DanBC

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Improved collection of GP data launched(digital.nhs.uk)
1 points by DanBC 5y ago|0 comments
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by DanBC 5y ago
I love the idea. How do you stop predatory paedophiles from abusing young people using your service? > Our coaches will never make you feel bad to ask questions—even the ones you’re too embarrassed to ask in class. How do you ensure this
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by DanBC 5y ago
> By way of comparison, it is unusual for a doctor in the UK to earn even as much as $200k, and the average is around $100k. $100k is about £71k. Starting salary for consultants in England is £82096.
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by DanBC 5y ago
> we had to re-think the whole grounding from devices during pandemic because that was suicide to a teen. Parents who impose "grounding" on children tend to impose sanctions that last far too long. Children have a poorly develo
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by DanBC 5y ago
The company is pretty clear: It is important to note that, to-date, our analysis has identified: No scientific basis for a potential therapeutic effect against COVID-19 from pre-clinical studies; No meaningful evidence for cli
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Merck Statement on Ivermectin Use During the Covid-19 Pandemic(merck.com)
5 points by DanBC 5y ago|4 comments
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by DanBC 5y ago
Put simply, lower power factors are inefficient. They draw more current, which means the components are either stressed or need to be bigger to compensate. (This is all a big simplification): DC power is pretty easy to get your head around.
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by DanBC 5y ago
> There is no compelling evidence that eating unprocessed beef carries any significant cancer risk. Red meat has an IARC classification of 2A, probably carcinogenic to humans. This is based on limited evidence from epidemiological studie
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by DanBC 5y ago
Prescribing data is open. We can easily see plenty of ADHD meds being prescribed. Lisdexamfetamine Dimesylate https://openprescribing.net/chemical/0404000U0/ Methylphenidate Hydrochloride https://openpr
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by DanBC 5y ago
No, you don't. For adults it should be either a psychiatrist or a doctor with training and expertise; for children it should be a paediatrician. https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng87/chapter/Recommendatio
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Ancient Akkadian poems and medical texts reveal grief’s universals(psyche.co)
2 points by DanBC 5y ago|0 comments
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by DanBC 5y ago
> As a result, people are now coming in to their doctors with prostate cancer at stage 3 or 4. Might be the right choice for society, but the wrong choice for the individual. Hypothetical Bob is going to die when he's 78. We can te
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by DanBC 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_Bergeron https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113264/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
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by DanBC 5y ago
> The biggest problem usualy is the detection, as early stages are curable than later. Does early detection lead to fewer deaths overall? For many types of cancer it doesn't.
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by DanBC 5y ago
> As an amateur photographer… can someone smarter/more educated than me explain to me why practically I would prefer this over a computational solution? This looks really cool People like to play. People like to place artificial con
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by DanBC 5y ago
There's this thing that some people on HN do where they say "if it's not illegal it's totally fine and you can do it as much as you like". Clearly that's bollocks, isn't it? We don't want an over-bear
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by DanBC 5y ago
We're not sure, but we think method substitution might be playing a role here.
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by DanBC 5y ago
> What I would have done is get them to define what each means by white supremacy in detail...then debate on the detail. As a friendly piece of advice, this approach is going to get you fired from a few companies. If you're in a man
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by DanBC 5y ago
> if the US was so bad, why is the death rate in the US inline with other large countries? Because the US is not uniquely bad. Those other large countries had severe failures.
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by DanBC 5y ago
No, they're saying there are differences if you get lots of people vaccinated quickly, or fewer people vaccinated slowly. Slower and fewer vaccinations increases the chances of new strains developing, and increases the chances of strai
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by DanBC 5y ago
> All three trackers open up with finger power—no other tools required! That said, the AirTag is by far the most difficult, I'm a little bit uncomfortable about this, because it gives access to a coin cell battery. People under-esti
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Pete Whittaker rope solos El Capitan in under 24 hours (2016)(youtube.com)
2 points by DanBC 5y ago|1 comments
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by DanBC 5y ago
> Why is there so much focus on preventing suicide rather than improving people's well-being? There isn't a focus on merely preventing suicide while not improving well-being. Anyone working in suicide prevention or public healt
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by DanBC 5y ago
> Or they're confused and think "racist" is synonymous with "bigot." It's not, it's bigotry against people of a certain race (or not of a certain race). Those people are just using a current legal defin
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by DanBC 5y ago
A lifestraw is better at removing bacteria, viruses, and protozoa. See page 7 here. https://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/publications/hwt... I don't know the cost of lifestraws to NGOs, but I guess the
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by DanBC 5y ago
That's not a result of taxation, it's because the US has a pathologically terrible police culture that sees extra-judicial killing as acceptable.
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by DanBC 5y ago
> The majority of covid deaths are those that on average had very few months left to live. In England we know covid is killing people on average at least 10 years early.
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by DanBC 5y ago
There's intensive community monitoring for flu. Flu's a big deal, which is why there are internationally coordinated programs to monitor which strains are circulating, and then to create and distribute vaccines. See this for an ex
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by DanBC 5y ago
Flu is seasonal, and there are large pushes to get people vaccinated against flu each year. Sometimes those vaccinations are more effective, and sometimes you get more people vaccinated. This season it appears both are true.
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by DanBC 5y ago
We need manganese. We currently get that from open cast mines. Those are pretty terrible, so we need to look at ways of making them not awful, or at alternatives. Deep sea mining doesn't really do much for either. Nodules are never goi

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