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New comment by mostin in "HPV vaccination reduces oncogenic HPV16/18 prevalence from 16% to <1% in Denmark"

mostin — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 18:52:00 +0000

I did the same at 34. There's a dermatology/STI clinic in Budapest where I live that gives the shot at cost (about 130 euros) because they think people should get it.

New comment by mostin in "Avoiding outrage fatigue while staying informed"

mostin — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 17:27:32 +0000

Will of the voters doesn't mean it's not a dictatorship. Plenty of dictators were popular and democratically elected.

New comment by mostin in "1,156 Questions Censored by DeepSeek"

mostin — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 23:02:00 +0000

I think the ablated models are really interesting as well: https://huggingface.co/bartowski/deepseek-r1-qwen-2.5-32B-ab...

For some reason I always get the standard rejection response to controversial (for China) questions, but then if I push back it starts its internal monologue and gives an answer.

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

mostin — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 16:08:55 +0000

That hasn't been my experience. I've been on liraglutide (Saxenda) for a month and a half or so and if I feel like I can't finish a plate of food I'll eat just the protein and leave the carbs, where I would've eaten everything before.

New comment by mostin in "Before OpenAI, Sam Altman was fired from Y Combinator by his mentor"

mostin — Thu, 23 Nov 2023 00:33:25 +0000

I could imagine that if they think she's behaving erratically, and would spend the money on falling apart even more, then they don't think it's right to give it to her.

For example if they know she has a drug problem and would put herself in an early grave if she received millions of dollars (just theorizing, I don't know anything about their situation).

New comment by mostin in "Psychoactive substance use by professional programmers"

mostin — Wed, 10 May 2023 20:21:04 +0000

Personally I get a Ballmer peak after a beer or two but I can't code at all high.

New comment by mostin in "Non-profit produced MDMA 'ecstasy' and psychedelics"

mostin — Sat, 14 Mar 2015 13:55:13 +0000

In his book "High Price", psychiatry professor Carl Hart says that the difference between street meth and Adderal, or crack and powder cocaine is mostly social class, not pharmacology. One is taken by the poorest people, the other by movie stars or given to soldiers and schoolchildren, but they're the same drugs.

He gave a Google talk in 2013: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdsN_vYZ3w8