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by dumbneurologist 6y ago
This is such sad news. > I did not accept this. I have young kids to watch grow up and a loving wife to grow old with. Life and time are the two most precious commodoties we will ever have. As sorry as I am that his hopes were futile, ti
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by dumbneurologist 6y ago
Is anyone aware of a "false positive" retraction? Meaning a retraction that was later found to be in error, resulting in re-publication (or whatever)? I imagine the bar for retraction is so high it would never happen, but it would
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by dumbneurologist 6y ago
Go is a remake of what?
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by dumbneurologist 6y ago
I think it's "Tavis" (no "r")
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by dumbneurologist 6y ago
It seems inconsistent to punish technologists like Levandowski when we don't punish bankers, CEOs, and polluters with the the same enthusiasm.
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by dumbneurologist 6y ago
This is an important point, and for some reason I haven't seen it discussed very widely: masks with valves protect you, but they don't fully protect anyone else.
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Use a Mask Without Valves(vitals.lifehacker.com)
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by dumbneurologist 6y ago
Why are social and economic arguments against it invalid?
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by dumbneurologist 6y ago
You nailed it. This is a reported piece, so the description could be completely off the mark. But the quote from the neuroscientist is > “What it tells me,” says Christof Koch, a neuroscientist at the Allen Institute who specializes in
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by dumbneurologist 7y ago
The post I'm responding to is a stanford researcher who is posting about lyme disease. Is she a lyme sufferer? If she is she doesn't say so, and I'm not making any assumptions. You are attacking me for saying "lyme peopl
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by dumbneurologist 7y ago
> This shows a lack of empathy. Well, now you are attacking my humanity. It's very difficult to have constructive dialog about these issues when individuals attack the speaker, and not what's being said. We are talking about pu
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by dumbneurologist 7y ago
I am a neurologist. My main comments are the same from a thread about lyme on HN 7 months ago [1]. If you follow it to it's terminal conclusion, it shows that neurologists had a standard course of therapy for lyme. The alt-lyme communi
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by dumbneurologist 7y ago
On a tangent: how do you know if the outcome is directly meaningful? that part is easy: ask yourself if you, personally, care. If I told you "an hour of Yoga will make your hippocampus more dense on an MRI" you should 1) ignore me
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by dumbneurologist 7y ago
this is not meaningful work, because there is no "brain health" outcome in the papers they reviewed that is clinically relevant. For example: "Increase in right hippocampal GM density among yoga group." Why is this a goo
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by dumbneurologist 7y ago
> the treatments tested were from 30 days to 12 weeks - hardly what I would consider 'long term therapy' that's currently advocated/practiced by LLMDs ahh! there is something here. I't subtle but I think it'
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by dumbneurologist 7y ago
The best available scientific studies were conducted by conventional medical science, and show there is no benefit. It's telling that, at the time, "long term" treatment was measured in weeks. After it was demonstrated that t
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by dumbneurologist 7y ago
Your link makes my point perfectly: doctors are open-minded, and have conducted rigorous investigations using meaningful clinical endpoints, and cannot substantiate the anecdotal reports of improvement in spite of a very diligent search. It
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by dumbneurologist 7y ago
I'm a neurologist, which means I specialize in diseases of the brain, spinal cord, and nerves. The clinical entity of chronic lyme disease which is undiagnosable by conventional medicine and require months and months of antibiotics is
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by dumbneurologist 7y ago
You could have a sodium channel mutation (such as SCN9A) that makes you highly pain tolerant, but lidocaine-resistant[0]. It's a known syndrome, and may be associated with ADHD symptoms, episodes of intense skin flushing or redness (er
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by dumbneurologist 8y ago
All of the skepticism here in the top comments is well-placed. This is basic thermodynamics: if you can burn fossil fuels to get energy/electricity, then putting the CO2 byproduct back into an inert form will cost exactly as much (or
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by dumbneurologist 8y ago
People who care about their craft are still driven by self interest: it's just that their internal value/utility puts a higher weight on the craft itself: since they get more out of the process of creating things that have craftsm
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by dumbneurologist 8y ago
> Flush Out the Opioid Crisis "Clever" titles are annoying to me, and more so when they degrade the clarity of the message. What does "flushing out" even mean, in the context of the opioid crisis? Fixing it? Measurin
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by dumbneurologist 8y ago
that's a great hypothesis i hadn't heard. interesting to consider... and a bit less scary than insecticidal effects.
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by dumbneurologist 8y ago
This just a PR-driven article that states an obvious fact (demand influences the market) in order to advance an agenda.
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by dumbneurologist 8y ago
then it's stupidity and malice. stupid to think using the IP was a good idea malice to break my device in order to paper over their stupidity. And from a telecom no less - of all people, they should know better.
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by dumbneurologist 8y ago
It does, actually. The doctors who do this (largely running a cash-only practice) are really a disgrace to the profession. It's good to be willing to think outside the box and practice with compassion, but it's another thing entir
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by dumbneurologist 8y ago
You are exactly right. As a doctor who sees patients with a legitimate use for compounds that come from the cannabis plant, the people who want recreational access just bog down the health system. I am strongly in favor of federal recreatio
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by dumbneurologist 9y ago
A handful of interesting comments from when this was submitted about 9 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=282091
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by dumbneurologist 9y ago
> The system was put in place to protect us That's a little bit overly generous. It was put in place to incentivize invention and creation. But I think clear with examples like this that it's holding us back. There are so many
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by dumbneurologist 9y ago
Not quite: his/her point is that it's on the user to validate the author as opposed to the location . If you care about security, you should pull from a repo, then check a against a signature. Your https connection confirms y

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