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by azeotropic 7y ago
If you're talking about first world street dirt I agree. If you're talking about ancient Mesopotamian city street dirt, I think you're asking for norovirus, dysentery, cholera, etc. Yes they had sewers and even pipes, but sto
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by azeotropic 7y ago
Yes, but perennially unprofitable units are going to leave the rental market. So it's not like owners' expenses are not an input into the market price.
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by azeotropic 7y ago
I'm glad they were able to sort it out so quickly. I don't think it's so much that doctors don't care as that most cases spontaneously resolve faster than any person can systematically figure them out. There's a psy
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by azeotropic 7y ago
I'd imagine you're merely trading sick now for sick later.
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by azeotropic 7y ago
Colic is a symptom, not a disease. It just means the baby is crying a lot and nobody knows why. Food allergies are one potential cause of colic. So is an immature digestive system (in particular, it takes a little while for the gut to get c
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Measles and the Anatomy of Containment(undark.org)
1 points by azeotropic 7y ago|0 comments
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by azeotropic 7y ago
I wouldn't normally think of absentee landlords as the central example of a homeowner. Where do you live that the majority of housing units are owned by absentee landlords?
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by azeotropic 7y ago
You're paying all the transaction costs and maintainance costs and tax and insurance costs when you rent too. The landlord passes them on to you in your rent. One thing that can make it better to own (in the US) is that mortgage intere
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by azeotropic 7y ago
True. Although since they are literally more invested in their community, they tend to be more tenacious about it.
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by azeotropic 7y ago
You did miss something. The first guilty plea was from a couple who paid to get their eldest daughter into UCLA and their next daughter into USC. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-01/first-par...
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by azeotropic 7y ago
Huh? UCLA is a public university. Or am I missing the joke?
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by azeotropic 7y ago
There are obvious disadvantages to being the PC -- your life is not stable or safe. In real life, there are no save points. It's not so surprising that people live real life as an NPC, but fantasize about the excitement of being a PC,
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by azeotropic 7y ago
They must be a shockingly good investment in my city from all the junk mail I get advertising shared equity contracts.
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by azeotropic 7y ago
I don't see anyone insisting on 2 or 4 here, just you. If a particular group with a narrow territorial claim is wiped out by disease (that is, population density drops to 0), it seems like 2 should apply to that narrow territory. It&#x
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by azeotropic 7y ago
I was reminded of this passage from Plato's Apology of Socrates: "I went to the poets; tragic, dithyrambic, and all sorts. And there, I said to myself, you will be detected; now you will find out that you are more ignorant than th
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by azeotropic 7y ago
Why would SpaceX run fiber? Wouldn't that be more in the boring company's line?
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by azeotropic 7y ago
Please tell me you're joking. These satellites are 100km up, moving at 8km/s. You're not going to be able to run a cable from them to your house.
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by azeotropic 7y ago
Its not that high quality is unobtainable, it's that nobody at librivox seems to try to attain it. Sound quality is definitely uneven at librivox, ranging from poor to middling, and passages composed of multiple tales are rarely mixed
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by azeotropic 7y ago
shrug I don't recall seeing it in print anywhere. I've mentioned it to colleagues who study prions, and they're grossed out by the idea, but didn't think it was impossible. I suppose you could try testing samples of ha
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by azeotropic 7y ago
If you read the article instead of the press release, you'll see that Soto's group showed that wheatgrass can be contaminated by hamster prions or CWD prions, but that they only showed transmission of hamster prions to hamsters th
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by azeotropic 7y ago
AFAIK there's no direct evidence of prion diseases jumping species. The classic studies of scrapie prions failed to show cross-species transmission even with direct injection of infected material into the brains of rodents. Everyone a
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by azeotropic 7y ago
Considering that the vast majority of 'research reporting' involves rephrasing press releases, this is a difference without a distinction. While the article is about generating abstracts rather than press releases, I don't se
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by azeotropic 7y ago
You must not have seen the video. Something turned the capsule into aluminum dust.
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by azeotropic 7y ago
The media, and the NYT in particular doesn't deserve too much charity here. They are almost all members of the Democratic Party, and heavily invested in the outcome of the primaries. They're in a unique position to shape the natio
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by azeotropic 7y ago
Compared to the moon, it was stupendously easy. There was air to breathe, water to drink, and plants to eat, and reasonably safe levels of radiation. So easy even a caveman could do it. The only thing the moon has going for it is the appare
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by azeotropic 7y ago
"which ultimately seems like something someone would do out of feelings of inadequacy." Given that those who counted LoC ultimately had the correct view -- that the initial viral story was not accurate -- perhaps they deserve a
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by azeotropic 7y ago
This article reminds me of Dan Rather's "fake but accurate" posturing when he got caught. There was no accident here. The media had a story it believed desperately needed to be told, so they told it, facts be damned. This is
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by azeotropic 7y ago
Does the left hand side of the bell curve actually owe any federal income tax?
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by azeotropic 7y ago
A lot of things posted here to HN are formulated as "everyone should do x" but would be more accurately formulated as "I personally prefer when people do x" Edited to remove irony
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by azeotropic 7y ago
It's basically Springer-Nature's answer to PLoS One. As long as it's not obviously crazy, anything goes. This doesn't look very convincing though. Without a no-treatment or sham treatment control, the results could be pl

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