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sillysaurusxtoday at 5:20 PM1 replyview on HN

My second paragraph addresses that:

> People point to “fatal familial insomnia” as a counterexample. But they die to the disease, not the lack of sleep.

It’s a prion disease. It’s established fact that they don’t die from the lack of sleep.


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dijittoday at 5:22 PM

Interesting that the scientific debate is settled, because you said so. Researchers who study prion diseases would probably be surprised to hear it.

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