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tsaprailis commented on Blue Zones, where people reach age 100 at 10 times greater rates   ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti... · Posted by u/ivanvas
tolstoshev · 4 years ago
My bet is blue zones are just places where they don't have good longevity records so you get a bunch of fake centenarians. That turned out to be the case in Japan: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-pacific-11258071 and I think also in Greece.

People were just keeping dead relatives "alive" for the social security or rent control.

tsaprailis · 4 years ago
I have read the same thing about Greece's Ikaria island centenarians.

As an anecdote my grandfather born in remote mountain village in mainland Greece in the 1900 was actually registered by his father having been born in 1906 as to avoid being drafted as long as possible to fight in the multiple wars fought at the time. So birth records and certificates from that time are not really trustworthy.

tsaprailis commented on Image of a genome autosuspends you from Twitter   twitter.com/Kupeplex/stat... · Posted by u/tsaprailis
tsaprailis · 4 years ago
Oce you upload the image, you get immediately suspended with the justification that the post contains personal information. The weird thing is the image contains no text whatsoever, or anything for that matter that could associate the image as a genome. This is the COVID genome btw.

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tsaprailis commented on Ask HN: A New Decade. Any Predictions?    · Posted by u/napsterbr
tsaprailis · 6 years ago
I think that one sector that has not been given much spotlight is space. I feel that space will get lots of more startups leveraging LEO in unexpected ways. The current rate of progress for the different launch systems, bring the cost/kg to orbit further down, as well as further satellite miniaturization/mass production will prove space as a new breeding ground for ideas that we cannot still think about, but I think in a decade from now we will be looking at space as on of the sectors pushing economic growth across the planet.

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