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New comment by explodingman in "Stockpile 72 hours of supplies in case of disaster or attack, EU tells citizens"

explodingman — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 21:03:40 +0000

Emergency services get 72 hours grace before they have to feed people. It’s for their benefit in planning responses.

New comment by explodingman in "Geoengineering (Wrong 2)"

explodingman — Thu, 26 Dec 2024 03:53:16 +0000

I remember an article on this in the New Scientist a long time ago. It opened with telling us that our grandchildren will be able to identify old photos by the blueness of the sky. SO2 in the sky will reduce the intensity of its colour.

More substantially, the distribution of cooling by latitude from SO2 is different from the distribution of warming from CO2. You can put enough SO2 up there to get the same average cooling as the average warming from the CO2 but either the poles will be warmer and the equator cooler, or vice versa (I forget which way it goes). SO2 is not actually “anti-CO2” at all.

So weather patterns will be quite different in a CO2 + SO2 world, and decisions about the “right” amount of SO2 to pump out will be highly contested

New comment by explodingman in "Weight-loss drug found to shrink muscle in mice, human cells"

explodingman — Fri, 22 Nov 2024 20:43:40 +0000

In its trials, Ozempic was combined with intervention/guidance from nutritionists and fitness advisors, and doctors are supposed to reproduce this by referring patients. You can't do that with mice.

I think if I were taking Ozempic I would ask my doctor to halve the rate of progression to higher doses to make the whole process easier to manage, not just managing muscle loss but also the whole of life impact. The official protocol is very "crash diet" in style.

Anyone thinking of taking Ozempic should be aware that many people abandon the drug within the first two years, due to too much nausea, diarrhoea and cost.

New comment by explodingman in "Jaywalking legalized in New York City"

explodingman — Sat, 02 Nov 2024 09:53:56 +0000

Good reference. Thanks!

New comment by explodingman in "GLP-1 for Everything"

explodingman — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 00:22:52 +0000

Love that word "pleiotropic", nice vocab builder.

So it looks like GLP-1 may have positive side-effects beyond what can be explained as consequences of weight loss. Surprising linkages between biochemistry/hormones and temperament.

I am slowly (1 kilogram per month) losing weight by eating nothing but meat 2-3 days per week. My understanding is that the extra GLP-1 secreted by the gut when digesting lots of protein leads to appetite suppression. It works, and is surprisingly easy to do (no feelings of hunger).

So will I also be getting the beneficial side effects of GLP-1? If so, high-protein dieting becomes the smart way to lose weight.

New comment by explodingman in "US proposes banning medical debt from credit reports"

explodingman — Wed, 12 Jun 2024 05:15:54 +0000

It doesn’t exist in Australia

New comment by explodingman in "Understanding UMAP (2019)"

explodingman — Mon, 06 May 2024 22:03:28 +0000

Really enjoying this

New comment by explodingman in "Show HN: Free web app to read YouTube transcripts and highlight them"

explodingman — Mon, 06 May 2024 09:56:31 +0000

Has downloaded fine just now

New comment by explodingman in "Astronauts could run round 'Wall of Death' to keep fit on moon, say scientists"

explodingman — Thu, 02 May 2024 09:59:42 +0000

I’ve read of a Japanese body building practice that involves using a blood pressure cuff to restrict the dispersal of blood. The muscle marinates in its metabolic waste, which has an anabolic effect. Don’t know what they do for muscles in the torso.

https://www.outsideonline.com/health/running/you-should-prob...

New comment by explodingman in "Augmenting the Markdown Language for Great Python Graphical Interfaces"

explodingman — Sun, 21 Jan 2024 10:38:55 +0000

How do you pronounce “taipy”

New comment by explodingman in "Metformin could treat gum disease and help with healthy aging, study claims"

explodingman — Wed, 11 Oct 2023 05:57:26 +0000

How would an Australian get some?

Elon Musk’s X to fund legal bills of people “unfairly treated” for posts

explodingman — Sun, 06 Aug 2023 10:53:34 +0000

Article URL: https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/elon-musk-s-x-to-fund-legal-bills-of-people-unfairly-treated-for-posts-20230806-p5duar.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37020717

Points: 6

# Comments: 3

Mayor to sue ChatGPT after it wrongly named him as guilty [video]

explodingman — Fri, 07 Apr 2023 06:55:59 +0000

Article URL: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-04-06/victorian-mayor-threatens-to-sue-chatgpt-for-defamation/102198754

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35478903

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by explodingman in "Japan wants 85% of men to take paternity leave but they’re too scared to take it"

explodingman — Tue, 28 Mar 2023 08:01:09 +0000

> exploding heads …

I love this!

New comment by explodingman in "She was denied entry to Rockettes show, then facial recognition debate ignited"

explodingman — Sun, 22 Jan 2023 09:49:35 +0000

> if you're suing me, I don't want you in my house.

The "me" in the article is not a person, but a corporation. The person suing is not the lawyer, but whoever engaged the law firm. And an entertainment venue is not somebody's house.

How about ... If you work for a company that is engaged by a company that is suing us in a business dispute, we will harass you by excluding you from an unguessable amount of venues and events. We're warning you of this but we won't give you a list of those venues and events, you'll just find out when you get excluded as you go about your private life. And we don't have to get a green light from a magistrate to do this, and we might continue doing it after the dispute is over if we don't like your attitude.

New comment by explodingman in "Females on average perform better than males on a 'theory of mind' test"

explodingman — Tue, 27 Dec 2022 06:40:52 +0000

The data in the article equally well supports a heading like “Males on average perform better than females on a ‘systematic thinking’ test”

New comment by explodingman in "[dead]"

explodingman — Mon, 12 Dec 2022 09:05:16 +0000

His inconsistencies are consistently to the right

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33951797

New comment by explodingman in "Australia: Excess deaths in 2022 'incredibly high' at 13 percent"

explodingman — Mon, 12 Dec 2022 07:25:16 +0000

The report divides deaths into three types: those who died of covid, those who died with covid and excess deaths. The excess deaths are more numerous than the with covid deaths.

Weekly fluctuations in excess deaths correlates strongly with covid deaths, so people who want to pretend that the excess deaths are due to something other than covid (ie, vaccinations or lockdown measures) are barking up the wrong tree.

https://www.actuaries.digital/2022/12/07/covid-19-mortality-...

New comment by explodingman in "Ten Minute Physics"

explodingman — Fri, 09 Dec 2022 21:10:00 +0000

If you get anywhere, put a link to your code here. I’m bookmarking this spot and I’d appreciate a look at some python code when I come back to this (kinda busy right now).

New comment by explodingman in "DoorDash lays off 1250 employees"

explodingman — Thu, 01 Dec 2022 07:02:57 +0000

> The people I think of as most ambitious might not even have careers

Could you expand on that?