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by corin_ 6y ago
If that theory is definitely wrong, it hasn't yet worked its way out of common use. Examples: NHS current website "This type of medication [SSRIs] works by increasing the level of a chemical called serotonin in your brain."
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by corin_ 6y ago
Site not loading, here's a Google cached link [1] Seems to me there's two separate issues. First, if it were an abstract situation of "Generic Company spends...", I feel that's the wrong way round of thinking about
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by corin_ 6y ago
I might be misunderstanding a valid criticism, but your complaint is about the parent comment's using "are" rather than "is"? That's simply the plural version: if one person is asexual, multiple people are asex
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by corin_ 6y ago
They announced quarterly earnings of literally double what analysts were expecting at the same time, which would have sent the stock to a bigger rise had it not been balanced by his news.
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by corin_ 6y ago
It's not that they're literally irrelevant as in have no effects; they're just irrelevant in the thinking of who you're trading with - no matter how complex the algorithm it's still buying or selling on behalf of a
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by corin_ 6y ago
Yes so far but it's very early in the vaccinations. Feels equivalent to making a judgement on worst country for death toll in March last year. (As a Brit, I'm pleasantly surprised how smoothly our vaccine roll out is going so far!
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by corin_ 6y ago
The UK could have chosen to take part in the EU schemes any time last year had it wanted to. Equally, any EU member state could have chosen to go their own way. The EU didn't force them to collectively bargain to (successfully) get bet
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by corin_ 6y ago
Even if they cant, for the period when there are lots of people vaccinated and also lots of people infected, that's lots of mutations happening in infected people and then trying to jump into vaccinated people, giving it more chances t
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by corin_ 6y ago
Very sorry to hear about the person you know with Bell's Palsy, I wish them well and with some luck hopefully they'll recover from it and get back to normal. However, there is not yet any evidence I've seen that the vaccine c
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by corin_ 6y ago
The fact that it's mRNA isn't really relevant to how your body fights the virus, it's still the same mechanism. The traditional way (as used by the Oxford/Astrazenica covid vaccine, and others) is to show the body what t
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by corin_ 6y ago
There's no evidence yet (that I'm aware of) which is why experts are very cautious against giving false hope. But based on past vaccines for other viruses and the way they and the covid vaccines help your body be better prepared t
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by corin_ 6y ago
It's literally going to hurt the future of music/art that has working class roots more than it will that of people who can afford to go longer without making money before finding success. To frame it like the person you replied to
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by corin_ 6y ago
The same way we know about lots of products, by the company and/or third parties testing them? The same way we "know" how much of a drug is in a pill bought from a pharmacy, or the % of a chemical in a bottle of cleaning stuf
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by corin_ 6y ago
> In other words, finding differences in effectiveness of different intervention approaches must mean that either some of these interventions are better than placebo, or that all (except maybe the best one) are measurably worse than per
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by corin_ 6y ago
Yes of course doubling would be a game changer! Think of the huge amount of good stuff already covered in healthcare and social services, even a 10% increase in budget could do a massive amount of good.
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by corin_ 6y ago
I obviously can't speak to Beethoven, but I have witnessed a couple of very successful modern composers (of classical music) - just in passing now and then, I didn't sit down and study their methodology, but can definitely vouch f
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by corin_ 6y ago
I feel that way about the idea of coming up with a simple tune after going deaf, but hearing a full symphony you're composing while deaf is a whole new level. Then again, despite being a professional singer when I was young and then at
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by corin_ 6y ago
While an organ has a similar interface (keyboard), it's such a different instrument really, in terms of the noise it makes, and various other elements like the length of noise from a key press. He would have had to actually want the or
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by corin_ 6y ago
I have it turned off in my profile, which works nearly everywhere, but doesn't have any effect on the Apple TV netflix app.
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They become multi billion companies by having different incentives (making profit) than the enthusiasts.
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by corin_ 6y ago
If you set up your PC with a joystick and no keyboard/mouse...
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by corin_ 6y ago
This article is about experiments in Australia, I don't see much relevence to American politics other than coincidental timing.
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by corin_ 6y ago
Considering how many immigrants and children of immigrants live in the US, even if the people you saw seemed very diverse they could maybe have been primarily US citizens not foreign tourists?
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by corin_ 6y ago
Also worth mentioning that while we don't have an exact "cure" for HIV, we do now have treatments that (if you or your country can and will pay for it) can make having HIV into something that not only doesn't ruin your l
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by corin_ 6y ago
Most of the world including New England still locks people up for moral infractions, even if no longer using stocks.
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by corin_ 6y ago
Could you please share any sources? I know they're not used as much now but haven't seen any evidence that they are specifically to blame for deaths. The majority conclusion I've seen in Europe about why earlier death rates w
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by corin_ 6y ago
You're right, but there's a difference between "it's not worth spending millions on an operation to slightly improve an unimportant part of someone's little finger" and "I have two people who will die if I
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by corin_ 6y ago
It's possible to consider "why has HN found this interesting" without also thinking "this shouldn't be on the site!". I'm very much onboard with what you wrote, but I too saw this post and wondered what it
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Justice Dept. Accuses Walmart of Fueling Opioid Crisis(nytimes.com)
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by corin_ 6y ago
This has not been announced, unless I've missed it in the last 36 hours, only speculated about. There are NHS vaccination reminder cards which you'll be given at your first appointment and recommended to keep in your wallet - with

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