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Emergency services get 72 hours grace before they have to feed people. It’s for their benefit in planning responses.

I remember an article on this in the New Scientist a long time ago. It opened with telling us that our grandchildren will be able to identify old photos by the blueness of the sky.…

In its trials, Ozempic was combined with intervention/guidance from nutritionists and fitness advisors, and doctors are supposed to reproduce this by referring patients. You can't …

Good reference. Thanks!

Love that word "pleiotropic", nice vocab builder. So it looks like GLP-1 may have positive side-effects beyond what can be explained as consequences of weight loss. Surprising link…

It doesn’t exist in Australia

Really enjoying this

Has downloaded fine just now

I’ve read of a Japanese body building practice that involves using a blood pressure cuff to restrict the dispersal of blood. The muscle marinates in its metabolic waste, which has …

How do you pronounce “taipy”

How would an Australian get some?

> exploding heads … I love this!

> if you're suing me, I don't want you in my house. The "me" in the article is not a person, but a corporation. The person suing is not the lawyer, but whoever engaged the law firm…

The data in the article equally well supports a heading like “Males on average perform better than females on a ‘systematic thinking’ test”

His inconsistencies are consistently to the right https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33951797

The report divides deaths into three types: those who died of covid, those who died with covid and excess deaths. The excess deaths are more numerous than the with covid deaths. We…

If you get anywhere, put a link to your code here. I’m bookmarking this spot and I’d appreciate a look at some python code when I come back to this (kinda busy right now).

> The people I think of as most ambitious might not even have careers Could you expand on that?

This!

Only if intelligence leads to greater fitness in the Darwinian sense. Don't confuse higher socio-economic status with Darwinian fitness. Plenty of people of quite modest intelligen…

Correction: the Astral Codex article gives a 25% chance that vitamin D might do you good. https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/covidvitamin-d-much-mo...

> From the perspective of your immune system's cells, what exactly does the vitamin D molecule do? Probably nothing. High vitamin D levels are a side effect of being outdoors a lot…

Another entertaining non-leetcode book on go is The Treasure Chest Enigma (a go miscellany) by Noriyuki Nakayama. The core of the book is a collection of essays originally publishe…