Hacker News: Khelavaster

New comment by Khelavaster in "FDA and RFK Jr. aim to remove fluoride products used to protect kids' teeth"

Khelavaster — Tue, 13 May 2025 20:08:11 +0000

Fluoride tablets and lozenges are bad for kids. Fluoride toothpaste is good, and not being banned by RFK.

New comment by Khelavaster in "Gangs in the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department"

Khelavaster — Wed, 07 Aug 2024 05:30:18 +0000

https://knock-la.com/tradition-of-violence-lasd-gang-history...

New comment by Khelavaster in "Christofides Algorithm"

Khelavaster — Sat, 03 Aug 2024 07:48:55 +0000

The real solution to traveling salesman style problems.

New comment by Khelavaster in "Reddit CEO: Microsoft needs to pay to search the site"

Khelavaster — Thu, 01 Aug 2024 06:05:55 +0000

Publicly available web pages can always be legally indexable and searchable, right?

An index is a derivative-enough work that copyright doesn't apply.

New comment by Khelavaster in "Regular Glucosamine Use and Mortality"

Khelavaster — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 18:15:05 +0000

glycine needs to be taken with lysine and vitamin C to keep from depleting lysine into collagen..

New comment by Khelavaster in "Regular Glucosamine Use and Mortality"

Khelavaster — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 15:14:32 +0000

What if everyone got enough glycine while their blood sugar was adequate, so that their glucosamine levels topped up...

New comment by Khelavaster in "Children should be allowed to get bored (2013)"

Khelavaster — Tue, 30 Jul 2024 11:45:25 +0000

Exactly. Punching someone in the face in high school is a good way to get shot, stabbed, poisoned, or run over.

New comment by Khelavaster in "The protein Reelin keeps popping up in brains that resist aging and Alzheimer’s"

Khelavaster — Tue, 30 Jul 2024 05:35:57 +0000

Reelin is transcribed 4 genes away from acetylcholinesterase. And is a core collagen component. No wonder it's tied to Alzheimer's..

New comment by Khelavaster in "Ask HN: Can I become a statician without a degree in Math?"

Khelavaster — Mon, 29 Jul 2024 02:03:32 +0000

Look at the statistics.

Technically yes of course .. what are you really asking?

New comment by Khelavaster in "Is Sleep Training Harmful?"

Khelavaster — Fri, 26 Jul 2024 17:14:31 +0000

Lots of statements that "researchers haven't found evidence", without evidence for such claims.

"Evidence isn't strong enough" and "there is literally no evidence of any strength" are totally different.

New comment by Khelavaster in "Google is the only search engine that works on Reddit now, thanks to AI deal"

Khelavaster — Thu, 25 Jul 2024 17:58:49 +0000

The Fake News police should shut down this sort of messaging

New comment by Khelavaster in "The Puzzle of How Large-Scale Order Emerges in Complex Systems"

Khelavaster — Thu, 25 Jul 2024 04:04:21 +0000

The Nature of Order really addresses this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nature_of_Order

New comment by Khelavaster in "Google is the only search engine that works on Reddit now, thanks to AI deal"

Khelavaster — Wed, 24 Jul 2024 17:09:26 +0000

robots.txt isn't legally binding. Can Reddit really force Bing not to crawl it..?

New comment by Khelavaster in "Blood transfusions, lithium, meth: Can biohackers rejuvenate aging leaders?"

Khelavaster — Sat, 20 Jul 2024 16:15:04 +0000

Meth is a prescription drug, so it would. be legal for someone like Biden who can get a prescription to microdose.

New comment by Khelavaster in "Wheel falls off Boeing 757-200 during takeoff"

Khelavaster — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 17:02:41 +0000

Exactly right

New comment by Khelavaster in "Ok WTF happened at CVPR Visual Perception workshop [video]"

Khelavaster — Fri, 05 Jul 2024 11:37:44 +0000

this is a 200+ minute video--any guidanc?

New comment by Khelavaster in "Dear Roku, you ruined my TV"

Khelavaster — Thu, 04 Jul 2024 18:28:23 +0000

Get a Vizio tv instead. Vizio is roku-free.

New comment by Khelavaster in "Why nobody grows up wanting to be a DevOps engineer"

Khelavaster — Tue, 02 Jul 2024 23:05:26 +0000

People DO grow up wanting to be systems administrators and more no programming tech gurus!

New comment by Khelavaster in "How 'Rural Studies' Is Thinking About the Heartland"

Khelavaster — Sat, 29 Jun 2024 19:11:20 +0000

Huh, only one in five residents live in rural America.

So rural landowners are a minority..

New comment by Khelavaster in "Schild's Ladder by Greg Egan"

Khelavaster — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 04:55:02 +0000

An excellent, truly modern book!!