forloop

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by forloop 10y ago
As you said yourself, "You're taking additional sleep hormone by taking it orally. So sleep is melatonin." Sleep, and sleep with additional sleep hormone aren't the same thing by definition. > So sleep is melatonin.
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by forloop 10y ago
I heard that sirtuins are beneficial for a healthy organism, and could be detrimental to someone with cancer. The same goes for something like glutathione (since they make cells more robust, and you don't want robust cancers cells!). I
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by forloop 10y ago
I agree. People should make up their own minds. When I see studies like the following (grabbed from Dr. Rhonda Patrick's Twitter feed) it makes me question his position on fish oil. I also found fish oil beneficial to my recovery proce
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by forloop 10y ago
> The best nootropic is getting a good nights sleep. The above is a direct quote from OP. Where's the metaphor? You're grossly mistaken! > but that it is something that performs the same function Can sleep gives one supra
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by forloop 10y ago
You sound like a follower of Ray Peat. He recommends MB, holds that position on fish oil, recommends K2 as a quinone, recommends aspirin, and recommends nicotinamide* (for the NAD+) From what I can tell—and having experience with MB & h
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by forloop 10y ago
Sleep isn't a nootropic. This happens quite a lot with noobs. They conflate nootropics with sleep/food/water/exercise. It wouldn't be that bad, but it derails the actual subject: I.e. nootropics. Here's a con
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by forloop 10y ago
Different people have different risk:reward ratios. You've seen what gwern has written. He makes clear the monetary trade off. He also explains how some of the drugs are well studied, and most probably safe. These people aren't
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by forloop 10y ago
> GDS is wasting taxpayer money, spending way too much attention on minute details like apostrophes, CSS and stuff. You're getting downvoted because everyone already knows governments waste taxpayers' money—thus your comment is
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by forloop 10y ago
anarcho-capitalists are trump supporters?
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The Morality of Surge Pricing(medium.com)
1 points by forloop 10y ago|0 comments
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Nutritional Geometry 2: Carb Restriction(joshmitteldorf.scienceblog.com)
2 points by forloop 10y ago|0 comments
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by forloop 10y ago
Politics is the art of mendacity.
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Transhumanism merges tool-making and myth-making(roughtype.com)
2 points by forloop 10y ago|0 comments
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Police in England and Wales consider making misogyny a hate crime(theguardian.com)
1 points by forloop 10y ago|2 comments
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Ask HN: Best devs to follow on Twitter?
3 points by forloop 10y ago|2 comments
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The Math Myth(econlog.econlib.org)
318 points by forloop 10y ago|313 comments
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by forloop 10y ago
Only at concentrations seen when the model has phenylketonuria. It's a rare disorder[0]. Steve Jobs was know for eating fruit high in phenyalanine (well tyrosine)[1]. It may have contributed to his high performance. [0] https:/
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by forloop 10y ago
> I look forward to someone trying to get things like that tested in court. Tough it'd be tricky, given that the Crown Prosecution Service would presumably not want to push a case like that and end up looking like idiots, and while
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by forloop 10y ago
Land of the free. Whatever the US can do, the UK can do better! We've got a the Psychoactive Substances Act 2016[0]. The act is so broad it can be applied to many things. And it's so broad it's functionally unenforceable. A q
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Would you take LSD to give you a boost at work?(wired.co.uk)
2 points by forloop 10y ago|2 comments
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by forloop 10y ago
Would this have happened if I had written yes? (To the question of whether the post is worth reading).
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by forloop 10y ago
No.
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by forloop 10y ago
Yeah sure. A free market success. Why not.
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by forloop 10y ago
> HN. I can't speak to that. My quote was about Quora. > By bubble, I mean the memetic assumptions that any culture takes for granted. Oh, I see. Like slavery, religion, or when people talk about morality without knowing there ar
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by forloop 10y ago
Are you talking about HN or Quora? What's "the bubble"? > This would jive with his above narrative, but many other stories could explain as well. Are you saying you don't assign a high probability to your story being
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by forloop 10y ago
> No one seems to even notice the glaring example that the highest ranked woman here is desperately poor and homeless while the highest ranked men are all quite comfortable and I am reasonably confident that at least two of them are self
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by forloop 10y ago
Alternative view on what you said: It seems like there's a plausible motive behind the YC move (via-a-vis Quora) then.
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by forloop 10y ago
So you're not rebutting the quote? Presumably, if Quora offered him money to come back they found his contribution valuable.
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I’m a neoliberal. Maybe you are too(medium.com)
2 points by forloop 10y ago|0 comments
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It takes two to tango: NAD+ and sirtuins in aging/longevity control(nature.com)
1 points by forloop 10y ago|0 comments

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