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by beebmam 5y ago
Dopamine is commonly used in patients in ICUs in ways that are totally unrelated to the addictive reward mechanism. It can function as a vasopressor in hypertensive patients, but needs very close monitoring (which is why it is usually admin
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by beebmam 5y ago
People usually aren't very contagious past the initial stage of the disease. And yes, there are virologists who are studying the mutation-space of the virus and are planning a vaccine regimen which targets all possible mutations of SAR
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by beebmam 5y ago
Part of this is due to China's new expansion of their nuclear arsenal: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-57995185
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by beebmam 5y ago
It really wasn't false at the time; there's a bunch of uncertainty around it for this virus. For quite a long time, people really did believe SARS-CoV-2 could transmit through surfaces easily. We now know that to be incorrect.
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by beebmam 5y ago
Surgical masks (and other cloth masks) make a small but significant difference in transmission. At the beginning of the pandemic, we didn't understand whether that difference was lost in the increased need to interact with one's f
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by beebmam 5y ago
Nope!
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by beebmam 5y ago
The Nobel Prize committee could, if they wanted
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by beebmam 5y ago
When has ethics meant anything in international affairs? Sorry to burst your bubble, but every nation is out for its own best interests, which sometimes align with other nations' interests.
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by beebmam 5y ago
There's so much scamming around cryptocurrencies. I personally lost several thousand dollars from the Nano/BitGrail scam. A dear friend of mine delved into cryptocurrencies specifically to buy drugs, and he gets them shipped throu
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by beebmam 5y ago
In my 20 years of industry at both small and large tech companies, I couldn't disagree more with you. I'd also appreciate if you toned down the insults.
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by beebmam 5y ago
Not being audited is key here. Would you trust closed source software to live up to its security promises without audits? I sure wouldn't!
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by beebmam 5y ago
So your argument here is that it is ridiculous to suggest that an RCT is possible in this circumstance, so we should therefore accept observational studies which derive correlations as truth. Not only does that conclusion not follow from yo
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by beebmam 5y ago
Why is everyone so confident with their conclusions without RCTs? This article points out how deeply complicated ethanol consumption is with our biochemical systems. Without RCTs we really can't measure the overall effect of ethanol wi
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by beebmam 5y ago
Superbly written article, covering so much of the nuance involved in medical science. Easily one of the best links I've ever come across on Hacker News.
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by beebmam 5y ago
I agree with this sentiment. A little toe dip can't hurt though :)
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by beebmam 5y ago
I do actually agree with this. At least we should be honest about what we're doing, that we're forcing this on businesses (and that's a good thing!) Nationalization of most social media would do a tremendous amount of public
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by beebmam 5y ago
Investigative journalism has always, always, always pushed narratives. In fact, you can't avoid it. There will always be information that is included and information that is discarded in any piece of journalism. Both the information th
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by beebmam 5y ago
That's correct. The US government should have equivalents of Twitter, Google, Facebook and so on, though. And then speech on those platforms would be protected by the 1st amendment, including spam, pornography, and so on.
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by beebmam 5y ago
Should the government be able to force a private company to host content that they don't want to host?
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by beebmam 5y ago
YouTube isn't the government
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by beebmam 5y ago
Agitative propaganda is a hell of a drug
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by beebmam 5y ago
Paychecks are rising in the US, certainly. Just not very equally.
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by beebmam 5y ago
Isn't everyone? Why haven't we abolished nuclear weapons like we have with Biological and Chemical? We were teetering right on the edge for years in the middle 20th century, and the new China/US cold war will put us right the
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by beebmam 5y ago
Well if some guy said it, I'm persuaded!
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by beebmam 5y ago
Exactly correct, which is why virtually all defamation suits in the US don't ever make it to court. And it should be that way! Overly broad defamation laws greatly restrict freedom of speech.
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by beebmam 5y ago
>If Stossel never said "Not by climate change", and then Facebook falsely attributed that statement to him and rated it false, they certainly seem guilty of defamation. This is strictly, legally false in the US. What you have d
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by beebmam 5y ago
This is probably the best solution I've seen around anti-cheat solutions. I also think this is the best approach to prevent abuse on social media. I can't be the only one sick of what a sewer the internet, like multiplayer gaming
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by beebmam 5y ago
It's important to point out that this isn't dairy as a whole, or on its own, that the researchers were looking at here. This is strictly about dairy fat . Keep in mind that there is a mechanism of action that explains why the con
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by beebmam 5y ago
Exploitation is a tax that your boss (and their boss) is hiding from you. Literally just taking right out of your pocket before you ever even see it, just like a gangster would do.
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by beebmam 5y ago
Unbelievably too late at that point that it doesn't matter even the slightest

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