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by Gatsky 4y ago
That isn’t screening though, which by definition occurs in people without symptoms or signs. It is true that better access to healthcare or higher health literacy or more scans being done for other reasons will increase the early detection
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by Gatsky 4y ago
In fact, all these things have socioeconomic determinants. Air pollution has a relatively small effect compared to the others.
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by Gatsky 4y ago
The only cancer routinely screened for in people under 50 is cervical cancer. Even then, the test detects precancerous lesions mainly. As such, ascertainment bias is not a major methodological concern.
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by Gatsky 4y ago
Is this even worth doing when people are still smoking, drinking alcohol, living in polluted areas and eating red meat? These are all known risk factors with large effects on cancer risk in younger people. I think the effort is better spent
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by Gatsky 4y ago
She's dead. She has ceased to be. If you think this is an appropriate time to trot out grievances, which I'm sure are all well justified, then we have a different understanding of common decency.
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by Gatsky 4y ago
Perhaps we’re finally getting a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer .
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by Gatsky 4y ago
This is the most disappointing thread I’ve seen on HN in a long time. A large number of accounts have been banned and rightly so. There are lots of good and interesting comments, but also lots of comments dancing on her grave. This is one o
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by Gatsky 4y ago
That's fine, but Amazon isn't rewriting his books. I think it is impossible to infer Tolkien's reaction, and furthermore, quite silly to try and enforce that inferred reaction. Take the Wheel of Time series. A lot of unhappy
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by Gatsky 4y ago
I just don't understand the level of virtriol about a TV show. Is this the fruit of waning religiosity, where everyone adopts whatever random cause and fights to the death about it? I thought we got past this malarkey with the stunning
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by Gatsky 4y ago
This is just what humans do in status hierarchies where the aim is to achieve more status. The military, the priesthood and imperial concubines will be just as bad. They tend to be monolithic structures, so you can’t just defect to another
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by Gatsky 4y ago
Slighlty chilling reading these opinions, like a focus group with Christmas turkeys in November. TikTok and Instagram seem equally devoid of useful content to me, one just has more dancing. YouTube is the exception, partly because they pay
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by Gatsky 4y ago
I wish I was one hundredth as optimistic as University press release drivel.
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by Gatsky 4y ago
> And where does the actual language come from? Millar is already at work on his next project to answer that question, too. In some preliminary data analysis of all previous NIH calls for grant applications, he found that all of the hyp
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by Gatsky 4y ago
Yes it is my opinion of course, what else could I provide? But let's be pragmatic - there is an astounding amount of content in the world. I am not asking for a dot point summary as you seem to suggest, I am asking for cogency and well
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by Gatsky 4y ago
Great film, the projectionist is just a wonderful character. I still think a lot about that story he tells with the princess and the soldier.
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by Gatsky 4y ago
There is some great content on substack, but it is invariably too verbose. As much as I’m glad anyone can now indulge themselves in unrestrained quill scratching, 95% of substack content needs to be edited for length. Surely there is an NLP
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by Gatsky 4y ago
I think you can write a book to have a good beginning, and you can write a book to have a good ending, but it is very hard to do both. William Gibson books are all about the ending I find. The beginnings are positively disorienting most of
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by Gatsky 4y ago
Not sure I want a new laptop where the battery swells up within 3 years.
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by Gatsky 4y ago
I’m the same I guess. I’ve tried a couple of mechs, and now my daily driver is the MS sculpt ergo. I’m happy on a macbook kb, or the cheap membrane kb I have to use at work. The mechs just didn’t have a material advantage for me, and I didn
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by Gatsky 4y ago
Why? Because it describes a technical solution to a problem, instead of complaining/rationalising.
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by Gatsky 4y ago
This should be the top comment.
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Wish you weren’t here: photos of ‘quiet’ tourist hotspots(theguardian.com)
2 points by Gatsky 4y ago|0 comments
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by Gatsky 4y ago
I don't think this is the right way to think about this. The editors of a journal do screen the articles that get published. Their criteria are hidden. They do not need to justify in any way why the accept or reject a submission. The p
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by Gatsky 4y ago
Increasing age of women at attempted conception probably explains most of this I think. SK has the oldest first time mums in the world: https://photius.com/rankings/2020/population/mothers_mean_ag...
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by Gatsky 4y ago
There are non-chemical ways to achieve a psychedelic experience. Holotropic breathwork could be one way. So perhaps you could do holotropic breathwork + placebo versus holotropic breathwork + psilocybin. Possibly not practical, would need a
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by Gatsky 4y ago
Need to take the literature as a whole. One can always postulate more complicated causal relationships and caveats, but in the end the question is should a random person take Vitamin E tomorrow? The answer is clearly no, for me. A useful to
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by Gatsky 4y ago
There is mounting evidence that anti-oxidant supplements are cancer promoting (or perhaps more accurately, ‘deprotecting’). A lot of this data is in animal models, but there is also a bit of high quality controlled trial data. The best exam
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by Gatsky 4y ago
If the types of photos you mention were getting flagged as per the case in the article, we would be hearing about a lot more cases. The case itself involved a medical photo, not smiling children at the beach. As such the denominator you use
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by Gatsky 4y ago
What do you think is the ratio of innocent to nefarious pictures of naked children Google encounters in aggregate? This is relevant to how outraged one should be by this story. I think it is probably > 1:100000. As such, probably not muc
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by Gatsky 4y ago
Yeah that’s exactly what I’m saying.

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