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Autonomi White Paper

sprucely — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 22:54:48 +0000

Article URL: https://www.notion.so/disabled-javascript.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39785440

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New comment by sprucely in "America’s online privacy problems are much bigger than TikTok"

sprucely — Sat, 25 Mar 2023 03:50:03 +0000

The web app appears to be deliberately hobbled. It doesn't even give you access to the bookmarks you saved in the mobile app.

Make Sunsets releasing particles into the atmosphere in effort to tweak climate

sprucely — Sun, 25 Dec 2022 05:52:54 +0000

Article URL: https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/12/24/1066041/a-startup-says-its-begun-releasing-particles-into-the-atmosphere-in-an-effort-to-tweak-the-climate/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34124733

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New comment by sprucely in "A Spanish teen’s genome may hold the secret to lupus"

sprucely — Tue, 17 May 2022 19:31:06 +0000

They may not have a bottom line, but they certainly put up barriers to accessing specialty care that I never experienced when using the Sutter/Blue Shield combo. Also this wasn't a North Kaiser vs South Kaiser thing. More like Solano vs Yolo/Sacramento counties.

New comment by sprucely in "A Spanish teen’s genome may hold the secret to lupus"

sprucely — Tue, 17 May 2022 05:46:12 +0000

I wish I had your experience with Kaiser. I've hit that conflict of interest multiple times. Most recently, after going through triage and waiting six weeks for an appointment, and after half way through it with [specialist], I learn that they're actually not the specialist I thought I was getting and just performing triage. This person lacked even basic knowledge on the topic, and none of the classes or groups she can find actually address the issue in question. When our time is almost up she finally decides to lookup a specialist. There's only one available with only one date available in another couple months. But she's only looking in one geographical region because she doesn't have access to data for the other region that can also serve us. If I book this appointment, she informs me I won't be able to find another specialist in the other region because a patient can be assigned to only one specialist. So it seems data actually is integrated across Kaiser's "regions", but only so far as to support their bottom line.

New comment by sprucely in "The diminishing returns of productivity culture (2021)"

sprucely — Mon, 09 May 2022 03:34:24 +0000

Yep, my XPS does too. I believe it's called "coil whine" and is caused by surface-mount inductors whose windings aren't fully encased in resin or whatever material they use.

New comment by sprucely in "Russia Sanctions Add Shock Internet Censorship Twist for UK ISPs"

sprucely — Sun, 01 May 2022 15:18:06 +0000

Who is we? YMMV, but any sort of emphasis on critical thinking wasn't my experience in an Arizona school district in the late eighties/early nineties. If such curriculum was available, the kids who took it were likely outliers in having influences to push them in that direction.

New Heat Engine with No Moving Parts Could Fully Decarbonize the Power Grid

sprucely — Sat, 16 Apr 2022 17:45:31 +0000

Article URL: https://scitechdaily.com/new-heat-engine-with-no-moving-parts-could-fully-decarbonize-the-power-grid/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31054344

Points: 2

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Amazon to put Alexa voice assistant on NASA’s moon ship

sprucely — Mon, 10 Jan 2022 17:22:09 +0000

Article URL: https://www.geekwire.com/2022/amazon-teams-up-with-lockheed-martin-and-cisco-to-put-alexa-voice-assistant-on-nasas-moon-ship/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29878126

Points: 1

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Shadows of the Coming Race (1879)

sprucely — Tue, 04 Jan 2022 02:34:24 +0000

Article URL: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/goANJNFBZrgE9PFNk/shadows-of-the-coming-race-1879

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29790541

Points: 2

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New comment by sprucely in "Webb flies Ariane 5: watch the launch live on 25 December"

sprucely — Fri, 24 Dec 2021 15:40:41 +0000

Contracts or momentum? Haven't looked at actual dates, but my guess is that this project was established long before SpaceX was a viable option.

New comment by sprucely in "Laser for control of mosquitos, weeds and pests"

sprucely — Fri, 08 Oct 2021 02:08:09 +0000

Where I live, we used to have tons of frogs. The city actually built a freeway bypass to prevent too many flat frogs. Didn't work. Anyway, the frogs quickly vanished around the same time we started spraying to reduce the spread of West Nile. Don't know if it was the food source or if the spray killed the tadpoles, but unintended consequences are a thing. A knock-on to that is we now have a growing roach problem.

New comment by sprucely in "The Linux Distributions of 1992"

sprucely — Fri, 17 Sep 2021 15:05:02 +0000

Does anyone remember Win4Lin? It would run Windows 98 as a process and translate system calls to their Linux equivalent. It was very convient for testing my websites in IE. And I swear it was faster and more stable than running Windows on bare hardware. And when it did blue screen, I could have it back up in a matter of seconds.

New comment by sprucely in "Indian state proposes two-child policy, stringent measures for violators"

sprucely — Sun, 11 Jul 2021 14:53:11 +0000

I believe the problem in any society is that the older generation relies on the younger to care and/or subsidize costs of said care for the older as their health declines. That breaks down when population starts declining.

New comment by sprucely in "Does NMN improve metabolic health in humans?"

sprucely — Wed, 12 May 2021 15:52:07 +0000

A little late to this conversation, but I want to point out that it appears dopamine does have functions other than neurological.[1] Of course one might take the view that immune function is regulated by the nervous system and thus it may not be a direct pathway.

[1] https://www.hindawi.com/journals/jir/2016/3160486/

Republicans and Democrats See Covid-19 Differently. Is That Making People Sick?

sprucely — Thu, 23 Jul 2020 16:04:28 +0000

Article URL: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/republicans-and-democrats-see-covid-19-very-differently-is-that-making-people-sick/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23928793

Points: 5

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New comment by sprucely in "Oura Ring 2 Teardown"

sprucely — Thu, 16 Jul 2020 18:52:32 +0000

Sorry for the late reply. For me it was Fructose and Sulfites. See my above comment for more details.

New comment by sprucely in "Oura Ring 2 Teardown"

sprucely — Thu, 16 Jul 2020 18:50:48 +0000

Sorry for such a late reply. For me the two biggest culprits are sulfites (increased sleep disturbances) and fructose (reduced deep sleep and more chaotic cycles).

What's weird about the fructose is I don't have the symptoms associated with such an intolerance; namely gas. Good news is that there is an enzyme (Fructaid) that helps mitigate it for me, so I don't have to completely cut it from my diet.

In the US, sulfites can be sneaky. Labels are required to list them if directly added to a product, but not for sulfite-containing ingredients sourced from a third-party. So the raisins in that trail mix very likely contain sulfites.

New comment by sprucely in "Oura Ring 2 Teardown"

sprucely — Sat, 11 Jul 2020 15:21:21 +0000

It allowed me to identify food intolerances that had a significant impact on my sleep.

Researchers Develop Low-Cost, Easy-to-Use Emergency Ventilator

sprucely — Tue, 30 Jun 2020 23:57:00 +0000

Article URL: https://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/pressrelease/COVID19ventilator

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23696219

Points: 2

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