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feviskus··on Longevity FAQ: A beginner's guide to longevity research
Then please stop (mis)judging people just because they experienced a depressive episode in their life - this is exactly what that sentence meant, even if not your intent.
feviskus··on Longevity FAQ: A beginner's guide to longevity research
You can keep stigmatizing depression or balding, luckily Im no more in a position such that statements like yours would affect me adversely. It took 4 months and a bit of experimenting, but vert was able to change it, I just want to raise awareness.

You can read up on "Verteporfin", the patent for cell regeneration (thru "controlled wounding") is already filed by Stanford, pending approval.

feviskus··on Longevity FAQ: A beginner's guide to longevity research
use verteporfin in combination with wounding. it works, even for hair loss. thank me later.
feviskus··on Segmentors vs Integrators: Google’s work-life-balance research
correlation != causation:

segmentors are significantly happier, maybe because they have opportunity to hang out with non-work friends. for people who just moved across the country to a brand new city, work is their primary source of socialisation. they hang out with coworkers also because they dont know many other people.

feviskus··on Ask HN: What you up to? (Who doesn't want to be hired?)
Feeling very depressed as a 23 year old with agressive hair loss. Tried (and still trying) everything there is, but nothing worked yet (1.5 years into min/dut).
feviskus··on John Chambers and a star team of ex-Cisco engineers launched Pensando Systems
I still dont know what they do. Sounds like a CPU...
feviskus··on Record number of colleges drop SAT/ACT admissions requirement
Regarding mandatory attendance - welcome to the German model. Most universites don't have mandatory attendance, which is good for subjects where there are many more students than available seats :). Also it's very handy for students who (have to) work in order to finance their studies.
feviskus··on Preindustrial workers worked fewer hours than today's (2009)
Just an anecdote from quitting yesterday at a German IG-Metall company: Yesterday I quitted my working student job in order to precipitately take the opportunity for an internship at another company.

My boss congratulated me for the offer, said it's a pity that I leave AND spoke with HR so that I do have a shorter period of notice (otherwise I would have had problems). All on the same day. While accompanying me on my way out he said that especially with students, he invests in people. The doors are always open and he would be glad to see me there again. In fact, he recommended a former student worker to join another company before graduation in order to have a better looking CV. Im kinda blown away by this non-selfish (in a company's view) behaviour and strongly consider to rejoin at some point.

feviskus··on Meal timing strategies appear to lower appetite, improve fat burning
Conclusion of this study [0]: "Consistent with the carbohydrate-insulin model, lowering dietary carbohydrate increased energy expenditure during weight loss maintenance. "

Some numbers: "[...] linear trend of 52 kcal/d [...] for every 10% decrease in the contribution of carbohydrate to total energy intake"

----------------------- Now on a personal note, as someone who always lived with nutrition plan (and macro tracking for the last years) since 17, I think it's highly unlikely that you take < 25g carbs/day (During bulking phase I dont manage to get under 300g per day).

[0]: https://www.bmj.com/content/363/bmj.k4583

feviskus··on Scrum is fragile, not Agile
you just described perfectly how scrum works at my company in Germany.
feviskus··on How to do hard things
I am a 4th semester CS student from Germany and still don't grasp recursion, even though I already took the data structures & algorithms courses. If you did have something like a magic moment where it made sense to you, please enlighten me as I would really like to truly gain an intuition (and implement a parallelized msd-radixsort for learning-purposes because I failed to do this assignment yesterday).
feviskus··on Plastic Pollution
I think you are not paying enough attention to the fact that we simply don't really know the consequences of plastic in our environment.

We don't know if longer consumption of microplastic has serious health threats, we don't even know the deep sea so we do also not know how plastic affects it.

But what we do currently already know about the effect of plastic in our environment is already shocking enough and with such an ongoing development of plastic we are gonna have more plastic than fish in our sea by the year of 2050:

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/jan/19/more-plasti...

feviskus··on Plastic Pollution
Recently, I was campaigning for an environmental NGO in Germany (summer job) and til now I didn't know that Germany is such a big plastics-user! Why I wouldn't have thought of that? Every 2nd person we approached answered with "we already do so much to avoid plastics and protect the environment, you would not believe!"... But at least we are actively approaching this issue, as the EU is banning single-use plastics![1]

Another observation (ofc an anecdote): No one did deny the actual existence of the problem - but the richer the person was (judging from his appearance), the more did he deny our (western world) contribution to the problem! (at least as a responsible consumer)

[1]https://www.reuters.com/article/us-europe-environment-plasti...