Wow, a study with a bit of work on mice and a small non-blinded study done on undergraduates at a university? What are the odds of this actually being an actual real effect? <1%?
Readit NewsProbably could have been a lot less and/or recovered by now had Ubiquiti not also gone through great lengths to cover it up and actively avoid taking appropriate mitigation action. https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/03/whistleblower-ubiquiti-b...
I mean Nick Sharp certainly took a chunk out of them but there is more to the story for why the market lost that much faith.
LOL, this is literally covered in the article! Sharp was the source for this story! He was lying to try and cover his tracks! Krebs should probably take this story down.
v77 commented on Facebook is nearing a reputational point of no return economist.com/leaders/202... · Posted by u/sidcool
To go a bit further MSM's ad revenue is being hollowed out by Facebook et al. Why would anyone pay to advertise in Economist when they can advertise to "people interested in economics, earning over 150k, last thought about cigarettes three weeks ago" etc.
Similarly, if you were an advertising exec at pfizer, would you choose to pay millions of dollars to advertise your meds to a continuously shrinking audience on something like CNN, or would you spend significantly less directly targeting "oldsters who need meds" on FB or Goog's platforms?
I'm a huge cynic but it seems like most of the critiques of social media coming from big / old media are just symptoms of having their revenue bled away, not any meaningful calls for change for the better
This has always been pretty clear. But, also effective. Lots of congresspeople and MPs still read the NY Times, Guardian, etc.. Facebook also has no political 'country', being a big company (left wing hate) based in San Francisco with liberal views amongst its workers and ownerss. (right wing hate)
v77 commented on Amazon’s new Kindle Paperwhite theverge.com/2021/9/21/22... · Posted by u/herrkanin
Kindle also has great integration with Overdrive though. I use the Libby app on my phone to send library books to my Kindle. They get delivered directly from Amazon and it’s the same experience as if you had bought it.
Thanks for this, I like my Kindle but want to get library e-books onto there.
v77 commented on Atlantic Ocean currents weaken, signalling big weather changes: study reuters.com/business/envi... · Posted by u/gmays
All the climate change i hear about is a change for the worse. Are there any places on earth where the change will be for the better? We've had pretty mild summers in TX for the past 5 or so years. If that's due to climate change then great, i'll just live here.
The Canadian Prairies are getting warmer and forecasted to have a longer/more productive growing seasons although a bad drought this year isn't encouraging.
v77 commented on Caffeine and theanine exert opposite effects on attention (2017) pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2... · Posted by u/chalst
This is the kind of paper that yesterday article about how we should assume all medical research is fraudulent warned about.
Yeah, holy crap, if your alarm bells aren't ringing from the moment you start reading a paper like this by now I don't know what to tell you.
v77 commented on Crypto Scammers Rip Off Billions as Pump-and-Dump Schemes Go Digital bloomberg.com/news/featur... · Posted by u/pseudolus
I completely agree. The trick is the same, create a complex product that is going to make it hard to regulate and sell it to unsophisticated investors that are blinded by the rapid initial gains. When it explodes let others fix the resulting mess and run with as many money as you can.
The only good part is something as fundamental as homes is not part of the schema. I hope that this reduces the size of the impact in the general economy.
This is a point that's understated. Problems in the stock market hurt the real economy, problems in the crypto market hit an insular community of people who are trying to scam each other, much less of a societal issue.
v77 commented on Biohackers take aim at big pharma’s stranglehold on insulin freethink.com/shows/just-... · Posted by u/HiroProtagonist
As an observation, The UK, USA, Canada and Australia are all in the top 10 for type-1 diabetes incidence in the <14yo population, along with Finland, Sweden, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Norway and Denmark.
Only the USA imposes private health cost burdens on the diabetics (from my quick scan of national health info on the web)
Not true, Canada doesn't cover medications by default, you rely on employer-provided private plans for that.
For developers who are ~35 and up, almost 100% true, once you get younger than that you’ll find that there are a large and growing minority of people who are very much in it for the money alone without any particular interest or affinity for computing. Their parents, advisors, etc saw how much money was being made and pushed them towards computing as something more like a high ROI trade.
You see the same done for specialized welding for smart, but not academically smart, kids. It’s hard work to get into, but if you get there it can pay very well, regardless of if you care much about the underlying metallurgic properties that you’re dealing with or not.
This is completely fine either way, but it’s important to realize that we’re not really the professional of child prodigies that it once was.