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Comment · 2 years ago
Dr. Fung basically said that beta cell death is likely related to fatty deposits on the pancreas. So there is a fatty liver/pancreas cycle that requires a significant time duration of fasting. Eventually beta cells continue to produce normal amounts of insulin. T2D is not a death sentence, it just requires motivation from the patients and up-to-date knowledge of the treatment physician.
Comment · 3 years ago
Years ago, back in like 2011, I worked for pricedoc.com, this was our primary goal as well. Doctors wouldn't talk to us. Legally they're bound to not due to their insurance contracts. The only doctors we gained some traction with were plastic surgery, and dental. Because these doctors tend to deal more with cash patients. We didn't survive long. Maybe 14 months. Then sold our IP to some other startup called greatvets.com and we struggled like crazy to get exposure by vets to want to use our product. Same goal to provide cash prices. Good luck.
Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
CI/CO is ideal circumstances, just like falling from the sky, computing how long it takes to hit the ground is not as simple as it's 9.8ms/s^2*m, you have to build a differential equation that accounts for all the various force factors involved. Our biology are those various force factors playing on the rate of incorporation of the energy and how the system which consumes energy may alter pathways, and this is where we run into permutations of the metabolism that are not accounted for by CI/CO. We know that people with metabolic syndrome and insulin resistance cannot loose weight because their hyper sensitive to any amount of sugar, so insulin causes them to constantly store energy, but some people who eat a lot of calories get a massive energy boost like they almost got some caffeine in their system. Our biology has millions of biological permutations that ideal systems cannot account for.
Comment · 4 years ago
Years of experience is relative to the company, and software type. Companies like Google, production products are likely on a totally different level than almost any other product in existence. So 10yrs at none google company is not equal to Google engineering. What plays into all of this is the complexity of the problems they solve at scale, and level of academic sophistication. Map software, search engines, Google app suite gui products are not simple or easy to build.
Comment · 5 years ago
Gain of function? You realize that mother nature is far more sophisticated than us humans. She has manufactured many plagues over the eons. we will likely never come up with viruses that have the kind of crazy cascading systemic building block chaos causing destruction in the human body. Radiation doesn't count because we just figured out we could harness it, but we have very little control over that. Viruses make ionic radiation look like child's play as just like ionizing radiation, studying the thing could kill you within days/weeks/months. You have a voodoo science belief that Dr Evil might create the next real zombie, only @9pm on Fox.
Comment · 5 years ago
Comment · 5 years ago
Not sure which country you live in, but if you can get a speed queen branded washer / dryer, you'll likely never have to replace them. They're repairable.
Comment · 5 years ago
Ugh, this is fucked up. Hope he gets lots of money $(10)^N, N=8 to 9 is okay in my book.
Comment · 5 years ago
my fiancee, her family. lives in Mecca, Ca, not too far from indio, ca, which is where the Cochella festival is, and they can only get ATT ADSL2, they get 6mbit/1.5mbit and it's a joke. using even tmobile 4g only gets you 10mbit for a few seconds via bursting speeds.
Comment · 5 years ago
I've had many cats in my lifetime. All the ones I had which we used flee collars eventually died of some breast tumor/ liver/kidney failure early in life around 5 cats died under 5 to 6yrs. We eventually stopped treating fleas, we just washed them, and sprayed our home, it was a much smarter solution. our last batch of 4 siamese all lived into their late teens, having never been given flea products.
Comment · 5 years ago
I don't agree with this. I'm not going to get into a holy war, but I soundly disagree that it's inferior. Any C/C++/Java programmer can become productive with php very rapidly. The callstacks are familiar to programmers, the language continues to get faster & faster as older legacy structures are replaced with smarter data-structures allowing for JIT optimizations.
Comment · 5 years ago
Dev recruitment is hard to find php developers? wtf are you smoking? I think a lot of this is highly dependent on where you are. My guess is you mostly deal with non php languages?

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