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New comment by Kathula in "Why are there no good dinosaur films?"

Kathula — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 15:38:00 +0000

There's a Terminator tv-show from 2008 that was pretty good. It's about John as teenager, going to high school and dealing with that while fleeing a Terminator that's been sent back. But I agree with your overall premise, if it isnt about John or Sarah in "the present", then it's pretty boring.

New comment by Kathula in "Narcolepsy is weird but I didn't notice"

Kathula — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 00:04:28 +0000

Yeah on the opposite I'd say it's pretty clear that the insomnia and poor sleep during night contributes heavily to why we are so spent and sleepy during the day. Aside from general insomnia I also had so much night terrors. Terrible nightmare, then waking up, then resuming the terrible nightmare again. Sometimes I'd try to stay awake just not to experience the night terrors. I inadvertently learned lucid dreaming to handle them.

New comment by Kathula in "Narcolepsy is weird but I didn't notice"

Kathula — Sun, 12 Jan 2025 19:25:06 +0000

I got it after pandemrix vaccine as well. Sodium oxybate absolutely helps with wakefulness, turns out you feel more awake and are less prone to fall asleep if you get good sleep at night (although induced by medicine).

New comment by Kathula in "Narcolepsy is weird but I didn't notice"

Kathula — Sat, 11 Jan 2025 23:04:20 +0000

I'm not a regular poster here, so sorry if I don't follow the rules or etiquette correctly, but I gotta go to bat for Xyrem. I have Narcolepsy, so our situations aren't exactly identical, but it seems to me IH and Narcolepsy have a big overlap.

First of all, the benefit of taking Xyrem is so, so big. It doesn't compare to any other medication or stimulant. You can get quality sleep at night. No more insomnia, lying awake, or constant night terrors and waking up 30 times a night. You feel refreshed when you wake up, like a weight has been lifted from your shoulders. Like a veil has been revealed.

The risks aren't that great, if you take it as prescribed it shouldn't cause you any trouble, at least not anything major. Nausea usually only happens when you titrate up the doses too quickly. It happened to me, maybe 5 nights, or 10 at the most. Hasnt happened now in 10 years I've been on it.

You should look it up more. You can check in the narcolepsy reddit, there's always questions and discussions around Xyrem/sodium oxybate every day.

I do sympathize with the high cost and insurance problem. It certainly isn't a medication most people can afford on their own.

New comment by Kathula in "Narcolepsy is weird but I didn't notice"

Kathula — Sat, 11 Jan 2025 22:37:52 +0000

I have narcolepsy as well. What really helps a lot is a type of medication called sodium oxybate. Different kinds of stimulants never did anything to me, they might (might) keep me awake more, but I never felt rested, and always had constant brain fog. Xyrem changed that for me. Now I get many hours of good sleep at night, making me feel rested waking up. I'm still more prone to fall asleep during the day than the average person, but it's mostly after I've eaten a big meal. Do yourself a service and look it up.

New comment by Kathula in "Gabriel García Márquez: Sons publish novel that late author wanted destroyed"

Kathula — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 09:59:16 +0000

Simple for the audience on HN perhaps but not for the non-technical everyday person.

New comment by Kathula in "Hal Finney was the designer of Bitcoin"

Kathula — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 16:41:48 +0000

Adam Back certainly fits the profile the best. Invented Hashcash, has a Ph.D. in Distributed Systems, and is English. He's also still deeply involved with Bitcoin and has a lot of influence, which best can be seen when he successfully proposed the "speedy-trial" activation method for Taproot.

New comment by Kathula in "The failure of self-checkout technology"

Kathula — Tue, 16 Jan 2024 10:16:45 +0000

>theft will be next to impossible

This sounds like some tech utopia t thinking. What's gonna stop someone just grabbing something and walking out? The employees?

New comment by Kathula in "Spot Bitcoin ETF receives official approval from the SEC"

Kathula — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 10:36:47 +0000

If by creating a "disincentive to investment" you mean a disincentive to gamble their hard earned money on the stock market, then yes. The current situation where (at least before interest rate was somewhat high) the average man had to spend time and effort by going to the stock market with their money is not healthy. You shouldn't have to gamble your money just so it doesn't lose value by merely holding it. Investments will of course still exist, it will just be of a higher quality/yield. Because now there's actually an alternative to "investing" on stocks.

