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by abalone 6y ago
2.4% of men die from prostate cancer, 33K/year in America. This is easily googleable. https://www.cancer.org/cancer/prostate-cancer/about/key-stat...
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by abalone 6y ago
> If farmers increased silvopasture acreage from approximately 550 million hectares today to about 770 million hectares by 2050... carbon dioxide emissions could be reduced over those 30 years by up to 42 gigatons — more than enough to
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by abalone 6y ago
Nonsense, any site that bans racial slurs has already stepped down this slope. “Slippery slope” is a well known logical fallacy.[1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slippery_slope
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by abalone 6y ago
Except stroke admissions are way down too. No obvious link between the flu and strokes.
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by abalone 6y ago
That would not explain the 40-70% reductions the article cites in actual emergency admissions (strokes etc). Update: whoever downvoted this, I challenge you to state why.
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by abalone 6y ago
The article addresses a decline in critical admissions such as strokes and heart attacks, so that would not explain it.
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by abalone 6y ago
This “opinion” has little bearing on the article. It specifically addresses the decline in heart attack (38%) and stroke (60%) admissions.
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by abalone 6y ago
Sure. You can critically evaluate random Internet posts. They are still problematic when they enter public non-specialist discourse without peer review by those that possess the experience and context to properly evaluate them.
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by abalone 6y ago
“This version is not peer-reviewed” Here’s the problem with preprints like this: In an earlier era, issues with the Santa Clara study would have been addressed during peer review—the process in which scientific work is assessed by other re
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by abalone 7y ago
Nice idea. I’m curious, how much affiliate revenue are you generating?
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by abalone 7y ago
Yeah, this blog post comes across as startup-y hero worship, like > I think the root cultural cause is an aversion to self-serve flows. which is plainly false given the biggest push in the past decade of banking has been self service f
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by abalone 7y ago
> If you take a step further and look at the economic ROI of their plans, they definitely outclass most PPO and HMOs. You moved the goalpost from “healthcare outcomes for tech workers” to “economic ROI given their costs”. This is what
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by abalone 7y ago
This type of post is a pet peeve of mine because you use terms like “data” and “anecdotal” but it’s actually a poorly supported argument. This happens too often on HN. It’s certainly true that primary care visits improve health outcomes, bu
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by abalone 7y ago
> The gold standard is probably Kaiser for CA residents. I love your post but I almost shat myself when I read this. Kaiser is convenient but not top ranked in much. The gold standard is a PPO that lets you go anywhere (else) you like
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by abalone 7y ago
I just landed a senior role at a FAANG-ish SF company paying over $300k TC. Some comments on this: 1. Equity is the biggest factor in these figures. Levels.fyi is extremely bad at clarifying whether you should be reporting your equity value
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by abalone 7y ago
But the person I’m responding to is clearly built this way, and is just dealing with lack of interest in their day job. You’ve got a completely separate set of issues going on regarding caring for other humans. I wish you well.
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by abalone 7y ago
> Just looking for some dads who can relate and maybe give some wisdom on the subject of having young kids and losing your ability to work on something interesting--which to be fair I never did before having kids Your problem is not th
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by abalone 7y ago
> In terms of what issues caused us to move away from parallelism in the first place, it was all the CPU-bound stuff that you might expect: ReDoS-style issues, post-processing arrays in very large edge cases, programmer error, etc. But
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by abalone 7y ago
This is a great list and I want to add that the “simple” ones are a lot harder when third party integrations are involved. Or even dependencies on other teams in a sufficiently large org. It takes a certain mentality and commitment to look
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by abalone 7y ago
Nah, that’s a different sense of the word “accessory”. Trapped in the ecosystem is one thing. But the question here is whether it’s a substantial, standalone product.
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by abalone 7y ago
> I expect them to take something that is possible... and to execute them in a way that makes them the best designed product in the industry. I mean they just did that with smart watches and earbuds, under Cook. They are totally domina
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by abalone 7y ago
This is a predictable response that is trivially wrong. Originally the iPhone required iTunes to set it up. Is it an “accessory”?
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by abalone 7y ago
> innovation has slowed to a crawl This is so typical of Apple criticism. They did do well with the iPhone and Mac that now any new innovations seem boring in comparison. It’s wrong. The Apple Watch came out under Cook. That is more th
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by abalone 7y ago
> Google explicitly said in the deal announcement that it won’t sell their personal or health data. That’s not all. Google also said they will not use your data to target ads. In a forward looking statement about the deal. That’s signi
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by abalone 7y ago
> Right-libertarianism was an attempt to unite the libertarian parts of the left with socially liberal elements on the right against authoritarian ideologies; their main distinction are views on property rights I don't think this
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by abalone 7y ago
> Jack wanted companies to pay more tax to the city. Uh, no. Jack has specifically and consistently lobbied against paying taxes (see: previous link). In 2011 he threatened to threatened to move Twitter to neighboring Brisbane unless h
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by abalone 7y ago
It actually used to be that way (payroll tax) until the tech industry pushed through the gross receipts tax. But taxing office square footage is also a reasonable approximation for headcount.
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by abalone 7y ago
That's exactly why this tax dodge is such a low integrity move for Stripe. All their SF employees will remain in SF, but Stripe won't pay the corporate taxes to offset their impact on the housing market, transit infrastructure, et
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by abalone 7y ago
> This is just....staggeringly stupid. It just penalizes low margin businesses, for no reason. How can anyone possibly think this is a good idea? You might want to ask sf.citi, the SF tech industry lobbying group who came up with it in
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by abalone 7y ago
> working to reduce office space That's a rather uncharitable characterization. SF is just trying to tie jobs to adequate housing construction. We already have way too few houses, especially low-income housing.[1] Which is what ma

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