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by robbiep 6y ago
That's not quite true - HIV of course mutates but in-patient mutations are generally considered to have a negligible effect on outcomes/have a negligible effect as a driver of morbidity . What is the big driver of HIV is in the na
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by robbiep 6y ago
As a white Australian who grew up in a country area (close to Moree, which was the first stop of the Australian ‘Freedom Rides’) and having spent a lot of time in NZ in the last decade, it really pains me that we are so far from the level o
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by robbiep 6y ago
Because the Balkanisation of newsfeeds in the rest of the world has proved such a success
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by robbiep 6y ago
You can put it on your slidey down screen (where flashlight and sleep etc live) and then it’s swipe down, touch - no unlock necessary
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by robbiep 6y ago
> Your kids all else equal will be outsprinted by kids who live in more competitive cities That’s absolute horse shit. And whilst I don’t have any evidence to sprout, I think that those from more diverse and unusual backgrounds are bette
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by robbiep 6y ago
You’re right, thanks for the starliner/Orion correction!
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by robbiep 6y ago
They definitely won’t use most of the capacity because they can’t deliver/return even a tiny percentage of it using star liner!
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by robbiep 6y ago
Given the risks and delays with SLS, I’d say it’s pretty likely that SpaceX can outlift/out launch NASA to the moon and probably still will. Going to be interesting
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by robbiep 6y ago
Does that really lead to gain? I would have thought logging the phone as lost with Apple would have disabled it. Presumably not
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by robbiep 6y ago
While travelling in Cuba 2 friends and I hired a cab to drive us to Viñales from Havana - we ended up in a stretch Lada! Front ⅔ of 1 car, back ⅔ of another. Felt very unsafe but we got there
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by robbiep 6y ago
Yes and no - if I was in real trouble I’d want to end up in the public system (where I work and where the care is the best) but PHI is great for the things you never know are going to happen. Generally your life will be fine without it thou
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by robbiep 6y ago
Private health insurance in Australia is quite cheap - my silver extras plan is $480/quarter (dentistry and basically anything else that could happen to me)
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by robbiep 6y ago
I’m not sure if you’re thinking of somewhere else, but Medicare does not cover dentistry - some health services have dentistry but it basically takes care of those who are having poor Health outcomes due to poor dentition (my housemate at M
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by robbiep 6y ago
It’s absolutely true that ICU capacity generally runs at 90% utilisation - ICU beds are bloody expensive (staffing etc). In NSW, Australia, where I live and work (and have worked in ICU) there is a statewide ICU service so if you need a bed
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by robbiep 6y ago
You mean, like 'ceteris paribus'?
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by robbiep 6y ago
It's been continued with adequate consultation. I was supposed to have my AZ this morning (however had to postpone) as part of the 1b category. 35 yo male. I'm ok with getting it but i would kind of like the pfizer one coz i'
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by robbiep 6y ago
Some issues with your comment chain: - these are vaccines, they aren’t gene therapy (ie they aren’t changing cellular DNA) - saying a portion of the population has herd immunity is non-sensical. Either there’s herd immunity (virus can’t spr
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by robbiep 6y ago
In australia for example, where there is currently zero community transmission, and AZ was the preferred rollout for most of the population, assuming only women are vulnerable (not true) about 8m women below 50 (the age for which the govern
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by robbiep 6y ago
Right, thanks, I wasn’t aware. Time periods seem off (5-14hrs) in mouse models compared to what’s being seen here though, which seems more like an immune reaction rather than a response to the antigen/delivery system
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by robbiep 6y ago
That’s not really true, we give lots of drugs IM because the muscle is highly vascular so it generally shoots out all over the body really quickly. Ie want to take down a patient with Ice (crystal meth) induced psychosis? IM. Also, it’s har
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by robbiep 6y ago
If you’re doing the calf exercises to ward off a DVT, (and not to just stretch your strained calf!) you may be barking up the wrong tree. The preliminary theories (backed by the thrombocytopaenia) are that, if there’s a vaccine induced thro
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by robbiep 6y ago
Running in gluconeogenesis permenantly isn’t biochemically ideal (at least for early growth)
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by robbiep 6y ago
The origin is interesting but hardly conclusive in stopping the next pandemic, which is only a matter of time anyway. Instead, the significant economic and health costs could have been significantly mitigated by the response of governments.
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by robbiep 6y ago
It most commonly refers to God, or the great architect of the universe. It may be considered to refer to geometry but that’s not usually the default and not what I’ve seen discussed or referenced most commonly from masons
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by robbiep 6y ago
In Ottawa in 1969, as premier Pierre Trudeau chipped away at Canada’s royal connections, Philip bluntly observed, “I think it’s a complete misconception to imagine that the Monarchy exists in the interests of the Monarch – it doesn’t. It e
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by robbiep 6y ago
Not OP but I think if you were wagering on delivery right now you just can’t make the claim that it is solved for Tesla; maybe they will but they have been saying that for 5 years now and the demos don’t look that different from the video t
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by robbiep 6y ago
I ended up majoring in biochemistry and molecular biology in my undergrad because I was browsing on Wikipedia one day and came across an article written on an E. Coli variant that had sentences like: 01J3 e. Coli has a DNA Polymerase that c
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by robbiep 6y ago
Apologies for breaking seveneves for you: Why do they need to generate artificial Y chromosomes when there is a whole bunch of perfectly good ones in the last man alive who just died with them; and thousands upon thousands in the scattered
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by robbiep 6y ago
No Till agriculture is exactly what it sounds like - not ploughing it up at the end of a growing season. This has a number of benefits including retaining soil structure and root structure, enhancing and retaining moisture profiles (since a
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by robbiep 6y ago
100 times yes. Defensive cycling. Not a perfect prevention strategy but the best we can do

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