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by pen2l 6y ago
A lot of the controversy surrounding this Lancet paper was about the data being used, which was provided by a firm named Surgisphere [1]. One of the co-authors of the Lancet paper is Sapan Desai, he is incidentally also the chief executive
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by pen2l 6y ago
Yeah but come on, most everyone don't take it in unsuitable amounts just like they don't drink 6 gallons of water every day. Taking vitamin D for the average American will surely help in keeping good immunity, bone health, etc.
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by pen2l 6y ago
Where does one even begin to look for a teacher? Where do these guys publicize their services? For context, I'm an amateur guitarist with an interest in singing Sufjan Stevens songs.
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Gravity Built the World's Fastest Jet Suit(youtube.com)
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by pen2l 6y ago
Uh, please stop downvoting rayiner. He didn't say anything wrong or kooky, on the contrary he provided an interesting, substantiated counter-point not often heard around these parts. Do you people _want_ HN to become an even worse echo
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by pen2l 6y ago
Lancet isn't the only paper that has raised issues with HCQ treatment. Sciencemag [1] has this to say: However, both HCQ and AZ have potential cardiac toxicity (QT prolongation, which can lead to fatal arrhythmia), and HCQ additionally
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by pen2l 6y ago
Here's my controversial post of the day: I'm okay with Google trampling on my rights, in exchange for the things it gives. Personalized search results, better ad hoc translation, all of these things work well only because they hav
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by pen2l 6y ago
I meant it was shocking to see humans behaving so subserviently, being so at terms with their situation: making pennies for chores and yet being so hardworking. I don't want to call it slavery, but it's something around there.
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by pen2l 6y ago
I visited Pakistan a few years ago, my homeland, after some 20 years of being in the states. I was being driven around by my 18 year old cousin. At some point, just completely randomly, some youngin' - I would estimate about 15 years o
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by pen2l 6y ago
Condolences. Hope you find every next day brighter than the one before.
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by pen2l 6y ago
I had to wiki ESR, I'd needed to remind myself who he was. And, tptacek, guess whose name I stumbled upon while I was reading his wiki page? Incidentally, I think that section of the wiki is poorly written. I'm left even more conf
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by pen2l 6y ago
> A better thing to optimize for would be less impact on knees and back. I have osteoporosis, and my endocrinologist told me to do weight-wearing exercises, including running. For me, we _needed_ high impact exercises to strengthen the b
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by pen2l 6y ago
> I don’t see how this makes any employee productive. I'll contribute a counter argument, if only because I don't see it mentioned much. I'm the counter argument. Since I'm at home now, with kids, if I'm not dire
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by pen2l 7y ago
I had this fetishism about neopolitan pizzas for a while despite having never actually tried one. Mostly due to reading a lot of what Kenji-Lopez and others wrote on the web. There's an annual pizza festival in the summer i nBoston, wh
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by pen2l 7y ago
Ignoring whether or not he will, what might be the mechanics of something like this? Is there any precedent of this in history? What’s a good way in which this might take place?
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by pen2l 7y ago
What do you mean in US culture? Avoiding vulgar language isn't a phenomenon unique to US. If I was in France I wouldn't exactly be saying <putain de merde> around my family, if I was in India I wouldn't be saying <bh
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Ask HN: How is working remotely working for you?
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Software 2.0(medium.com)
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by pen2l 7y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but defrost is just a microwave for a very long time, right? Why _not_ just microwave by typing 5 minutes? Or instead, why shouldn't the microwave have less abstruse buttons like "1 min", "2
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by pen2l 7y ago
I think I sort of agree with you. But I think that imposition of workflow is not taken kindly by users, users only like things in line of the status quo. I think the greatest sin by Google was shutting down Inbox. I swore by it (the little
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by pen2l 7y ago
The comparison is meaningless and maybe anti-productive. What you're saying harkens back to political fights about what are the numbers. The first sentence of the article is: The overall death rate from covid-19 has been estimated at 0
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by pen2l 7y ago
I’m covid19-positive and I don’t have any impairment in my ability to smell nor do I recall having such impairment in recent time. The most salient symptoms for me have been GI problems.
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by pen2l 7y ago
This is a perfectly valid question, annoying that it’s getting downvoted so much.
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but the average institution or entity that Bill Gates chooses to fund is much more productive than the average NIH funded lab. I think the answer lies in taking a good look at where the money is going. Particul
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by pen2l 7y ago
I see when ordering online with whole foods /amazon a note saying that drivers get 100% of the tip. Something strange by the way, is that tipping is variable. Eg my ~$110 order yesterday automatically tacked on a $7 tip, my ~$50 order
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by pen2l 7y ago
I'm amazed that it's spreading so fast in US. US is a huge place. Okay NY has a high population density so that makes sense, but outbreaks in Seattle et al. is surprising me and I can't figure out why it's faster than ot
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by pen2l 7y ago
1) Due to natural inertia there exists to leave things alone that aren’t overtly broken, I doubt there would be a lot of cases in which people would feel so inclined to convert to a different format 2) If people do need to convert it, at le
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by pen2l 7y ago
> Point is, have fun. Don't be a walking talking wikipedia page of logical facts. This is sort of what I am. I think it started long ago maybe when I felt as if this is one way I can provide value: to give you facts. I'm aware
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Ask HN: Do you or your loved ones have Covid-19? How are you faring through it?
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by pen2l 7y ago
All of these things seem learnable with available resources except the art of conversation, something that I actually need a lot of work on. And recommendations on how I can improve on this?

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