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stephenitis

680 karma · joined February 7, 2013

music production, programming, and huskies.
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stephenitis··on Poland now 6th-largest EU economy, ahead of Switzerland and Belgium
How much did it cost?
stephenitis··on 2027 memory capacity is reportedly sold out
What part of your PC died?
stephenitis··on Could psilocybin be the key to treating anorexia?
I attended a presentation at the maps conference in ‘23(?). The presenter said that the effect was not enduring for those on already on a path to recovery. She hypothesized that the body need nourishment and a lot of ancillary support to sustain that kind of neurological change.

(I’ll try to search for it when I have free time)

Psychedelic trips are taxing on the body and I think I agree with the hypothesis nutrients are underestimated in supporting a healthy mind in these states, from personal experience.

stephenitis··on The AI jobs apocalypse probably isn't coming anytime soon
I agree with the sentiment entirely. I moved from the Bay Area to the DC Maryland Virginia area. the viewpoints out here have been strangely stuck on opinion pieces written during the gpt-3 era. Same goes for electric vehicles.

It’s slowly changing for some of the holdouts out here given how immediately useful certain personal and business use cases can be.

stephenitis··on Fecal transplants for autism deliver success in clinical trials (2019)
You seed the gut with nutrients. having lots of fiber and a varied diet increases the number of species that an adult has which is between a couple hundred to a thousand or so. Our guts are generally dominated by a bunch of beneficial bacteria.

which for many is not the case for a variety of social economic or behavioral reasons. Add in with explosions of bacterial populations due to alcohol or sugar and you can see how we can change our gut biome drastically from week to week.

stephenitis··on Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android
wow, i didn’t know this existed until now. thanks!
stephenitis··on The Rise and Impending Fall of the Dental Cavity
that said, if i floss, occasional use mouth wash, or drink a alcoholic beverage will this bomb the micro biome in my mouth making a one time dose magic cure a expensive maintenance cost?

Wouldn’t it be better to have a probiotic toothpaste?

stephenitis··on The Rise and Impending Fall of the Dental Cavity
my next question would be what is the effect of mutacin-1140 on the gut microbiome.

I looked up mutacin—1140, found this 2018 study looking at the effect on staph and possibly positive persistence in the gut.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6256755/

> “Nisin and mutacin 1140 have potent activities (nanomolar or submicromolar activity) against well-known Gram-positive pathogens, including Staphylococcus aureus and Streptococcus pneumoniae. Nisin has been used as a food preservative for more than 50 years without inducing significant resistance”

> “ Despite the short half-life of mutacin 1140 in blood, analogs of mutacin 1140 were demonstrated to have increased gastric stability and were effective in treating a Clostridium difficile infection in hamsters “

this very interesting to me.

we fought off a extreme overgrowth of staph aureus with a regiment of probiotics and bacillus subtillis (a bacterium found in dirt that is known to disrupt quorum of bacteria that create biofilms.

biofilms are a huge reason to floss and brush our teeth, it’s like a slime that protects and nourishes the bad bacteria on our teeth.

this bit from the sparse wikipedia was interesting. “Mutacin 1140 belongs to the epidermin subset of type Al lantibiotics.”

are there other bacterium in our oral/gut that produce these kind of compounds?

stephenitis··on The Rise and Impending Fall of the Dental Cavity
doesn’t that bacteria strain need to colonize your mouth somehow? how would that happen if we are constantly exposing our mouths to various foods, liquids, and dental products?

citing the discovery from 1987? synthesis of the strain in 2002, and then moving onto the product recommendation without going into the mechanisms that allow such a bacteria to persist after just one magical application feels very snake oil to me.

we can use metagenomics to test the rna and dna of our oral microbiome. (testing is somewhere around $200-400 a swab currently)

show me the data even with a low N value of test subjects that give a oral microbiome analysis weeks, months, and years out after just 1 application and you’ll have my curiosity, maybe my money.

also give recommendations about if and what habits and behaviors would wreck this expensive bacterium’s viability in our mouths.

