kiterunner2346

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by kiterunner2346 7y ago
Yesterday or the day before IIRC a fellow "WilsonPaige", https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=wilsonpaige posted much earlier on Hacker News and, right in front of us, deduced that the combinationn of chloroquin
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Chloroquine Is a Zinc Ionophore (2014)(ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
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by kiterunner2346 7y ago
Why did you delete most of wilsonpaige's posts? All he did is put two things together and come up with an idea that will apparently work. So he's kinda in Neils Bohr's situation with the hydrogen atom: it works, it only works
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by kiterunner2346 7y ago
WilsonPaige is right (if not always for the "right" reason): "Coronavirus Chloroquine & Zinc Treatment": https://citycourier.org/news/coronavirus-chloroquine-zinc-tr...
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by kiterunner2346 7y ago
Lancet Article(February 22, 2020): "Reducing mortality from 2019-nCoV: host-directed therapies should be an option" https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6... from the article:
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by kiterunner2346 7y ago
Title: "Clinical features of patients infected with 2019 novel coronavirus in Wuhan, China" https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6... from the Lancet article: "In view of
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by kiterunner2346 7y ago
The key may not be a vaccine but simply staying alive. Covid-19 kills with a "cytokine storm": cytochine release syndrome(cytokine storm): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytokine_release_syndrome Article discu
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by kiterunner2346 7y ago
Years ago one doctor (IIRC a general practioner) noticed that all his diabetes patients taking metformin never got cancer. So he wrote a letter about it. I've lost the cite. Today everyone, even doctors, knows that high blood sugar lev
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by kiterunner2346 7y ago
" ...The results suggest that push-up ability might be a simple, reliable and D.I.Y.-in-your-living-room method of assessing heart health... " I call BS. Body weight exercises like push-ups are more difficult for taller people. &l
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by kiterunner2346 7y ago
carapace says> "Little rings of gunpowder in the paper to make it act like a fuse..." There is no gunpowder in cigarettes: https://www.verywellmind.com/big-tobaccos-list-of-599-cigare... https://boa
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by kiterunner2346 7y ago
I prefer David Deutsch's optimistic approach to our problems: use science to find solutions. Rebellion is beyond the pale. We don't need rebels; we need scientists and more good science. "The Beginning of Infinity: Explanatio
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by kiterunner2346 7y ago
Is there a text focusing on the known differences between the lower dimensional spaces of 1-4 dimensions and the higher-dimensionality spaces commonly used in DNN calculations?
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by kiterunner2346 7y ago
What a great analysis and reveal. Thank you!
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by kiterunner2346 7y ago
thecupisblue >"...previously was a Chrome and Opera (but never again after I learned what the f is going on there)."< What is going on there?
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by kiterunner2346 7y ago
Phone the FBI and tell them. They will set you up with a new identity and tell you how to stay hidden.
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by kiterunner2346 7y ago
"Did China Steal Coronavirus From Canada And Weaponize It?" https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/did-china-steal-coron... From the article: "In March 2019 ... a shipment of exceptionally virulent viru
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by kiterunner2346 7y ago
Lesson learned years after middle- and high-school: most everybody (even those you know) is having sex (but you aren't)!
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by kiterunner2346 7y ago
I think it relevant to mention Lippmann's statement on Congressional investigations: "So bad is the contact of legislators with necessary facts that they are forced to rely either on private tips or on that legalized atrocity, th
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by kiterunner2346 7y ago
Sure, if the smaller triangles are allowed to overlap.
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by kiterunner2346 7y ago
Ummm, so how is "Coq" pronounced?
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by kiterunner2346 7y ago
option says> "I did not join Theranos after looking at their board." I had to look up Theranos to understand this. I somehow feel dirty.
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by kiterunner2346 7y ago
Capitalism can't do that without redistribution in the form of severe taxation of the wealthy. That's why we need to revive estate taxes and inheritance taxes: in their absence, great dynasties of incredible wealth are formed and
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by kiterunner2346 7y ago
Could someone write a tl;dr for this article so I can understand his point(s)?
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by kiterunner2346 7y ago
"...Pulls Out..."?! An improper metaphor since it was the performers who got screwed, not Pornhub. But, in the end, Pornhub _will_ be screwed (no pun intended).
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by kiterunner2346 7y ago
tfandango says> "If I see something and call that number, my identity will be protected. That is the way my company would prefer I handle ethical issues and I will keep my job. If I gather up evidence and release it to the press, I
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by kiterunner2346 7y ago
I've taken Amazon's warehouse guided tours several times The surprise was that there is NO surprise: the entire process is merely the application of current technologies in warehousing and distribution, with humans in the few nic
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by kiterunner2346 7y ago
Never heard of "Mavis Discount Tire"! I Google'd "Mavis Discount Tire vs Discount Tire" to find that the latter is suing the former for trademark violations: https://news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law&#x2F
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by kiterunner2346 7y ago
No, b/c there is no "long-term" for ML/AI. Look at what brought the current ML explosion: Moore's law held just long enough to make ML work reasonably well w/in the human attention span. Nobody anticipated this
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by kiterunner2346 7y ago
Yeah, but presumably it's cheaper, so Gresham's Law of Pizza demands that the better-looking pizza become obsolete.
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by kiterunner2346 7y ago
It all began with Astronomer John Wheeler, who coined the term "black hole" nearly 50 years ago, and who famously said that "black holes have no hair" because of their simplicity. "Hair" is used as a colloquial

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