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Some in here have been asking about risks and side effects. A quick google search turned up: https://www.practo.com/medicine-info/camostat-2499-api I'm just a layperson, but this l…

One thing that's slightly interesting about Dyson Sphere's is that spherical shells of matter exert exactly no gravitational pull at any point in their interiors. That is, the inte…

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It's clearly a submarine ( http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html ) article. The article is so light, and so full of hot air, that it practically advocates for balloon travel, no…

Pithy, perhaps, but not entirely justified. For example, the implied causation might actually be reversed, that people who naturally trust institutions consume more news. The causa…

James Duane recently updated his advice, incorrectly restated in the article and in many places in this thread, in a book entitled You Have the Right to Remain Innocent . There is …

> "Once fusion is cracked" is almost on par with "once perpetual motion machines are cracked." It presupposes that fusion being "cracked" is a reasonable thing to expect. Oof. One …

https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/will-blue-light-from-ele... This is widely debunked. The above is but one of many such counterpoints.

> That story about Carmack applying cutting-edge academic research to video games has always impressed me.... He deserves to be known as the archetypal genius video game programmer…

A thought on the political, rather than technical, side of the story: I went through a regrettable phase of reading about military strategy and the like, and one of the things that…

> Pinker also talks about the "Euphemism Treadmill", where words that were specific medical terms turned into general insults and became unusable because of it ("spastic" in my lif…

I made a minor personal discovery recently along these lines and would love to hear from others here if they can reproduce it: I can "see" my hands with my eyes closed. That is, if…