arkades

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by arkades 7y ago
Don’t be such a pessimist. There’s nothing “quasi” about it.
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by arkades 7y ago
Under the guise of preventing the ops team from being incentivized to create outages, he was selflessly stealing all the nice beer for himself.
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by arkades 7y ago
Th limitation is due to changes in the distribution of receptors on the muscle, and the muscles health, once it loses neuro stimulation. Progress here is something I’m very optimistic about.
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by arkades 7y ago
Why limit the comment to modern philanthropy? I doubt anyone, in meaningful numbers, has ever sought to undermine their own position in society. That would include anyone nominally seeking to “change things for the better.”
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by arkades 7y ago
This seems like the right thread to ask: so how does one go about learning to sail?
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by arkades 7y ago
I honestly thought you were setting up a joke. “If I take zinc the cold lasts a week, if I don’t...” Colds last a week. That’s normal.
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by arkades 7y ago
Newborns are in danger from just about anything. Other special populations of children include those with AIDS, CF, DM, and any other immunocompromising condition or respiratory anomaly. Having addressed the special populations that are imp
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by arkades 7y ago
Colds are not the flu. Children tolerate colds just fine.
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by arkades 7y ago
Mostly bullshit. A couple of studies on multivitamins that include zinc in developing nations showed a very small reduction in the incidence of an upper respiratory infections-approximately 8%. In studies of zinc supplementation and the zin
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by arkades 7y ago
There aren’t any other medications that we give for the cold. I think you are thinking of antivirals given to people with early stage influenza. Different disease, with different treatments.
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by arkades 7y ago
It is? Which? The only thing I’m familiar with is using BCG vaccine vs. Superficial bladder cancer. And that is an immuno therapy. A PTEN mutation allows mycobacterium to enter cancer cells preferentially, and then invites an immune respons
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by arkades 7y ago
Cold medicines are a cough suppressant and a mild painkiller. They have absolutely no effect on the cold. So ... yes, 100% absurd.
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by arkades 7y ago
Importantly: Inducing unconsciousness isn’t the same as sleep. Many chemicals that knock you on your ass also disrupt sleep architecture. A study that doesn’t at least throw a polysomnography on the patients to make a gesture in the directi
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by arkades 7y ago
I’m not familiar with any models not loading mobi. The only caveat is that there is a sub-format of mobi that’s fixed rather than reflowable (like, a PDF vs. a TXT), and that’s never been supported. But I’ve only come across those once in a
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by arkades 7y ago
It reads mobi, just not ePub. And I use it because it’s got the best hardware experience of the bunch, IMO.
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by arkades 7y ago
> Sometimes my choices make me sad. My daughter’s seventh birthday was the worst. She cried, and I did everything I could not to. I felt sick to my stomach. But I had a trial starting the next day, six hours away. > I had picked the d
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by arkades 7y ago
I went to a small elementary school; a small-ish middle school, and a large "talented" high school. The last was by far the best environment. The first two were in the suburbs; the last in a major city. The middle school was the w
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by arkades 7y ago
In both directions. The worst of my teachers' behavior when I was a kid was beyond the pale, but no one took kids at face value. Fact is, school is a horrible environment with disgusting power dynamics in every direction, which doesn&#
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by arkades 7y ago
An expression I came across recently in one of my circles was “free speech extremist.” As in, if you think free speech trumps censoring all possible offensive communication, you are a free speech extremist. Man, I remember the days when bei
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by arkades 7y ago
I think a lot of them aren’t really erotic, so much as there’s an overlap between “erotic poses” and “vulnerable poses.” A lot seemed to be posed in a manner that I would call, artificially, awkwardly, vulnerable. Which might be the point,
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by arkades 7y ago
Same here. My strongest sense memories of my dad are the feel of his shirt against my cheek when I'd run up to hug him when he got home from work, the feel of the callouses on his fingers, and the stubble on his cheek under my hand. I
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by arkades 7y ago
Uh, I think the idiom just means “got woken up early.” I don’t see an attack there.
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by arkades 7y ago
So, I've never been homeless, but I do work in mental health. We see a lot of patients that are chronically homeless, and they view shelters as a place to dip into briefly when they have to show that they've got a physical shelter
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by arkades 7y ago
(A) It's cold (B) Our cops are super aggressive with the homeless. I mean, technically that can be described as "policy", but probably not the way you meant it I used to volunteer for an annual winter round-up, where a bunch
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by arkades 7y ago
There’s “reporting the facts,” and then there’s all the context and background work that constitute the journalism bit. One can do the former and still fail utterly at the latter.
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by arkades 7y ago
Hey, did Bloomberg ever retract its entirely unverified Chinese spy chip story? Just a reminder that they’ve blown all their credibility.
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by arkades 7y ago
(1) Studies on the correlation between these sorts of linguistic tells and deceit tend to be very poorly designed. (2) they also tend to be massively over-interpreted. Oh, were people 10% more likely to look left if they were lying? “Lookin
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by arkades 7y ago
How does this in any way differ from any other retailer, except that Costco adds an admission fee? Waving a magical membership wand over my head doesn’t change any of the material facts.
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by arkades 7y ago
In this case, I think the concern goes: FB exerts increasing control over, and insight into, financial transactions. Alongside excessive insight into most other aspects of personal lives. The result becomes the sort of MegaCorp that cyberpu
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by arkades 7y ago
I didn’t see this addressed in the article: How much of this is snapping up land that will be a key value once rising water levels displace coastals? This strikes me as a much stronger play than just buying up some land.

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