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by abalone 3y ago
If it doesn't escape the prostate, a tumor could potentially impinge on the urethra causing urinary difficulty. There is a benign version of this called BPH and it may be treatable by medications like Flowmax. But it's not like we
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by abalone 3y ago
It kills libido and can sap energy levels to where it makes it hard to do many things in the day. It’s not necessarily permanent if you just do a short course. Testosterone can recover. But if it metastasizes you could be looking at long te
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by abalone 3y ago
That’s for all surgeries as a whole, not prostate cancer treatments.
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by abalone 3y ago
It’s fine. I did 3 or 4 over the years. They stick a probe up your butt a little, with some numbing gel, which is uncomfortable but fine. There are a few pricks of local anesthesia and then you feel nothing or extremely little, apart from t
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by abalone 3y ago
Sure but we should still listen to specialists. They aren’t always right but they are wrong less often than the rest of us. As for “doing something” actually there has been a consistent trend in the prostate cancer fields towards doing less
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by abalone 3y ago
I respect that. FWIW I just use three cards: 1. Apple Card which is 2% back on all Apple Pay 2. Costco Visa that does 3% on restaurants and travel 3. Amazon prime visa, 5% back on Amazon and Whole Foods. (This is just saved to my Amazon acc
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by abalone 3y ago
We’re talking about the consumer benefits here. It’s true Apple extracted some of the most consumer-friendly terms in the industry.
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by abalone 3y ago
Agreed, prostate cancer is rare under age 40. 45 to 50 is a good age to get tested if there is no family history. Other things: - There is a very new multi-cancer blood test called Galleri that might catch it, but I think you have to be abo
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by abalone 3y ago
There are conflicting studies. This is common. It's tough to put together randomized trials over a multi-decade period to get the highest quality data. But among oncologists there is very widespread agreement on the benefits of PSA tes
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by abalone 3y ago
Yes but it is still an excellent first-level screening tool. A few things can cause elevated PSA. Typically you will get retested a bunch of times to see if it comes back down to normal levels. But if it stays up you may be a good candidate
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by abalone 3y ago
This is so very rare that I doubt it would move that statistic.
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by abalone 3y ago
Yes, the absolute number of deaths is significant. There is a debate within the medical community over whether the slower growing type should be relabeled as not-cancer / pre-cancer, etc., as surveillance is the more typical treatment
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by abalone 3y ago
Prostate cancer survivor here, AMA. Tips: * I recommend everyone with a prostate get their PSA tested by age 45, or earlier if it runs in the family. It's a simple blood test but sometimes you have to ask for it. * Early detection is k
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by abalone 3y ago
I don’t know where you are but NFC terminals are extremely common here (I’m in CA). And Apple Pay doesn’t track your transactions. It actually protects you better than a regular card by using a distinct number tied to the secure element in
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by abalone 3y ago
Yes, merchant fraud is what I was referring to with “to some extent.” And you’re correct that card-present fraud is more likely to be borne by the bank these days (this was not always the case). But typical e-commerce fraud is usually eaten
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by abalone 3y ago
I agree except for the part about monopoly. There are in fact competing card networks. The bitter pill to swallow is that consumer preferences played a role in evolving this system. Card networks are managing a two sided market, and that me
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by abalone 3y ago
Why do you say they cause higher prices for rewards recipients? Is there evidence of this?
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by abalone 3y ago
What do you mean by “spending time working to scrape back money”? Cashback rewards are fairly automatic. Maybe some have a simple redemption step. Apple Card’s is 100% automatic.
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by abalone 3y ago
> and this is considered competitive Stripe is hella expensive! But they are easy to get started with. Competitive rates depend on the type of business, i.e. their volume and their fraud risk. The most transparent form of pricing is ca
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by abalone 3y ago
You should try Apple Pay (or maybe Google Pay?) It addresses all those pain points and more, while still giving you the consumer protections and fast transactions of cards.
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by abalone 3y ago
Are you suggesting iOS developers should use another language (Flutter? Objective-C?), or that it’s a sucker move to become an iOS developer?
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by abalone 3y ago
One of my more unpopular opinions is that Swift would’ve made a good successor to Java for server development. Syntactically I feel it is in that smalltalk-inspired vein and feels like a pretty elegant balance of simplicity and robustness (
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by abalone 3y ago
Also true for Australia! When they regulated interchange, merchants did not pass the savings on to consumers.[1] [1] https://laweconcenter.org/resources/the-effects-of-price-con...
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by abalone 3y ago
I wouldn’t assume everyone is happy with it. Consumers are going to prefer rewards programs over no rewards programs. And before you say it results in higher prices, that’s not necessarily true. Australia regulated away interchange and it d
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by abalone 3y ago
Interchange is regulated in Europe. You would likely run into legal issues if you tried to jack up merchant fees via a novel payment method. However, even if it were legal, I don’t think this would counter my claim. I’m merely saying that y
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by abalone 3y ago
A valid interpretation but not the only way to describe it. If a merchant offers a 10% discount for spending $1000 or more, are they making lower-spending customers subsidize the purchases of higher-spending ones? Are they transferring weal
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by abalone 3y ago
Fun fact: this is why crypto never took off as a replacement for credit cards. Too many entrepreneurs focused on “lower fees” as if it were some technical property. But it was never about the technology. Interchange fees primarily fund cons
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by abalone 3y ago
> But how far does this go in explaining why merchants "choose" to participate in this program. The obvious answer would seem to be that they get no benefit from the system as it exists but have no real choice, but maybe there
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by abalone 3y ago
OAuth 2.0 is perfectly fine for privilege management. The problem is they granted read access when all Netflix needed here was write access. An analogy would be granting full access to a Gmail inbox in order to merely send an email. It woul
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by abalone 3y ago
Clearly one of these two scenarios happened: 1. The waymo made a left turn into the space occluded by truck, seeing there was no vehicle behind the truck when committing to accelerating through the turn, but not seeing the bike in the adjac

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