Tony O'Connor

Interested in philosophy, governance, and history.

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@DrPhiltill If fertility is 35% heritable (data indicates 0.2-0.4), then by the time it stabilises population will have fallen by over 60 percent. If 20% heritable, then 7 generations to stabilise and 80 percent loss.

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@stefan_mnl This is the relevant Article of the Act. Paragraph 4 a-d are cumulative so all four conditions need to be met, not just public interest -- important as "public interest" is a bit of a loose term.

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@AveDeutschland Great news, and good luck!

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@brian_drago_ RHR probably dipped at the same time?

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@Chris_arnade I agree he's underrated. I wrote a bit on him a few years back, and partly used him as inspiration for my own designs https://t.co/YbxtMkeHI5

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@tiga_style This is the chart of the actual dosage. The capsules were 1030mg so I sometimes took one, two or none at all.

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@brian_drago_ @bianco_____ @brady_h @ishdo79 @jack Also timing/size of meal before sleep: if I eat very late HRV falls a good few points. In my experience, HRV reliably moves inversely to RHR. They look the same, just flipped. But HRV just moves around more.

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@brian_drago_ @bianco_____ @brady_h @ishdo79 @jack For what it's worth, I think there is definitely some worthwhile signal. Here the history of mine, mostly from Garmin Forerunner 255. The two high plateaus were due to calorie deficits. The plunge in December was due to dehydration.

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@DavidDeutschOxf Realists see countries as optimising for relative power rather than consumption per se. In that sense, they are willing to sacrifice prosperity for security at certain margins.

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@colmanhumphrey Great post—and congrats on it getting to HN front page!

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@DanDePetris The lines are contestable but not inconsistent. Assuming it's able to pacify the areas, permanent integration of annexed territory will leave Russia stronger (more industry, land, also people). Then it will be able to do things it cannot do now without those Ukrainian regions.

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Key takeaway: While L-theanine does seem to have a small positive effect on my sleep and cognition, the benefits are quite modest.

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I recently did a self-experiment to see if L-theanine, an amino acid found in green tea, actually improves my sleep using my website Metasophi.

Here's what I found out using data from my fitness trackers and some regression analyses.

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This wasn't a blinded study, so there could be a placebo effect. Also, my results might not apply to people who are highly stressed or consume caffeine late at night.