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New comment by sriacha in "Los Puesteros, solitary men who look after ranches and livestock in Patagonia"

sriacha — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 20:21:08 +0000

Good article about living at a remote estancia at the bottom of Argentina, January 1971, 'The Housewife at the End of the World'. Not too much has changed since then.

https://archive.org/details/edg-ng-1961/edg%20NG%201971-01%2...

New comment by sriacha in "Bioengineered chewing gum may offer a way to fight HPV and other microbes"

sriacha — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 18:13:57 +0000

The book mentioned is 'Nutrition and Physical Degeneration', online version: https://www.journeytoforever.org/farm_library/price/pricetoc...

Highly recommended, at minimum for interesting historical look at various cultures with a pre-modern processed food diet. AFAIK the basic hypothesis about diet affecting face morphology holds up.

New comment by sriacha in "Civilians under siege by Mexican cartel fight back with AK-47s, grenades"

sriacha — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 22:39:56 +0000

Highly recommend the 2015 documentary 'Cartel Land'

New comment by sriacha in "I'm 38 and I Can't Support Myself Anymore"

sriacha — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 22:09:03 +0000

in what cultures do you think it will never be asked?

Puppy Pregnancy Syndrome

sriacha — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 12:58:35 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puppy_pregnancy_syndrome

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48760837

Points: 11

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New comment by sriacha in "The Art of Kite Flying (1430–1929)"

sriacha — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 02:19:39 +0000

Can you recommend some specific ones?

New comment by sriacha in "Wolves are reconquering Europe. Can people learn to live with them?"

sriacha — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 13:06:29 +0000

Highly recommend the book 'Of Wolves and Men' by Barry Lopez

New comment by sriacha in "US Consumer Price Index up 4.2%"

sriacha — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 16:34:30 +0000

Might be wishful thinking, but I see this as the silver lining of the conflict

New comment by sriacha in "I'm Tired of Talking to AI"

sriacha — Wed, 27 May 2026 13:44:12 +0000

'A Paradise Built in Hell' by Solnit is a good read about it

New comment by sriacha in "Trials on veterans suggest ibogaine could provide a new treatment for PTSD"

sriacha — Sun, 17 May 2026 16:51:52 +0000

Another very interesting possible benefit of ibogaine not mentioned in the article is potential for treating TBI.

from https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41883580/:

>Longitudinal analyses assessed cortical thickness, subcortical volume, and predicted brain age (pBA), estimated from T1 scans. pBA was significantly reduced at 1 month relative to baseline (-1.3 years). Cortical thickness analysis revealed post-treatment increases in 11 regions. Subcortical analyses revealed significant volumetric expansion in 8 regions. Magnesium-ibogaine therapy was associated with increased cortical thickness, subcortical expansion, and reduced pBA at 1 month.

New comment by sriacha in "Trials on veterans suggest ibogaine could provide a new treatment for PTSD"

sriacha — Sun, 17 May 2026 16:39:56 +0000

Not really "horribly unsafe", it seems that with proper prescreening and magnesium supplementation cardiac risk can be safely managed. I was looking into this a few weeks ago.

However there is certainly a lack of data, and facilities doing treatment now are probably incentivized not to share adverse events.

New comment by sriacha in "Sawe becomes first athlete to run a sub-two-hour marathon in a competitive race"

sriacha — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 14:01:57 +0000

I think its important to state that "bonk point" is different based on if your metabolism is adapted for carb vs fat burning.

If always training with high carb loads, you will bonk rather quickly going on a long ride without any compared to if you train fasted or more fat adapted.

New comment by sriacha in "Insights into firewood use by early Middle Pleistocene hominins"

sriacha — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 21:40:02 +0000

Interesting, but doesn't seem to be much evidence they depended on natural occurring fire.

Here is a nice report: Fire-Making in Tasmania: Absence of Evidence Is Not Evidence of Absence , Gott 2016: https://sci-hub.su/10.1086/342430

New comment by sriacha in "Insights into firewood use by early Middle Pleistocene hominins"

sriacha — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 21:07:02 +0000

from the paper: "The consideration of fire ecology data and various factors involved in the complex process of fire ignition, combustion, and behavior, in relation to the GBY paleoenvironment and archaeology, enabled the rejection of recurrent natural fires as the responsible agent for burning (Alperson-Afil, 2012)."

New comment by sriacha in "Insights into firewood use by early Middle Pleistocene hominins"

sriacha — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 21:06:04 +0000

>It's been extensively documented among modern human groups.

Do you have some sources? A quick search doesn't pull up much evidence for current hunter-gatherer dependence on natural fire regime. Or you mean anatomically modern humans?

New comment by sriacha in "Long Range E-Bike (2021)"

sriacha — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 17:42:55 +0000

Wow. What is your total capacity and range with that setup?

New comment by sriacha in "Neurons outside the brain"

sriacha — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 03:23:14 +0000

See Michael Levin.

New comment by sriacha in "My ridiculously robust photo management system (Immich edition)"

sriacha — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 16:24:12 +0000

You can keep your file current structure/workflow and just use immich as a viewer and search engine, read only.

New comment by sriacha in "Radboud University selects Fairphone as standard smartphone for employees"

sriacha — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 17:12:06 +0000

Not sure that's valid; in my experience Samsung phones are fairly repairable* and have spare parts available worldwide. Guessing Fairphone parts are much more limited.

* probably much more fiddly than a fairphone though

New comment by sriacha in "Bison return to Illinois' Kane County after 200 years"

sriacha — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 01:00:57 +0000

Hah, was just about to write that. Also recommended.