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New comment by hammock in "How Passive Radar Works"

hammock — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 17:36:47 +0000

It’s reminiscent of what are known as “unbranded pharmaceutical websites,” which focus on educating patients about conditions and symptoms without promoting a specific brand-name drug, which means the regulatory bar is far lower and you don’t need to include any safety info etc.

An example would be a website creating awareness around a disease for which there is (or was at the time) only one or two treatments for, like ED, crohns, a specific type of cancer, etc. in fine print at the bottom will say “Pfizer” or “j&j” but no drugs are mentioned, just a call to “ask your doctor about possible treatments.”

New comment by hammock in "Combining spicy foods with mint boosts anti-inflammatory effects 100x or more"

hammock — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 05:17:15 +0000

Turmeric. Honey (on burns)- Medihoney was even used in a recent Pitt episode. Aspirin, though this is older than 50 years.

New comment by hammock in "Filing the corners off my MacBooks"

hammock — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 05:13:02 +0000

The funny thing is Apple products are considered “finished products” No one would feel the same way if it was a home built computer.

The modding community is a shadow of its old self these days

New comment by hammock in "Artemis II safely splashes down"

hammock — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 05:05:49 +0000

Actual death rate for astronauts so far is 19/791, or 1 in 40.

New comment by hammock in "Chimpanzees in Uganda locked in eight-year 'civil war', say researchers"

hammock — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 01:54:47 +0000

Knowing what we know now, imagine how much it would have accelerated back then if the elites hadn’t been able to smother out the Occupy movement. Wild to think about

New comment by hammock in "DOJ Top Antitrust Litigators Exit After Ticketmaster Accord"

hammock — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 23:01:01 +0000

Antitrust division at DOJ has been subjective since the beginning. The Sherman Act is very broad and requires a certain discretion to enforce

New comment by hammock in "DOJ Top Antitrust Litigators Exit After Ticketmaster Accord"

hammock — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 22:57:36 +0000

Insert the astronaut with a gun meme (always has been). Lords and ladies also delegated to administrative functionaries, with similar results and dynamics. The difference here is that the commissioners are, hopefully, democratically elected, under the dictates and regulation of the U.S. and state constitutions. Which is a key difference.

New comment by hammock in "FBI used iPhone notification data to retrieve deleted Signal messages"

hammock — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 13:23:02 +0000

Wait so if I do iOS setting notifications > never show previews it’s still caching them in the background? Unencrypted?

New comment by hammock in "Maine is about to become the first state to ban major new data centers"

hammock — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:19:47 +0000

Historically the factories in Maine were mills, which use water for power. Those days are long gone but in a different time you would find no resistance to more factories in Maine, it’s a wasteland now

New comment by hammock in "Maine is about to become the first state to ban major new data centers"

hammock — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:16:09 +0000

No because they have a big interconnect being built from Canada right now that people want to tap into

New comment by hammock in "Maine is about to become the first state to ban major new data centers"

hammock — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:13:05 +0000

Maine is far from being a nimby state, apart from the 30% expansion rule for houses <250ft from water, there is basically no zoning across the entire state and a fly by night hot dog diner could go up next to your million dollar cottage if it wanted to.

California on the other hand… but they are clearly far from becoming a “dead state”

New comment by hammock in "ML promises to be profoundly weird"

hammock — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 02:33:30 +0000

The general point is accurate, don’t take it so literally.

There were more than enough trees until we developed the technology to clear cut in expeditious manner. There were more than enough fish until we developed the technology to pull massive indiscriminate amounts out of the ocean (and/or started polluting our rivers with industry). There was more than enough topsoil until we developed mechanized plows and artificial fertilizer. Etc.

A few hundred years ago or less, a squirrel could get from the Atlantic Ocean to the Mississippi River without ever touching the ground. Not possible today. That’s not a push and pull played out over thousands of years, that’s a one-way trend.

New comment by hammock in "Peptides: where to begin?"

hammock — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 13:47:15 +0000

Agreed (remember where I said overeating). Non-homogenized gently pasteurized milk/cream with minimally processed honey or maple syrup, and fresh ground hamburger, all of which which you can definitely get at supermarkets by the way, are much better for you than Big Macs and McFlurries. Ask yourself why? It’s obviously not “because they aren’t hamburgers and milkshakes”

New comment by hammock in "Peptides: where to begin?"

hammock — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 01:47:33 +0000

> Most people don't believe it anyway

Maybe because so much of it is wrong, or (very charitably, as much is industry-biased) outdated?

Lifestyle modification is a definite challenge and I’m not dismissing it.

Still, hamburgers and milkshakes don’t give you heart disease and cancer. Overeating, oxidative stress from low-quality ingredients, etc might.

New comment by hammock in "Peptides: where to begin?"

hammock — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 22:22:55 +0000

Those are sizable drops for 10 weeks unless you stopped lifting as well

New comment by hammock in "Peptides: where to begin?"

hammock — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 22:20:07 +0000

You don’t have to wonder. It’s public record that 45% of the FDA’s budget incomes from user fees that companies pay when they apply for approval of a medical device or drug.

In the drug division specifically, the number is about 75%.

New comment by hammock in "Artemis II's toilet is a moon mission milestone"

hammock — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 18:17:46 +0000

> Seems like a big issue is I'm guessing insistence on having this be a solo operation for cultural reasons

What cultures are you aware of that do pair programming for poopies?

New comment by hammock in "Mathematical methods and human thought in the age of AI"

hammock — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 01:02:36 +0000

Let me be more nuanced. What’s the difference between AI and a computer program? In the context above

New comment by hammock in "Mathematical methods and human thought in the age of AI"

hammock — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 02:40:52 +0000

Insert better horse/car analogy here

New comment by hammock in "Mathematical methods and human thought in the age of AI"

hammock — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 02:36:05 +0000

I mean were computers themselves ever human-centered? What’s the difference between AI and a computer?