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by arkades 7y ago
Well, I recently switched from a sedan to an SUV, so let me help: 1. There are rows of SUVs parked at most residential intersections. This way I can actually see what's going on at the intersection, and if I can safely enter it. 2. Les
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> I’ve done a lot of research and I think psychiatry is pseudoscience and antidepressants are largely placebo. Then your research methodology leaves a lot to be desired.
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> Sure, it happens, but it's a 0.0001% use case. Apparently I can guess an awful lot about how you grow up based on your estimate of how infrequently that happens. I'm betting you can guess something about how I grow up that I
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It's kind of shocking how often I use Reader View now, particularly on mobile. If stripping a page of all design elements is a feature, how is that design not intrinsically user-hostile?
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I am shocked by the shock. Israel depends on the Iron Dome, and doesn't trust our cybersecurity for shit. I wouldn't release life-or-death code to the US Gov't either, funding be damned.
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My understanding - from the context of criminal forensics - is that false positives from RTPCR are quite problematic, actually, due to the tendency to pick up non-target DNA that comes close enough to catch the primer. It's an issue
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Speaking for my office and the offices of friends: Between lay people buying up existing stock, and disruptions to production in China, we are seeing shortages. Some of our suppliers are restricting us to historical orders (if you usually o
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Bah, humbug.
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No, it's not just "storytelling", and your answer is pretentious in the extreme, painting an aesthetic preference as some fundamental appreciation for human life, and the opposite by implication as crass. Storytelling is abou
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The benefit cliff affects one demographic, and while affecting net revenues, isn't a tax issue. Software engineers fretting about moving into a higher tax bracket is another demographic, and is a tax issue. These are different phenomen
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Quite. I considered going into financial advisement once, in the distant past. A family friend was in the field, and took me in for a round of advice. He was quite open that it was eat-what-you-kill, with a serious focus on people with impa
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Living on the other side of that table, and living in the rooms where docs sit and shoot the shit after such patient encounters, and as someone with a debilitating chronic illness that people love to spout bullshit alternative medicine th
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Because people go into graduate programs as an educational opportunity, not as a job search?
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There's an awful lot of case law to date that allows for public health departments to violate constitutional rights to address a public health emergency. The legal right to quarantine is pretty much predicated on "for the good of
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> Almost everyone dying so far has had another medical issue or been very old I agree with not fomenting panic. However, "had another medical issue" means diabetes, which alone covers 11% of the US population, and has so far
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Same as owl57, "FEFE62 > D35BF7 > 005AB5 > DC3220 ≈ default."
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Could you allow the viewer to select the color of the case indicator? Or maybe just add a contrasting outline on the circles? I'm a not-at-all-uncommon type of colorblind, and I find it very, very difficult to make out red dots on gree
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by arkades 7y ago
Initial opioid overdose numbers favored men over women a long time ago, but that hasn't been the case for a while: in the period of 1999 to 2010, male opioid ODs climbed in men by about 240%, in women by 400% (CDC 2013 Prescription Pai
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OP went on to medical school after finishing that grad degree. We know a lot more about molecular biology. That we clump stuff under the header of "inflammation" is a categorization/naming issue, not a biology issue :)
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>This topic is interesting to me for a few reasons... >Cognitive impairment has long been associated with inflammation in older adults: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3390758/ Once upon a
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Strong agree. I found Sam Altman's writing on quora and followed it off-and-on long, long before I found out "who he is." And his advice is so overly-positive and one-note that, honestly, I thought he was a snake oil salesman
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He didn't say easy startups couldn't be successful - just that Insta had to stand up to several orders of magnitude more competition than a 'hard' startup was/would have been. As a matter of survivorship bias, it wo
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> - Get extra prescription medicine now if you might need it I hate this advice. It's not "wrong," in the sense that technically it would be a good thing to do, but it's also so wrong that it transcends categories of
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Sounds like the US. I've had residents crawl into work in the middle of a enteritis, that I've had to force into a bed in the on-call room, shoved an IV in their arm, and told them not to fucking move until I'd gotten two b
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>Not to be a jerk It doesn't seem the OP was asking for a post-mortem of his start-up. It seems they were giving a gift to the community, by open-sourcing their work now that their project has come to an end.
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> extremely beneficial to both consumers What "extreme benefits" do I derive from being filmed and analyzed by stores I happen to walk past?
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If I need graphic charts/diagrams, I've already passed the markdown stage. There's absolutely no workflow I can think of that is improved by my sitting there and trying to ASCII Art my way into a diagram. Does anyone go, hey,
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Sort of? Not quite? Ugh, I just wrote this long-ass post and lost it. Whatever, here's the short version: Stroke is a clinical diagnosis, not a radiologic one. CT will catch hemorrhages or large infarcts just fine. That's the impo
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Your average server mobo fits in your average kitchen trash can. In this instance, it seems like he made all the trouble for himself. Yes, Amazon has the responsibility of return and disposal. But where disposal is a completely trivial &quo
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I agree, but the argument is also bullshit. You've changed the [noun] specifically to create an example where disposal is onerous. If disposal is not onerous, it looks quite a bit different. Are we so inflexible in our thought that we

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