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by istultus 2y ago
Not necessarily - if you assume there are more qualified entrants than there are seats available (as is true for MIT), then scores could be unchanged - e.g. there could be, say 200 students in line to get in, all have 1600 SAT scores, 100 a
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by istultus 2y ago
Or, you know, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Lynch_(businessman) (As it's better to read from the original source that the writer of the above piece used to write their piece, he said, not being sure if he wer
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by istultus 2y ago
That's an interesting remark, considering this is most famous drug on the face of the Earth, and only has one brand name worldwide (in a different dosage it's called Wegovy, and when it's released as a pill it will be called
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by istultus 2y ago
How long ago was the MS diagnosed? What other alternative practices have you done? Any of them for an appreciable time with consistent good results (or inversely bad results when stopping)? May your good health continue!
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by istultus 2y ago
They are literally our only (unwilling) test subjects... Not a representative cohort by any means
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by istultus 2y ago
I'm sorry if you "sense a lack of open-mindedness" in my skepticism regarding Russian medicine. I'm actually very curious - I've water fasted myself. But I try to be rational, and tend to think anecdotal evidence sh
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by istultus 2y ago
I'm sorry to hear about your MS - I can understand seeking whatever treatment might help, Did you do a pre/post MRI to compare the effect? (or whatever, CSF markers, OCT, what have you) How did you decide on the type and length of
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by istultus 2y ago
Can I ask what led you to doing this? (And regardless - you usually aren't hungry during an extended water fast either - you do get physiological "pings" during your normal meal times. However, I would assume that if you&#x27
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by istultus 2y ago
From that site: > Russian physicians have successfully treated many illnesses and diseases outside > the standardized support of allopathic medicines, as well as more common > ailments including, but not limited to, mental disorder
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by istultus 2y ago
It is incredibly dangerous, hypernatremia sadly occurs way too often in elderly patients in care homes where the patients are weak or mentally incapacitated and can't/don't ask for a drink of water and/or are ignored by
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by istultus 2y ago
How is that a counterpoint? You're just presenting a rare case, like Zollinger-Ellison, or some genetic or physiologic Vagal over-stimulation. 80%+ of ulcers are caused by H. Pylori infection. Next largest group is misuse of NSAIDS (al
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by istultus 2y ago
The market (which I think is what you mean when you say "capitalism," a word devoid of content) is an abstract thing and indeed has no morals. Humans do. They act together to reduce harm, usually, given our arc of history. When h
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by istultus 2y ago
Yep, and even this comic is now out of date, "identify a bird in the photo? easy!"
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by istultus 2y ago
I think there's a communication issue with regards to how a syndrome is portrayed in non-technical media. And it doesn't get any better when we replace "syndrome" with "condition" or "spectrum disorder&quo
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by istultus 2y ago
I mean, in e.g. The Expanse, the future of tribal fights will be cis-Lunars vs. trans-Lunars and cis-Martians vs. trans-Martians...
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by istultus 2y ago
Let me posit an ad-hoc theory built on our anchoring bias in regards to price and our inability to think in terms of inflation/hyperbolic discounting: tl;dr - Once a cheap alternative is on the market, us frugal folks can't imagin
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by istultus 2y ago
A drop in the ocean compared to the Russian, Chinese and the Pakistanis. Maybe this marketing firm don't have the requisite nous that those government-run bot shops have. The first rule is don't get caught, after all...
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by istultus 2y ago
As with everything it's a function of dose. A few molecules of soot entering the brain will trigger some cleanup and the glia cells will suck it up. Breathing soot every day and caking your lungs with it over time raises your risk of c
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by istultus 2y ago
Nice case of mood affiliation - "FDA bad therefore remember inverse of reality" There was a swift ban on Thalidomide and the FDA went to the extreme of removing fertile women from all trials for the next 60 years, leading to 2nd o
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by istultus 2y ago
If it's clickbait - could just be a misreading on the part of the poster - it highlights an important fact - we all yearn to feel we have full control over a situation, even when in this case this sense of control is tenuous at best.
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by istultus 2y ago
Just finished another boring run and asked myself "Why do I do this again?" then saw the news - dead at 61 due to heart attack. RIP. Scheduling my next boring run.
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by istultus 2y ago
This case is a true unknown. There is an open question as to who carried out the bombing, with multiple intelligence services blaming Syria. the US decided to blame Gaddafi though, and he was happy to take the blame as it plays well to the
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by istultus 3y ago
Ignoring the ideology - maybe, in a roundabout way, if this causes the middle-class and above to move their kids to private education in response, this will actually achieve its aims, in that the next time they sample gifted kids in public
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by istultus 3y ago
I think Girard passes muster in that the theory is often useful, in conjunction with others - that is, it passes the "Condorcet barrier of utility" and one can use it as part of a toolbox to explicate certain human behaviors. Taki
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by istultus 3y ago
Maybe your (anyone's) system 1 might assume only two possible outcomes, but it's not in the question - it's which is more likely, and one option assuredly is, up to a less-than-or-equal sign.
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by istultus 3y ago
Ding Ding. With the added story Levitt told on Jon Hartley's podcast about the extremes Heckman went to, to disparage Levitt - translated into the terse Economist house style (which doesn't do justice to the utter toxicity of Chic
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by istultus 3y ago
Just a naive thought, but wouldn't this cause the second order effects of cyber criminals/con artists having a database of targets?
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by istultus 3y ago
Just to point out the beauty of how a clearly defined black-and-white mathematical term (just use the dot product!) becomes malleable once it enters language as a metaphor. There's great humor in being "slightly orthogonal".
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by istultus 3y ago
It is, like many an intellectual technological innovation, currently the Churchillian "worst, except for all the other options." Once a company is traded publicly, the market, over a long time horizon [1], usually gives a good val
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by istultus 3y ago
I mean, it's an article on gentrification and rise in housing market costs. I'm sure Airbnb adds some to the general price rises, but it surely is just a small part of the many factors that have led to this effect in most cities i

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