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by svsaraf 12y ago
It isn't true. Insulin was discovered in the early 1900s, but before it was used, starvation would extend the lifespan post-diagnosis from weeks to months, if that. After that, the patient would die of starvation.
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by svsaraf 12y ago
Logging into innocentive lets you see more details about each challenge. EDIT: To your second point: Even though it's 300 kg total, it looks like that's allocated to 2 75 kg objects and 6 25 kg objects. I would assume that means m
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by svsaraf 12y ago
> Because of the high density of tungsten, it is unlikely that payload concepts may be proposed that identically match the characteristics of the MSL BMDs. To maximize the potential for innovative concepts while still achieving the desir
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by svsaraf 12y ago
I think the author addressed your concern: > Ask journal editors and scientific peers to review study designs and analysis plans and commit to publish the results if the study is conducted and reported in a professional manner (which wil
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by svsaraf 12y ago
Believe it or not, I'm not criticizing the study. It certainly has weaknesses, but I agree with its conclusion and its general methodology. I'm criticizing Time magazine for making the claim that salt has no effect on blood pressu
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by svsaraf 12y ago
I almost completely agree with this comment. I should have been more clear - my gripe is not so much with the study but with its interpretation by Time. The study may have its own problems, but draws a conclusion I agree with, that the rela
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by svsaraf 12y ago
Thanks for the clarification - that's what I meant. I'm not sure I can edit the parent post. Salt does have an immediate effect on blood pressure, as you said, because of osmotic effects. Increased salt in the intravascular space
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by svsaraf 12y ago
I'm a medical student who actually read the paper this article refers to. I would be very careful trying to draw conclusions from a study like this. I don't think many people in the healthcare community would be very surprised by
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by svsaraf 12y ago
The most amazing thing is the simplicity of the drug in its chemical structure. Anyone with a chemistry background would recognize it as a modification of the RNA nucleotide that you learn in a undergraduate biochemistry course. Every few
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by svsaraf 12y ago
I'm not saying you're lying...but this is very hard to believe. Hepatitis C passes through blood-based contact almost exclusively (not saliva). There have only been a handful of cases through human bites.[1] [1] http://
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by svsaraf 12y ago
While there are a lot of nuances to this I won't get into, the simple answer is that it's hard to control where the virus inserts into the genome (imagine inserting a random page in the middle of a recipe book). It's also har
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by svsaraf 12y ago
The most important thing to recognize here is that bananas used as crops do not exhibit genetic drift (they are sterile). We clone new bananas from existing plants. Many of the bananas today, including the Cavendish, are thus very vulnerabl
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by svsaraf 12y ago
The banana needs a little more energy to produce more Vitamin A, so the plant will yield fewer bananas and these bananas will be more expensive. While it is true the banana would use more energy, there is no evidence for lower crop yields
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by svsaraf 12y ago
I'm having trouble understanding their statistical work. How is the "differences in differences" framework different from having two experimental groups and no control? I'm also not sure that extrapolating to Chicago mak
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by svsaraf 14y ago
I'm currently in medical school, so I think my opinion might provide another perspective on this. As others have pointed out in this thread, the incentives behind folks pushing the "learn to code" idea are varied: some people want more engi
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by svsaraf 14y ago
What site was used for searching the picture of the camera?
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by svsaraf 14y ago
Recent Stanford alum here. I think it's difficult to parse out exactly why CS is becoming popular at Stanford now. I would argue that the principal reason for the popularity of CS is because of the amazing teaching in the introductory cours
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by svsaraf 15y ago
I should have been more clear. Keith seems to indicate that views from other users don't affect your first_degree.php. I disagree, here was my process: I built a dummy account in incognito that is friends with with my regularly used profi
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by svsaraf 15y ago
As some have mentioned, doing a couple of tests with dummy accounts seems to indicate that a friend visiting your page can influence your first_degree.php, which would explain why there are a few people who you never stalk who happen to be