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10,019 karma · joined November 15, 2012

This account is no longer active. Sam Altman threw us all - AI folks, under the bus for his own benefit - how can I trust YC now?
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bitL··on Reduced cancer mortality with daily Vitamin D intake
Taking D3 without K2 gives you atherosclerosis though so it's wise to combine the two.
bitL··on Constitutional AI: RLHF on Steroids
You can't make a career in academia without addressing AI ethics these days. I guess the startup or its financiers still run in academia mode.
bitL··on Vitamin K2 supplements fail to slow calcium buildup in heart
Sure, but even some super fit folks end up with atherosclerosis due to genetics so if there are any supplements that prevent it, that would be nice.
bitL··on Ultra Deep look at Messier 81 and 82
Is there any way to download the whole image to use it as a wallpaper?
bitL··on Vitamin K2 supplements fail to slow calcium buildup in heart
Unfortunately, plasma levels of many elements don't tell you if you aren't deficient already. For many tissue deficiencies you need to do e.g. radioactive scans which nobody will do for you. You can be vitamin deficient, potassium deficient etc. and plasma deficiency will show up only when you are really at the edge of something chronic or death.

See e.g.:

https://www.mayoclinicproceedings.org/article/S0025-6196(18)...

bitL··on Vitamin K2 supplements fail to slow calcium buildup in heart
Which magnesium type? Oxide, glycinate, threonate...?
bitL··on Vitamin K2 supplements fail to slow calcium buildup in heart
OK, good point. Assuming 60 minutes of on average moderate cardio a day, which supplements would you recommend?
bitL··on Vitamin K2 supplements fail to slow calcium buildup in heart
Yeah, I have heard of that. But natto is supposed to be rich in K2, some K2 supplements are made out of natto.
bitL··on Vitamin K2 supplements fail to slow calcium buildup in heart
K2 was supposed to help endothelium as well and was known for enabling calcium to move from blood to bones.
bitL··on Vitamin K2 supplements fail to slow calcium buildup in heart
That's sad, I was hoping to soften the impact by taking K2 supplements now before I get old. What else beside K2 would you recommend for a healthy cardiovascular system?

- Diosmin:Hesperidin 9:1?

- Rutin?

- Arginine?

- Curcumin?

- Ginkgo?

- Nattokinase?

- Serrapeptase?

- Lumbrokinase?

- Omega 3?

- Pycnogenol/OPC?

- Hawthorn berry?

- Kyolic?

bitL··on Chile to Nationalize Lithium Industry
Stalinists were trying to create economies of scale by centralizing agriculture to large conglomerates but weren't smart enough to avoid supply disruption that together with dry years, optimistic communication/lies and foreign export led to massive famines throughout the whole USSR.

One can see the same pattern in large corps where the front falls suddenly off.

bitL··on Defenestrations of Prague
Theocracy ended with the acceptance that most people will end up eternally damned as there can't be two competing religions holding the complete truth and European population was quickly fractured into "us vs heretics" depending on the side one was on, whereas before everybody was part of the same church. That weakened religion and allowed rationalist thought to emerge.
bitL··on Defenestrations of Prague
"Baron von Hohenfall" was the funniest part of that article.
bitL··on Pixel phones are sold with bootloader unlocking disabled
So I guess one should activate the phone at some Wifi cafe first before unlocking bootloader and flashing a new OS otherwise Google could make a direct link to ownership during the lifetime of the device.
bitL··on AMD promises its new laptop chips will crush the Apple M2 and it’s got receipts
Marketing benchmarks used values that led to blown up 3Ds. Mobo fixes might lead to performance regressions (i.e. no longer the best CPU for a given game).
bitL··on Pixel phones are sold with bootloader unlocking disabled
Can Pi Hole block these "phoning home" attempts?
bitL··on AMD promises its new laptop chips will crush the Apple M2 and it’s got receipts
AMD should really stop with this crappy marketing and look at how many of their promises evaporated quickly once people tried their new products. Radeon fiascos all the time, alienating Threadripper users by false promises, blown up Ryzen 7k3Ds running on voltages from marketing materials, crappy x3D hybrid CCD architecture disadvantaging many workloads etc. Somebody should tell their marketing team something unpleasant but needed.
bitL··on VW to fire top executives at software unit Cariad, source says
I believe it's because of the top-down approach to software development. The amount of waterfall in those projects is insane and individual developers are just small cogs in the org and their input is not regarded as important. In German companies one has to be at least a PhD (preferably Privatdozent) to be taken seriously even if their PhD is completely outdated and they never wrote a line of code in their life.
bitL··on EU sends Apple stark warning over USB-C charging on new iPhones
Are USB-C ports still going to be limited to USB 2 speeds on iPhone 15?
bitL··on KDE Developers in Germany Planning for Plasma 6.0
What is missing to have Plasma providing a full experience on Linux phones or tablets, e.g. PinePhone/Tab2?
bitL··on New study: 70% of type 2 diabetes cases linked to food choices
Would a pure chocolate (99% or 100%, no sugar at all) help avoid T2 due to increasing levels of adiponectin?
bitL··on When “free forever” means “free for the next 4 months”
Won't work for any externally-capitalized company.
bitL··on When “free forever” means “free for the next 4 months”
FL Studio lives off plugins that aren't free. Still, it's great that the producer edition is free forever, but one might need to pay them from time to time when falling in love with some new sound ;-)
bitL··on Desulfovibrio bacteria are probable causes of Parkinson's disease: study
For example, covid wreaks havoc in the gut which might cause tilt towards bacteria producing ammonia which then leaks to blood stream, causing the brain fog. Supplementing prebiotics like lactulose can help to suppress this effect.
bitL··on Desulfovibrio bacteria are probable causes of Parkinson's disease: study
There is a two-way link between gut bacteria and immunity. Immunity often forces composition of gut bacteria regardless of supplementation. Pro/pre-biotics often have no effect, we are still missing something.
bitL··on Desulfovibrio bacteria are probable causes of Parkinson's disease: study
Aren't gut bacteria surviving in the appendix, replenishing after antibiotics finished their course?
bitL··on Desulfovibrio bacteria are probable causes of Parkinson's disease: study
Would megadosing (apo)lactoferrin help here? There are already nanomeds using lactoferrin for BBB transport for Parkinson's directly in the brain, how about moving it a notch down and do it directly in the gut?
bitL··on Apple reports Q2 2023 results
I am surprised their sales didn't collapse in the EU given the massive price hike and not making their products cheaper when Euro rose again, like what Nvidia did.
bitL··on Augmenting LLMs Beyond Basic Text Completion and Transformation
:prayinghands: is the same as :highfive: which gives the conversation a bit different meaning.
bitL··on Europeans drain billions from banks, fed up with shrinking savings
Switch to N26?
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