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by dahinds 4y ago
This is not true, interchange fees depend on the credit card type and rewards offered. https://merchantcostconsulting.com/lower-credit-card-process...
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by dahinds 4y ago
A close reading of a scientific paper of any consequence does not take half an hour. These days a published paper may typically be only a few pages but it isn't at all uncommon for the paper to be accompanied by 20-50 pages of suppleme
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by dahinds 4y ago
water flows downhill?
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by dahinds 4y ago
There are two types of polio vaccine. The one used where polio is circulating (oral vaccine) is a live virus and provides more protection against transmission but isn't super effective and (rarely) can cause paralysis. The inactivated
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by dahinds 4y ago
Not rich enough, evidently.
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by dahinds 4y ago
Polio vaccine has the same behavior, so it isn't really bending the meaning of the word.
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by dahinds 5y ago
dexamethasone, monoclonal antibodies, molnupiravir, paclovid, as well as all the work on ideas good and bad that did not pan out? And I think there's a decent amount of research on natural immunity going on? (not sure how to measure wh
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by dahinds 5y ago
https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20220105/hospitalization-omi... "The data suggests that three doses of vaccine provided an estimated 68% drop in the risk of being hospitalized with Omicron compared with
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by dahinds 6y ago
It would have to, but to a numpy vector, maybe not.
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by dahinds 6y ago
the federal lifetime exemption for gift taxes is >$10 million (and double that for a couple) so I think it is entirely true.
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by dahinds 6y ago
In large studies, both true causal and true non-causal associations get stronger -- size gives no protection from confounding.
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by dahinds 6y ago
This is really another example of a claim of "genetic exceptionalism", that genetic information has a special status among other sorts of personal information, that mostly is not true. Your personal information, broadly, is inform
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by dahinds 6y ago
Your "future of semiconductors" could have been written 30 years ago, and seems no more likely to be true today than it was then. Do you think Nvidia is less proprietary, more transparent, or more virtuous than Intel?
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by dahinds 7y ago
Customers can opt in to participate in our research program, and can then choose to provide additional information by i.e. filling out surveys.
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by dahinds 7y ago
23andme provides a service that improves as a result of our research program. Many 23andMe reports are now based entirely on 23andMe research. There's room to argue about the value of the services we provide, but I think the science is
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by dahinds 7y ago
We've never done that. https://www.23andme.com/transparency-report/
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by dahinds 7y ago
um did you not say "direct contributing factor" in your own words? The quote you provide doesn't seem to claim climate change is a sole cause, it says it will "exacerbate the conditions".
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by dahinds 7y ago
This is not what the article says, and it is false. No customer data has been shared with GSK.
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by dahinds 7y ago
which decades were those, specifically?
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by dahinds 7y ago
Silicon Valley gets no water from the Colorado River?
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by dahinds 7y ago
I don't really think you're trying to engage in a good faith discussion, but in case you are: Lots of companies that handle medical information are exempt from HIPAA. "Many organizations that use, collect, access, and disclo
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by dahinds 7y ago
As far as I know it wasn't friendly banter
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by dahinds 7y ago
You keep doubling down on this? The article says that DNA from the clothing sample was sent to Parabon for analysis in July of 2016, and was used in a GEDmatch search at that time. There's nothing remarkable about my claim, it is righ
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by dahinds 7y ago
Most of this new class of DNA searches, including the one in the article, are being carried out by Parabon NanoLabs: http://docs.parabon.com/pub/Parabon_Snapshot_Scientific_Post... https://www.genomeweb.com&
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by dahinds 7y ago
These are not conventional forensic DNA tests.
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by dahinds 7y ago
You seem to think that these cases are being solved using old school CODIS database matching but that's just false. This case and the Golden State Killer case were solved using modern distant relative matching methods that are widely
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by dahinds 8y ago
23andMe headquarters is located in downtown Mountain View, and we have a lab in South San Francisco. Nothing on the Genentech campus.