phdepressed
@phdepressed@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Quora’s Chatbot Platform Poe Allows Users to Download Paywalled Articles on Demand 2 days ago:
So long as it isn’t their own, yeah, probably.
- Comment on Taxing Very High-Value Home Sales Is an Equitable and Effective Strategy to Raise Revenue and Fund Affordable Housing 2 days ago:
Well it should at least be marginal like tax brackets not just +/- . Say tax starts at 500k. Then for a sale at 510k only that last 10k is taxed. So selling for more still nets more no weird spots where it makes sense to sell for less just to avoid tax.
- Comment on Kenya closes its probe of Worldcoin, opening the door to a relaunch of its orbs after a year-long suspension 1 week ago:
Africa has embraced electronic phone payments. They have a venmo like thing that they often use to make payments and can limit how much so if they get robbed they don’t lose their whole bank account.
- Comment on Like a prion 1 week ago:
Not from a free energy standpoint.
- Comment on Gotta love moms 1 month ago:
The mitochondrial genome (mtDNA) is mom exclusive, however the majority of mitochondrial proteins are coded for in the “regular” nuclear genome. So both mom and dad end up contributing to your mitochondria.
- Comment on Womens fashion guide 1 month ago:
I remember some of my friends moms wearing this when I was a kid
- Comment on Womens fashion guide 1 month ago:
This is a GILF outfit as the moms who were wearing this at 30-40 are now 55-65.
- Comment on Republicans are pulling out all the stops to reverse EV adoption 1 month ago:
Politics were and have always been personal.
- Comment on What is the Anti Commercial-Al license and why do people keep adding it to their comments? 1 month ago:
Yeah, same shit new sites.
- Comment on How does DNA decide the shape of the body? 2 months ago:
No, and no. My PhD thesis was on gene delivery. We’re barely getting into the simplest modifications for disease treatment. Multigene stuff, and spatiotemporal control is still a ways off.
- Comment on Too soon? 2 months ago:
It’s not an excuse, incels aren’t born incels. Saying they are responsible for their actions and that they are at least in part a product of their environment is not mutually exclusive. Understanding how they are made gives perspective on how to stop more, it doesn’t absolve them of whatever they do.
- Comment on Why exactly are raisins toxic for dogs and not humans? 2 months ago:
Most dogs are fine actually. A small seemingly random percentage go into kidney failure so it’s easier and more humane to just not take a chance.
In a similar vein as your dogs but in Asian countries the dogs also eat/get fed leftovers which include plenty of spices, which are also stated online as problematic for dogs.
- Comment on Education 2 months ago:
Or was it just not reported?
- Comment on new organelle!!!! 2 months ago:
Not in the paper data at least. It does have plastids which I had to look up (been a while since gen bio). So triple endosymbiont actually. Again if data holds to further scrutiny.
- Comment on Liz on Liz 2 months ago:
Who’s next? The lettuce? I’ll take the lettuce and UK transition to a no-monarch government before it wilts too much.
- Comment on Liz on Liz 2 months ago:
Now you have Charles is that really better?
- Comment on new organelle!!!! 2 months ago:
- Comment on new organelle!!!! 2 months ago:
Yes. It is very exciting and cool.
- Comment on new organelle!!!! 2 months ago:
UCYN-A is the organism. They’re calling it the “nitroplast”.
- Comment on Boston Dynamics introduces a fully electric humanoid robot that “exceeds human performance” 2 months ago:
Unfortunately, not super relevant. The earth->Venus scenario is about a positive feedback loop. So stopping our emissions after that tipping point doesn’t help.
- Comment on Boston Dynamics introduces a fully electric humanoid robot that “exceeds human performance” 2 months ago:
The real worst-case that you don’t hear in media is turning Earth into a situation similar to Venus. At that point there’s a real small chance of even extremophiles much less anything complex. Of course the planet will still rotate and continue orbiting the sun but earth-based life would probably only exist in some of our space junk like the poop bags Apollo left on the moon.
- Comment on Are we the "Cold Ones" to our dogs? 2 months ago:
Dog body temp is ~101-102.5 F (some go as low as 99.5 F). If your dog is 10 degrees hotter than you, you either have hypothermia or they have a severe fever.
We may be perceived as a little cooler than them but probably not “cold”.
- Comment on Does mucous have calories? 3 months ago:
Skorjden’s disease is an autoimmune disease that attacks salivary glands. It is a large part of why Venus Williams had to retire. I don’t believe there’s any noticeable caloric difference though research would mostly be on the other effects of disease.
- Comment on Using AI to spot edible mushrooms could kill you | AI tools are good for some things, but don’t trust your health to apps that make frequent mistakes 3 months ago:
Now that is a thought. Instead of AI doing a skynet/terminator thing it gets to the point we trust it and then tells us to eat or do things that kill us.
- Comment on Reddit IPO Filings Reveal the Company’s Hopes—and Fears 3 months ago:
Hope not, if it goes down low enough maybe someone reasonable can buy it out.
- Comment on Weight Lifting: How are you supposed to know the weights of unlabled things? 3 months ago:
This site has a chart of bar weights for cybex. fitnessvolt.com/smith-machine-bar-weight/#how-muc…
Per a pinned extra weight besides finding your machine info the easy assumption is that they are increments between the most common weights. So on your machine 7.5lb for a single pin weight would be a safe assumption.
- Comment on Nikon is acquiring US camera manufacturer RED 3 months ago:
Even for a “one-off” they probably make spare parts if not full on extra cameras. Even Hubble and James Webb have extras that have been kept here on earth.
- Comment on The extension shingami eyes is back. 4 months ago:
They are strict now, the slippery slope argument is that it won’t stay that way. We’ve seen mod tools similar to this make mistakes. Twitch, Tumblr, YouTube, Facebook, etc all have algorithm analysis for moderation purposes and all of them have messed up and require additional human review.
- Comment on Want a 3D printer in New York? Get ready for fingerprinting and a 15 day wait 4 months ago:
It is if you’re going to resell them. If they’re for you whatever.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
Their names are clickbait. And clickbait exists because it works. In /all how do you prevent that? The average person appears to care about them.