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jorvi

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2017-02-24

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  • Wait, what? I thought these were extremely new drugs, only approved for a couple of years now.

  • The Alzheimer """cure""" claim was already disproven by another study. Aside from that, the people who stop taking GLP, 75% gain 50-75% of their bodyweight back and lose all concomitant cardiovascular, cancer etc. risk benefits.

    No research out on, say, alcoholism yet, but I'd hazard a guess the results are the same.

    This is not a cravings loss drug but largely a cravings management drug. Which is still pretty great but it saddles healthcare funding systems with an enormous burden for the next 20 years. Or you keep it private, which means you introduce an enormous gulf of health inequality.

    I hate that our solution to obesity is not the way Iceland treated it's youth drinking problem: reduce access to the harmful thing, give people money and support to do the healthy thing. Stick with it instead of cancelling the program if it doesn't show results in 4 years.

    Modern food (started in the 80s) has carefully been engineered to be as addictive as possible, health consequences be damned. Let's start fixing the problem there.

  • Interestingly enough the same happens on both Spotify's desktop and Chromecast / Apple TV application when you "song surf".

    If you rapidly keep skipping through a song, then to the next one and repeat, the performance will keep on tanking. After a while it'll take 5-10 seconds just to load a song, going to other UI sections will take 3-5 seconds to load, and eventually the application completely locks up and soft reboots itself.

    Probably JavaScript garbage collectors getting overwhelmed.

  • To be honest, all consumer cloud storage providers get touchy when you access them via API.

    Dropbox API refuses to sync certain 'sensitive' files like game backups (ROMs or ISOs). There is no way for Dropbox to know if you own the game and thus can own a backup, they just play file police.

  • I'm sure your sarcasm is right. You're likely a good, godlike engineer that would fix even the most intractable race conditions within 48 hours. There's a lot of you, out there.

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