New comment by Kathula in "Spot Bitcoin ETF receives official approval from the SEC"

Kathula — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 10:16:18 +0000

The question was not if Bitcoin overall is deflationary. The comment said it was by design, which it arguably isn't because by design it's actually inflationary.

New comment by Kathula in "Spot Bitcoin ETF receives official approval from the SEC"

Kathula — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 06:41:15 +0000

Explain how Bitcoin, which for the next 100 years will continue to print new coins, is attempting to replicate deflation. Maybe inadvertently, by people losing access to their Bitcoins for various reasons, but the design itself certainly isn't deflationary. Not even in its final form, the supply will merely be constant.

Also I find it humorus when people complain about deflation, which pretty much is the natural condition of the world. New techniques and improvements will unenviably lead to products costing less. The problematic factor has always been the current ruling money being controlled by a central authority who will debase it.

New comment by Kathula in "We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam to return to OpenAI as CEO"

Kathula — Wed, 22 Nov 2023 09:36:59 +0000

Folding for pressure and group think is different things imo. You can be very aware you are folding for pressure, but doing it because it's the right/easy thing to do. While group think is more a phenomenon you are not aware of at all.

New comment by Kathula in "We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam to return to OpenAI as CEO"

Kathula — Wed, 22 Nov 2023 09:33:39 +0000

Being smart does not equate to being critical, or going against group think.

New comment by Kathula in "Do not put plastic in the microwave"

Kathula — Sat, 23 Sep 2023 18:40:06 +0000

I just lift them at the sides, close to the top, to avoid being burned. If you're home you could also use oven gloves or paper towel or something.

New comment by Kathula in "Do high interest rates fix high inflation?"

Kathula — Wed, 14 Jun 2023 09:54:04 +0000

Hungary isn't gonna be the only country that raises the inflation target. In fact all central banks will probably follow through. After all there's no rationale why the current target is 2% and why this is the case for all central banks, it might as well be 1 or 3/4/5. But once someone raises everybody will get on board with the new paradigm and follow through, because otherwise it would be obvious that there's nothing special about 2% and whatever the new arbitrarily-picked number will be. And of course this gives the people in charge leeway too, if the inflation is 10% and the inflation goal is 5% instead of 2%, it doesn't look that awful anymore.

New comment by Kathula in "The hype around esports is fading as investors and sponsors dry up"

Kathula — Mon, 12 Dec 2022 23:59:46 +0000

By "continually losing creators to YouTube" you mean YouTube paid a few top streamers million dollar contracts? I don't see anyone prefer streaming on YouTube over Twitch unless you already have a big channel on yt.

Discovery is still better on Twitch. There's raids and hosts, and simply picking a catogery/game you like and see everyone who streams it. How do I find a Dota livestreamer on Youtube? There's not any intuitive way, if I search it I just get videos.

And then there's twitch prime, the supreme chatting experience of twitch etc.

New comment by Kathula in "FTX Token, FTT down by more than 80% in less than 24 hours"

Kathula — Tue, 08 Nov 2022 20:11:01 +0000

And where does the "likely" part come from?

New comment by Kathula in "One year on, El Salvador’s Bitcoin experiment has proven a failure"

Kathula — Wed, 14 Sep 2022 10:02:36 +0000

I had no conviction that 60k would be the top. But I have a conviction that it'll be surpassed eventually.

New comment by Kathula in "One year on, El Salvador’s Bitcoin experiment has proven a failure"

Kathula — Wed, 14 Sep 2022 09:51:59 +0000

It isn't lucky to hold through multiple multi-year 80% drawdowns, it's called doing research and having a conviction. I didn't sell at 60k, I'm not selling now, because I have a strong conviction. You call this lucky, but it isn't. If you have a conviction and a span longer than four years you could get "lucky" too.

New comment by Kathula in "How badly is cryptocurrency worsening the chip shortage?"

Kathula — Fri, 12 Nov 2021 17:32:30 +0000

I'll doubt that'll ever happen. They've pushed up ETH 2.0 so many times that it's no longer believable.