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by wpasc 5y ago
I think it’s the hard times, strong people, good times process with more steps: Passionate game creators make good games, good games get players and buyers, that creates profitable/well known companies, that can attract the (no offense
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by wpasc 5y ago
I find it a fascinating case study that some of the company’s most anticipated releases are just re releases: Diablo 2 resurrected, WoW classic, Warcraft 3 reforged. Death by a thousand lapses in game quality and you get a lot of hype about
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by wpasc 5y ago
I don’t think it collapsed in just 3 years. Pick your favorite “things take time” metaphor, but the company has been declining for a while. It’s just that the troubles build quietly for some time using the facade of the previously built rep
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by wpasc 5y ago
I don't think it's controversial, but I don't think it's true. The job vacancies in the U.S. compared to the total deaths don't really match up. Even more so if you factor in that the age group with the highest deat
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by wpasc 5y ago
IMO Joel Spolsky kind of covers a possible answer to your question in his blog post "Hitting the High Notes"[0]. While I'm sure there's plenty of counter examples, it's important to note a wide ranging variety of di
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by wpasc 5y ago
Here here to the possibility of starting a golden age of immune related research and investment. IMO (as an autoimmune patient who reads a bunch about my disease/immune system and has done some computation biology work during my CS mas
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by wpasc 5y ago
Ankylosing Spondylitis patient here who has tried and failed most NSAIDS, Sulfasalazine, and 3 TNF inhibitors. Don't feel dread towards this notion! The immune system is definitely super complex and spaghetti code like, but rheumatolog
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by wpasc 5y ago
I would love to see a feedback feature (not necessarily for this app but just in general) where meeting participants can answer: 1. Did I learn anything new at this meeting? 2. Did I talk at all during this meeting? 3. Would I have gotten t
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by wpasc 5y ago
This is not my opinion, but critiques against AP classes point to the correlation between the resources a high school has and the amount of AP classes and resultant tests available. More focus on AP classes would likely exacerbate economic
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by wpasc 5y ago
I don't think that's an apt comparison. The difference in degree becomes a difference in kind IMO. HN doesn't send you alerts or notifications that are optimally spaced based on A/B testing. HN isn't personalized pe
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by wpasc 5y ago
Haha please do, a video would be great. Your song reminded me of the song: "Find the Longest Path" which you may get a kick out of: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3ww0gwEszo
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by wpasc 5y ago
dns, DNS, dns, dns. The start of every process, dns. Love this.
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by wpasc 5y ago
The general Aubrey de Grey response to this observation is that yes, lifestyle improvements are great and diet/exercise are great for improving one's life. However, it ends up conferring only a few more years of life. Some evidenc
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by wpasc 5y ago
If you don't mind me asking (off-topic), are you less into longevity stuff now? if yes, what made you less into it/possibly more skeptical of it?
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by wpasc 5y ago
I don't think it's so much about individual stocks. House members and especially house leaders have the ability to propose legislation or even talk about potential legislation that affects entire industries. Blue chip stock trades
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by wpasc 5y ago
A very-non-expert opinion, if an approach approximates it pretty well and can be improved upon, then it could end up being quite useful. Given that biology exists on a real, tangible scale then perfection in the fold prediction isn't n
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by wpasc 5y ago
Despite plenty of wasteful use of carbon, energy use largely correlates with reduction in extreme poverty, hunger, etc. Energy use is a requirement for most societies and for people to alleviate basic human needs. I'm not saying we sho
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by wpasc 5y ago
They used a survey of 276 people and then examined some Facebook surveys about "those who used more profanity were also more likely to use language patterns that have been shown in previous research to be related to honesty, such as us
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by wpasc 5y ago
Any chance your previous HN nickname was sadamznintern?
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by wpasc 5y ago
I agree, if capitalism and the free market is to produce individuals who have fuck-you-money^2 then it would be great if they did interesting/innovative things that the market as a collective may pass on as being too risky and/or
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by wpasc 5y ago
Wow, utterly shocking. You won't believe what this article describes. Bitcoin millionaire reveals his 1 strange trick in this link. This article helped me lose 30 lbs using this 1 weird food.
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In defense of the article (not agreeing nor disagreeing), the article then includes reasons why it is concerned with market capitalization: >But if it continues, the waning of Europe’s business will bring consequences. Big firms invest i
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by wpasc 5y ago
I have the worst fucking attornies
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by wpasc 5y ago
why the downvotes on this comment? iirc the vaccine response was shown to diminish over time and health experts discussed the potential need for covid vaccine booster shots. a limited timeframe for reinfection poses an issue considering we
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by wpasc 5y ago
With all the excitement around the study of the microbiome, its connection to the other organs (even brain), and role in a wide variety of diseases, I find it a bit daunting how little is understood about the other components of the microbi
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by wpasc 5y ago
Not to pick a fight (just a student of spanish), but my spanish teacher would caution us against the categorization of permanent vs temporary and gave us acronyms instead because of examples like: It is 1 => Es la una (describing time us
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Would any knowledgeable HNers mind providing an ELI5 for this discovery?
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From the wikipedia for Pfizer, the vaccine supposedly produces a full length spike protein [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pfizer%E2%80%93BioNTech_COVID-...
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Bad medical device is easy to determine? Are masks effective or ineffective against covid? Are fats good or bad for you? Are carbs bad for you? How many times a day should you eat? How much cholesterol in your food matters? What's the
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Read a little up on the history of the medical community underdiagnosing or ignoring autoimmune diseases because they are harder to confirm. Those autoimmune diseases are very real and given the history of underdiagnosing diseases that are

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