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by disabled 6y ago
There are actually multiple people on here, who had wives who miscarried, who got a $60 promotional FedEx package of Enfamil (baby formula) on what was the exact expected date of their miscarried baby. So, it was not like it was hard to fig
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by disabled 6y ago
There have been reports on this site, of severe healthcare provider (as in HIPAA protected data) privacy violations, that occurred via data broker intermediaries through popular social media platforms. You know, getting a $60 FedEx package
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by disabled 6y ago
> I'm willing the accept the 5% extra chance of death entailed by some emergency doctor not knowing my medical history. That seems logical in theory, but in practice, that is not actually how this kind of thing works. I know firstha
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by disabled 6y ago
Just FYI: It is generally required for EU passports to have fingerprint biometric data. From the Wikipedia page, passports of the European Union: Only British and Irish passports are not obliged by EU law to contain fingerprint information
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by disabled 6y ago
I have never had my fingerprints taken for my American passport. For my Croatian passport, I had to go to the consulate in Los Angeles (halfway across the country for me) to get my identity verified and my fingerprints taken. But, if you li
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by disabled 6y ago
You do not even have to close borders long-term to be a success story. Croatia (an EU country) shares both land and maritime borders with Italy, and a lot of Italians have property in Croatia that they go to on the weekend. So far, there ha
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by disabled 6y ago
I believe Tegnell is brilliant, but that is where my accolades stop. Scientists (which Tegnell is, effectively) are not meant to be politicians, and them getting into political matters is an excellent way to corrupt science. Although Sweden
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by disabled 6y ago
Identifying the antibodies involved with COVID-19 was a major step towards developing a vaccine. However, if you get antibodies from somebody who had COVID-19, then it does not confer you immunity. Those antibodies do not give your body a m
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by disabled 6y ago
It really only applies to plasma donations. Plasma donations outside of the Red Cross and other nonprofits are usually paid. This plasma is made into blood products (as in medicines that are approved by a government regulatory body), and is
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by disabled 6y ago
Yeah, that is absolutely correct. I am not blaming the individuals here, and often they do not have any other choice. The plasma companies have quite the history involving scandals see: https://web.archive.org/web/20170
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by disabled 6y ago
Absolutely, many of the plasma companies have joined a coalition to streamline donations from COVID-19 positive patients in the US. The US supplies the majority of blood products derived from plasma (in this case antibodies) overall, to the
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by disabled 6y ago
> The blood bank “profits” from every donation. That’s what a donation is. This especially applies for plasma donations, even though plasma donors (often poor people, and predominantly in the US) are paid for their donations (although a
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by disabled 6y ago
This is how it works with demagoguery: You either outright oppose them as best as you can--or you end up with them and their syncophants.
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by disabled 6y ago
> There is insufficient evidence attempting to comply with GDPR is worth the cost. The number of people working at the respective national privacy regulators is appalling. All of them have an extremely scarce amount of privacy auditors t
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by disabled 6y ago
Yeah, and the posters thinking that this will help wealth inequality (either among the general population or just among tech workers collectively as a whole) are hopelessly naive. It is practically guaranteed to make wealth inequality worse
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by disabled 6y ago
This is just one reason why both people (individuals) and businesses should have actual, official identities on the internet. It prevents illegal and fraudulent activity. It also keeps things like bots from exploiting us, which people do fa
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by disabled 6y ago
As both an American (culturally) and European (by citizenship, as in European Union citizen), this whole ordeal is going to be profoundly damaging to US-EU relations. But, you (Americans) should be angry because democracy has been in backsl
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by disabled 6y ago
Comparing deaths from previous years for the same month(s) (of the pandemic), along with the expected number of deaths (projected) for 2020, is how this sort of calculation is made, on a preliminary basis. There is an (older) Financial Time
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by disabled 6y ago
Masks are prudent, considering that they are a very low risk and low cost prevention intervention, irrespective of demonstrating efficacy. True, it takes a long time (often very long) to establish factual information that becomes widely acc
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by disabled 6y ago
No, you definitely cannot use this calculator on the SAT. I also think that the College Board posts a list of permitted calculators.
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by disabled 6y ago
Thank you so much for posting info about this calculator! This looks extremely similar and almost identical to my beloved HP 50g graphing calculator, which I still use. However, the HP 50g has been discontinued. Thanks to you, now I have a
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by disabled 6y ago
You are missing the point: I still need a lot of care, and the quality of it allows me not only to work, but to stay alive. I have at least 1 appointment per week for my medical care, if not a minimum of 2. Sometimes I can have 4 appointmen
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by disabled 6y ago
As somebody who is originally from Seattle, this comment is right on and hits the mark.
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by disabled 6y ago
> Companies (e.g. Mozilla, Gitlab, now Facebook) often forget another side of the coin - "less expensive areas" most of the time means worse quality of life. Exactly. Also, if you live in the “middle of nowhere” or even outside
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by disabled 6y ago
^ This. College Board messed up severely on this issue.
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by disabled 6y ago
I have a print-related disability causing severe convergence insufficiency with my eyes, due to a rare neurological disease affecting my peripheral nervous system. I generally use Kurzweil 3000 ( http://KurzweilEdu.com ) which is
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by disabled 6y ago
Agreed. This should have a content warning. But the micro targeting facilitated via big data on social media, which plays in to our hopes and fears, desensitizes us. I have 2 rare diseases myself, so I am pretty numb to articles like these,
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by disabled 6y ago
Yeah, there absolutely should be a content warning on this article. It is the right thing to do. However, social media plays similar, more damaging and more insidious psychological tricks. Big data makes it more personalized and damaging. I
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by disabled 6y ago
It is common to have a rare disease: 7-8% of the general population has some sort of a condition that is classifiable as a rare disease I personally have 2, both of which affect my peripheral nervous system. Getting diagnosed is basically l
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by disabled 6y ago
> The last stats I saw showed Sweden experiencing 4x deaths per capita compared to its neighbors, which is a clue that eschewing lockdown does make a difference. The reason why some countries have significantly higher death rates from co

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