I do a weird thing where I extend my arm before I go for the swallow, then pull my arm back fast as I start to swallow. This sympathetic motion helps somehow.
Maxwell Peterson
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[Question] What is the best chemistry textbook?
I take 1mg.
Yup, I aim to sleep around 11:30p or midnight . The guide has “Take melatonin 9 hours after wake and 7 before sleep, eg 5 PM”, so I just went with that.
I don’t really get EA at an emotional level and this post helps give someone like me an… emotional intuition pump?… in a way that other EA posts do not do for me. I think it’s good that it is at the level of abstraction it is at.
Even at thirty years old I cannot handle getting up early; I rarely wake before nine-thirty. A year ago I briefly had to be awake at six-thirty for work. I felt terrible all day and could not think straight.
I’m 30 too and have struggled with this since forever and just started a month ago taking melatonin at 5pm as suggested on SlateStarCodex’s melatonin guide. I often wake up without an alarm now at 8:30a or so, but more strikingly, no longer feel tired until mid-afternoon like I used to.
Probably you have heard this already and possibly you are annoyed to hear it again but this part of the post was too familiar to me to not say anything!
You can find fat powerpoints by the companies on the FDA’s website: J&J, Pfizer, Moderna. Each deck includes a Kaplan-Meier survival curve, showing COVID protection by day-after-vaccine. On the J&J deck it’s slide CO-36. The curves for the placebo group and vaccine group get further and further apart as time goes on, with the lines first separating at the 14-day point. I am not sure if this means the vaccinated gain additional protection in week 3, 4, etc., after vaccination, or if it just means that more placebo people get infected as time goes on. What’s interesting with the J&J plot is that the lines don’t visibly separate until day 14 - naively this makes me want to say the vaccine isn’t effective at all till day 14, but biologically that doesn’t make sense to me, so I’m not saying that.
I’m sorry for your loss.
If you want to get back your feeling that you can convince people in general, try easier topics. Arguing political worldview stuff is extreme hard mode. There are easier pickings; arguing why the FDA is bad, or something, is of substance but also not core-worldview, so you’ll have an easier time.
If you want to get back your feeling that made you so invested in this Discord political space, I don’t have good advice, because arguing politics at that level is, like, my worst nightmare. So I’d say: ask people in that server how they got over this feeling! If no one is changing their mind on that server despite all this argument, other people probably feel it too. They’d know better than people like me, who avoid this stuff like the plague, would.
I’d never heard of that site! Thanks
Your answer uses a fair amount of analysis and knowledge in order to avoid this kind of large charge. Maybe perversely, I was asking for methods that do not require analysis or knowledge about contract types. I also doubt that most customers of the Texas company had a good sense of the risk they were exposing themselves too—many might have followed the “scan list for lowest rate, then pick that one” method that I use sometimes.
Thanks—that’s even better separation than using separate accounts at the same bank. More work, but something I hadn’t thought of.
Ahh—of course! Thanks!
[Question] How can I protect my bank account from large, surprise withdrawals?
Nice story! All the little details made it fun to read.
I’ve never! Not even close.
YESSSSSSSSSS
Use conditional probabilities to clear up error rate confusion
Python, actually! (Who would have guessed?). The camera zooms in on Do-San writing correct Python every now and then. I mean, he keeps writing a function called sigma_prime, which, like, maybe he should import? But it is tech literate even there!
I want to learn biochemistry so I can reason about stuff that goes on in the body! I’ve started Lehninger’s Principles of Biochemistry and I mostly get it, but some of the stuff it assumes (e.g. covalent vs. noncovalent bonds) I’m not familiar with.