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Khelavasteron FDA and RFK Jr. aim to remove fluoride products used to protect kids' teeth

Fluoride tablets and lozenges are bad for kids. Fluoride toothpaste is good, and not being banned by RFK.

Khelavasteron Gangs in the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department

https://knock-la.com/tradition-of-violence-lasd-gang-history...

Khelavasteron Christofides Algorithm

The real solution to traveling salesman style problems.

Khelavasteron Reddit CEO: Microsoft needs to pay to search the site

Publicly available web pages can always be legally indexable and searchable, right?

An index is a derivative-enough work that copyright doesn't apply.

Khelavasteron Regular Glucosamine Use and Mortality

glycine needs to be taken with lysine and vitamin C to keep from depleting lysine into collagen..

Khelavasteron Regular Glucosamine Use and Mortality

What if everyone got enough glycine while their blood sugar was adequate, so that their glucosamine levels topped up...

Khelavasteron Children should be allowed to get bored (2013)

Exactly. Punching someone in the face in high school is a good way to get shot, stabbed, poisoned, or run over.

Khelavasteron The protein Reelin keeps popping up in brains that resist aging and Alzheimer’s

Reelin is transcribed 4 genes away from acetylcholinesterase. And is a core collagen component. No wonder it's tied to Alzheimer's..

Khelavasteron Ask HN: Can I become a statician without a degree in Math?

Look at the statistics.

Technically yes of course .. what are you really asking?

Khelavasteron Is Sleep Training Harmful?

Lots of statements that "researchers haven't found evidence", without evidence for such claims.

"Evidence isn't strong enough" and "there is literally no evidence of any strength" are totally different.

Khelavasteron Google is the only search engine that works on Reddit now, thanks to AI deal

The Fake News police should shut down this sort of messaging

Khelavasteron The Puzzle of How Large-Scale Order Emerges in Complex Systems

The Nature of Order really addresses this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nature_of_Order

Khelavasteron Google is the only search engine that works on Reddit now, thanks to AI deal

robots.txt isn't legally binding. Can Reddit really force Bing not to crawl it..?

Khelavasteron Blood transfusions, lithium, meth: Can biohackers rejuvenate aging leaders?

Meth is a prescription drug, so it would. be legal for someone like Biden who can get a prescription to microdose.

Khelavasteron Wheel falls off Boeing 757-200 during takeoff

Exactly right

Khelavasteron Ok WTF happened at CVPR Visual Perception workshop [video]

this is a 200+ minute video--any guidanc?

Khelavasteron Dear Roku, you ruined my TV

Get a Vizio tv instead. Vizio is roku-free.

Khelavasteron Why nobody grows up wanting to be a DevOps engineer

People DO grow up wanting to be systems administrators and more no programming tech gurus!

Khelavasteron How 'Rural Studies' Is Thinking About the Heartland

Huh, only one in five residents live in rural America.

So rural landowners are a minority..

Khelavasteron Schild's Ladder by Greg Egan

An excellent, truly modern book!!

Khelavasteron Noise-induced hearing loss prevented by novel gut treatment

I'm not sure this is real..

Khelavasteron Harrison Bergeron and Windows

Change the title. This post has nothing to do with windows!

Accessibility does NOT mean slowing a system down or reducing it's potential..

Khelavasteron China's glut of idle property causes headache for the government

4 million homes of 900 square feet is not a tremendous oversupply. This doesn't sound like a legitimate story..

Khelavasteron Robert Roberson's Going to Die Because Courts Aren't Built for Science Questions

Every individual judge responsible for that kind of reckless ruling should be confronted, and replaced if their behavior doesn't change.

Khelavasteron Looking to hire the perfect intern without doing anything?

This website isn't aligned properly on Mobile. You have a very basic job...

Khelavasteron Zinc Supplements Decrease Mortality in Covid-19 Patients: A Meta-Analysis

Zinc activates thymus hormones, which is what you want for COVIDy infections

Khelavasteron Ask HN: Is misinformation a solvable problem?

Almost every piece of academic fraud is misinformation.

Every shady AI marketing ad is misinformation.

It's absurd that Biden's administration went after individuals sharing bad takes on COVID, but not classic fraudulent advertising.

Very troubling to see such a huge mismatch between stated policy and government activity.

Khelavasteron The case for criminalizing scientific misconduct

Scientific misconduct is already criminal. PROSECUTION of scientific fraud and embezzlement is easy.

Many if not most academic scientists are pressured into being criminals who don't respect wire fraud and other law.

Khelavasteron Star botanist likely made up data about nutritional supplements, new probe finds

Doesn't the charismatic phony lives in a society where most people. are just barely making it by?

Advertise publicly how huge of a fraud this charismatic phony is.

Look towards the deep south in the early 1900s for how many charismatic phonies (as well as unfortunately many innocents) were treated: lynch mobs, property destruction, exile on fear of permanent injury or death.

It's a worthy model.