explodingman

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by explodingman 1y ago
Emergency services get 72 hours grace before they have to feed people. It’s for their benefit in planning responses.
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by explodingman 2y ago
I remember an article on this in the New Scientist a long time ago. It opened with telling us that our grandchildren will be able to identify old photos by the blueness of the sky. SO2 in the sky will reduce the intensity of its colour. M
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by explodingman 2y ago
In its trials, Ozempic was combined with intervention/guidance from nutritionists and fitness advisors, and doctors are supposed to reproduce this by referring patients. You can't do that with mice. I think if I were taking Ozemp
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by explodingman 2y ago
Good reference. Thanks!
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by explodingman 2y ago
Love that word "pleiotropic", nice vocab builder. So it looks like GLP-1 may have positive side-effects beyond what can be explained as consequences of weight loss. Surprising linkages between biochemistry/hormones and tempe
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by explodingman 2y ago
It doesn’t exist in Australia
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by explodingman 2y ago
Really enjoying this
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by explodingman 2y ago
Has downloaded fine just now
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by explodingman 2y ago
I’ve read of a Japanese body building practice that involves using a blood pressure cuff to restrict the dispersal of blood. The muscle marinates in its metabolic waste, which has an anabolic effect. Don’t know what they do for muscles in
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by explodingman 3y ago
How do you pronounce “taipy”
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by explodingman 3y ago
How would an Australian get some?
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Elon Musk’s X to fund legal bills of people “unfairly treated” for posts(smh.com.au)
6 points by explodingman 3y ago|3 comments
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Mayor to sue ChatGPT after it wrongly named him as guilty [video](abc.net.au)
1 points by explodingman 3y ago|1 comments
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by explodingman 3y ago
> exploding heads … I love this!
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by explodingman 4y ago
> if you're suing me, I don't want you in my house. The "me" in the article is not a person, but a corporation. The person suing is not the lawyer, but whoever engaged the law firm. And an entertainment venue is not
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by explodingman 4y ago
The data in the article equally well supports a heading like “Males on average perform better than females on a ‘systematic thinking’ test”
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by explodingman 4y ago
His inconsistencies are consistently to the right https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33951797
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by explodingman 4y ago
The report divides deaths into three types: those who died of covid, those who died with covid and excess deaths. The excess deaths are more numerous than the with covid deaths. Weekly fluctuations in excess deaths correlates strongly with
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by explodingman 4y ago
If you get anywhere, put a link to your code here. I’m bookmarking this spot and I’d appreciate a look at some python code when I come back to this (kinda busy right now).
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by explodingman 4y ago
> The people I think of as most ambitious might not even have careers Could you expand on that?
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by explodingman 4y ago
This!
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by explodingman 5y ago
Only if intelligence leads to greater fitness in the Darwinian sense. Don't confuse higher socio-economic status with Darwinian fitness. Plenty of people of quite modest intelligence and limited achievement are successfully passing t
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by explodingman 5y ago
Correction: the Astral Codex article gives a 25% chance that vitamin D might do you good. https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/covidvitamin-d-much-mo...
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by explodingman 5y ago
> From the perspective of your immune system's cells, what exactly does the vitamin D molecule do? Probably nothing. High vitamin D levels are a side effect of being outdoors a lot and therefore getting more exercise than the deskb
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by explodingman 5y ago
Another entertaining non-leetcode book on go is The Treasure Chest Enigma (a go miscellany) by Noriyuki Nakayama. The core of the book is a collection of essays originally published in the Igo Club magazine in 1975 and 1976. Great read!
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by explodingman 5y ago
For a long period it was against the law for an Irishman to own a horse worth more than 5 pounds. Englishmen could assault an Irishman with a horse worth 50 pounds, steal it, and throw a 5 pound note at the owner's feet, and the (Engl
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by explodingman 5y ago
> For which no one was held accountable IIRC. If you're used to a system in which the courts assume the prosecutor is always right and so the judge's only task is to decide the sentence, then a trial with rules of evidence, bur
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by explodingman 5y ago
Not sure if that is a troll or not. CCP policy and behaviour towards Xinjiang shows a clear intent to eradicate Uighur culture, possibly the Uighur people, on the part of the CCP state. Simlilarly for Hong Kong, Tibet. A warcrime by an Au
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Australian newsreaders discuss Novak Djokovic off-camera (2 minute video)(twitter.com)
1 points by explodingman 5y ago|0 comments
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by explodingman 5y ago
Classic example https://scienceornot.net/2012/04/27/classic-example-of-gish-...

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