* this is coming from a father whose tested their child’s poop with inhale every 4 weeks or so several times to debug a believed to be rare (but science doesn’t truly know) staphylococcus aureus & eczema issue

i’m skeptical but i’ll stay open minded

found this explanation on why they went the probiotic route rather than seek FDA approval. from their subreddit that https://x.com/yishan/status/1780131552615420189

> 1. Move forward with manufacturing and distributing this as a probiotic supplement > 2. Once a critical mass of biohackers and early adopters take this treatment, other third-party research can get involved

https://www.reddit.com/r/lanternbioworks/s/01haEdviDz

stephenitis··on Is beef tallow making a comeback?
I’m with you, repeating it is like low effort copy pasta when they should’ve put effort into backing up that claim.
stephenitis··on Wall Street ruined the Roomba and then blamed Lina Khan
Regular brushing at least once weekly. Husky owner here. 2 roombas 2 dysons
stephenitis··on Wall Street ruined the Roomba and then blamed Lina Khan
Genius! Why I didn’t think of this!
stephenitis··on Blocking LLM crawlers without JavaScript
Text, images, video, all of it I can’t think of any form of data they don’t want to scoop up, other than noise and poisoned data
stephenitis··on Michael Burry a.k.a. "Big Short",discloses $1.1B bet against Nvidia&Palantir
That could be part of his strategy no?
stephenitis··on UnitedHealth pays its own physician groups 17% more than outside ones
What is the problem breakdown by % in your eatimate?
stephenitis··on Sodium-ion batteries have started to appear in cars and home storage
He must mean lithium?
stephenitis··on New nanotherapy clears amyloid-β, reversing symptoms of Alzheimer's in mice
Can you provide some linksv
stephenitis··on How big a solar battery do I need to store all my home's electricity?
It wouldn’t be that terrible to show dated proof with receipts. Inflation has probably jacked up the prices since you bought. Dating it would help.
stephenitis··on The natural diamond industry is getting rocked. Thank the lab-grown variety
This would sell. Vegan leather lol
stephenitis··on TSMC to start building four new plants with 1.4nm technology
If china succeeds in leapfrogging ASML. With their particle accelerator light source it likely won’t matter. They will have a home engineered piece of the solution.
stephenitis··on Anthropic cut up millions of used books, and downloaded 7M pirated ones – judge
I think caste system is the wrong analogy here.

Comment is more about the pseudo ethical high ground

stephenitis··on Is gravity just entropy rising? Long-shot idea gets another look
Can you define quantum fluctuation?
stephenitis··on Fingers wrinkle the same way every time they’re in the water too long
Nerves affect muscle movement and blood vessel growth.

do you really have better gripe with wrinkled fingers underwater?

stephenitis··on Bethesda Thinks Fan Remaster of Oblivion Is 'Very Special' and Supports It
I agree their latest games always feel 2 generations behind and woefully lacking in content filled worlds
stephenitis··on DOGE worker’s code supports NLRB whistleblower
Citation?
stephenitis··on Sweetener saccharin shows surprise power against antibiotic resistance
There are a lot of bacteria that live in a dirt and our natural biome that also reduce to antibiotic resistance of pathogenic bacteria thus making antibiotics a more effective.

This general weakness of the bacterial wall is something to be wary of given they didn’t study its effect on a wider range of important bacteria.

Throwing a lot of anything in your gut that can cause an imbalance, ir serious dybosis is a good reason to treat your stomach like a little fermenting aquarium whose bacteria and skin cells cycle every 3-5 days.

stephenitis··on Major endometriosis study reveals impact of gluten, coffee, dairy and alcohol
Anyone have a link to the study?
stephenitis··on TSMC pitches Intel foundry joint venture to Nvidia, AMD and Broadcom
anyone got non paywalled copy?
stephenitis··on Amazon blew Alexa's shot to dominate AI, according to employees (2024)
i am plagued by this and interpretations of my regular speech. i must rename some devices more uniquely now.
stephenitis··on Suspension of inbound parcels from China and Hong Kong
As of August 2024, China has 55 nuclear reactors in operation, 25 under construction, and plans for an additional 36 reactors. In August 2024, China’s State Council approved five nuclear power projects comprising 11 new reactors. Overall, China aims to build 150 new nuclear reactors between 2020 and 2035.
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