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by erentz 7y ago
And this is shaping up to be yet another case where doctors and researchers ignored what their patients were telling them and labelled an illness as psychogenic when it wasn't. Through history doctors have all too often assumed their c
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According to Ars they get about $35k: > Of the $11 million payout in the settlement, $2.75 million will go to lawyers representing the class, Bloomberg reports. Fillekes will get an extra $10,000 as the lead plaintiff. The remaining cash
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Greater prevalence of congenital heart defects in intense oil and gas areas(eurekalert.org)
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Ancient History of Lyme Disease Revealed with Bacterial Genomes (2017)(publichealth.yale.edu)
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by erentz 7y ago
No. > the Yale School of Public Health has found that the Lyme disease bacterium is ancient in North America, circulating silently in forests for at least 60,000 years—long before the disease was first described in Lyme, Connecticut, in
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Scientists wiped out mosquitoes on two islands using new method(inkstonenews.com)
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It seems like the stagger goes in the wrong direction. This would put me in the middle seat behind my seat mates arms which now poke in front of me. And below their thighs which now flow on top of me. Shouldn’t the middle seater be put in f
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by erentz 7y ago
I’ve been to the top of Mauna Kea many times. It’s a magical place. I think there was a bad start to observatory construction in the earlier days when less respect was given. But the level of respect that is given to the mountain and people
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by erentz 7y ago
This kind of thing is motivated reasoning. Elon is guilty of it too. They want to play with space technology, then go searching for moral justifications that don’t add up. Anything we might do in space or to try to live on Mars is much-much
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by erentz 7y ago
So in the USA if you work for a medium-large company they will almost certainly have you on a "self funded health plan". These are plans where the Cigna, Anthem, etc. card you get makes it look like that's your insurer, but i
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Tips are still accepted at these restaurants but they note that they’re not expected or required because there’s an automatic “service fee”.
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We have this new trend over the past couple of years in Seattle restaurants to charge a flat 20% “service fee”. The fine print says “service fee” actually goes to business, not the staff. But the claim is they pay the staff a proper wage (a
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by erentz 7y ago
In my case I would’ve received treatment for a serious neurological issue sooner but for the fact that the hospital did not extend to me an honest price for the treatment. I think this kind of thing effectively amounts to denying some pat
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by erentz 7y ago
I’m always very uncomfortable with people drinking out of bottles or using straws or other utensils in a car while it’s in motion. If the driver needs to brake urgently bad things can happen. Bottles will take out your teeth. Straws and oth
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by erentz 7y ago
I wonder if the EU wouldn’t accomplish a lot more for the world if it worked with (e.g.) China to fund a solution to catch the plastics flowing out of their rivers. [1] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/stemmin
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by erentz 7y ago
Don't forget that Silicon Valley and aspiring Silicon Valley companies in order to "be hip" and look like they rented the cheapest warehouse-esque startup space they could find, require all ceiling tiles be removed to ensure
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Boeing engineer breaks silence on MAX 737(kuow.org)
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> Shipyard-constructed nukes on floating platforms, tugged to locations for power and tugged back to port for maintenance. What’s your opinion on Thorcon? Also I’m wondering if you have some thoughts on this: I’ve been wondering what hol
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by erentz 7y ago
Highly recommend Daniel Ellsberg’s recent book The Doomsday Machine if this topic interests you.
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The Crushing Of Eastern Europe by Anne Applebaum is one intro you might read to understand how communism necessarily begets totalitarianism.
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Drivers followed a Google Maps detour and ended up stuck in an empty field(edition-m.cnn.com)
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I’m mostly familiar with POTS in patients with other chronic symptoms such as fatigue. I’ve been on high dose IVIG and it’s been helping my POTS a lot. Take a look at a video on YouTube by a Harvard doctor Anna Louise Oaklander called Small
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Unfortunately there’s no way to know that one currently has Lyme disease unless the symptoms are close in time to a tick bite. Treatment is with antibiotics, usually doctors will use a combination of two types of antibiotics (eg doxycycli
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A CDC confirmed case requires positive on five bands which is pretty good. These are reported to the CDC. This only confirms infection with Lyme at some point in time (could’ve been years ago). It in no way tells anything about so called “c
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by erentz 7y ago
So it won’t be 1:1 redeemable? That’s pretty critical - since the US IRS requires you to report all purchases you make with a cryptocurrency in its USD equivalent value at the time. This starts to mount very high if you are making every d
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Well "flawless" is obviously a disingenuous expectation on your part. I would direct you to the United States which has a pretty amazing public healthcare system called Medicare that has an 80+% approval rating among those lucky e
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Note: If your insurance is provided through your employer, and your employer is large-ish (more than a few hundred employees) then they will very likely be a self-funded health plan. These are not state regulated health insurance products.
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I found it much easier to just read it on Twitter: https://mobile.twitter.com/RogerPielkeJr/status/987052536883...
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Cities Start to Question an American Ideal: A House with a Yard on Every Lot(nytimes.com)
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People respond to this agglomeration factor with the argument we should “hire remote cuz the internet thing”. But the other factor to consider is how we are less tied by our jobs to physical location and that allows more choice in where p

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