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by ncasenmare 8mo ago
Thank you! I'll give this a read.
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by ncasenmare 8mo ago
Aw, thank you for your kind words! I hope the extra D helps! ^_^
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by ncasenmare 8mo ago
> You’re cherry picking papers. I just picked the most recent meta-analysis I could find, which also specifically estimates the dose-response curve. (Since averaging the effect at 400 IU and 4000 IU doesn't make sense.) > Other
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by ncasenmare 8mo ago
Hi, author of the blog post here! Thank you for writing in with your concerns. First: > Please be very careful when someone tries to tell you that supplements are miraculous and pharmaceutical drugs don’t work at all. I'll concede I
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by ncasenmare 8mo ago
Thank you! I relate; I live in Montréal, close to New England, with similar climate. The current UV Index for Montréal is... 0. And the current UV Index for Boston is... 0.6. (1.6 later today) I can't find a rigorous academic source ri
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by ncasenmare 8mo ago
Hi, I'm the author of the main blog post. Just wanted to say that's a fascinating experience, 160,000 IU a day! I mean, I'm not going to try that, but that's good to hear that 5,000 IU/day for years has been worki
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by ncasenmare 8mo ago
Hi, author of the blog post here! Thanks for your concern. I do still stand by my claim, since more recent peer-reviewed studies have shown that up-to-10,000 IU is safe. As written in the post: > McCullough et al 2019 gave over thousands
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by ncasenmare 8mo ago
Hi, author of the blog post here! Thanks for bringing this up -- it wasn't my intention to say one should replace antidepressants with vitamins (the conclusion even says "(Don't quit your existing antidepressants if they&#x
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by ncasenmare 8mo ago
Hi, author of the blog post here! Yes thank you for catching this awful typo, it's fixed now! I did write "4000 or 5000 IU of Vitamin D" everywhere else in the article -- main text, conclusion -- just my luck that the one
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by ncasenmare 8mo ago
Hi, author of the blog post here! Thank you for sharing your experience with antidepressants, I'm really glad it worked for you & made your life better. I did mention the following at the end of the "antidepressants" se
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AI Safety for Fleshy Humans – Part 2: The Problems(aisafety.dance)
2 points by ncasenmare 2y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: A comics-filled guide to AI Safety by Nicky Case and teenagers(aisafety.dance)
9 points by ncasenmare 2y ago|0 comments
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The Public Domain Jam(publicdomainjam.com)
1 points by ncasenmare 12y ago|0 comments
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How to create 2D visibility/shadow effects for your game(ncase.github.io)
305 points by ncasenmare 13y ago|45 comments
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by ncasenmare 13y ago
The devs are also running a crowdfunding campaign for this, with 10% of the donations going to the EFF, Demand Progress, Mozilla, etc: https://back.nothingtohide.cc
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Support Nothing To Hide, an (open source) anti-stealth game(back.nothingtohide.cc)
19 points by ncasenmare 13y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Social Minus Spying(ncase.github.io)
5 points by ncasenmare 13y ago|0 comments
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by ncasenmare 13y ago
That's a great idea! Perhaps the gamedevs who participated in The Bitcoin Bundle [1] might be the most receptive to the idea of open-sourcing their games. [1] https://www.thebitcoinbundle.com/
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by ncasenmare 13y ago
Not art, but Blender is the biggest example of "buying out for the public" that comes to mind. Blender used to be proprietary software, and when their company went bankrupt, they crowdfunded 100,000 euros to release their code as
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by ncasenmare 13y ago
Thanks! As for the form, I'm guessing it was because the required email field (to send you your download link) was left unfilled. It's my bad, I didn't make the "please fill in this field" prompt obvious enough. I j
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by ncasenmare 13y ago
Hi, organizer of The Open Bundle here! Thanks for submitting our campaign to HN. We just reached our "public domain release" goal half an hour ago, hopefully this will lead to more indies aiming to earn money by opening their work
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So You Wanna Build a Crowdfunding Site(hacks.mozilla.org)
133 points by ncasenmare 13y ago|10 comments
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Scarface and the Surveillance State(medium.com)
2 points by ncasenmare 13y ago|0 comments
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by ncasenmare 13y ago
If I recall, if you send someone directly to the discussion page, your vote will not count. It'll register on the counter, but it won't effect your ranking. (I think Reddit does the same thing) This is to protect from mass-voting and spam.
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The Cold War for Eyeballs(medium.com)
2 points by ncasenmare 13y ago|0 comments
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by ncasenmare 13y ago
Object.observe() is an upcoming feature for JavaScript, which allows you to add listeners to object's properties changing. With that, you could do the same thing as this library, but without this library. Still, I'm a fan of reactive progra
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by ncasenmare 13y ago
Great point about slacktivism being due of a lower barrier to supporting a cause. However, I doubt that a higher barrier would cause the "slacktivists" to engage more, rather than just not engage at all anymore. Maybe one day microdonations
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by ncasenmare 13y ago
Off the top of my head, I can think of 3 ways to provide real-world context for your studies. The first would be a project-based curriculum. Students get to apply what they learn as soon as they learn it. I remember fondly the Twitter clone
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by ncasenmare 13y ago
Having access to digital distractions is just half of why students get bored. The other problem is that the material taught in K-12 schools feels irrelevant, because it is. As an example, OP brings up art analysis. Done properly, it is a re
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by ncasenmare 13y ago
They are the people, ultimately, who pay for the content on those websites. Although, I totally agree that the advertising model is broken. When a blog's insightful articles are paid for by the sensationalist blogspam, we've got a problem.

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