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I got: stochasticity stochas·tic·ity a form of structure characterized by irregular bending and contraction of the body in some objects which is a word that does exist, albeit with a new definition. https://www.thiswo
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You asked a good question that I’ve wondered as well. Basically someone has to show that immunity to one variant confers immunity to another, which is not at all obvious since presumably they have different epitopes. I guess what people are
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What about general relativity.
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I’m interested to learn more but I didn’t find any references to the IBS study in the webpage you linked. But to be fair I skimmed it.
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A lot of people study it. I’m blanking on exactly the book, but Robert Sapolsky writes quite a bit about it. Might be in Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers. IIRC there are different kinds of placebo effects. One of the most robust is pain relief
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You might find this interesting. > Half of the study volunteers were told they were getting an “open-label” placebo and the others got nothing at all. He found that there was a dramatic and significant improvement in the placebo group’s
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What technology finally brought this idea to market? I'm impressed and happy that it exists, but it seems like this should have been around years ago.
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I love reading all the speculative answers you're getting. Can anyone give something more solid? Like maybe an anthropoligist's POV?
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You have me thinking. Has drawing such a line ever created a problem in the past 50 years?
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I gave two historical examples on lieu of writing a much longer comment. These are real examples of institutions that made diverging decisions. I’m more interested in the reasons behind the decisions, whereas you seem to be more interested
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Yea but not all the quotas are the same. Like this is a very specific example of a fishing quota, not an easily enforcible quota like ">12% black students enrolled". Also, points 1 and 2 appear (to me at least) to show the quot
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I like thinking about affirmative action because it shine a a light a bit on one's internal moral calculus. Like do you think institutions should award exclusively on merit, or on some other aspects of their mission? The Nobel Science
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by alecst 5y ago
Last I heard (and I believe this could be wrong) my professor said that we basically understand how a single neuron works. That like basically if we do X input we get Y output, up to some accuracy. He used this to discuss the idea behind ne
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> The bigger criticism of Von Neumann is that he set back quantum mechanics for a few decades: https://twitter.com/orzelc/status/1446414513465696256 Really skeptical of this. Not only did he write a famous &quo
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I kind of feel the same way. Like if our goal is vaccination, yea, republicans do have to eat some humble pie, but liberals shouldn’t make it harder for them than it has to be.
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What the Irish ate before potatoes(bonappetit.com)
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IgG antibodies linger for a while, like months or longer. It’s a quick way of telling whether your vaccine worked, by just getting an antibody test.
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by alecst 5y ago
I'm open minded to what you're saying but help me understand how both this > The typical immune response produces 10,000-100,000 times more antibodies than “necessary” to fight an infection. can be true, and how vaccines are ba
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by alecst 5y ago
Wait what -- is this for real?
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Yea true, more like encouraging people to wear masks.
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If your body is strong enough to handle covid, how is it also too fragile for the vaccine? If your friends were too fragile for the vaccine, why do you think they'd be strong enough to fight covid?
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Remind me of what natural immunity is supposed to be good for, if not for preventing disease.
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My first reaction was to consider this as pretty damning of mass use. But when I considered it more I don't think the study is as damning of masks as it is of mask mandates. The problem is only ~30% more people wore masks in the interv
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> stop calling it a mental issue that can be resolved with willpower or attitude when it's clear that for many people, medication works and it works well. He didn't say that though. In fact OP would agree with you that calling
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This is fucking awesome.
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I don't remember hearing much about wealth when I read about Calvinism in college. I remember that the elect were predestined to do good works and go to heaven, and that's it. The intriguing thing for me about the philosophy was t
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by alecst 5y ago
Maybe I'm just a bonehead, but take topic sentence (one of many possible examples): > In addition to testing the hypothesis that the linear extents of human language family boundaries represent potentially resistant areas to grizzly
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This is a potentially cool article that I'm straining to read because of all the science-ese. Like this is some of the most dense, strained, and non-intuitive English I have read in a while -- and I have a background in science. I want
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> Which makes sense as most transmission occurs in the presymptomatic phase, there's no selection pressure to evolve to be less deadly. That was my thought too. That was in interesting read, by the way. Thanks for sharing.
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I downvoted for an opinion-based answer. Yea generally viruses evolve to be less deadly and more infectious, that’s the trend (but certainly not a law), but the important thing is the time scale. Plus there are endemic viruses that are not

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