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Politicizing science will make science less scientific and more political. It will not work the other way.

They might see their own past. It seems likely that all species that make it to space might have similar pressures because they have a similar environment. See convergent evolution…

The Expanse also has UBI on earth. With it, most people still lack opportunity and live a rather destitute, powerless life. Seems like a pretty good perdition of our future, really…

How are you getting rapamycin? I'm interested in it's benefits for autoimmune diseases but it seems quite expensive (in the US).

That's not true. Many people can self-learn. Those same people often cannot perform well in school because school is rigid and authoritarian. I'm definitely one of them and my care…

There's actually a wiki article that lists the standard protocol that a lot of research papers also say. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helicobacter_pylori_eradicatio... I went thro…

A useful keyword in this is Helicobacter pylori. Apparently a huge percentage of people have it, especially in developing countries but not limited to them, and it is known to caus…

I agree. That's a problem, too. The reason it became so pronounced is that social media got very good at it and then taught the lesson to traditional media. They, too, now use metr…

This problem was created by social media by choosing which articles to show in your news feed based on engagement. That is, how much you'll emotionally react to it. The solution is…

I don't want to go down this rabbit hole but a lot of people believe that terrorism isn't a large problem. The outsized response to it has been. Neither position is an absurd one t…

Isn't that horribly patronizing? I'd feel offended if someone treated me with kid gloves based on my skin color.

Please explain because every bank in the world needs to report to the US about their American account holders. If you own a holding company in another country, you need to declare …

A lot of people here are concerned that taxing the rich will just make them hide their money offshore. It should be noted, then, that it's gotten a lot harder for Americans to go o…

There is no reason to believe telegram is in bed with the FSB. The company does not have servers in Russia, the software wasn't developed in Russia, etc. The only reason one could …

So the most reasonable explanation is that Pavel is in a conspiracy with the Russian government and is living in exile as a cover huh? Sounds pretty complicated when a simpler answ…

It's strange that whenever telegram comes up, there's an unfounded suspicion that it has some kind FSB/Russian government connection simply because it was developed by a Russian. T…

That newsletter popup made me not want to read your post, nick. It's quite an annoying one.

A solution to the housing a problem never mentioned is intentional communities. They seem to solve a good portion of the problems. Here's why they make sense: 1. They can be cheap …

Interesting story but not very related to what the parent was saying. Examples of skinner boxes are everywhere in society today. They've been around longer than they were identifie…

Dinosaury time periods were often much hotter and much more filled with co2. They thrived. Plants thrived. The danger is in the change part.

In any set of events, the story is up to the interpreter. If you make your story that you were victimized, then you'll feel like there's little you can do yourself to change that. …

If true, that's incredibly depressing. Magic Leap would become the complete rent seeking lead weight to the next platform revolution.

Enbrel? They just received another patent extension, too. This is what government granted monopolies look like.

I've thought a lot about this too recently while working as a contract software dev versus a regular employee. There's quite a bit of overhead in specifications planning and negoti…

This is all based on smart contracts. A detailed description of how it's supposed to work was linked in a blog post of theirs: https://colony.io/whitepaper.pdf I'm interested in wh…