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by wavegeek 6y ago
I can't see any other reference to this but there is a whole field of study on this. See e.g. https://www.amazon.com.au/Cost-Disease-Computers-Cheaper-Hea... or google "cost disease". One thing I have noticed
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by wavegeek 6y ago
There is a rapid cheap test for covid-19 infection. It consists of checking whether a person has cold/flu symptoms and/or a temperature over 37.5. This test may sound ridiculous but it is part of the reason why Taiwan has had hard
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by wavegeek 6y ago
Yes I read that report and was not convinced. One anecdote. Not in a peer reviewed journal etc. If you do take Vitamin D, variant D3 is by far best, and it may be wise to take vitamin K2 as well to avoid calcium metabolism issues (calcifica
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by wavegeek 6y ago
As with this study the dose used is often quite low, driven by paranoia about overdoses. Other studies have been very short term, had small numbers of subjects and thus would only find very large effects, or used large irregular "bolus
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by wavegeek 6y ago
> i wonder how much is survivorship bias Here is one anecdata. When my daughter was 14 I taught her a Lisp and then a traditional programming language. She found the random syntax of the trad formatted language bizarre.
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by wavegeek 6y ago
> s-expressions are kind of hard to read and reason about for my brain I think it's likely this is just a matter of familiarity. Like the way that people think the Windows (/ whatever) GUI is intuitive - but when you test this
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by wavegeek 6y ago
>I prefer a full size keyboard. Also every laptop has a different - stupid - keyboard layout.
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by wavegeek 6y ago
You take CO2 out of the air and turn it into oil / methane / elemental carbon using vast amounts of energy and some water and catalysts. You then burn it, returning it to the atmosphere. Net CO2 impact = zero.
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by wavegeek 6y ago
This is a strange debate. They seem to be in violent agreement.
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by wavegeek 6y ago
Great book that clearly explains the perils or inferring causation and now you can deal with them constructively. For those who want more he has a more technical book "Causality: Models, Reasoning and Inference" which is also exce
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by wavegeek 6y ago
I like his point about lack of ambiguity. Nothing makes me want to punch an author in the head (without, to be clear, any possibility I would actually do it) like lazily creating an ambiguous notation, which is supposed to be "clear fr
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by wavegeek 6y ago
"Quotations allegedly of me on the internet are rarely legitimate" AlbertEinstein.
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by wavegeek 6y ago
> there is a high chance that the person in question have already heard it. This is so true. I speak as someone whose name prompts an obvious joke. People think they are so clever and witty, having come up with something I have heard hun
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by wavegeek 6y ago
Hmm it appears that the cost figures cited are operational costs only and do not including the cost of capital and the cost of debt. If your operation just breaks even on operational costs, it does not have a long term future. Look at all t
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by wavegeek 6y ago
Given the (according to me) fact that many worlds (more aptly named the Relative State Interpretation) is true and correct, one can confidently predict that no "collapse" will be found. That, and the fact that people have been loo
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by wavegeek 6y ago
> The wavefunction is a nonlocal variable! Important point. It is quite unfair to say "nya nya local hidden variable theories cannot replicate QM", when QM is itself radically non-local.
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by wavegeek 6y ago
> The correct formulation involves the subtle concept of decoherence. The trouble is that decoherence only explains part of the story. With decoherence you end up with the probability density converging into multiple outcomes. But decohe
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by wavegeek 6y ago
> QM is essentially deterministic. No. The standard formulation of QM posits a measurement using a pseudo-classical device which generates a probabilistic outcome. This is at the very core. Source: any text on QM. The wave function evolu
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by wavegeek 6y ago
> "something they did in the past" suggests they have stopped doing it. No it doesn't. All evidence of their proclivities is from the past. It means they have form, a record, of bad behaviour. Remember how the use of the T
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by wavegeek 6y ago
Income tax was introduced as a "temporary measure" to pay for WWII. Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me.
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by wavegeek 6y ago
> open source code The promise of open source code. Which is a very different thing. Note that this government also promised to get rid of the budget deficit. But did not do so. They have told many other lies and have earned the right to
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by wavegeek 6y ago
> I'm pretty confident powerful argument there, not. With SARS1 there was continuing damage post 6 months.
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by wavegeek 7y ago
Incentives matter
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by wavegeek 7y ago
The trough of disillusion has arrived. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hype_cycle The big challenge for self driving cars is that they are held to a standard of perfection. No human driver can meet that standard either,
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by wavegeek 7y ago
Yes. Also look at the ingredients - the composition is very far from real meat in terms of nutrient value. But if you think beyond meat is bad, try some vegan cheeses some time. I tried 3 and they all tasted like 6 parts soap, 1 part nail p
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by wavegeek 7y ago
> Umm Signaling of disdain and contempt not required. > Cooking destroys like 99% of lectins. Citation required. > Its always broken down completely first It's Ummm We are talking here about the lining of the digestive system.
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by wavegeek 7y ago
Yes there was recently an item on Amazon I wanted to buy. But could not as it was not listed on the local amazon.country. It ended up costing me 10X as much having it shipped from Europe to a friend in the USA and then here. Enormous costs
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by wavegeek 8y ago
Citation required. I was on such a diet for many years and eventually gave up on it because I could not make it work in a healthy way. Why? Too many deficiencies. Example: Linseed oil /= DHA/EPA. Many or most people cannot make lo
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by wavegeek 8y ago
Yes I have the same problem, also the fake meat products are often loaded with ridiculous amounts of salt. The produce spiel claims reduced salt so it looks like this has been an issue with this product in the past.
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by wavegeek 8y ago
Having looked at a few of these studies I found the following problems 1. Industry sponsorship. Which has been shown to produce wildly biased results. 2. Small, short term studies which can only find a "significant" (i.e. statisti

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