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by plank_time 5y ago
There is no early detection for pancreatic cancer. So we don’t know what we can do yet. Right now by the time we detect it, we are dead. An entire generation of early detection might create new methods to treat it. We don’t know what we don
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by plank_time 5y ago
This is an absolutely absurd thing to say. “We’ve never had blood tests that detect pancreatic cancer early, therefore we should never use them because when we used other means to try to detect early, it didn’t lead to better outcomes.” If
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by plank_time 5y ago
The paranoid mentality that any call could kill you is the exact reason why so many unarmed black people are shot. If you can’t carry out a day’s work without the unreasonable fear that you will be shot, and any action makes you “fear for y
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by plank_time 5y ago
I studied EE in Canada as well in the early 90s. My tuition was less than $2500/year but I had a scholarship that paid for it. For me it was worth it. I immediately went into programming, and taught myself everything. While being usele
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by plank_time 5y ago
I thought UK university education was extremely cheap or free. I shudder to imagine what they would think about paying hundreds of thousands for a US education...
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by plank_time 5y ago
You already have to register your drone after purchase.
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by plank_time 5y ago
Sorry but China is about as monolithic as you can get. The CCP had an incredibly tight control over the entire country. It doesn’t allow anything except for a monolithic view.
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by plank_time 5y ago
“Trans-exclusionary radical feminist” sounds pretty pejorative, most especially the “radical” part.
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by plank_time 5y ago
I don’t think there’s an if/else clause. Allowing trans women to legally be claimed as women is really just an adjustment in a database, as well as just treating people the way they want to be treated. It doesn’t cost anything to be re
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by plank_time 5y ago
In the UK prisons, transgender women sexually assault women 5x more than cis women sexually assault women. https://archive.is/iYD5T
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by plank_time 5y ago
> Until 10 years ago gay marriage wasn't official policy of Obama I think you are misremembering. Obama was actively against gay marriage and defended his views against gay marriage through the 2012 election. I think Biden was the o
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by plank_time 5y ago
TERF is a pejorative term, I wouldn’t use it unless you are trying to attack feminists.
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by plank_time 5y ago
This is how the ruling class controls us peons. They have us fight each other vociferously over things like this or abortion or gay marriage, while they stay above it and do nothing except minor moral victories. The sad thing is that this w
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by plank_time 5y ago
I think we should accommodate trans people as much as we can, up to and including letting them be legally be considered the sex of their belief as long as they have transitioned to some degree, by taking hormones or surgery. However, I disa
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by plank_time 5y ago
> So a manager might make a bad hire because so they don't have to fire any of the people they like. This is well documented behavior, even in Jack Welch’s book. He was the one famous for cutting 5% every year at GE.
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by plank_time 5y ago
When the stock goes from 200 to 3500 in 10 years, and consistently goes up and to the right, you won’t find too many of the workers complaining no matter how bad the job conditions are. I have a friend up in Seattle who is suffering, to the
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by plank_time 5y ago
Except Elon musk changed the equation. He legitimized it even though it’s knowingly a joke.
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by plank_time 5y ago
If you are living in the Bay Area, do not quit your job unless you have enough money to keep your own lifestyle in perpetuity. I have so many friends that have regretted going into startups because they have missed out on literally millions
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by plank_time 5y ago
The flu causes myocarditis in a similar way that COVID has been reported to cause in children. Having a comparison of rates of issues would be useful so as to figure out if it’s important or not. The same goes for this reported brain issue.
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by plank_time 5y ago
I thought Ecuador heavily used ivermectin with no discernible benefit.
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by plank_time 5y ago
What is the percentage of people who suffered any long term brain effects? And did they do the same study against people who got the flu and other diseases?
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by plank_time 5y ago
For the record, I believe the author. But asking what the author would gain from fabricating it is a terrible reason to believe something. Pathological liars exist and they prey on people with such low bars for belief.
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by plank_time 5y ago
I guess the way you throw off the algorithms is by having a strategy of making large wins and medium losses and only taking the delta between the two. Then it would be pretty hard to prove insider trading just from the trading records.
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by plank_time 5y ago
The virus lab origin theory is an example of a bubble. It was racist and ridiculous when Trump talked about it, but now it’s basically accepted as the truth now that Biden is president. It’s the clearest example of media bias I’ve seen so f
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by plank_time 5y ago
They are using the same chemicals that batters use so it might be impossible to detect
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by plank_time 5y ago
It’s only varnana if you think of yourself as a victim. Those that choose to not think of themselves as victims can succeed unfettered if they focus their efforts in the right direction.
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by plank_time 5y ago
You can do the equivalent by adding a Timestamp column with index on your table and add “where now - timestamp <= TTL”. (Or some computational easier way that doesn’t require math on the query) TTL on systems like Cassandra is pretty ugl
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by plank_time 5y ago
I’m a 50 year old Asian software engineer. Let me give you some advice because you sound angry and miserable. You must have been beaten down by your parents over the last several decades and it has rubbed into you. I get it. Back in the 70s
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by plank_time 5y ago
Someone I know is an illegal immigrant from Central America. She cleans houses for a living. Her husband is also illegal immigrant and he paints houses. Her daughter is going to one of the top private schools in SF, on a full scholarship. S
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by plank_time 5y ago
Citation otherwise this is just your biased anecdote. There’s plenty of turnover in California on par with other states. If prop 13 were somehow so powerful a factor not to sell, you would see a lot less house sales which you don’t. In my c

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