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Those error bars suggest this was underpowered, and it did find a significant increase in females:

https://www.mdpi.com/nutrients/nutrients-17-01081/article_de...

Poor interpretation of the study.


You are misinterpreting the study. They are interested in the change in lean body mass wash-in to post RT because that is the lean body mass that can be attributed to more than just the initial increase from simply taking creatine. The increase in females that you cite is including that initial increase, which is not interesting.


Works for heart disease and likely all cause mortality.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30486813/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35908583/


This is almost certainly confounded with other healthful behaviours. Eg people who sauna also eat better, exercise, go to the doctor etc


Pretty well everyone I knew in Finland would sauna, regardless of how they lived the rest of their life, it was just part of the culture.


Existence is interaction.


It really saddens me to hear this. It was an honor to get to know you as batchmates. Your passion and drive for 70MR made a mark upon me.

I know that this is just another beginning for you, full of new opportunities, and that you will continue to help and inspire people. Godspeed!


Thx, Mark


It's really consistent and strange considering the ostensive nature of the site.


These industries squeezed the blood out of US suppliers to compete on cost. I don't think a correct solution is the government building capacity and supply chains.

IMHO a more sustainable strategy is the government taxing the environmental and human rights externalities of off-shore production.


1. I suspect that you don't realize that Taiwan is a (to many) surprisingly first-world place. "environmental and human rights externalities" is not a very large issue in this context. It's not like mainland China/PRC.

2. I think both e.g. US and EU should have their own chip-manufacturing infrastructure. We need more robustness at a global scale in this area.

3. Taiwan needs (and deserves) US/EU support. TSMC has turned into a geopolitical play - it seems like Taiwan feels like they need it to avoid a PRC invasion.


Taiwan needs support yes, but the US isn't helping. Poking China by sending warships to patrol its borders makes us the bad guys. If China did what we do we would have WW3 instantly.


The us is navigating international waters that China is trying to claim as theirs in fact they claim territorial waters from all their neighbors international treaties be damned. Thus they are in conflict with everyone around them.


It almost sounds like you are saying that if China sailed ships in international waters it would start a war. They do that all the time, and have been doing so for decades. Did I miss a world war?


Before there is an inevitable response “But, China doesn’t patrol 100km off the coast of US” - yes, also China has no allies with defense treaties near US, ie Mexico and Canada. In fact, China has just one ally - North Korea.


Yes, and this not only because of fiscal reasons, but because it is the ethical thing to do.


It's ethical how? By making rich Americans even richer, and removing one of the few ways developing countries can enter the global market?


If a developing country handled all environmental regulations, etc. there would -still- be a profit to be had, unless shipping winds up negating that profit. Logically speaking a less developed country will still have lower overall wages.

While this means the countries may develop slower, they will likely/hopefully wind up with less concentrated wealth (hiring more workers instead of a few people pocketing all the profits.)

I would hope that such taxes would be used towards environmental or humanitarian efforts, to be a proper 'offset' tax.

Doing so will likely result in some short term shocks, but a more sustainable society overall. My hope is that when prices would go up in such a scenario, consumers would again care about how long something lasts in big enough numbers that we have a less disposable society.


Which “developing” countries are running world class fabs these days? Taiwan and South Korea are definitely first-world countries, as much so as the US.


This type of government/corporate collaboration is similar to how other traditional industries like autos, oil & gas, steel, etc., usually operate. That's because the capital cost of building factories and supply chains exceed the private sector's ability to tolerate the risk of such investments. And a big reason why the risk is so high is because the business is both unpredictable and low margin.

This has never been an issue in the semiconductor industry until now. Demand was always increasing and margins have been high enough to allow them to self-fund. If semiconductor companies now need subsidies to expand then we are probably past the "exponential growth" era of semiconductors. Technological gains will be much slower and much more consistent with traditional industries rather one that what we're use to.


For now.


A house is linked to a title. The title is a paper token.


That proves too much. There’s nothing inherent in the paper that grants any rights and privileges. It’s the legal system that does that. A digital token is either meaningless (if the legal system doesn’t recognize it) or massive overkill (if the legal system treats it the same as a wet signature).


It's not only the legal system, but the military / police components of a country that enforce private property too.


The legal system will recognize it, and attribution protocols are being built. Removing middlemen like title companies is an efficiency, not overkill.


Title companies are fading away with the advent of digital land registries (using plain old boring databases).

As usual for “like X but with a blockchain” this is a solution in search of a problem. Because despite all the protestations to the contrary the real motivation for crypto is not providing useful goods or services in exchange for reasonable compensation, it is getting rich by being an early adopter.


I can take the title to a court and say “this proves that house is mine, give it back”.


It'd be very cool if you could set the classic date in your profile.


Right — and it could perhaps default itself to the date you joined, since that's a moment when it seems likely you liked what was on offer.


That does introduce the risk that people actually use this. Now, this page is a gimmick, a historical artifact. If it were actually used by more than a handful of users, that would be right alienating for new users, especially if it's a fixed date that you have to manually update.


I expect that once Ethereum completes the switch to PoS, this issue is going to loom large for Bitcoin.


This is why I think a big land grab will happen for ETH. And even though I think bitcoin is grossly overvalued, ETH could accelerate and possibly surpass bitcoin in terms of paid-in capital. PoS, at least in theory, creates future cash flow. Not a fan of crypto but Vitalik is one of very few people in the crypto space with genuine good intentions and intellectual curiosity.


he also has a %70 premine of this coin with his buddies. Eth also have a dynamic issuance schedule exactly like USD, EUR or any other fiat. Except instead of a Central Bank, a few devs decide it.


Well aware. Again, not a fan of crypto at this point but just on a relative basis it seems ETH is a logical choice to come out ahead.


> ...once Ethereum completes the switch to PoS

This is starting to sound like a chorus.


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