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felipemoraon Confessions of a Sydney surgeon: why your operation may not work

As part of a study? No. This is how studies are done. Give one set of people the real medicine and another people the fake one and see what happens. They are told before hand that they could receive the fake medicine/treatment and they must agree to the study.

felipemoraon Tiny Farms Raises Seed Round as Cricket Farming Heats Up

Seafood can be quite stinky also and yet lots of people have no problem eating it.

felipemoraon China wants to become a semiconductor superpower, budgeting $100B to achieve it

Thank you for your very insightful comment. Reading your comment it reminded me of how you cannot just give regular food to a starving person [1], it would kill them.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refeeding_syndrome

felipemoraon Show HN: A New Game I Built in Two Months

I didn't use an existing framework, other than OpenGL. The game engine that I'm using is my own and is something that I've been working on since 2010.

I think I was not very clear but the collision engine, rendering engine, physics engine, and graphical user interface engine have already been built and all of them make up my game engine.

What I actually built in two months includes the game design, game mechanics, the specific user interface for this game, and the graphics.