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sonorous_subon Oreo Cookie Treatment Lowers LDL Cholesterol More Than High-Intensity Statins

I'm in

sonorous_subon You Don't Need More Resilience. You Need Friends. and Money

Chicken or egg?

sonorous_subon What’s behind the Freud resurgence?

Considering the fact that he lifted the concept of the unconscious mind from Eduard von Hartmann, I’d say it’s just desserts. Maybe this time around the actual originator of the idea will get credit, but I wouldn’t hold my breath.

sonorous_subon Mistranslation of Newton’s First Law Discovered After Nearly 300 Years

It's really toe-mato, though.

sonorous_subon California moves closer to historic caste discrimination ban

Makes me wonder if you get a pat down in Utah for long johns. It would explain a lot.

sonorous_subon The average doctor in the U.S. makes $350k a year. Why?

The law of supply and demand. Tickling corpses back to life is an onerous business.

sonorous_subon Man spends entire career mastering crappy codebase

Bit of a threadbare post

sonorous_subon Ask HN: How could I safely contact drug cartels?

Or maybe Charles Bronson

sonorous_subon People can be convinced they committed a crime that never happened (2015)

RIP Uncle Ted

sonorous_subon We should ‘lift heavy’ as we get older

I agree with your bicycle thesis, with the caveat that if you are way, way out in the country, where traffic is ever so light, and you can hear the lone cars that pass coming a mile away, yeah, you can have a great time safely on a bicycle. Anywhere near population density though, I would think twice about it.

I rode a lot in the inner city for years, but despite the fact that it's looked down on by the local authorities, I'd just travel on the sidewalks with my "mountain" bike. In the rare case in which I'd encounter a pedestrian, I'd simply veer out of the way or halt and let them pass. Sharing the road with motor vehicles on a bicycle in the U.S.? I wouldn't do it. It's just not safe. Copenhagen it's not.

sonorous_subon Ask HN: Can we get a section dedicated to AI

Ask ChatGPT to create one.

sonorous_subon The Cult of Sigmund Freud

Freud was an optimist, and when I read his works, I catch a bit of his enthusiasm and imagine that one day I might be healed, regardless of the clear intractability of my mental problems, so I keep coming back to him and others who followed in his wake. If that makes me a cultist, well, so be it.

sonorous_subon Methanol in South Africa Teens Deaths Often Fatal

Interesting article.

>There are cases of methanol resistance, such as that of Mike Malloy, whom someone tried and failed to poison by methanol in the early 1930s

The original "Iron Mike", https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Malloy