jdawg777 | 25 days ago | on: Coffee and Tea Intake, Dementia Risk, and Cognitive Function
3 cups of coffee a day is way too many
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jdawg777 | 9 months ago | on: Show HN: Patio – Rent tools, learn DIY, reduce waste
Please consider also including the use of heavy machinery in the tool rental page. For example: an hour using a drill press, lathe, milling machine, band saw, wood planer, table saw etc. Think of a virtual workshop spread across the city.
jdawg777 | 1 year ago | on: I don't support a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve, and neither should you
The proponents of crypto are scam artists. Whether they operate ponzi schemes like FTX, or whether they are just trying to inflate its value to pull the rug at a later date. They see BTC as an investment rather than a currency.
jdawg777 | 1 year ago | on: I don't support a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve, and neither should you
I just think bitcoin is a scam and the US government shouldn't get involved with it. It would be like if the US government invested in a Strategic "Beanie-Baby Reserve" in the late 1990s.
jdawg777 | 1 year ago | on: I don't support a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve, and neither should you
Bitcoin is terrible for the environment and impractical for everyday transactions. If I want to buy a cup of coffee am I supposed to pay a $2 transaction fee and wait around for ten minutes for the transaction to complete?
jdawg777 | 1 year ago | on: Turn any bicycle electric
This is impressive engineering. So much better than the available ebike conversion kits. I want one!
jdawg777 | 1 year ago | on: Time Dilation Formula / Calculator
If you use fission, Uranium 235 has 83.14 TJ/kg. So you would need about 500 metric tons of it.
jdawg777 | 1 year ago | on: The Confessions of Marcus Hutchins, the Hacker Who Saved the Internet
jdawg777 | 1 year ago | on: EpiPen For Heart Attacks? Idorsia Launches Phase III Study Of Selatogrel (2021)
> will be supplied with an auto-injector, containing either 16mg of selatogrel or a placebo liquid formulation.
Its unfortunate that half the trial patients are getting a placebo, especially when it is life or death, but I suppose that's how drug trials work.
jdawg777 | 1 year ago | on: Two nights of broken sleep can make people feel years older, finds study
Thanks.
> Subjective age was assessed using a single-item question: ‘On some days you may feel older or younger than your calendar age. What age do you feel right now?
jdawg777 | 1 year ago | on: Two nights of broken sleep can make people feel years older, finds study
I would be curious as to how they are measuring the subject's perception of their age. Are they just asking them how old they feel? How do they get meaningful results?
jdawg777 | 1 year ago | on: A living replacement knee to be tested in clinical trials within five years
> the team will create two versions of NOVAJoint: a version that uses patient’s own cells and one that uses donor cells.
If the knee replacement uses the patients cells, won't the new knee be effected by Osteoarthritis as well?
jdawg777 | 1 year ago | on: Dutch Court Orders ISP to Block 'Anna's Archive' and 'LibGen'
I had heard of LibGen and Z-library, but not Anna's Archive. Thanks for the recommendation Dutch Court!
jdawg777 | 1 year ago | on: Show HN: Using LLMs to Research Reddit to Help Decide What to Buy
I know you probably don't want to give away the secret sauce, but how does the LLM use the reddit threads to decide which products are best? Is it the comment with the most upvotes?
jdawg777 | 1 year ago | on: Nvidia Unveils Blackwell, Its Next GPU
That was an unexpected twist.
jdawg777 | 2 years ago | on: How The Pentagon learned to use targeted ads to find its targets
jdawg777 | 2 years ago | on: Leaked Files Show the Secret World of China's Hackers for Hire
jdawg777 | 2 years ago | on: Scientists Resort to Once-Unthinkable Solutions to Cool the Planet
> bandaids
Exactly. They are temporary and reversible measures that can be taken until we get carbon emissions under control.
> downsides
SRM could have the same downsides as a volcano erupting, something that has already happened throughout human history.
> easier
It is actually much easier and more cost effective to deploy SRM. Check out this article: https://climate.benjames.io/someone-is-going-to-dim-the-sun/
jdawg777 | 2 years ago | on: Scientists Resort to Once-Unthinkable Solutions to Cool the Planet
jdawg777 | 2 years ago | on: Scientists Resort to Once-Unthinkable Solutions to Cool the Planet
Personally I like some of these ideas. They could be our only hope of preserving earth's climate. Face it, we already manipulate earth's environment on a massive scale - just not intentionally.
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