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by jmcgough 1y ago
Curious where they draw the line - are chlorine treatments to disinfect water okay? Both have a clear public health benefit with comparatively minimal downsides.
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by jmcgough 1y ago
Yep, this effort is the culmination of 50 years of research. Could be the last harrah of the NIH with the amount of cuts we've had and the scientists who are taking jobs in other countries.
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by jmcgough 1y ago
Truly the worst of both worlds that we now have authoritarianism without good public transit.
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by jmcgough 1y ago
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by jmcgough 1y ago
> Gardikis is famous for being one of only three people to achieve the so-called "Holy Grail" of gaming records: a perfect speed run on the original Nintendo Super Mario Bros., which means that he finished the game and saved th
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by jmcgough 1y ago
They could impeach again, but senate will refuse to convict. If Jan 6 didn't motivate them to stop this, nothing will.
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by jmcgough 1y ago
People should not need to be conjecturing. The federal government should have clear documented reasons for the things that it does. It should have oversight, but all of the oversight has been fired, every department headed by yesmen and fox
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by jmcgough 2y ago
Freezing itself does not lower nutritional value. Furthermore, if a produce purchaser is going to freeze, they freeze as soon as they possibly can to limit any spoilage or degradation, which hurts their overall profit. Frozen fruits and veg
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by jmcgough 2y ago
Yes, but refrigeration enabled us to produce at massive scale and then ship large distances. Prior to that, you only ate locally (or what could be preserved through pickling and other methods).
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by jmcgough 2y ago
> That's a huge issue if true. Could be that someone's laptop is compromised. Or perhaps someone got invited to the wrong group chat again.
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by jmcgough 2y ago
They're converting to a nonprofit, so instead of federal funding they will need funding from big tech companies.
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by jmcgough 2y ago
Several people within the administration (particularly Stephen Miran) are highly in favor of dropping the value of the USD, as they believe it's about 25% higher than it should be due to being used as the international reserve currency
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by jmcgough 2y ago
We will never recover from the damage they are doing, at least not in our lifetimes. It is so much easier to destroy than to create, and so many of the services and research performed by the NIH and CDC are truly irreplaceable. The top caus
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by jmcgough 2y ago
These are climate scientists, not tabloid reporters. But don't worry, they'll be fired and silenced by the feds soon enough. Everything is fine, please ignore the rapid increase in tornados and hear waves.
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by jmcgough 2y ago
Something About Us is the odd track on the album that does not use any known samples. The backing music is likely inspired by Oliver Cheatham's "Get Down Saturday Night", which Daft Punk has sampled in two other songs (Voyage
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by jmcgough 2y ago
The animation is very reminiscent of Sneakers - wouldn't be surprised if that was the inspiration for it. It's a little distracting, but pretty cute imo.
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by jmcgough 2y ago
I thought Stadia was incredibly well-engineered, had good performance playing modern games with a Thinkpad. But none of my friends had any idea what Stadia was, the ad campaign was atrocious. Time and time again, Google builds great product
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by jmcgough 2y ago
This is a purely factual article and is very careful not to make recommendations on current or future policy. This website will almost certainly disappear once they realize it's still up.
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by jmcgough 2y ago
Absolute clown show.
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by jmcgough 2y ago
Correct. TAS usually means to use a tool that lets them painstakingly play the game on a frame-by-frame basis (usually 1/60th of a second), each frame making the theoretically optimal input.
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by jmcgough 2y ago
Kind of, but even an average runner can experience a bug or refine a strategy through repeat practice, which they often share with the community through streamed runs or discords. You tend to have certain people who are more interested in g
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by jmcgough 2y ago
> roughly half the country is ecstatic about what he is doing A number of his actions are wildly unpopular. The Jan 6th Pardons, and his pro-Putin agenda. His polling is historically poor for a month into a president's term, and the
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by jmcgough 2y ago
No one is hiring based on test scores though? The bar to even get into med school is so insanely high that most people able to get in and become doctors were already upper-middle or high SES. The only point in the entire process where &quo
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by jmcgough 2y ago
Edit: Well, that's embarrassing. I hadn't realized that the link is to a new 2024 study on IM board scores and patient outcomes. My post is in regards to a 2023 study on USMLE scores and patient outcomes that was pretty widely dis
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by jmcgough 2y ago
In my 30s, quit my last startup about 2.5 years ago. Have been an EM scribe the last two years which has been amazing clinical experience. Did my premed coursework a decade ago when I did neuroscience. Just needed biochem, and about 800 hou
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by jmcgough 2y ago
Congrats, I've seen a few people playing this lately :)
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by jmcgough 2y ago
Medicine. It's significantly harder than software engineering in terms of the lifestyle and demands on you, but I've never been happier or more fulfilled. A lot of the skills translate over, other than perhaps the actual coding.
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by jmcgough 2y ago
Private sector research basically does not exist anymore, especially basic science research. A lot of truly revolutionary stuff starts in academia and spins into tech and biotech startups.
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by jmcgough 2y ago
They don't need a viable strategy if they regain control of Congress, gum up the works and use some of the checks and balances they are allotted. They can also order investigations so we can understand wtf is happening beyond leaks fro
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by jmcgough 2y ago
Biochemist friend moved across the country for a post-doc and three months into it is waiting to be let go. She is now looking at options outside the country, specifically China, given the incredible instability here.

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