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by bennyelv 6y ago
Unfortunately for people with MS (like myself) she’s wrong. Her original experience is in fact quite “normal” for the behaviour of MS. It gets significantly worse, then significantly better, then worse, etc etc. Her study that then follow
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by bennyelv 6y ago
They're even using the company's marketing materials for the images in the articles. If I had the time or energy, I'd complain about all of the above.
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by bennyelv 6y ago
Not only that, but the way the article came about seems to be a bit strange. Apparently the BBC asked Hey to some analysis on their emails, and have written what appears to be a publicity piece for them on the result. Did you know that Hey
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by bennyelv 6y ago
The strangest question that I always get asked about my (quite fancy) bike is: "Is it fast?" Well that depends what engine you put on it sir...
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by bennyelv 6y ago
I don't think it's a simple as that, and you have to separate the ownership of the club and the makeup of the team from who makes up the bulk of the fans. The fans don't particularly care that it's owned by an american a
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by bennyelv 6y ago
There doesn’t seem to be a primary source for that, just the author’s statement that that is what happened. As such I’m skeptical...
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by bennyelv 6y ago
That may be the case but you can’t discount the possibility that when you are shopping for something, your choices are influenced by advertising that you have previously been exposed to whether you are aware of it or not. Your decision to g
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by bennyelv 6y ago
The UK restrictions are not this. You can leave the house whenever you like if you have “reasonable excuse”. There are no explicit restrictions on how often, how long for, and how far and where you can go. The UK government has been sayin
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by bennyelv 6y ago
While that may be what some people use "Can't pay, we'll take it away" for, the programme is presented in quite a sympathetic way. Often the enforcement agents have empathy with the people they are enforcing against, par
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by bennyelv 6y ago
Heart rate or step based calorie tracking is so inaccurate that you might as well just use Math.random. The fact that companies sell you these “features” in products is a scandal in my opinion, because it’s nothing more than a totally inapp
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by bennyelv 6y ago
It’s really a case of the rich getting richer when it comes to exercise, because if you’re fitter you can sustain a calorie burn rate far higher than someone who isn’t. On my bike I have a power meter which uses strain guages and an acceler
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by bennyelv 6y ago
I think funding and margins are the thing that are actually causal here: when you're swimming in funds, can afford to hire whoever you like to do whatever you like and you don't need to be turning a profit for at least 5 years, t
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by bennyelv 6y ago
Did they botch them or did they make the best predictions possible with the information available at the time? What's the alternative, to only act when you have 100% certainty about anything? Would doing absolutely nothing between the
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by bennyelv 6y ago
The term "Europe" is often used synonymously with "European Union" here, and that's what it means in this context.
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by bennyelv 6y ago
That is a very basic analysis and it misses the point. There is a system of building regulation in the UK that makes it illegal to build a building or to carry out building work which does not comply. The building regulations in the area w
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by bennyelv 6y ago
You’ve put that quite beautifully. I was trying to resolve something that I’ve learned from competing at a high level in a skill based adversarial sport (sailing), with the fact that it’s trivially obvious that just believing that you can
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by bennyelv 6y ago
The biggest difference it's made to me has been in my ability to identify when people are being driven by their heuristics (thinking fast) and making flawed or suboptimal arguments or decisions. Once you know some of the thinking fast
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by bennyelv 6y ago
It’s a satisfying rationale, but it doesn’t take into account a range of unknown factors. What about different strains and variability in how deadly they are? What about the difference that the size of the initial dose of the virus makes
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by bennyelv 6y ago
Anecdotes do not equal data. Your personal experience with either situation says nothing about the underlying trends.
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by bennyelv 6y ago
Don’t confuse correlation and causation. Maybe you were going to get better anyway and it just coincided with the supplements. Maybe the second time was something completely different. I did X and now I feel better is completely meaningle
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by bennyelv 6y ago
You still have the unsolvable problem of working out if they mean it or are just winding you up however :)
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by bennyelv 6y ago
Call this a meta-conspiracy theory if you will, but I'm not convinced that flat-earthers actually exist in any kind of meaningful numbers. It strikes me as the kind of thing that's designed to stoke the fire of people on social m
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by bennyelv 6y ago
That sounds fabulous, but it's a bit incompatible with a 1 week holiday if you don't want to view sitting on a train as "a holiday". The purpose of travelling for holiday is not always sightseeing. Sometimes (for me, mo
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by bennyelv 6y ago
The author of the diet herself seems to acknowledge that it’s very much unproven. I very much doubt there’s more to it than “unhealthy overweight people do better if they lose weight and eat more healthily”. https://www.ncbi.nlm
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by bennyelv 6y ago
Can you explain for those not familiar with this? Specifically the comment about Kuenssberg.
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by bennyelv 6y ago
I'm not so sure that it is. I'm someone who experiences a lot of medicine and is completely reliant on it, so my view is different to the one that healthy people get. We might have made some huge strides in the simple cause and ef
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by bennyelv 6y ago
Doesn't sound like that's facebook's problem to fix, and nor should they be blamed for the consequences of it. There are significant challenges being presented by the new tools that humanity has built for communication over t
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by bennyelv 6y ago
...because governments aren't doing their job and legislating. Why is something of such importance being left up to private companies to regulate?
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by bennyelv 6y ago
I see little evidence of that from my own anecdotal experience. Are there any sources that support this progression?
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by bennyelv 6y ago
Why do you need marriage in order to create a family? ...Other than for the legal codification of it.

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