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New comment by curious_fella1 in "Anti-diarrhoea drug drives cancer cells to cell death"

curious_fella1 — Wed, 23 Dec 2020 21:56:23 +0000

Awesome!

New comment by curious_fella1 in "Anti-diarrhoea drug drives cancer cells to cell death"

curious_fella1 — Wed, 23 Dec 2020 21:56:07 +0000

Thanks!

New comment by curious_fella1 in "Anti-diarrhoea drug drives cancer cells to cell death"

curious_fella1 — Wed, 23 Dec 2020 18:30:52 +0000

Thank you for the comprehensive response! That was very interesting :)

I took a Biopsychology of Drugs class in college and found it fascinating. Do you know of any good (text)books on the subject?

New comment by curious_fella1 in "Anti-diarrhoea drug drives cancer cells to cell death"

curious_fella1 — Wed, 23 Dec 2020 17:36:45 +0000

> Several classes of opioids have been shown to cause neuronal degeneration

Question for you - is this "brain damage" that I often hear results from taking a particular drug the result of intentful downregulation of certain neuronal receptors (e.g., meth -> too much dopamine in synapse -> downregulate dopamine receptors), or is the drug actually killing brain cells/neurotoxic?

New comment by curious_fella1 in "Microdosing: Improving performance enhancement in intelligence analysis (2019) [pdf]"

curious_fella1 — Sun, 06 Dec 2020 03:45:39 +0000

Can you share some of these strategies?

New comment by curious_fella1 in "Tesla set to join S&P 500"

curious_fella1 — Mon, 16 Nov 2020 23:23:53 +0000

More looking for an ETF

New comment by curious_fella1 in "Tesla set to join S&P 500"

curious_fella1 — Mon, 16 Nov 2020 23:14:34 +0000

For the Tesla bears out there, is there a way to invest in the S&P500 - TSLA ?

New comment by curious_fella1 in "Biden wins White House, vowing new direction for divided U.S."

curious_fella1 — Sun, 08 Nov 2020 00:29:28 +0000

One loud, crazy voice doesn't represent the majority.

New comment by curious_fella1 in "Tech firms face growing resentment of parent employees during Covid-19"

curious_fella1 — Wed, 09 Sep 2020 01:36:51 +0000

This is stupid. I've seen 0 signs of this as the FAANG company I work at (my gauge being our internal forum). Absolutely 0 mention of this. No mentions from coworkers, friends, etc.

New comment by curious_fella1 in "'Coup 53' tells the story of 1953 campaign by MI6 and CIA to oust Iran's leader"

curious_fella1 — Wed, 19 Aug 2020 23:06:15 +0000

It sounds like you're projecting your ignorance of another people onto that people.

New comment by curious_fella1 in "Are we in an AI Overhang?"

curious_fella1 — Mon, 27 Jul 2020 20:38:34 +0000

Perhaps our artificial representation of neurons are simply much less energy efficient than a biological neuron?

New comment by curious_fella1 in "Obese politicians signal corruption, study finds"

curious_fella1 — Mon, 27 Jul 2020 19:40:56 +0000

Science is not interested in political correctness.

New comment by curious_fella1 in "Amazon met with startups about investing, then launched competing products"

curious_fella1 — Fri, 24 Jul 2020 17:00:55 +0000

> his parting words were “if someone offers you a seat on a spaceship, don’t ask which seat”

Lol what a jackass

New comment by curious_fella1 in "Q2 2020 Update"

curious_fella1 — Wed, 22 Jul 2020 22:28:18 +0000

> and it the only company with increase in # of deliveries among the 10 largest autos globally

I'm sure others have commented, but this is some real silly logic. Yes, going from (fake numbers) 100k -> 110k cars sold is a lot easier than going from 1M -> 1.1M.

New comment by curious_fella1 in "Deep Work and the 30-Hour Method for Learning a New Skill (2018)"

curious_fella1 — Wed, 15 Jul 2020 16:43:31 +0000

This is great.

New comment by curious_fella1 in "Alphabet-owned Verily suspended spot bonuses to fund diversity initiatives"

curious_fella1 — Wed, 01 Jul 2020 00:49:09 +0000

They suspended spot bonuses, not your yearly bonus. These are sometimes given out at the end of a long project, they might be worth ~2k.

Still really annoying, but also kinda click-baity title.

New comment by curious_fella1 in "The Dyatlov Pass Incident"

curious_fella1 — Wed, 25 Dec 2019 20:49:37 +0000

I think these death notes sum up the most interesting parts of the debacle.

Hypothermia; leader of group

Hypothermia

Internal bleeding from severe chest trauma

Hypothermia

Fatal skull injury

Severe chest trauma, eyes missing

New comment by curious_fella1 in "Sundar will be the CEO of both Google and Alphabet"

curious_fella1 — Tue, 03 Dec 2019 22:37:05 +0000

They were practically absent from day to day affairs anyways. This is unsurprising.

New comment by curious_fella1 in "Tesla Cybertruck"

curious_fella1 — Fri, 22 Nov 2019 23:03:39 +0000

Only slightly worse:

https://media.wired.com/photos/593252a1edfced5820d0fa07/mast...

New comment by curious_fella1 in "AI Update, Late 2019"

curious_fella1 — Mon, 18 Nov 2019 23:31:56 +0000

At least one misleading source from the article: when talking about the limitations of Uber's self-driving tech, the author links to a source mentioning Uber may be paying license fees to Waymo for their AV tech, insinuating that Uber is unable to move its AV program forward on their own. The article linked actually mentions Uber being court-ordered to pay for the tech (the Lewandowski case)