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New comment by jebus989 in "Claude for Small Business"

jebus989 — Thu, 14 May 2026 09:35:54 +0000

The good thing is we've learned this already from cloud. When one AWS region is degraded we all failover to other regions, and then other cloud providers, right? ...right?

New comment by jebus989 in "Show HN: Mcp2cli – One CLI for every API, 96-99% fewer tokens than native MCP"

jebus989 — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 12:09:52 +0000

Roll your own

New comment by jebus989 in "Claude Sonnet 4.6"

jebus989 — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 09:33:59 +0000

Even simpler it just takes screenshots (or at least that's what it was doing last time I used it)

New comment by jebus989 in "Why a cancer scare around aspartame is mostly unfounded"

jebus989 — Wed, 30 Aug 2023 11:30:47 +0000

> In complex systems, such as the human body, the only evidence of safety is time -- a very long time. The Stevia plant (though not the same as extract) has been used for centuries. Aspartame was (accidentally) created in the lab in 1965.

Time is not evidence of safety, that is an odd claim (see smoking tobacco), thankfully we have the scientific method to investigate hypotheses like "x is bad for you".

New comment by jebus989 in "Why a cancer scare around aspartame is mostly unfounded"

jebus989 — Wed, 30 Aug 2023 10:04:00 +0000

This is an example of the "appeal to nature" logical fallacy. You may be able to make a case that Stevia is healthier than Aspartame, but it should be based on evidence to that effect rather than because you like the idea that it has ingredients derived from organic material.

New comment by jebus989 in "Ask HN: Any open source stack exchange clone"

jebus989 — Fri, 09 Sep 2022 15:28:02 +0000

In the bioinformatics sphere there is this MIT-licensed Stack Exchange clone: https://github.com/ialbert/biostar-central

New comment by jebus989 in "Ask HN: What are examples of common beliefs conclusively invalidated by data?"

jebus989 — Wed, 22 Jun 2022 15:46:42 +0000

All crops are inclined to be grown in monocultures. That's because even if you'd get more yield pairing with other species — as in these studies — pragmatically the time and cost of sowing, harvesting and separating multiple species outweighs the theoretical yield gain per unit area of a monocrop.

New comment by jebus989 in "Ask HN: What are examples of common beliefs conclusively invalidated by data?"

jebus989 — Wed, 22 Jun 2022 15:13:29 +0000

These are indeed links but quite random ones. Mostly they are reporting that growing two things together in a field can give higher yields than growing a single thing. None seem to be related to GMOs, which could obviously also be grown with complimentary species to increase yield.

New comment by jebus989 in "Ask HN: What are examples of common beliefs conclusively invalidated by data?"

jebus989 — Wed, 22 Jun 2022 15:05:46 +0000

I'm not sure if this was an unfortunate accident but almost every banana worldwide is essentially genetically identical: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavendish_banana

New comment by jebus989 in "Ask HN: What are examples of common beliefs conclusively invalidated by data?"

jebus989 — Wed, 22 Jun 2022 15:00:17 +0000

To re-iterate: there is no biodiversity in agriculture. As an example, "non-GMO" bananas are cloned from a single species the world over. If you'd be concerned about a single disease destroying genetically-identical crops worldwide, that happened with the Gros Michel cultivar in the 20th century. Competing GMO banana products would introduce more diversity than exists today.

New comment by jebus989 in "Ask HN: What are examples of common beliefs conclusively invalidated by data?"

jebus989 — Wed, 22 Jun 2022 14:25:33 +0000

There is no biodiversity in agriculture. Whether or not the seeds you purchased have been edited to add drought resistance or high vitamin A content or other fantastic benefits to humankind you are still growing a monoculture, just as you were with non-GMO crops.

New comment by jebus989 in "Butyrylcholinesterase is a potential biomarker for Sudden Infant Death Syndrome"

jebus989 — Fri, 13 May 2022 09:50:51 +0000

I agree, I'm guessing the highest (arguably avoidable) risk to a baby or child is driving them around in a car.

New comment by jebus989 in "I'm Too Risk-Averse for Index Investing"

jebus989 — Sun, 20 Mar 2022 23:42:52 +0000

Your points in order were:

1. There's no way to hedge against inflation (you didn't know TIPS existed)

2. Having learned about TIPS you assert they're illiquid and can't be traded easily (you didn't know about TIPS funds)

3. Having learnt about TIPS funds you don't the recent returns of a specific fund (you don't know that TIPS adjustments lag reported inflation numbers)

New comment by jebus989 in "I'm Too Risk-Averse for Index Investing"

jebus989 — Fri, 18 Mar 2022 23:45:51 +0000

Erm, just buy a TIPS fund like VIPSX from Vanguard.

New comment by jebus989 in "I'm Too Risk-Averse for Index Investing"

jebus989 — Fri, 18 Mar 2022 16:29:08 +0000

> You can't even hedge inflation without the stock market (or real estate, if you can afford the buy-in).

See also: treasury inflation-protected securities (TIPS).

New comment by jebus989 in "Moderna mRNA sequence released to GitHub [pdf]"

jebus989 — Tue, 30 Mar 2021 08:51:05 +0000

Proteins are written in standardised IUPAC amino acid codes that carry some semantic meaning, e.g. Alanine: A, Glycine: G etc. Also viral genomes often have overlapping transcription with shifted open reading frames. Biology is not as simple as you think.

New comment by jebus989 in "An introduction to Tmux"

jebus989 — Sat, 02 Apr 2016 18:44:40 +0000

Suspend?

Google's Jeff Huber announced as CEO of cancer test startup Grail

jebus989 — Wed, 10 Feb 2016 19:45:21 +0000

Article URL: http://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewherper/2016/02/10/cancer-killed-a-google-executives-wife-he-thinks-his-new-startup-might-have-saved-her/?linkId=21159716#5741811e66a5

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New comment by jebus989 in "Why a cancer scare around aspartame is mostly unfounded"

New comment by jebus989 in "Why a cancer scare around aspartame is mostly unfounded"

New comment by jebus989 in "Ask HN: Any open source stack exchange clone"

New comment by jebus989 in "Ask HN: What are examples of common beliefs conclusively invalidated by data?"

New comment by jebus989 in "Ask HN: What are examples of common beliefs conclusively invalidated by data?"

New comment by jebus989 in "Ask HN: What are examples of common beliefs conclusively invalidated by data?"

New comment by jebus989 in "Ask HN: What are examples of common beliefs conclusively invalidated by data?"

New comment by jebus989 in "Ask HN: What are examples of common beliefs conclusively invalidated by data?"

New comment by jebus989 in "Butyrylcholinesterase is a potential biomarker for Sudden Infant Death Syndrome"

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Google's Jeff Huber announced as CEO of cancer test startup Grail

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