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Khelavaster··on The University of California is using graduating high school as a proxy for race
This headline doesn't describe the story. UC is admitting a more sociogeographically diverse mix of students. Very unmeritocratic.
Khelavaster··on LSD: Not Even Once
Munger should be realistic. In the best case scenario, the drugs trigger metabolic changes that let your body deal with incipient cancer or some other significant disease.
Khelavaster··on Study links 'stuck' stem cells to hair turning gray
This is according to Alan Turing's 1952 thesis, The Chemical Basis of Morphogensis: https://embryo.asu.edu/pages/chemical-basis-morphogenesis-19...
Khelavaster··on If capitalism works why are you still poor?
Probably because there's no socialism beside the capitalism. So your capital needs to be funneled towards survival.

Democracy requires capitalism and socialism running side-by-side.

Khelavaster··on Serious question, why does lodash.isNull exist?
Exactly. This emphasized that '===' semantically means 'is'; '==' means 'equals'.
Khelavaster··on Waves of squirrels once roamed America. No one knows why
It's because Indians who harvested tree nuts and other food sources were relocated/wiped out..
Khelavaster··on Ask HN: Why US citizens are obsessed with admissions in reputed universities
It's because US citizens aren't confident they can get forward in the world knowing how to build things.

They aren't looped into DoD or federal acquisition processes, which are DESPERATE for qualified contracts.

They aren't looped into natural resources extraction industries--or aren't up to relocate for work--either.

Khelavaster··on Show HN: Startup uses store inventory to compete with Amazon
If it is better integrated than google and bing, this could be seriously valuable
Khelavaster··on Ask HN: What if we add first then multiply in matrix multiplication?
Try asking on a stack overflow math forum
Khelavaster··on California will spend $30M to build 1,200 tiny homes to combat homelessness
Or they could build 900 economy-grade single wide trailers, but that would be too dignified..?
Khelavaster··on Spanish firm wants to kill one million octopuses a year
The problem is the factory farming, and the more people focus on methods of execution the more effective their PR is.
Khelavaster··on Ask HN: Trauma has broken me. Nothing has worked. Alternatives to suicide?
If you're angry, you're not depressed.

Consider sharing your deep outrage with literally everybody whose job it technically is to do a better job.

Useless psychiatrist or therapist? Try yelling at and berating them for ineffectusl organization, then trickle elaborate, true bad reviews about them on Google Reviews, Yelp, etc.

Bad social services organization? Go into different offices near where you live, ask why you aren't actually getting help,

Does a psychiatrist say they're going to psychiatrically hold you because you're outraged? Bear mace is a surprisingly good response. Then walk out.

Never, ever, ever give up enough true information about yourself that you could personally be served with legal paperwork.

If they can't name you, they can't serve you an order to desist.

Hou'te not depressed when you feel overwhelming negative emotions, you're upset.

Khelavaster··on Explosives replace malware as the scariest thing a USB stick may hide
The Iranians will tell you after stuxnet, USBs with viruses are still worse
Khelavaster··on South Korea U-turns on 69-hour working week after youth backlash
Can't blame them. This was very ill-advised. People need daily rest for health..
Khelavaster··on Revisiting Vernor Vinge’s “predictions” for 2025
The Bredesen Protocol is an established treatment for .mid to moderate Alzheimer's. People just need to try it...
Khelavaster··on Why Walking to Work Can Be More Polluting Than Driving to Work (2013)
Depends on how much work you put into car repair and maintainence yourself, I guess...

It's almost like our modern monetary system reflects 'total' carbon emissions to some degree, including emissions from all labor..

Khelavaster··on People with ADHD claim Adderall is ‘different’ now
...So ask your pharmacist to compound it into a liquid, and reduce the dosage on your own...
Khelavaster··on My dad died last week and now I am the only male in the family.How do I procede?
But.. never ghost someone. Tell them to their faces in more and more urgent and vocal ways how wrong they are. Don't let them speak presumptions unchallenged. Treat them as people you love, which means keeping them from making bad decisions because of believing nonsense.
Khelavaster··on Top caffeine drinkers are smokers with mental illness
Duh. Caffeine mimics serotonin. Smoking boosts niacinamide (aka nicotinamide, vitamin B3) signalling.

The two main paths for tryptophan metabolism are [majority] niacinamide/kynurenine synthesis and [minority] serotonin synthesis.

Heavy niacinamide/kynurenine demand diverts tryptophan from serotonin production, leads to chronically low serotonin.

Khelavaster··on [dead]
A spillover from rats rummaging through bat juice in the lab trash is still a lab leak..
Khelavaster··on Netflix DVD is no longer active
Sure looks active in the US..
Khelavaster··on L.A.’S Scoring System Gives Those Experiencing Homelessness Lower Priority Score
Pretty sure this is because black people experiencing more of these markers get arrested and incarcerated at much higher rates..
Khelavaster··on Welcome to America’s Racialized Medical Schools
Med schools should paid attention to effects of melanocyte stimulating hormones' production from proopiomelanocortin, ass well as the myriad effects of melanin concentrating hormone.

Race-insensitive medicine is willfully neglectful medicine.

Khelavaster··on Stanford faculty say anonymous student bias reports threaten free speech
Speech generally doesn't threaten free speech. Misreaction to anonymous bias reports sounds like the real issue ..
Khelavaster··on CARBONATED BEVERAGES AFFECT LEVELS OF TESTOSTERONE SECRETION IN MICE
Yeah, this is the effects of sugary soda...
Khelavaster··on Germany's 'Düsseldorf Patient' cured of HIV
Typical stem cell transplant from someone HIV immune after immune system wipeout, nothing to see here..
Khelavaster··on Effect of Higher-Dose Ivermectin for 6 Days vs. Placebo on Time to Recovery
Pretty useless. This study is actually measuring time to recovery from post-covid inflammatory damage after a vaccinated person controls a Covid infection.

The study realistically studied patients who "experienced at least 2 acute COVID symptoms" for 5-7 days before they got their ivermectin.

These same patients started being 100% symptom-free on average 8 days after starting a 6-day course of treatment or a placebo.

This is pretty useless when it shows very low levels of severe COVID effects and high, fast recovery rates in vaccinated study subjects.

Khelavaster··on What Mary Didn't Know (1986) [pdf]
I'm pretty sure detailed enough differential brain imaging of bats echolocating and not in different circumstances would eventually reveal the secrets of bat echolocation processing.
Khelavaster··on 5th person cured of HIV after groundbreaking treatment
Stem cell transplants for HIV are the opposite of groundbreaking.

Now, I'd they had crispr'd the CCR5 mutation into his immune progenitors, that would have been the next step of giving people HIV resistant genetic profiles.

Khelavaster··on Prompt Engine – Microsoft's prompt engineering library
Prompt engineering is close to training data curation for ResNets. Way beyond hyperparameter tuning.
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