If you toss it into Google’s NotebookLM, it’ll probably produce a much more accessible version of the blog that’s succinct and easier to parse in a few minutes.
That’s exactly what I did, and it seemed to do a good job of hitting the main points in about 13 minutes (which is much quicker than how long it would take a slow reader like me read this article).
I’m sure it still didn’t do the article justice, though.
It’s interesting comparing the comments here to Twitter where there’s been a lot of discussion about the ethics of this (as in she shouldn’t have done this for some ethical reason that is never quite elucidated in detail, other than it’s wrong to do).
In contrast, many comments here are talking about the ethics of not having this approach more broadly available, which is fairly optimistic for Hacker News.
Or maybe it’s just that a subsection of bio-ethicists on Twitter have oddly shaped moral values.
Twitter has the full gambit of ideologies, and the ethical models that those precommit a person to. It's amusing to watch the mental gymnastics required to come down against the common sense view that no one was negatively affected by her actions, and she personally benefited, and so it must be okay.
I think rational consequentialism is a common stance here on HN. e.g. I would be better off having access to this treatment (on my own terms of course), and other people having access to it would not negatively affect me, so I'm in favor.
The most prominent bioethicist tweet, from @Strangviruslab, has over twice as many QT's as likes. It's among the biggest pile-ons I've ever seen on twitter.
Anecdotally I've noticed adding electrolytes seems to help reduce the incidence of headaches and possibly migraines, at least according to what my family members say.
A few years ago, the PPM in my town's water was over 850 PPM, well above the recommended guidelines. Worse than that, it had a distinct sulfur-like smell.
So naturally we got a reverse osmosis water filter system and while the tap water has improved since then, I'm always reminded of the occasional accidents that can occur (e.g., lead, excessive chlorination, plain old entropy).
Plus it makes the water taste significantly better. Even if tap water was always perfectly safe to drink, I'd get one just for the taste alone.
Brondell Circle RO systems are my favorite because the filters are the easiest to change and when you have the same system for years, that ends up being the labor you repeat the most.
The funny thing about most of these systems is that they are all made of plastic. For towns with bad water quality I understand it but for most towns with limited or no PFAS I feel like there is the risk that you could be making the water worse
“This iMessage exploit is crazy. TrueType vulnerability that has existed since the 90s, 2 kernel exploits, a browser exploit, and an undocumented hardware feature that was not used in shipped software”