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by leereeves 1y ago
I don't know anything about the case in Uganda, but transfusion reactions can happen to anyone, even in the United States. We don't actually express antibodies to antigens until we're exposed to them, so crossmatching won&#x2
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by leereeves 1y ago
> Then, should we pay to get rid of ads or not? Two opposite opinions: > 1) paying YouTube support creators > 2) paying YouTube rewards the "shitification" of the platform I have a third opinion. I expect that if enough p
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by leereeves 1y ago
How did you find out what factory the Vyvanse was made at?
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by leereeves 1y ago
> Moreover, an advantage of standard fNIRS is the high spatial specificity, and it is not clear how to actually translate the light intensity data in their case to brain activation (and probably it is going to be very noisy) as the light
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by leereeves 1y ago
There's a third option. The definition of uninteresting we're using may be flawed. Here's a quick stab at a more rigorous approach: We could start by defining a set of "all numbers that are uninteresting other than by me
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by leereeves 1y ago
The problem with that is the explanation of why each number is interesting becomes: the smallest member of the original set of uninteresting numbers the second smallest member of the original set of uninteresting numbers the third ... ... T
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by leereeves 1y ago
Most people involved like hiring more people. Workers generally like jobs where the workload is low. Managers gain status by having bigger teams, whether they need the extra people or not. Even investors often prefer hiring (a sign of growt
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by leereeves 1y ago
That sounds like a good idea with one obvious challenge: how can you prove that data will remain private forever?
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by leereeves 1y ago
Definitely a disturbing abuse of power, but it's LAPD. Where's the connection to Republicans?
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by leereeves 1y ago
This line of thinking seems out of touch with the situation in LA. I'm only watching from a distance, and I can certainly believe that the media has misrepresented the situation, but I think there must be genuine rioting there, because
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by leereeves 1y ago
Notably, it doesn't say the governor has the right to refuse those "orders". If the governor had that right, they would be requests, not orders. A very interesting article about this situation from a Georgetown law professor
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by leereeves 1y ago
That's from June 7th, before the deployment of Marines. It only justifies the federalization of the National Guard, but as far as that goes, it appears to be a very reasonable interpretation of the law: Whenever...the President is una
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by leereeves 1y ago
> a legacy of Reconstruction Quite the opposite. It was passed in 1878 because of the backlash against Reconstruction, shortly after federal troops were withdrawn from the South in 1877, and was intended to prevent something like Reconst
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by leereeves 1y ago
It's terrifying, certainly. One man was taken into custody for allegedly throwing a Molotov cocktail at an officer and a motorcyclist was arrested for ramming a police skirmish line. https://www.yahoo.com/news/kill
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by leereeves 1y ago
It seemed to me like most of the opposition was to the mandate rather than to letting people take the vaccine if they chose to.
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by leereeves 1y ago
My grandmother died because of an FDA approved therapy that was later pulled from the market. One of many [1]. Given that experience, I think the process we have in place to greenlight medical therapies is not perfect, and I don't thin
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by leereeves 1y ago
I'm not familiar with all the details of RFK Jr's position, the public debate about it, nor how many of the things reported in the news are accurate (truth being the first casualty of politics). But I just looked for those topics
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by leereeves 1y ago
> Yes, maybe morning nurses are fresher and more alert, but, again, randomization fixes that How does randomization fix that?
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by leereeves 1y ago
Completely agree that our industries have failed, but not quite ready to give up and become entirely dependent on foreign tech. How can we fix American industry?
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by leereeves 1y ago
HN is definitely left of center by American standards. For example, it's generally anti-Trump, while half the country supports him.
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by leereeves 1y ago
That's rarely the case with science reporting. The subjects that are sufficiently rigorous to allow no reasonable debate (the physical sciences) are rarely political enough to inspire unreasonable debate. On the other hand, the subject
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by leereeves 1y ago
I hope people can get a "Stop Using Chrome" movement going, like we did with Internet Explorer long ago.
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by leereeves 1y ago
It was indeed passed by Republicans in Congress (with Democrats mostly voting Nay), but it was signed by Obama (12/22/2017). Why did he sign it?
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by leereeves 1y ago
Or say yes, then sue when they don't hire you.
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by leereeves 1y ago
I'm concerned about microplastics too, but I think on the whole plastics have been good for health. Any harm microplastics may cause must be rather small if it hasn't been identified yet, and easily outweighed by the benefits of r
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by leereeves 1y ago
Makes me think of the short novel Manna, about a dystopian future where working class humans are micro-managed by AI. (And an alternative future where everyone shares in the benefits of technological progress.) https://en.wikiped
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by leereeves 1y ago
Wikipedia says DEI seeks to "promote the fair treatment and full participation of all people". That sounds great. If only it actually worked that way instead of being code for favoritism for a few demographic groups, ignoring many
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by leereeves 1y ago
> that evolution isn't real That's another misrepresentation. In that link he says "To be fair, there’s still plenty of evidence for evolution." It sounds like he's a skeptic who demands proof of the things we&#x
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by leereeves 1y ago
> The sum of all causes of death will very likely continue to be 100%... If not, we'll have a whole lot of new problems.
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by leereeves 1y ago
It's only free for two months. I'm surprised they don't offer a similar free trial for everyone.

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