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- I use it locally for dev https://github.com/iloveitaly/python-starter-template/blob/m... which aligns tricky bits of a web app like HTTP redirect, cookies, and CORS to work consistently across dev and prod.

- Can be used on GHA for HTTPS as well https://github.com/iloveitaly/github-action-localias

Comment · 2 years ago

This is a stellar point. Appreciate the response.

I don't understand the Muslim, Hindu, and Buddist worldview/culture. I'd love to. What causes them to have large families? Why is it baked into the culture?

Additionally, I'd be curiuous how they tested for religious affiliation. i.e. just asking someone if they are Christian, Hindu, etc isn't a great test of if they are a "true believer". Lots of folks have a cultural affiliation to a religion that doesn't impact their decision making.

For instance, Catholics do not allow any birth control: most Catholics ignore this and therefore are not truly Catholic. I'm sure there is a similar filter you could apply to other religions. My argument here would be that those are are "true believers" in a religion that has a strong articulation of an afterlife or valuing self-sacrifice as an important element of life have much bigger families.

I'd agree that many of the public/popular/rich pronatalist are not religious. However, if you remove the the public/popular/rich flag there are many more which are not rich in any way (the folks with the biggest families—8, 9, 10 kids—are very much not wealthy and don't care to be, in my experience). In other words, the fact that some popular folks are pronatalist and not religious doesn't change my thinking here: there will be exceptions.

You've changed my mind here: a Christian worldview isn't required, but a religious/supernatural worldview is. i.e. why put all of the effort required into having kids without believing that (a) self-sacrifice is valuable in and of itself and (b) a strong theology or belief in an afterlife? I'm sure there are some rationalists that would choose to have more kids because of the future of humanity (i.e. Elon, etc) but my argument would be these would be extremely rare as it conflicts with the hedonistic worldview (why care about the future of humanity if nothing happens when you die?).

In any case, it's really interesting to think about this stuff and I'd love to refine my thinking here and understand where I am wrong. Feel free to DM me to chat more!

Comment · 2 years ago

This is a big problem, but not allowing a new invention or regulating it won't fix the issue. Decreasing freedom doesn't fix anything.

I have four kids. Without a Christian worldview it's tough to justify having kids. Kids are an incredible amount of work and require being willing to live for others, and not yourself, which only really makes sense with a Christian worldview (at least, to my knowledge; would love to understand where and how I am wrong here). Sure, kids have some natural benefits and bring joy, but you get most of that with a single kid.

Why have more than a single kid if your primary goal is optimizing for happiness here on earth?

Comment · 2 years ago

We open-sourced our text-to-sql product last year too (way more simple than this):

https://github.com/ryanstout/question_to_sql

These sorts of businesses are really hard to build: incumbents have such an advantage. Makes so much more sense for this to be (a) open source (b) tied to snowflake / powerbi that have free distribution and a good security story.

Comment · 2 years ago

Is there any clear source of products the EU considers safe? i.e. how are these decisions made and documented.

Comment · 2 years ago

Amazon employees do :) They must be thrilled by this news.

Comment · 2 years ago

My meta take on this is there is no real critique. The article is just articulating that we don't know too much so we shouldn't focus on it, which seems like an incredibly dumb conclusion.

Instead, shouldn't we research & experiment? Especially since solving cronic health issues is not straightforward (too many variables, requires lots of experimentation since we do not fully understand the underlying system we are operating in).

Am I no doctor, but my anecdotal evidence (most friends have some sort of weird gastro issues), market changes (tons of gluten-free & dairy-free foods compared to even 5 years ago), combined with research seems to indicate that there is a big problem and we should be thinking about this.

- https://drdavisinfinitehealth.com/2022/05/the-sibo-epidemic/

- https://www.cedars-sinai.org/newsroom/study-prevalence-of-ib...

Comment · 2 years ago

Awesome comment. I'd love to hear your take on:

1. Best place to learn more about Fecal Microbiota Transplantation

2. How do you increase SCFA-producing microbes?

3. Your take on the "everyone has SIBO and should eat hyper-fermented yogurt" https://drdavisinfinitehealth.com/2019/07/how-to-make-l-reut.... This feels like mostly snakeoil sales, but the idea that probiotics are basically useless because the CFU is too low does makes sense and it seems like there is research around L. reuteri improving many IBS/SIBO symptoms.

Feel free to DM me as well—very curious about this.