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by rkk3 5y ago
> Psilocybin, in 10mg or 25mg doses How does that translate to illicit recreational doses? > 89 healthy participants Not sure how they define healthy... Like others on this thread, have witnessed plenty of seemingly 'healthy&#x2
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by rkk3 5y ago
Other definitions put it at 42K deaths in 2020 with 2021 expected to be even worse, but you're right that 45k is a slight overestimate. [1] https://www.vox.com/22675358/us-car-deaths-year-traffic-covi...
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by rkk3 5y ago
Yes excess mortality it will probably go down in the older groups that died slightly pre-maturely. But the deaths in the 18-64 is not just from Covid-19 but from things exacerbated by it on the society level; Delaying treatment/tests,
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by rkk3 5y ago
"Carrousel" from Logan's Run, is the western equivalent.
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by rkk3 5y ago
>> requiring kids to wear masks for 8 hours a day has a real cost. > I don’t see how this is true. Care to elaborate? Kids are developing and need to learn facial non-verbal social cues. It also directly impacts learning, it's
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by rkk3 5y ago
> I predict that certain activities [...] will one day require proof of vaccination and/or masking up to participate I think those policies will slowly go-away in the North East & West Coast as the public and media comes to te
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by rkk3 5y ago
With Seat Belts & Driving rules we still have 45,000 Driving related deaths a year in the US. We don't ban automobiles because that number isn't 0. Seatbelts and vaccine's are high impact & low-cost. The same cannot b
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by rkk3 5y ago
Apple Computer and Microsoft seem notably absent.
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by rkk3 5y ago
> There are a few of these that don’t really feel like pivots to me. For example Netflix changing from delivering things via DVD to doing it by streaming just feels like evolving to suit the market. Reed Hastings allegedly barred the del
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by rkk3 5y ago
That "measures the satisfaction of consumers across the U.S. economy", very different from Brand's Customer Experience Surveys. Having worked as a software vendor in the CX field, I saw a lot of different implementations of t
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by rkk3 5y ago
CSAT is not standardized and there are many ways to calculate it, one of which you have linked. I've seen firsthand many of the largest brands calculate it differently.
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by rkk3 5y ago
The fact is that young people are at very low-risk for covid. If you want to bring vaccine status into it, you get way more ROI vaccinating older groups. We've seen Hospitalizations per capita have go from 5 per 100k/day in Jan 20
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by rkk3 5y ago
> (The most irritating — and by far the most common — reason companies seem to measure NPS is that it’s standardized, but more importantly that everyone else does it. Which is fine for one-time-use benchmarking, but not a good basis for
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by rkk3 5y ago
> It is very misleading to imply that only old people suffer from that as there are countless stories of “I have a 35 yold friend with no pre-existing conditions who’s fighting for their lives” Those stories are breathlessly reported on
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by rkk3 5y ago
Glad I'm in my late twenties instead of college age, but I would prefer even more to be dealing with the restrictions and virus when I was significantly older and significantly more at-risk.
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by rkk3 5y ago
> A billionaire, he is. A happy human being? A useful addition to society? haha. personally never really met any of them so can't really touch that : ) > I don't think anyone would argue a man not raised by their biological
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by rkk3 5y ago
> Larry Ellison has an ASD diagnosis? TIL. Not to my knowledge, just was offering a counterpoint to the GP who seemed to think there are only negatives to adversity, like ASD. In that example "No benefits of [adversity]" Where
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by rkk3 5y ago
> Maybe it's different for people with AD(H)D than Asperger's, but I don't get it. There is nothing good with having a brain disability. So what you want people who aren't average to consider themselves inferior? I do
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by rkk3 5y ago
ah ok, I just meant more not free in the sense that I assume the digital credit is probably already spoken for between; Netflix, Spotify, Disney, Audible, Amazon Prime, etc etc.
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by rkk3 5y ago
> For folks with an Amex Platinum, consider using the new $240 digital entertainment credit for a free NYT subscription sounds very not-free.
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by rkk3 5y ago
Yep just another piece of the Manufacturing Consent apparatus, this one seems more of just a puff piece though.
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by rkk3 5y ago
My favorite $LargeCompany move was a few years ago, when my friends highly compensated (6 figure equivalent) summer intern class didn't get IT's permission for internet access at the company, for 2 weeks.
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by rkk3 5y ago
I'm a little confused as well, but 2 things I noticed. 1) It's 2% cut a year, so you save 200B the first year cuts, 160B the second year cuts etc. 2) This calculation is based on happening several years out, with significantly hig
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by rkk3 5y ago
It probably wasn't, alcohol withdrawals can kill.
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by rkk3 5y ago
> Large game companies make a significant percentage of their revenue from the so-called "whales", which tend to be lonely people with an addiction control problem. Yes but those companies are freemium or in-app purchases &quot
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by rkk3 5y ago
they might as well have posted on an article about growing up homeless living in a tent to talk about how they loved to sleep in tents, all the time, on the weekends when they were camping as a kid, much fun!
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by rkk3 5y ago
Several rounds in the take home was assigned 100% verbally ... and then after submitting the take home, not even bothering to send a rejection email.
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by rkk3 5y ago
uh-huh, yeah bet you probably had a good karate teacher your parents paid for.
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by rkk3 5y ago
Maybe she just didn't see herself as a victim? Consent, language and culture are complicated. People in the US can describe a coercive experience like that without automatically labeling it as rape or sexual-assault. Of course given th
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by rkk3 5y ago
It's great London Breed is acknowledging SF's policy flaws... but I hope SF gets a new-mayor that is genuine about fixing the city rather than keep the Mayor who has for years exacerbated these problems and only decided to do some

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