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by randomstudent 9y ago
As a counterexample, every time I have valiantly tried to use Grit to face a challenge that's uncomfortable and hard for me naturally I have failed miserably. In all occasions, I would have been better just quitting the challenge or do
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by randomstudent 9y ago
You might also find yourself buying tuberculosis with your milk, but that's your choice.
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by randomstudent 9y ago
> A bloke my sister knows (she's a nurse), was diagnosed with 'hypertension not otherwise specified', at the ripe old age of 31. But they didn't catch it early because he 'felt fine'. He wasn't overweig
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by randomstudent 9y ago
It also runs on Google's servers, which makes it unacceptable for many use cases.
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by randomstudent 9y ago
Unsong is not exactly rational fiction. The author itself claims it isn't (some people claim it is despite this fact, though).
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by randomstudent 9y ago
This is a major problem for me when reading digital material, especially if not on something like a PC. On the comuter I can at least Ctrl+F for the part I'm after.
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by randomstudent 9y ago
Cool, thanks. That definitely answers my questions. They really should link the study! The part about distinguishing the animals from one another is still a problem, but I think that if Pokemon were actually real animals kids would distingu
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by randomstudent 9y ago
This is very interesting. Do you know if they have any interesting misconceptions about those animals they know about but have never seen (assuming you yourself know enough about rabbits, badgers, hares and such to know that they are miscon
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by randomstudent 9y ago
Regarding the study they mention(the one that shows that children recognize Pokemon better than real animals and plants). There is an important aspect of this finding that the article doesn't discuss. They don't link to the study,
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by randomstudent 9y ago
Do you mean CSF instead (Cerebrospinal fluid)? I'm not qualified to answer that, sorry. But my best guess is that the problem is almost 100% intracellular.
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by randomstudent 9y ago
My very cursory analysis, after skimming the article follows. First, the article in general is quite misleading. It's written in a language that a layman would understand, but in a way that causes such layman to misunderstand some cruc
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by randomstudent 9y ago
The K:Na balance is very interesting, especially because pre-agriculture societies usually have very low levels of hypertension, and this is probably the cause. Na+ and K+ balance does have something to do with acid-base regulation, because
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by randomstudent 9y ago
This is very interesting, and I particularly like the causal test of inducing sensitization to the antigens present in the bacteria through exposure. It's probably the strongest causal link you're going to get in humans (you can&#
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by randomstudent 9y ago
You still have gut bacteria in the small intestine, and they're probably as important as the ones in the large intestine. I can guarantee you that without both the small and the large intestine, you do notice a difference (but unfortun
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by randomstudent 9y ago
Probably not. Unlike MS, which is an autoimmune disease, ALS is not autoimmune. The exact cause is only known in some cases, but it seems to stem from problems with the machinery inside the cell, not an aggression by the immune system from
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by randomstudent 9y ago
> Apparently at the current moment the best is to keep your PH value in the body neutral. It's particularly important to prevent "acidity" If you're talking about a neutral pH as in pH = 7.0 (the usual accepted defini
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by randomstudent 9y ago
> People are not very rational. Almost all trips in cars are very short, yet people are still very concerned about range in electric cars As they should be... What good is a car if it can't be used for the occasional long trip? I ex
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by randomstudent 9y ago
Yes. This Elixir library aims to have a virtual DOM on the server and send minimal diffs to the client: https://github.com/grych/drab It can already do this for some kinds of diffs, but it doesn't have a full VDOM
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by randomstudent 9y ago
Thanks. I'll read these papers he I have the time. I agree that gamma knife surgery on the hypothalamus is probably not yet ready for prime time (and it might never be if we can find something better)
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by randomstudent 9y ago
> Hopefully some day we will find ways to drive repair of these circuits. Any idea on how we may do it? AFAIK, currently we have no good mechanisms to "repair" individual brain circuits: even in strokes, we mainly exercise the
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by randomstudent 9y ago
> Let me confidently assure you that inflammation in the hypothalamus is a dominant feature of obesity I certainly believe you (I'm not qualified to agree or disagree, as I'm not a specialist like you). The point of my rambling
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by randomstudent 9y ago
This is a very important question, which I'll try to answer as clearly as possible. First, a word of warning: This doesn't look like the appropriate kind of article to be posted on HN. As a doctor, it's hard to understand all
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by randomstudent 9y ago
Where am I looking at this through a 21st century lens? I'm just saying that in all of these cases, the strong won and imposed their will on the weak, thus suppressing their ideas and culture... Love doesn't seem to have been very
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by randomstudent 9y ago
> Nazism has only been suppressed in Germany Yes, I thought it was obvious from the context. The original version of Nazism was suppressed by invading their country, killing 7 million people in the process, hunting their leaders, etc. &g
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by randomstudent 9y ago
Hm... Interesting :) Is there any research about this? It does seem likely, but I can certainly imagine a world in which most attempts at suppression work and we celebrate the cases where it doesn't because it's ironic. Is there a
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by randomstudent 9y ago
Counter-examples: Nazism (I guess you might argue that after being suppressed it's making a comeback, but that's tenuous at best), dozens of Christian heretic faiths you've never heard about, the genocide of the Native Americ
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by randomstudent 9y ago
> I feel like love is a better tool than hate in trying to affect social change. Please do not argue for this position based on "feelings"... In my own country, most social change was the result of war, credible threats of viol
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by randomstudent 9y ago
Not saying that I agree, but some people say that the best way of making sure what you describe doesn't happen to America is by stopping the Nazis right now. Yes, you loose the high ground of supporting absolute free speech but suppose
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by randomstudent 9y ago
Some people believe that stopping the maniacs and crazies right now is the best way to make sure the West doesn't turn into a new Soviet Union. Whether you agree or not, it's certainly a defensible position. Yes, you can argue tha
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by randomstudent 9y ago
This attitude is naïve to the extreme... You're surely aware that prolonged suppression of certain ideas can and often does decrease the prevalence of such ideas in the population? And that such suppression might even make certain peop

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