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anon49124on The Bredesen protocol for treating Alzheimer’s

"A cure" is a very deceptive headline; it's an allegedly curative personalized protocol, The Bredesen Protocol™.

anon49124on The next big restaurant chain may not own any kitchens

Hmm: looking at 19th century shops where only merchants picked products to self-checkout today, that seems like the trend. Everyone will end up doing everything themselves.

anon49124on Ask HN: What file-format(s) do you prefer for highly technical ebooks?

PDF and ePub. LaTeX if you want to get fancy and OSS.

anon49124on 10 Reasons You Shouldn’t Have Senior Developers, Tech Leads or Architects

Seems like an X reasons you should(|n't) Y

anon49124on In Poor, Rural Communities, Fleeing Hurricane Michael Was Tough

Not everyone qualifies for SS because either they didn't pay in long or enough. There's thousands of people working well into their 70's and 80's in menial jobs because SS doesn't cover their living expenses. For example, I'm worried about my mom because her finances are dwindling.

anon49124on In Poor, Rural Communities, Fleeing Hurricane Michael Was Tough

Because human activities are error-prone, evacuations cause an increase in fatalities; so any evacuation decision has to be balanced against the risks of sheltering locally.

anon49124on Why women are excited about Dyson’s new $500 hairstyling tool

I'm equally excited about AvE tearing it apart and ripping Dyson a new one.

anon49124on He was lost. Rebuilding a 1980s Chuck E. Cheese robot in his bedroom saved him

TBH, at about 5, those clunky animatronics gave me nightmares.

anon49124on Fed likely to keep raising rates

91% for millionaires, like the good ol' days.

anon49124on Fed likely to keep raising rates

Decatrillion dollar deficits.

anon49124on Fed likely to keep raising rates

Stupid^3. When (not if) the dollar is dropped, within a decade, as the de-facto intl currency, the American economy, combined with the insane and unsustainable public and private debt, will tank like nothing before.

http://www.usdebtclock.org/

anon49124on Is Saudi money becoming radioactive?

Hollywood, YC, Google and anyone else whom collaborates with and enables the Chinese regime has such a level of moral turpitude that they're either fools or sociopaths.

anon49124on Computer Programmers: Occupational Outlook Handbook:: U.S

Employment of computer programmers is projected to decline 7 percent from 2016 to 2026. Computer programming can be done from anywhere in the world, so companies sometimes hire programmers in countries where wages are lower.

Also, this lacks consideration of automation of programming itself when deep learning can listen to users and build interfaces and APIs directly and faster than any human ever could.

anon49124on Is Saudi money becoming radioactive?

From my understanding, Jamal Khashoggi, a regime insider journalist was disappeared and allegedly dismembered by a hit squad of 15 assassins in the Saudi Ankara embassy, according to Ankara/Turkish police, because he violated an unwritten rule: once an insider, one must never be critical of or disobey the royals. His "self-imposed" exile didn't diminish his insider status in the minds of the regime. His gruesome murder (and possibly torture) was intended to send a message.

anon49124on Is Saudi money becoming radioactive?

To be fair, China disappears dissidents too.

anon49124on Transgenic plants could make for more nutritious salmon

If they're then farmed anything like Norwegian-owned salmon, which destroy the local ecosystem with underwater clouds of shit, sea lice, excessive antibiotics, higher levels of toxins than wild-caught (PCBs, dioxins, toxaphene, dieldrin and mercury), feed preservatives, lower Omega-3 levels than wild fish and corrupt politicians pretending everything is okay, adding more GMOs to the mix seems like putting lipstick on a fish.

http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/eats/norway-farmed-sal...

http://salmonwars.com/

http://www.rcinet.ca/en/2013/07/23/salmon-confidential-docum...

anon49124on Go forth, and make your company more secure

Corporate crooks. Fail.

anon49124on Chances DNA can be used to find your family? Sixty percent and rising

It seems like there should be biological parent-offspring "escrow" such that there's no hard feelings or unwelcome awkwardness.

anon49124on Chances DNA can be used to find your family? Sixty percent and rising

GATTACA here we come. People discovering and discriminating against genetic traits.

anon49124on FISK – It's a floppy disk fax machine

Don't copy that floppy

With its very own horrible rap video with Flight Simulator in the background.

https://youtu.be/up863eQKGUI

anon49124on Anti-social Punishment

From Martin Sustrik a-la ZeroMQ.

anon49124on The Screenwriting Mystic Who Wanted to Be the American Führer

See also:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smedley_Butler (antiwar activist, double Medal of Honor recipient)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Plot

anon49124on 5000 financial services jobs to move from Britain after brexit

When people can't or won't confront the root sources of their ills (corrupt politicians monopolized by rich people), they scapegoat all sorts of other things to get their angst out unproductively: attacking ideas, movements and people. Populist fascists come along promising all sorts of cures, when they generally make things worse. After failing spectacularly, rebuilding from scratch is usually necessary. Repeat every 1-3 generations. And so it goes.

anon49124on Capitalism is becoming less competitive

True. There's never has, and never will be, any "pure," utopian socialism nor libertarian anarchism, just messy reality with varying levels of gotchas, power concentrations, totalitarianism and corruption. The best people can do is diffuse power and install individuals whom are fair, reasonable and put society / greater good before personal gain... without many of these sorts of people, the crooks win and tear civil society down.

anon49124on Helium leak from MRI disabled all Apple devices in the facility

Looks like the salient comment:

Helium affecting Apple device's MEMS clock source and IP67 not helium-proof

https://old.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/9mk2o7/mri_disabl...

anon49124on Yossi Appleboum on How Bloomberg is Positioning His Research Against Supermicro

For any Fortune 500 (Google, Apple, HP, etc.), have certain staff work covertly under shell subsidiaries but develop close rapport with key vendors (as said subsidiary), make straw purchases and do comprehensive (bordering on intrusive) supply-chain surveillance and auditing, because the targets on the side of the parent corp's "boat" paints them as easy marks for industrial/economic espionage/sabotage/monitoring. Not only does this help confuse/disinform competitors, but it can make attacks by state and other actors more difficult.

This might mean high-resolution X-raying of all hardware and cryptographic signature verification of all firmware in order to prove hardware received is what was designed, and nothing else.

anon49124on This Island Nation Has the Most Powerful Passport in the World

I wouldn't want a Japanese passport for a variety of reasons but Singaporean, German and French good-to-go IMHO. A friend of mine wants to move from Zurich to Singapore and another friend has a Singaporean/American dual-citizen son.

anon49124on How to Get Things Done When You Don't Feel Like It

I also took terazosin for a couple of weeks due to insane sweating (secondary hyperhydrosis; cold sweating) and goosebumps response (shiver) when not cold.

Overall, the effects of atomoxetine (80 mg/day) are slight (IME) but helpful: reducing by an order or two the magnitude of tracks my mind wants to wander in.

CBD (10 mg 4x/day) has been the biggest help.

Also, I take heavy doses (~200 mg/day ER in the morning) of propranolol.

Mirtazapine (60 mg/day at night)

Clonidine (0.1 mg/day at night)

I would avoid SSRI's at all costs (Maslow's hierarchy of need habits optimization: exercise, sleep, diet, caffeine (which is a mild anticholinergic) elimination, CBT, regular socializing, etc.) because the vestibular and discontinuation side-effects are horrendous and possibly permanently-damaging.

anon49124on Multiple Severe Vulnerabilities Reported in Juniper Networks Hardware

Barracuda firewalls are similar: mostly vanilla Linux with a little magic.