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by disabled 6y ago
Correct. Croatian-American here who has family that emigrated from former Yugoslavia. While Yugoslavia was east of the iron curtain, it was never actually behind the iron curtain. It was never an eastern soviet bloc state, and it was never
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by disabled 6y ago
> Payers routinely reimburse health-care providers for specialized procedures at high rates, but primary-care visits—which might include chronic-disease management, routine vaccinations, or smoking and diet counselling—generate lower rev
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by disabled 6y ago
This is from Jason Stanley’s book, “How Fascism Works”: Politicians who describe whole categories of persons as “criminals” are imputing to them permanent character traits that are frightening to most people, while simultaneously positionin
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by disabled 6y ago
Because “riots”, “mobs”, and “chaos” are racially charged words that are used in lieu of the proper terminology—protests. See: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jun/10/protes... Also, Jason
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by disabled 6y ago
This is exactly how Russian propaganda works: “Other countries do bad stuff too, therefore we (Russian Federation) are not so bad after all” Have a read about Sputnik News, for example, which is considered to be “slick” propaganda: https:&
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by disabled 6y ago
This is a worthwhile read too, about how COVID-19 is believed to cause a new type of inflammatory syndrome, in just about everybody: Coronavirus warning from Italy: Effects of COVID-19 could be worse than first thought: https://n
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by disabled 6y ago
You should seriously look into mast cell activation disorder (~30% of the general population has this) along with histamine intolerance.
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by disabled 6y ago
This article is actually spot on, and is a pretty good cheat sheet. I have a very rare immune mediated neurological disease affecting nicotinic receptors in my peripheral nervous system called autoimmune autonomic gangliopathy. I am ganglio
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by disabled 6y ago
This is only the start, and more like the tip of the iceberg as for what is to come. You should be very concerned. This could affect American tech workers traveling on business, even outside of China or Asia. A lot of developed countries re
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by disabled 6y ago
Non-invasive means that the means/method of testing effectively has zero potential of harm (although receiving the results could be a huge blow). While nasal swabs are extremely low risk, they still are a test that people may try to av
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by disabled 6y ago
Even if it is true, it is nothing to get excited over. It is still a risky activity, almost anywhere in the US, given the infection rates. I am female, so I just put a cover/wrap over my hair, in addition to wearing a mask, if I ever n
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by disabled 6y ago
Thank you for this comment. I really do believe this is spot on.
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by disabled 6y ago
We actually get fairly good value for our tax dollar, as EU citizens. I am both American and an EU citizen. While I love the United States dearly, I have a safer, more stable life working in the EU.
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by disabled 6y ago
> Well, plenty can lead to it eventually, usually offering some kind of pathway. Even the US provides pathways to permanent residence (and then citizenship) through employment. The US has a lot of visas for longer term professional work,
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by disabled 6y ago
Usually but not necessarily. Traditionally Republic of Ireland is not considered part of the Anglosphere, if you want to get technical.
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by disabled 6y ago
> I'd really love to see a comparison between 1) the $1MM bill 2) the "actual" negotiated money that changes hands 3) what it would cost in other countries with different healthcare systems. For example: Blood products in
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by disabled 6y ago
I used to be a specialized keyboard fanatic. Ultimately, what cured me of this "need" was learning how to type in braille code, which uses 8 keys plus a spacebar. Thanks to accessibility advancements, and especially on mobile devi
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by disabled 6y ago
> The insurance industry in the US is just a complete scam Correct. I came to that conclusion as a chronically ill university student back in the early 2010s. I also had never experienced other health systems before, at that point, but I
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by disabled 6y ago
Correct. In the US, the 3rd leading cause of death is believed to be preventable medical errors [1]. It is an absolutely atrocious statistic, that only mirrors developing countries. Statistically, this sort of thing only happens in developi
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by disabled 6y ago
^ This. Julia also has amazing differential equation packages and features. It also has some interesting AI stuff too, although my work with that is limited. There are some cool Markov chain Monte Carlo packages too, that are updated relati
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by disabled 6y ago
GDPR does apply to Norway, and Norway has a fairly well developed privacy agency. However, according to investigations by Financial Times (the newspaper), none of the European countries have enough people hired to either deal with alleged p
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by disabled 6y ago
It is worth becoming an EU citizen just to be able to opt out. I am not exaggerating at all.
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by disabled 6y ago
I personally think that Microsoft benefits are more pragmatic, realistic, and usable even if they rank lowest on the comparison. A lot of the stuff Google offers, is icing on the cake. The problem is that there are loopholes in health insur
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by disabled 6y ago
You need to do voice banking. It is imperative that you do so, so that your wife keeps her identity no matter what. What you need to do is spend the entire next 3 weeks doing voice banking. This will give your wife a text-to-speech voice (S
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by disabled 6y ago
You can thank the European Union (EU) for that, as these are images from EU-owned satellites. While the European Space Agency is not officially part of the EU, the EU provides the vast majority of funding (93.0%). One may not live as luxuri
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by disabled 6y ago
This is definitely an awesome list.
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by disabled 6y ago
Statistical Rethinking is solid for learning very, very, complicated concepts, such as various tricky implementations of Markov chain Monte Carlo.
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by disabled 6y ago
For formal engineering, Calculus, Sixth Edition, by Earl Swokowski, Michael Olinick, and Dennis D. Pence is the ultimate book to use. Also, my twin brother used it to teach himself Calculus 2. Swokowski wrote phenomenal books, in math, just
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by disabled 6y ago
The Abbott test mentioned above is blood drawn from serum (not a fingerprick blood test!). This is not the nasal swab test that sometimes misses positive people, as you mentioned. To avoid confusion over this issue: There is an Abbott nasal
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by disabled 6y ago
> 33 bits of entropy For the clueless (including myself--I just looked this up), if doing a brute-force search to identify or reidentify someone using "anonymized" data (which is what this poster is referring to), it only takes

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