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(Blinks.)
Hadn't thought of that. Actually, from what I understand, the status of warfarin is mostly okay now because they test for unusual sensitivity to it before they administer it?
Prescription warfarin -- actually they might use related molecules these days with the same basic mechanism of action -- kills 10s of thousands per year: they die from loss of blood because the warfarin-like molecules have inhibited the clotting mechanism more than intended. So for example someone I was friends with died (in his sleep) this way.
Nevertheless, warfarin-like molecules have positive expected global utility because clots cause so much negative utility. So for example I was on it for about 6 years. You're supposed to get a blood test every 2 weeks for as long as you're on it.
Since Alex was a grad student in pharmacy, he'll probably correct any untruths in the above in the unlikely event there are any.
ADDED. "Unusual sensitivity" is the wrong way to describe it.
Never mind; I was doing it wrong.
So, akrasia is not longer a significant problem or obstacle in your life?
Maybe I'm introspective but not reflective in the sense meant here?
That's right. Reflection here refers to the skill of reasoning about your own reasoning mechanisms using the same methods you that use to reason about anything else. "Solving your own psychological problems" is then a trivial special case of "solving problems," but with the bonus that solving the problem of making yourself better at solving problems, makes you better at solving future problems. Surprisingly, it turns out that this is actually pretty useful, but you probably won't understand what I'm talking about for another four years and three months.
Congrats on "leveling up".
By the way, I found your last sentence inscrutable (even after reading its parent) and gave up trying to decipher it, telling myself, "Zack's writing is almost always unambiguous and decipherable; today is an exception." It was only by accident that I read it again and realized that you are replying to yourself, which cleared things up for me.
(This confirms my belief in the utility of a habit I adopted 5 years ago, of always explicitly pointing it out whenever I am replying to myself.)
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Well, that sucks, since CFLs are only going to increase. There's a pile of crank sites about CFLs and migraines; closest to non-crank I can find quickly is this Australian government site, which says this from CFLs (as opposed to the older ones that flicker at 50/60Hz) is generally badly set-up lighting.
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Your "poorly set-up lighting" is a reference to this:
the primary cause is likely to be glare, highly contrasting, or inappropriate light levels. These problems are a result of poor lighting design rather than a feature of fluorescent lamps and can occur with any lighting technology if used inappropriately. Light fittings that enclose lamps and distribute light evenly without compromising light output and efficiency can help avoid these problems.
Poor set-up is unlikely to be the cause in my case because I did not make any changes except to replace an incandescent bulb (on my desk) that never gave me any problems with a CFL of similar brightness.
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Well, that sucks, since CFLs are only going to increase. There's a pile of crank sites about CFLs and migraines; closest to non-crank I can find quickly is this Australian government site, which says this from CFLs (as opposed to the older ones that flicker at 50/60Hz) is generally badly set-up lighting.
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I do not dislike all fluorescents. For example, the cold-cathode fluorescent lamps in my monitor and my best friend's TV give off completely-unproblematic very nice light. (The light from the two LED-backlit devices in my life on the other hand is not nearly as nice.)
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YMMV. Horrible yellow or daylight spectrum?
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No yellow tinge. Made by Feit Electric.
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The nice thing about CFLs is that you can put really quite bright ones in small desk lamp housings - because they dissipate a lot less heat. Only problem is physical size of the bulb.
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The CFL I tried tended to give me headaches.
I would amend that to "soap will kill them". "Ways to kill them" sounds to me like a perfect way of starting a Voodoo Medicine cult, wherein the wisdom of the ancients is used as evidence that the shaman's dance works.
OK, but soap does not work by killing germs: it makes it impossible for them to continue to cling to a surface, so they get washed away.
That's unfortunate.
However in practice the copyright is rarely, if ever, enforced for ordinary blog posts written by a pseudonymous author. If hypothetically somebody for whatever reasons violate the copyright, it would be technically illegal, but the copyright violator could be sure that nothing happens because I have no incentives to sue anyone. If, on the other hand, my text were part of some company's business plan, the incentives to sue violators would exist. Therefore the present situation is preferable to me.
But anyway, if it can be done this way, I hereby declare that all my past, present and future writing on LW are in public domain.
There is a very knowledgeable man named Mark S. Miller who puts, "Text by me above is hereby placed in the public domain," at the bottom of his posts. He's been doing it since 2002.
(He only posts on mailing lists, though, AFAICT, where of course it is accepted practice for static text to appear at the bottom of posts.)
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FWIW, we couldn't get OS X screen sharing to work with RealVNC on Windows, but installing Vine Server on OS X fixed all our problems.
Sadly, that is no longer true of the version of OS X released after that was written. Specifically, neither Lion's built-in "screen sharing" server nor Vine Server on Lion works with any of the Windows VNC clients we tried.
When someone used Windows remotely to monitor my OS X Lion desktop in 2012, it was through "captures" (still images) of my screen saved to a shared folder of Dropbox. Specifically, I wrote some code to fork and exec "/usr/sbin/screencapture -C" every 3 minutes.