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by aplummer 6y ago
Yeah in this case OP is right though, you can gain muscle mass, be very active, and eat healthy. It is 100% a correlation. Actually I would describe what you posted an example of a limitation of the correlation, since it uses BMI.
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by aplummer 6y ago
You don't die from these co-morbidities suddenly in the 2 weeks you have covid - but for the covid. This amounts to a baseless conspiracy theory against doctors that accurately understand and record the cause of death. Blunt trauma in
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by aplummer 6y ago
> If you must know I was referring to contact tracing. I’m against it. I’m anti lockdown too. I get ostracized every time I bring it up. You should be. You are talking about millions of peoples lives here. The fallacies that create these
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by aplummer 6y ago
Is a mezzanine considered capacity?
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by aplummer 6y ago
What an os. Less is more for the start bar
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by aplummer 6y ago
> Learn to Program, by Chris Pine My first programming book, 10 years ago in a few months I think. Great read.
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by aplummer 6y ago
Is there really a place on hacker news for accounts that constantly interject inane politics?
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by aplummer 6y ago
I watched the whole video you shared. I think they made the a mistake assuming that people are good at driving with just vision. People are actually terrible at driving, even when paying attention. I really hope that the future of self dri
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by aplummer 6y ago
You can buy plug ins for most volvos and I think the all electric xc40 is a few months away at this point?
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by aplummer 6y ago
It works with the TV app too FYI
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by aplummer 6y ago
Define short term; I think by the time a reactor you start today comes online, we are already pretty screwed
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by aplummer 6y ago
You are both agreeing with each other. You (in different words) rhetorically said “this is the fallacy of false dichotomy, it is not necessarily strictly one _or_ the other” and the parent agreed with your assessment.
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by aplummer 6y ago
It's amazing the level of scrutiny this social media company gets. Sure, social media has created new issues. Let's say you don't buy into "the doing something for the first time in history and not getting it right all t
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by aplummer 6y ago
It’s interesting comparing this to Australia / NZs cultural career issue, “tall poppy syndrome” [1]. People really need to be coached to even say a personal achievement let alone sell it when apply for jobs. 1. https://en.m.
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by aplummer 6y ago
control for it if you are making claims about vitamin d
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by aplummer 6y ago
They measure obesity and find it 0.02 vs 0.01 for vitamin d, which seems a decent enough proxy for lifestyle for this kind of study so your underlying point is valid here. Actually i think the biggest missing control is race. I went in skep
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by aplummer 6y ago
The thing is honestly, we make incredible progress every decade. What's important is doing it carefully, correctly, and investing in the right areas to make real positive change (less viagra and hair loss probably). Just a decade ago,
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by aplummer 6y ago
You can set the default browser on iOS14 [1] https://www.macrumors.com/how-to/google-chrome-default-brows...
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by aplummer 6y ago
The thing about clinical trials, is there is a minimum time it takes to run one. You can up concurrency but it only gets you so far - you really need to know the long term impact before you can iterate much.
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by aplummer 6y ago
Could someone please recommend the best up to date 0 to confident Postgres book?
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by aplummer 6y ago
We seem to have near identical taste so can I add: - they are billions - Kerbal space program - faster than light To your awesome indie games list
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by aplummer 6y ago
There's a current scam going on right now where people are getting calls to get in on the ground floor of the "Stripe IPO"...
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by aplummer 6y ago
Can't get a sausage in bread afterwards by mail!
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> This will address a significant bargaining power imbalance between Australian news media businesses and Google and Facebook. This is so untrue. News Corp is easily the most powerful political entity in Australia. It’s not a stretch to
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by aplummer 6y ago
> But make sure you also get your story points done for this sprint and meet your OKRs for this quarter. The problem here is the points aren't measuring quality, they are measuring a type of velocity that doesn't take into acco
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by aplummer 6y ago
> The last technology that attempted this task was NoSQL, and we all know how that ended. Do you mean billion dollar companies? Don't get me wrong, wouldn't go near the popular NoSQL databases I've used in the past again,
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by aplummer 6y ago
So checkmate in any one timeline counts? You couldn’t do all timelines.
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by aplummer 6y ago
> The rapid increase of vitamin D levels in covid-19 infected patients with vitamin D deficiency (< 30ng/ml), as well as vitamin D supplementation for doctors, nursing staff and risk patients to a healthy blood level of 40-50ng&#
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by aplummer 6y ago
> Is there really a ‘wrong’ way to live or wrong way to do things? Or are there just different or alternative ways? Yes to the former, some people go around murdering and stealing. I’m not being facetious, there’s a whole philosophy ben
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by aplummer 6y ago
I dunno. I did this cold at a faang and got the gig

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