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Automate the boring stuff.

I'm reading/have read other books listed by others in this thread so I won't list them, but this book what made me continue programming after I put it down.

Just to clarify, my understanding of you bio-hacking is that you are "hacking" your body to behave in an certain way.

Some already go that route via Injecting magnets or rfid into their bodies, or take drugs/ micro dose on dubious substances.

CRISPR won't really do much afaik at your age as gene editing for mammals is typically done when when the subject is still a zygote. Though, I haven't kept up with CRISPR to see if there are FDA approved therapeutics using it post zygote. So unless you're typing this question in your mom's uterus as a single cell, or you're looking to create an underground designer baby lab to service billionaires, then CRISPR won't do much.

But if you think you're smarter than the PhDs who spent decades doing this because you can write code, please go on and biohack away. I'll look for your picture in next year's Nobel Prize.

But, if you're interested in doing molecular biology, consider taking a massive pay cut and joining a lab in academia.

I remember going to a talk where the head of synthetic biology at MIT talked about his work. One of the things he is working on are educational kits for young students. You might want to Google search BioBits.

Last time I checked, the product wasn't readily available for sale, though I wish it were. Aside from that, there really isn't a kit the way you would purchase a chemistry kit.

If you were to pursue this as a hobby and would like to approach this without a kit, I would suggest you at least make sure you have the money to do it. The equipment, reagents, and analysis is incredibly expensive.

I was wondering why my previous comment was dead as quickly as I had submitted it. I did a quick Google search and discovered OpenTrons is y combinator backed.

If censorship is the case, then may I make the point that instead of censoring people critical of y combination backed products/services, maybe you should listen to your potential client/customer base, as my opinion with this product is shared by others in academia. Your money would probably go a lot further.

Eh, I get mixed reviews from people who own this, which is why I opted not to get one for my lab. Some labs never use it to its fullest capabilities, either and use it for show. A student is cheaper, and arguably more reliable when fully trained.

There are better systems out there, but not every academic lab is willing to fork over the cash.

I appreciate your concern, and your moral obligation to try and tell people. I do not mean to be rude to you, but your understanding is outdated and wrong.

Saturated fats are actually good for you as these fats are required for a healthy metabolism and endocrine system. They also comprise a good portion of your cell membrane.

Saturated fats and cholesterol do not clog your arteries. We initially thought that because it was present in atherosclerosis, but it turns out we were blaming the responders to the crime scene, and not the actual cause: inflammation brought on by high carbohydrate diets. Note: if you read further into this, big food companies were also involved in influencing the negative stance on fats by our politicians back in the 50s, helping create our current obesity epidemic.

I'm on mobile, but will link to current research when I remember. Also, source: I do research at a medical research university in the div of cardiology/endocrinology.

I read "The Personal MBA".

I honestly wouldn't recommend it as a purchase. It's mostly definitions that you can skim through in an afternoon. There is a lot of pseudoscience/broscience in it, and the info on nutrition is wrong. Most of the important info of the book is in/only the first chapter.

I'm not advocating for an MBA either, but I think you'd get more value from the MBA network of a good program than a $20 book.

I've done both. Same issue. :(

I wish I could agree, and if I were experiencing a different situation, I would be in the same camp.

Firefox 65 keeps crashing on my Linux box. I've tried downgrading to 64 and below. But whatever updates were installed when I installed FF65 also crash FF64 and under.

It was either change OS or let FF go. I've since moved to brave browser, but would happily go back to FF if/when I figure out and troubleshoot the issue.

Money. Lots of it.

Yeah. Probably will take a while. So much for freedom, eh?

I'd be interested if they had tutorials to make your own, but I'm pretty sure they'd like to keep this a trade secret.

Interesting website.

The legal jargon on one of their pages is reminiscent of things I'd see in online pharma websites that sell viagra pills, modafinil, and the like. I'm not sure how the legalese holds up in court though, but trying to pass off as a research company is one vector of approach to try pass off as legit, I suppose.

Interestingly, a lot of these pharma websites are based in Canada. Maybe there's a law I don't know about? Regardless, if I were being incredibly paranoid, a website like this on the clearnet suggests honeypot to me, even though it's most likely not. But still... on the clear net, and I'm assuming chemicals are made in house? Other drug sites buy from India/Mumbai/Sri Lanka/Thailand and ship to their destinations.

I'm impressed that they have access to NMR and LCMS stuff too - or at least they say they do. Shits expensive to buy and maintain. No doubt they are probably operating in an academic chemistry lab.... though I don't blame them. A PhD stipend isn't exactly investment banker status, nor is research funding increasing.

Oh wow. Do you have an academic background in chemistry? I've heard stories of chem phD students synthesizing in their labs at night. I've considered synthing for the challenge and for personal use, but haven't built up the chutzpah to start.

I disagree. I have both a MBP and ThinkPad. I'm probably in the minority, but I prefer the trackpoint.

Interesting. If you don't mind me asking, how do you plan to do this? Grants? Investors? Trust fund?

If you can sustain yourself longer than 6 months, have you considered just starting your own lab/business?

"Virtual Reality seems like a safer bet."

Out of curiosity, can you explain why you think so? I'd think block chain has the bigger potential, but I don't keep myself up to date on VR.

A short summer adventure driving from east coast to west coast helped me learn to appreciate the journey more than the destination, and that thinking has crossed over to developing habits that have improved my life.

Cutting off social media led to much improvement in my situation. It's a time sink - unless you're using it for marketing purposes. The time I use to peruse Facebook, IG, Twitter, is used for more useful things.

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I disagree.

I see it more as natural selection. Training is usually what a soldier might have to go through in real combat. I don't think accommodating different body types will be useful when the war time environment selects for a particular fit, and those not adapted to it will not survive, or worse - be a burden to the lives of others.

Sure, we can do things to reduce injury for people of different body types, but it would make more sense to me to select for those who already have a particular fitness.

when I say fit, I mean fit to the environment, not necessarily physical fitness.