InSteady

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by InSteady 1y ago
You think the prospect of injuries in among military personell are going to prevent policies and practicalities that increase operational fitness? There are about 1.5 million injuries in the US military per year that require medical treatme
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by InSteady 2y ago
$20k per year for a brand new drug that went through 15 years of development is peanuts. Welcome to healthcare in the country that leads the world in pharma research, for good and for ill.
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by InSteady 2y ago
Reading a brief quote given to a journalist and assuming you fully understand the scientific reasoning that went into that snippet intended for lay audiences is also a remarkable assumption. There is an incredible amount of context missing
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by InSteady 2y ago
Same. We have simply learned to filter the noise. It helps around here that the noise takes on a similar and easily recognizable form in most cases.
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by InSteady 2y ago
I haven't crunched the math or anything, but you don't feed 8 billion people with small farms unless every 10th person is willing to go farm. Currently it's more like every 150th.
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by InSteady 2y ago
It's weird, vertical farming has gotten so much hype but really only makes sense for luxury products like microgreens, and still only makes sense if you specifically want to grow them in an expensive, dense city. Even things like matur
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by InSteady 2y ago
I wish there was more tolerance for the Instant Pot situation in big business. Build a great product, sell wildly for many years, inventor becomes a multi-millionaire, many people are employed at good wages for a while, stock holders /
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by InSteady 2y ago
It is so much more difficult than it used to be to get trustworthy information about the quality of products. Seems like you have to already know of a hobbyist turned youtuber/blogger who has ideally done deep dives into a class of pro
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by InSteady 2y ago
> The customer will choose the cheap bulbs because they can't be sure the expensive ones are better quality. This can't be understated. You never know with a bigger price tag if you are actually paying for a better build or jus
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by InSteady 2y ago
Also insurance, yuck. Plus all that gear so that when you have to lay your bike down because some dipshit driver did something insane up ahead of you you can keep at least some of your layers of skin intact.
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by InSteady 2y ago
>Don't people bike because they want to get fit? If not, get a proper motorbike. Riding an ebike is still a moderate workout especially if you are putting on the miles, hauling stuff, have hills, etc. And on most bikes you can set y
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by InSteady 2y ago
Weight really isn't such an issue with ebikes. I'm riding around a 62lb clunker, carry a 10lb chain lock everywhere, plus I'm hauling big loads of groceries and other crap. Even an extra 5lbs isn't going to make a big di
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by InSteady 2y ago
To add perspective, I have a battery rated for 70 miles, which so far seems fairly realistic if I stick to slower speeds and lower assist settings that have me putting in a bit of effort. I went ahead and bought an extra battery just for th
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by InSteady 2y ago
Congratulations, your brief comment has managed to trigger me in 3 different ways.
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by InSteady 2y ago
Kids spending too much time on TikTok? Won't do their chores on time? Try the ancient and time honored tradition of beating them until they behave as you would like! /s
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by InSteady 2y ago
It could be non-genetic as well. Various vitamin, mineral, and enzyme deficiencies, brain chemistry (that part of it that isn't genetically determined), and other health stuff could all play a role. I am sometimes like you describe, wh
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by InSteady 2y ago
Alcohol is definitely bad for anxiety in the long run if you are using frequently (even in small amounts). It does a real number on your GABAergic system.
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by InSteady 2y ago
Less is definitely more. There really could be a stronger culture of moderation like there is with alcohol (one glass of wine / beer with dinner crowd). I almost gave up on cannabis until I started aiming to just barely hit the thresho
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by InSteady 2y ago
Firstly, I'd argue it's only a tautology when you phrase it in a particular way (and take some knowledge about how the brain works as "given"). The point isn't that the effect happens at all, it's about the deg
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by InSteady 2y ago
Camorepticus? Scremaèlitude? We're just making up words at this point, right?
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by InSteady 2y ago
My assumption is that the revenue figure is not exclusively the US government spending. Otherwise what percentage of their yearly revenue is security services to all the other countries as well as businesses in the world? The US government
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by InSteady 2y ago
They have been on the bleeding edge of autonomous robotics R&D for a very long time now. If they were more focused on commercialization for the past 20 years then they wouldn't have pushed the tech forward as far and as fast as the
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by InSteady 2y ago
It's easy to forget in modern society, but in tribal society the elders were fountains of wisdom. When computers, reference materials, technical documents, libraries, school systems, etc don't exist, the value of lived experience
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by InSteady 2y ago
To be fair, Starbucks purchases machines that are automated to a much higher degree than your standard high end espresso machine you'd find in a local shop. It's a lot more button pushing in the correct sequence, a lot less art. T
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by InSteady 2y ago
> The ketogenic diet has been proven to be effective for treatment-resistant epileptic seizures by reducing the excitability of neurons in the brain > There is increasing evidence that psychiatric diseases such as schizophrenia and b
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by InSteady 2y ago
>The other 93 percent of the animal’s lifetime diet will consist largely of feed that is inedible to humans, thus not in direct competition with the human food supply. Just because feed is inedible to humans does not mean it doesn't
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by InSteady 2y ago
Interesting tidbit, but penicillin has it beat by about 50 years.
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by InSteady 2y ago
That is interesting about the manganese and glutamate-to-glutamine angle, although it's worth noting that manganese in foods has very poor bioavailability: Humans absorb only about 1% to 5% of dietary manganese. Infants and children t
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by InSteady 2y ago
Quorn and other meat substitutes most certainly fit the criteria of ultra-processed foods, and as such may be implicated in poor health outcomes if they make up a significant portion of one's diet.
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by InSteady 2y ago
However, if you compare the energy and resource inputs to produce that 2-3g the picture starts looking a LOT more competitive. Not to mention a very attractive nutrient profile and potential medicinal benefits (eg a lot of bioactive tryptop

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