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by ejstronge 2y ago
From a different era, but still early in recorded history, you may enjoy the Excavated Shellac collection ( https://excavatedshellac.com/ ) by Jonathan Ward. Please share other collections if you know of any!
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ASCII Delimited Text – Not CSV or Tab Delimited Text(ronaldduncan.wordpress.com)
114 points by ejstronge 2y ago|117 comments
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by ejstronge 2y ago
> Also that's a pretty common misconception, cancer is pretty well defined, abnormal cell growth I don't think cancer biologists would subscribe to this simple definition (and it's not hard to find cases of 'abnormal
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by ejstronge 2y ago
HPV causes multiple lesions in humans, including warts. Certain types of HPV are more associated with certain lesions over others, but the broad range of HPV targets means that dangerous HPV types could be transmitted through relatively inn
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by ejstronge 2y ago
> ISIS Are we remembering the same 2010s? Also, all of what you’re quoting stemmed from the Obama era (except the moving of the US embassy)
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by ejstronge 2y ago
Within the contexts of their written rules… And maybe you’ve forgotten how the RNC rules were changed to support their candidate?
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by ejstronge 2y ago
This isn’t an uncommon presentation - disease processes that lead to inflammation of the small bowel can be expected to resemble gluten sensitivity. Gluten consumption, on its own, can cause small bowel inflammation and this effect is well
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by ejstronge 2y ago
> Also the blood cancer has already killed one of the patients This isn’t a fair interpretation of the death - the treatment of the drug-linked cancer bears a risk of multiple complications. One of these complications led to a patient’s
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by ejstronge 2y ago
> The entire concept of inflation comes from the fact that various Med. cultures figured out you could issue coinage with a high percentage of gold and then slowly drop the percentage over time to increase the purchasing power of the gov
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by ejstronge 2y ago
> Lenders, fearful of being left holding the bag This is where the logic breaks down - lenders are selling these mortgages irrespective of any other conditions. The only loans that aren’t sold are unsaleable investor and boutique loans.
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by ejstronge 2y ago
> That works out to ~$22 per American per year. Not sure what Visa's operating costs for their network are, and I'm no big fan of them (or any other credit card company) but that's far cheaper than I would have expected Yo
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by ejstronge 2y ago
> As someone who is very interested in AI and taught myself how to code (I don’t know any other real estate people who know anything about code), I think it’s going to be incredible hard to uproot the brokerage industry. Has learning to
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by ejstronge 2y ago
A relevant excerpt from the complaint: > RealPage-defined submarkets identified in Appendix A are relevant markets in which the agreements between RealPage and AIRM and YieldStar users to align pricing has harmed, or is likely to harm, c
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by ejstronge 2y ago
> Journalists" now love to use a sequence of events and then present them like a causal narrative, ignoring the real reason the final event happened. I'm so freaking sick of it. When was journalism, writing, or any sort of stor
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by ejstronge 2y ago
> A small truck has just as much possibility to kill as a big truck, and in fact due to the smaller application of similar forces its more likely to seriously cripple you, even if said hit was non-fatal. > While I’m all for reducing t
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by ejstronge 2y ago
Daylight means a field whose elevation is below the area to be drained in this case
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by ejstronge 2y ago
Both of these links include a dry well - if one is draining to daylight, how do you incorporate the 100-yr flow rate?
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by ejstronge 2y ago
>Calculate how much water you actually need to drain. You can use the “100 year flood” values for your locale to get an upper bound on rainfall, then multiple by drainage area How do you incorporate this into a drain design?
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by ejstronge 2y ago
It is rare in my part of the world, but it isn't (currently) rare in places where roofs don't have to withstand snow. No comment on the historical trend. > Apartments have the opposite situation for weird legal reasons; there a
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by ejstronge 2y ago
> You're just trying to ban apartments here. Corporate SFH housing basically doesn't exist but mom and pop large apartments don't either. This definitely isn't true - there are markets where apartments aren't all
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by ejstronge 2y ago
> i.e., gene editing (by whatever means) is not really a win any more than changing bits in memory is. The win comes from having an in-vitro model that replicates the in-vivo disease I take your point, but this would have been a challeng
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by ejstronge 2y ago
> said that government regulations forced lenders to accept more default risk--meaning they were forced to lend to people they would not otherwise have lent to because the risk of default was too high. That's what "subprime mor
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by ejstronge 2y ago
> for example the US government wanting to encourage home ownership and skewing the mortage [sic] market and the money supply and requiring lenders to accept more default risk Are there economists who share your view on this? I don’t see
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by ejstronge 2y ago
What is ‘socialized medicine’ in your understanding? How does what you are proposing differ from ‘socialized medicine’?
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by ejstronge 2y ago
Here is the Cell article: https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(24)00459-8
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by ejstronge 2y ago
I’m not a domain expert, but I haven’t seen ECMO offered to ‘old’ patients (over ~70). Do you have data on ECMO recipients’ age?
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by ejstronge 2y ago
I’d be careful interpreting studies when you aren’t a domain expert. Even if the results are accurate (no reason to think they’re not in this case), subtleties of experimental design that a domain expert would see may be invisible to an out
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The truth about the money bands make on tour(theguardian.com)
2 points by ejstronge 2y ago|0 comments
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by ejstronge 2y ago
Another way to think of this is that 'autism' is a broad series of disorders where individuals do not follow the social-relational cues we expect. There are many ways to violate unspoken social expectations, so there should be man
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by ejstronge 2y ago
> I know that episode. It's actually called "Abby Makes Season Change", [1] so that "series of words" is the direct answer to the question. The point is probably true in general, but the example sucks. Are the ep

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