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by marchenko 7y ago
This is a good point. The collapse of local social hierarchies makes status competitions much more alienating and intense. It must be weird to have no shot at meeting - let alone dating or befriending - the most popular girl in school. The
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by marchenko 7y ago
The MMR vaccine is more effective after 12 months, i.e. there are fewer cases of the vaccine failing to confer immunity when first administered at 12 mos as opposed to earlier. You can receive a first MMR dose earlier than 12 mos for certai
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by marchenko 7y ago
German doctors have much lower school debt and relatively lower tort exposure. Salaries in Germany are significantly lower across the board, so German physicians enjoy similar financial positioning relative to other professionals, and high
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by marchenko 8y ago
This comment and its parent are both excellent. I've often heard security and freedom described as a tradeoff; the idea of a causal relationship is intriguing.
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by marchenko 8y ago
It seems from survey data that happiness really does increase in one's later years, after a nadir around midlife. So aging can be a joy, and younger people - especially those reading this in their 40s - may find it reassuring.
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CRISPR being used to develop better antibiotics(news.wisc.edu)
2 points by marchenko 8y ago|0 comments
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by marchenko 8y ago
The stated objections make sense if you consider that they include an unstated risk component: e.g. "This isn't a useful mutation [given that its downside effects predispose carriers to more severe flu and West Nile + risks inhe
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Learning your genetic risk changes physiology independent of actual genetic risk(nature.com)
3 points by marchenko 8y ago|0 comments
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by marchenko 8y ago
Thus comment and the parent are spot-on. The main protection against the adversarial use of genetic databin the US, GINA, is currently facing several challenges, mostly through the backdoor of opt-in employee wellness plans. Additionally, w
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by marchenko 8y ago
I agree that there is an interesting and potentially informative symmetry between the custody gap and the wage gap. They both describe situations that different groups find deeply unfair, but can be ascribed in large part to "different
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by marchenko 8y ago
When I last looked it up, the US data indicated that 91% of custody cases are decided without recourse to the family court system. Of the 9% that go to family court system, 5% are decided after a custody evaluation, and the remaining 4% go
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by marchenko 8y ago
Not to beat a dead horse, but I don't think Elena Ferrante has anything to do with #metoo or gender politics. The author/s claims to have been born in the 40s, and started writing in the 90s. As far as I understand, she writes rel
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by marchenko 8y ago
I didn't downvote you, but those who did probably decided your response was not particularly well-informed. Men might dominate HN, but women are over-represented as consumers of fiction (and nonfiction), in both print and ebook format
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by marchenko 8y ago
She's a legitimate global superstar in fiction writing. Her books are popular enough to move the percentage of total book sales represented by translated fiction in English-speaking markets (she` writes in Italian). Strangely enough, h
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by marchenko 8y ago
The point above about splitting your attention between work and baby, even if another caregiver is at home, is spot on. This can occur even with the most sympatico caregiver with cat-like reflexes. It's best if you can put your complet
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by marchenko 8y ago
If you decide to do this, take it seriously and treat homemaking as full-time work. Make regular payments into retirement and disability accounts in the stay-at-home parent's name. If you envision longer-term SAH parenting, make time f
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by marchenko 8y ago
The core of the issue to puzzle over: How was the buyer of the gift harmed? The buyer demonstrated intent to purchase an item desired by the list owner, but was deceived into purchasing an article that did not meet that criterion. The buy
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by marchenko 8y ago
The real inconvenient truth is that marriage still works best as 'an economic institution designed to build wealth and raise children'. It is the best vehicle we have designed for doing those things; other arrangements have pr
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by marchenko 8y ago
The phone company is also not giving the angry mob your number and telling them you probably like the cut of their jib.
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by marchenko 8y ago
Agree. I certainly don't think the architecture was the primary cause of the dysfunction at RTH, but rather a visible symptom of Chicago's ill-considered, politicized, and often malevolent housing policy.
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by marchenko 8y ago
The most famous implementation of the social housing "towers in the park" model - the Robert Taylor Homes in Chicago - has been torn down. One of the many problems with the project was (in my opinion) that the tower:park proporti
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by marchenko 8y ago
The short-term benefit of a lower birthrate is called the "demographic dividend". Think of it like a Golden Age in the Civilization video game series. If you fail to fully capitalize on it, you are storing away trouble.
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by marchenko 8y ago
Against the Grain is great. I'm drawing upon Seeing Like A State and The Art of Not Being Governed .
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by marchenko 8y ago
I don't think this essay is anti-intellectual at all. I think it is an exploration of the longstanding philosophical problem of trying to rationally design a world for irrational beings. The excerpt from Dillow on consequentialism brin
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by marchenko 8y ago
I've seen an argument tangential to this advanced as an explanation for why spanking is more accepted in some minority groups: the consequences of not eradicating certain bad behaviours early (disrespecting authority, not following ins
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by marchenko 8y ago
Imagine this capability existed in the US before miscegenation, or same-sex intercourse, or cannabis use, or concealed carry, were legal/broadly accepted. It could be used to harass non-criminal supporters of these measures(caught a SS
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by marchenko 8y ago
Thinking Fast and Slow and various Malcolm Gladwellania have probably out-influenced anything on that list. Nudge by Sunstein has probably had a lot of subtle influence. The Taleb books, esp. Black Swan should be on the list - he esse
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by marchenko 8y ago
> “We thought that we got away with not a lot of warming in both the ocean and the atmosphere for the amount of CO2 that we emitted,” said Resplandy, who published the work with experts from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and se
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Large buildup of heat in the oceans suggests faster rate of global warming(washingtonpost.com)
2 points by marchenko 8y ago|1 comments
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New study links common herbicides and antibiotic resistance(canterbury.ac.nz)
73 points by marchenko 8y ago|9 comments

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