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minsight

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    Comment #40025036

    The dot com bubble ended when the ecosystem of fairy tales and lies which built up around a technology were generally decided to be nothing but hot air. It is true that the technol…

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    Comment #39071615

    The insight I was talking about was required by the producer. Products don't have insight.

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    Comment #39068075

    Cave was expressing an answer to a question about cutting corners in the process of creating music. ( https://www.theredhandfiles.com/chatgpt-making-things-faster... ) There is cer…

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    Comment #38673275

    I studied computer engineering. It's not a CS curriculum and it prepares you for the PE test. They also drill into your head that you can only refer to your self professionally as …

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    Comment #38582100

    They insist that they have a genome sequencing company but when I attempted to use them it became apparent that any success happens despite their equipment and processes, rather th…

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    Comment #37927958

    Not necessarily the best or the latest evidence... See: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41579-022-00846-2

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    Comment #36993598

    Hope you can eat that.

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    Comment #36835711

    I work from home and haven't noticed significant additional wear and tear on my toilet. The same with my sink, fridge, doors and floors. I did buy a chair. It was about 300 bucks a…

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    Comment #36764393

    https://archive.is/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1981/1...

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    Comment #36697018

    There is much more information about Long Covid than the general public is aware of. The assumption that it is merely a wide range of vaguely defined symptoms isn't valid. More det…

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    Comment #36046512

    So caramelizing onions is the culinary equivalent of saying "begs the question".

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    Comment #36046482

    I was hoping that someone would post this! Lan Lam's recent youtube posts have radically improved my cooking (results or ease of execution) and I'd recommend that anyone who cooks …

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    Comment #36005359

    "Take a picture of the result" Let's think about that awhile...

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    Comment #35842987

    Oh, and particular antibiotics will cure a certain subset of all bacteria. So if you get pneumonia, you'll be prescribed a different antibiotic to what you'd be given if you had h.…

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    Comment #35842965

    Antibiotics don't kill every microorganism. Also, our gastrointestinal tracts are repopulated from food we eat and our surroundings.

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    Comment #35793700

    There is a wide gulf between "pretty much the keys to good health in general" and "a cure-all to all issues in western society"

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    Comment #35731034

    Embarcadero was bought out by Idera, who has a long history of buying out niche-y software development companies and offshoring development while wringing every last possible dolla…

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    Comment #35718410

    Microbes eat fiber. That's what a prebiotic is.

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    Comment #35652691

    So it's not always debilitating. But it can be this way and still be often debilitating.

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    Comment #35645265

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias

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    Comment #35645216

    (Especially the "Major Findings" section)

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    Comment #35645205

    They've found a great deal about what long Covid is. See: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41579-022-00846-2

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    Comment #35645193

    If it had killed you, you wouldn't be posting.