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New comment by naijaboiler in "Why is the liver so weirdly regenerative?"

naijaboiler — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 10:05:08 +0000

In general, we don’t do curative surgeries for metastatic cancers. The thinking is that it is has spread that much away from where it started, there little point going to cut out where it started alone. Are we then to cut out every place it has spread to and every how it got to those places.

We do do palliative surgeries if warranted but the intent there is not to cure, but to relieve some symptoms and transiently improve quality of life.

Please direct any specific questions you have about your sisters case directly to her doctors

New comment by naijaboiler in "Pentagon says overreliance on AI contributed to missile strike on Iran school"

naijaboiler — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 20:58:47 +0000

Brilliant! This is the logic behind the birthday problem where you only need 45 people present to have greater than 90% chance that 2 people share a birthday.

Even rare events become very likely when you repeat it. A 5% wrong chance means half are dead after 10 tries

New comment by naijaboiler in "If math is more than proof, we need to better celebrate the rest of it"

naijaboiler — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:10:41 +0000

or memorize a few

New comment by naijaboiler in "Lawmakers added $1 to car insurance policies. That money paid for Flock cameras"

naijaboiler — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 14:34:41 +0000

I agree. Insurance is generally a better solution for this than engaging some burglar

New comment by naijaboiler in "Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down"

naijaboiler — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 00:41:51 +0000

But they keep voting governments that spend more than even democrats

New comment by naijaboiler in "Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down"

naijaboiler — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 00:38:09 +0000

Their core principles do exist. It’s really racism

New comment by naijaboiler in "U.S. science is in chaos"

naijaboiler — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:40:51 +0000

I compare it basketball. Due to the goal being 10ft in the air, it structurally biased against shorter people. You don’t need actually size-ist for it to exist. It’s just inherent to how the system of rules are constructed

New comment by naijaboiler in "Why do commercial spaces sit vacant? (2025)"

naijaboiler — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 23:55:22 +0000

There’s one thing you can guarantee in America. If it puts the interests of high income people vs everyday income people, the policies favoring the rich will almost always win out.

New comment by naijaboiler in "How to convert between wealth and income tax"

naijaboiler — Fri, 22 May 2026 20:32:27 +0000

whats all this talk about 20% wealth tax. We are asking for 1% per year, and the rich are still screaming. damn I pay more than that on my house.

New comment by naijaboiler in "How to convert between wealth and income tax"

naijaboiler — Fri, 22 May 2026 20:29:52 +0000

i hate when people bring it up. everybody that works pays payroll taxes which is around 25% when you count both sides.

New comment by naijaboiler in "Scouting's Real Crisis Is Not Marketing. It Is Decades of Neglect."

naijaboiler — Sun, 10 May 2026 11:02:26 +0000

i disagree with you. The author is pointing at deeper cultural issue of lack of candor that unaddressed allows things like sexual abuse to flourish. It is an organization that is not willing to tackle serious or face hard things head on. Yeah and their product sucks, so improved marketing won't save it.

New comment by naijaboiler in "Acetaminophen vs. ibuprofen"

naijaboiler — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 05:39:05 +0000

Good analogy except a human is several orders in magnitude more complex than that

New comment by naijaboiler in "Acetaminophen vs. ibuprofen"

naijaboiler — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 05:28:10 +0000

I'm a doctor who used to be an engineer. Deriving things from first principles in medicine is a lie we doctors tell ourselves.the truth is this.we have some really good understanding of syne things at molecular levels that we then correlates to things that happen clinically at a macro level, that correlation is very very handwavy. But we teach it as if we know for sure. We don't. The few things that we think we have a somwhat good correlation for, we often test on our exams, but even for most of those things, it's some handwavy link

I recall being an engineering classes, armed with just calculus and linear algebra and newton laws, I could attack just about every problem from first principles from my entire undergrad. Every. I didn't have to take into consideration real life presentation of the problem. First principles were enough to get me nearly there

Medicine is fundamentally not that way. Yes we learn the biology, but if you reason solely from biology, you will quickly end up in the wrong places. to become a doctor, I had to learn that hard way that yeah a disease doesn't just present this way just because the underlying physics and biology suggests it should. You separately have to learn how the disease presents, then try to tie it back to our extensive but still very very limited understanding of the possible biology.

I have problems with doctors that don't acknowledge how tenous that link is and despite how much we know, we still know so so little. We are far more useful than what we know.

I understand to biology majors, the few things that seem to follow physiologically from moelculqr biology dupes us into thinking medicine currebtly derives from first pricinples. But it doesnt.

New comment by naijaboiler in "US private credit defaults hit record 9.2% in 2025, Fitch says"

naijaboiler — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 14:25:22 +0000

it did. GFC was a financial recession no doubt, but oil prices was one of the final things that tipped everything over. Oil prices climbed high, slowed economic activity a bit, and the whole financial that teetering just collapsed.

New comment by naijaboiler in "Statement from Jerome Powell"

naijaboiler — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 15:40:38 +0000

Conservatives all over have 1 disease. They are incapable of abstract empathy. Until it personally happens to them, or someone very very close to them, they are incapable of noticing injustices or hurts.

New comment by naijaboiler in "Statement from Jerome Powell"

naijaboiler — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 15:37:11 +0000

big business will always act in the interest of big business. Only a stupid business man will confront the full-might of the executive branch of the federal government heads on, particularly when the President is showing that he is willing to use that power against anybody

New comment by naijaboiler in "Statement from Jerome Powell"

naijaboiler — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 15:35:08 +0000

58% of Americans were okay with goverment shooting at protesting students at Kent State shooting.

New comment by naijaboiler in "Lessons from 14 years at Google"

naijaboiler — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 20:36:04 +0000

same usually, i read this and see this some flawed or hackneyed tripe. But these ones are actually true and anyone who has had a long career and led people and product will resonate with many of them.

New comment by naijaboiler in "Lessons from 14 years at Google"

naijaboiler — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 20:34:26 +0000

we are human being interacting with other human beings. what you call "kissing ass" is just learning to influence and work with other humans. It is by far the most useful skill to have in workplace. But don't worry. continue your disdain of it, includeing calling it negative names, and watch your career stagnate.

New comment by naijaboiler in "Nike's Crisis and the Economics of Brand Decay"

naijaboiler — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 16:10:20 +0000

those are trends. prior to that, it was nike airforces. A business like Nike can't build their business solely on trends. Trends are cyclical, they can bring you massive windfalls, or bankrupt you.

Nike was a sports shoe company that forgot it was a sports company and started acting like it was a pure consumer goods company, leaving itself at the whims of fashion trends.