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New comment by y0ink in "Six Years Perfecting Maps on WatchOS"

y0ink — Sun, 03 May 2026 14:24:27 +0000

The monthly and yearly subscriptions are fine, and merited given the time and effort that went into this product, but offer a lifetime subscription.

New comment by y0ink in "Ask HN: A friend has brain cancer: any bio hacks that worked?"

y0ink — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 15:31:30 +0000

If you went the keto route, you may want to explore BACH1 inhibition. Study [3] acknowledges the effective role of keto in reducing or controlling tumor size, but with an associated increase in BACH1 expression appearing to account for the increased metastasis (in mice).

Apparently there are a couple small molecule inhibitors that inhibit BACH1 (see ChatGPT). Unfortunately, they seem to be still in the experimental or early clinical stages.

New comment by y0ink in "Drugmakers are set to pay 23andMe to access consumer DNA"

y0ink — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 14:16:31 +0000

This might be worth checking out, although it seems there are no guarantees when you're dealing with DNA:

https://www.dnasquirrel.com/how-to-protect-your-genetic-priv...

New comment by y0ink in "Twitter Is DDOSing Itself"

y0ink — Sun, 02 Jul 2023 15:36:44 +0000

It's called the Dunning-Kruger effect, paraphrased by Bertrand Russell as "The stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect

New comment by y0ink in "Third-party Reddit apps are being crushed by price increases"

y0ink — Fri, 02 Jun 2023 17:39:13 +0000

Here is a very illustrative post/thread showing a comparison of the official Reddit app and one of several alternatives, in this case RiF. The contrast is striking. You be the judge.

https://old.reddit.com/r/BikiniBottomTwitter/comments/13xk3l...

New comment by y0ink in "Regrets of the Dying (2010)"

y0ink — Wed, 09 Mar 2022 18:13:15 +0000

This is relevant and well worth reading.

Written by Kate Bowler, who at 35 was diagnosed with Stage IV colon cancer, and given a slim chance of survival.

One Thing I Don’t Plan to Do Before I Die Is Make a Bucket List

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/28/opinion/sunday/colon-canc...

New comment by y0ink in "How a carnivorous mushroom poisons its prey"

y0ink — Fri, 09 Apr 2021 14:30:27 +0000

Merlin Sheldrake has written an excellent book on this subject, 'Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures'.

https://www.amazon.com/Entangled-Life-Worlds-Change-Futures/...

Here he cooks and eats some Pleurotus that he grew using a copy of his book:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJfDaIVl-tE

Interesting guy, fascinating subject.

New comment by y0ink in "Dilbert's creator says you shouldn't have a career plan"

y0ink — Sat, 14 Dec 2013 03:51:16 +0000

"Fat doesn't make you fat." Mr. Adams has seen the light.

New comment by y0ink in "Reshaping New York"

y0ink — Sun, 18 Aug 2013 03:03:42 +0000

Thank you for posting Snow Fall. Simply stunning, both the story itself and how superbly presented it was.

New comment by y0ink in "60 minutes: Is sugar toxic?"

y0ink — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 02:00:47 +0000

Here is Dr. Lustig's UCSF lecture, referenced in the 60 minutes piece: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM

NYTimes article, same subject: https://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/17/magazine/mag-17Sugar-t.ht...

New comment by y0ink in "A Look Inside the Process of One of the World’s Most Efficient Studiers"

y0ink — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 03:13:07 +0000

Check out the Dunning-Kruger effect on Wikipedia for an interesting explanation which also confirms your observation of students' self-ratings. https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Dunning-Kruge...