Doesn't all weight loss schemes also decrease muscle mass if not done together with some sort of resistance training and adequate protein intake? From what I've heard, Ozempic mostly just decreases the appetite, so I would be surp
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I don't know. My parents made me learn how to play piano as a child (well, they didn't force me, but let me understand that they really wanted it) and as a result I was completely uninterested in piano and classical music in gener
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Pines and black currants both grow here in (Northern) Europe. How come the fungus isn't a problem here?
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> - Also important is the delta between systolic and diastolic. Mine is around 40 mmHg, if it's higher than that, it's an indicator of a stress peak (bad sleep, bad day, overwhelmed) that usually resolves after a couple days. I
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Why the hell isn't this used for more stuff. Like you could have a vending machine for hot pizza or lasagne or something.
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It seems that what is considered good coffee varies greatly. Here in Finland the traditional way to make coffee is very lightly roasted, which makes it quite acidic. Many foreigners don't think very highly of this type of coffee, but p
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As Nicholas Nassim Taleb would, maybe, speculatively, put it: highs school statistics teaching based on normal distributions claims another victim. The writers constantly writes about averages. Digital economies almost always follow heavy t
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Indeed. I don't think I've ever heard of an oven burning down a house. And given how pretty much everyone has one, there must be many ovens left on alone in the house at every given moment.
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"No-one" was a bit of a hyperbola; there was a known "drug gang" of three people who we were warned not to interact with when we were children. These three drug users were known by everyone and I'd really be surpris
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> Shame is an important aspect of behaviour moderation, a negative emotion usefully experienced when doing something that breaks the social contract. In places with diverse people from different backgrounds and cultures (i.e. all modern
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Why don't the spread by just naturally dropping seeds around? Or is it so slow that it hasn't happened yet for a ~hundred or so year old settlements?
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The original comment didn't read very smug to me, but more generally you have a point. Most people (maybe all of us?) have much better things to do than learn quirks of Windows. It really is the software/computer manufacturer or m
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> The average person wants a secure device that just works. I mean, I consider myself a tech person and I also want this for my everyday stuff. I love playing with gadgets and operating systems whenever I have extra time, but I do not wa
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Something I've learned from raising children is that the behaviour patterns the children follow are ultimately the same behaviour patterns us adults follow too. We just like to pretend that we know better or have overcome the childish
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I would love to visit "Dairyland"

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