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by kashunstva 5y ago
> I am convinced that my country started this entire episode Unequivocally the government of the Russian Federation is the aggressor here. That the United States has been inconsistent with respect to Ukraine doesn't diminish the fac
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by kashunstva 5y ago
100% The AnkiConnect project[1] is about the closest that we get to that right now, but requires running everything through a server inside Anki. [1]: https://github.com/FooSoft/anki-connect
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by kashunstva 5y ago
For simpler tasks on the Anki database, the Python `anki` module[0] provides a level of abstraction that can be helpful without resorting directly to SQLite queries against the db, but just a little. The main problem with the Python module
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by kashunstva 5y ago
n=33? main outcome measures just at, or not even meeting statistical significance. Meh. It’s an interesting, but still open, question though.
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by kashunstva 5y ago
Former general internist here. I obviously have opinions about the assertion that generalists provide no incremental value. The model you posit, wherein a generalist oversees a panel of NP’s and PA’s is already common. Many primary care pro
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by kashunstva 5y ago
Not an incredible help, but I’m Canadian and married to a vascular surgeon. I have never seen a public list but their procedural billings go through a web application of some sort to the Ministry of Health (Ontario). I do know that the proc
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by kashunstva 5y ago
But the 18-20+ group are still nodes in a complex system that includes others who aren’t so healthy. Our friend teaches an intro to sociology course at university. She also has a child with a chronic disease and an elderly parent whom she c
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by kashunstva 5y ago
> the onus is on the claimant It seems the claim to which glial was referring was the claim that the Nazi flags were some sort of false-flag operation, that these flags were carried by counter-protestors in an effort to falsely implicate
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by kashunstva 5y ago
> Here in Canada we actually removed freedom of speech. Canadian here. Whether one sympathizes with the truckers or not, or has a more nuanced opinion, claiming that free speech was removed (implying some official stance) is hyperbolic.
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> Second, VE [vaccine effectiveness] associated with newly emergent variants, including Omicron, was not assessed. Insofar as the Omicron variant is the dominant strain, it leaves open the question of VE *today*. There's reason to e
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by kashunstva 5y ago
> it's been working well for centuries, It depends on one's definition of _working well_. The neoliberal economic school would wholeheartedly agree. But the disproportionate distribution of gains since the early 1980's say
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I feel the same way about this as I do about reading poetry in translation, or listening to the (fortunately rare) opera sung in translation. There's something integral about the native qualities of the original language that I can&#x2
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by kashunstva 5y ago
I'm curious what the scare quotes around the words _vaccinated_, _vaccine_ and _hospital capacity_ are meant to convey. The vaccines, imperfect as they are, seem to have dramatically reduced the incidence of severe symptoms requiring h
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by kashunstva 5y ago
The intended effect of the vaccines was to reduce the mortality and the severe morbidity of infection and thereby reduce the human burden of the disease and indirectly protect the capacity of healthcare systems to function. In this respect,
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by kashunstva 5y ago
It remains to be seen over the long-run whether antibody levels correlate inversely with either risk of: a) _any_ Covid infection or b) _severe_ Covid infection. Antibody levels are often cited as prediction surrogates early on because they
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by kashunstva 5y ago
From the article: > A similar trend was reported by the New York City (NYC) Health Department, which reported that about 2% of Omicron cases were hospitalised in comparison to around 5% of Omicron cases. Huh? I'm assuming they meant
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by kashunstva 5y ago
> This would land a lot better if they showed their work. Indeed. The argument is further weakened by the inclusion of medical residents among the disqualified signatories. Having once been a medical resident many years ago, I can assure
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by kashunstva 5y ago
The tissue component of bioprosthetic valves is treated ex vivo in such a way as to greatly reduce the immune reactivity. It's practically not a consideration. Mechanical prosthetic heart values are generally favoured only in older pat
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by kashunstva 5y ago
> People can't increase their conscientiousness through force of will… Admittedly I don’t know the literature; but I increasingly hear that the so-called Big Five personality traits (of which conscientious is one) are regarded as mo
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Only if success in life is a function of psychopathy, sociopathy or narcissistic personality disorder. The "darkness" metric is meant to sample the traits that, in high quantities, make for some pretty pathologic - sometimes crimi
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by kashunstva 5y ago
> … had nearly run its fuel dry. That’s a serious claim about fuel reserves on a commercial flight, but nothing in the article supports the implication that the situation was that dire.
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by kashunstva 5y ago
This would not sit well in my field - I'm a classical pianist - because I'm getting hung up on the role that knowledge ('tacit' or otherwise) plays in what I do, vs. the reality of a very motor-focused activity. Yes, aft
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by kashunstva 5y ago
I know of no evidence that the National Institutes of Health - scare quotes or not - is out looking for trivial diseases in an effort to promote its own existence. Its extramural granting program has been remarkably successful and is the cr
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by kashunstva 5y ago
Since only the abstract is available to the general public, I can only speculate on what the article actually says. That said, I've long thought that the opposition to high density development is partly driven by the complete asynchron
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by kashunstva 5y ago
> This number of mutations isn't enough to completely change the mechanics of the virus. Maybe. Maybe not. The majority of the mutations in the B.1.1.529 genome are expressed as changes in the spike proteins but others are not and r
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by kashunstva 5y ago
Sadly Treasury Direct excludes U.S. citizens living abroad. If you do not have an address of record in the U.S. you may not create a Treasury Direct account. Interestingly though they have no such condition on taxation of my income in my cu
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by kashunstva 5y ago
I'm a collaborative pianist by profession. The discussion of fingering here is interesting. Much can be said about fingering but first and foremost it has to serve the musical intent and I would be surprised if any algorithm could surf
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> I had unrestricted internet access as a child and turned out fine. The statistical power of an n=1 study applied to a population many orders of magnitude larger is not very strong. That aside, many, if not most children below a certain
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by kashunstva 5y ago
Well, there's limb loss due to ischemic peripheral vascular disease, lung carcinoma, various other upper airway malignancies, ischemic heart disease, obstructive pulmonary disease...