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And if the 1 ok-ish candidate study turns out to have significant results, publication bias has to be considered: that dozens or more other studies of vitamin D (or whatever) may h…

I live in NYC and in terms of music I have spare space in my apartment for AirPods.

I was gifted an ivory keyed Steinway grand piano in high school by someone who heard me play a couple of simple pieces in a retirement home. I did not know him but a family member …

Zombie physiology also seems a stretch—-how do organisms with so many open and often bleeding dirt-covered wounds maintain hemodynamic stability in the face of inevitable septic sh…

‘Artificial intelligence’ is a term of academic branding genius, because the name presumes successful creation of intelligence. Not surprising people trust it. ‘Decision-bots’ woul…

Getting two imperfectly compatible BLE libraries from different OSs to work together involves guesses, prayers, and lots of hand waving of devices in the air. It’s like trying to l…

Many oils are bogeymen. https://www.health.harvard.edu/heart-health/the-false-promis... Optimizing among edible fats sometimes seems like optimizing among which brand’s cotton sock…

This was the argument that let NYC to ban coin based toilets in decades past, with the assumption that people should not need to pay and businesses/govt should provide restrooms fo…

No matter how much we conspire to destroy the environment on earth, by burning fuel or nuclear war or otherwise, the earth (or parts of it) will likely be more hospitable to humans…

I wonder if super-people like this balance their various activities so that doing each charges them up for some of the others, and then they can hit a resonance like state of being…

Perhaps by riding other super-fast sailboats and surviving so far. Analogously that is the only way I could rationalize the Wright brothers attempting an airplane flight (after sur…

Also raises question of whether sedentary lifestyle can unmask/worsen depression

I wonder if *she fabricated the data or if desperate graduate students did. In which case the ethical considerations are perhaps(?) slightly different and may be worth writing a pa…

There could be a metric for rated activities/products that penalizes high ratings if given by ‘pro-homogenous’ raters i.e. who tend to be diehard follower-mindset people who avoid …

This is probably the fate of honest politicians.

I fear that for every ancient recipient of trephination to evacuate a hematoma in a timely manner there were probably legions of these procedures used to ‘get the demons out’ and s…

Agree, one easy additional control would be for whether someone has ever used an online dating platform (may be a meaningful difference within the non-online couples group).

The stability of modern economies, public safety, services, and legal systems. If someone told me that in 8 months I would have to make my own food, fight off bandits, have no runn…

Surprising this is a typical military march tune with a marching band background. The space force personnel certainly won’t be matching around space any time soon. An EDM song with…

One is software licensing of any software components you are using.

Hobbyist/grad/nOOb to polished IC: What are the learnable tools that can best help an early hire transition to a productive IC in *your own* type of software team? Very curious if …

I like 2m ballpark as well. Pays off standard school debts, can purchase apartment or modest house, car, other middle class expenses, live with less fear of healthcare-expense indu…

I would only feel a need to justify my existence if my baseline activities gave a net burden on the world, like if I wrote robocalling software for a living. Or maybe if my activit…