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by erentz 7y ago
I’m also very interested in seeing how strong the effect is when tested on mild and moderately ill patients. I hope they follow up with that. (The study group OMF have been using has been 20 severely sick patients, which is a good plate to
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by erentz 8y ago
> The problem with politics today isn't that people are single-issue voters... The problem is the people have no representation, what people want does not impact the likelihood of passage of a law.[1] People on the left in right hav
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by erentz 8y ago
I don’t know anyone that clicks on ads. But apparently they’re still valuable somehow. It’s a mystery to me, but I guess even without clicks the chance to pollute someone’s mind with an ad in a website is still valuable to an advertiser in
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by erentz 8y ago
I think the punishment to Boeing should be that HQ has to move back to the industrial park in Everett from Chicago. And the C-suite executives must work from offices inside the main assembly building for 20 years. Force them to reconnect wi
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by erentz 8y ago
I don’t know how your friend qualifies but he is not a single non disabled adult, the qualification requirements are here and very clear: https://www.benefits.gov/benefit/1625 > To qualify for this benefit, you must
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by erentz 8y ago
Well also putting aside the terrible opioid problem which is partly economic in cause, purely on a healthcare issue we already do have thousands dying from lack of access! Its been estimated that approximately 40,000 people die due to lack
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by erentz 8y ago
> Poor people and old people get subsidized by Medicaid Everyone assumes if youre dirt poor you get Medicaid. But at least for some states as I’ve found out that’s far from true. In Florida for example (we have a poor friend there who is
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by erentz 8y ago
> You could replace all instances of the acronym 'SJW' with 'Conservative' and your post would still make just as much sense as before. The only difference being that it would likely be instantly flagged and downvoted
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by erentz 8y ago
You’re accusing me of things that I am not and inferring things that aren’t in anyway implied in my comments. We likely exist in very close proximity on the political spectrum and you’ve maybe made an assumption I am not because in your min
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by erentz 8y ago
No. I believe I’ve described the behaviors that I suspected dawhizkid was referring to when using the SJW label. There are many behaviors that have many labels. If you want to substitute SJWism for something else you may, but it happens to
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by erentz 8y ago
I don’t know that it’s so much being against the idea of a fair and just society as much as being against SJWism. Where SJWism seems to now be about dividing up people into groups. Refusing to engage honestly. Labeling anyone who disagrees
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by erentz 8y ago
It definitely improved over the past few years. But a lot of the people who made it to the top under the old system of bullying and undercutting your peers are still in positions managing people, so you can still see a lot of capriciousness
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by erentz 8y ago
I'm sure Google has never been perfect, but it used to sound like a great place to work free from much of the bullshit that goes on in other companies. I envied those that got to work there for that reason. I'm sure it's stil
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by erentz 8y ago
> "As part of the new law, those with prior convictions could now seek to have them struck off their record." I really don't get the thought process that leads to this kind of thing. "Let's make it so we have to
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by erentz 8y ago
WRT the blockchain/stablecoin effort there is something I don’t understand: If it’s only for internal consumption what’s the point of a blockchain? So if it’s for external use also then even the best “stable coin” is going to move agai
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by erentz 8y ago
The whole dogpatch to India Basin and hunters point areas could be upzoned massively to accommodate a few hundred thousand new residents very easily. Lay down a good street grid, have a plan to eventually put the third street light rail und
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by erentz 8y ago
> Cities face inevitable scaling limits. The scaling limits being reached in CA are completely self imposed ones that have tested to the limit just how far it is possible to sprawl a city. All the way into the central valley it turns out
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by erentz 8y ago
Immume systems are fucking amazing [1]. There are millions of viruses and bacteria of all sorts everywhere in your house and outside that a child's immune system is constantly dealing to without you even being cognizant of it. And if
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by erentz 8y ago
It might also be something a bit different: There's a lot of people on the left who are angry with Clinton and the Democrat establishment for running a very technical/data-driven campaign that turned out to be very flawed and ran
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by erentz 8y ago
> Have you noticed how when you buy the ticket there's no mention of the plane you'll actually fly in Yes you can. The scheduled aircraft type and seat layout is in the scheduling system and you can see it on any system I'
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by erentz 8y ago
On twitter I would get non-stop ads from Boeing pitching their military hardware. I don't understand this, I'm not exactly in the market for buying $1 billion military airplanes and missiles. I've never seen a single ad pitch
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Apple AI accused of leading to man's wrongful arrest(bbc.com)
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Bug in French government’s WhatsApp replacement let anyone join Élysée chats(arstechnica.com)
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by erentz 8y ago
A non charitable reading of my quickly formulated comment may have given the impression I believe that the need for real feminism is over. I'm lamenting the appropriation of the word by those that are cheapening it with nonsense. On th
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by erentz 8y ago
> and neither feminism nor men’s-rights-activists seem to ascribe to those I’m not that old yet but feminism to me growing up was always that men and women should have the same opportunities and treatment, but never that they were the
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by erentz 8y ago
> My worry with UBI as a replacement for work is that it relies on the continued altruism of the elite Well it relies on a fair and properly functioning democracy. We have a very corrupt system at the moment, people don't get what t
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by erentz 8y ago
SAT presumably tests you have learned certain things in high school and so are ready for university. E.g. you won’t show up to your first university math class needing to learn all of high school math, and thus be unable to complete the cla
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by erentz 8y ago
> but that they built it? It was independent then Twitter bought it.
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by erentz 8y ago
Presumably you’d only pick it if you had insurance and income to pay for those services. Not if you’re one of 30 or so million without insurance, and I’m not sure how many million more who are underinsured and can’t afford the deductibles.
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by erentz 8y ago
> this pill will turn you into Bradley Cooper in Limitless That’s quite a sales pitch! Propranolol worked for me for occasional use for stage fright scenarios. It was an amazing feeling the first couple of times to be able to go into tho

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