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Well, how much money did they make selling probiotic mouth wash? I'm pretty sure if they had gone with curing all the world's cavities I would have heard of them. The brand recogni…

This is obviously a scam. There's no miracle cavity cure that's been suppressed for 20 years so a company could sell mouthwash

If you can make money off open source, you can make money off curing every cavity in the world... But the company decided instead.... To sell mouthwash? This is an obvious scam

A product that permanently cures all cavities would have a valuation of hundreds of billions, if not trillions, of dollars. Is it plausible a company would choose to sell mouth was…

Curing all the cavities in the world is likely to be more profitable than selling mouthwash.

One of the findings from researchers in the book Altered Traits is that largest (positive) cerebral changes were associated with time spent at intensive retreats. This is also very…

This actually makes sense. A leaker is someone you've specifically disclosed info to, not just a random adversary. If you can't keep your own team from leaking, greater chance the …

The big change for me was to stop thinking of quitting as something you should succeed at on the first try and start treating attempts as trial runs for gathering data and improvin…

Capitulation rewards nuclear blackmail and invites emulation, causing future episodes of brinkmanship. It is far from clear this path is more likely to avoid "armageddon." You can …

I love hacker news for this type of insightfully researched light-hearted tech trivia.

Seems ironic to ask this on a post where a guy's cheating device malfunctions causing him to lose. There could be limitations which prevent him from cheating completely accurately

Many people appear to be missing the point here. Cloudflare claims there was an imminent threat to life created by KF. That's a factual assertion that's either true or false (and w…

“'A privatized internet will always amount to the rule of the many by the few,' writes Tarnoff, and since that tendency is hardwired into capitalism itself — not just a certain ite…

For why else did God create the stars that man's reach might always exceed his grasp.

Prefacing a statement with "not to be snide" does not magically make it not snide.

Market pressures can have a corrupting influence on many human endeavors, but to say "capitalism is ruining science" is incredibly reductive. Capitalist countries, such as the US a…

You can improve performance a tremendously by limiting number of files within directories that can be used as volumes under settings

"The real news is my banned covid conspiracy fb page. Everything else serves the elites" yeah ok