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by valarauko 3y ago
In India the standard of care used to be (unsure if its still the case) of a bolus dose of 60,000 IU once a week, for a month, after which you switch to taking the 60,000 IU once a month.
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by valarauko 3y ago
> How long does an Indian passport take? I'd applied for a passport in the summer of 2020, during the height of the COVID lockdown. I could get an appointment at the passport office within a week (socially distanced, reduced capacit
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by valarauko 3y ago
> our family history there goes back to before it was even a city Same - my Pathareprabhu ancestors have been in the area since about the 13th century, when the only other people in the region were the Koli fisherfolk.
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by valarauko 3y ago
Isn't that true of, say, western Europe too, perhaps leading Russia by 50 years or so?
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by valarauko 3y ago
I'm currently reading "Queens of the Crusades" by Allison Weir, about the lives of England's Medieval queens, starting from Eleanor of Aquitaine. From the book, the model I have to understand the context of French cultur
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by valarauko 3y ago
I miss Hello Internet as well, and don't know why they stopped. Did they ever talk about why?
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by valarauko 3y ago
IIRC they're also credited in each episode credits.
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by valarauko 3y ago
> He's not living in a stereotypical apartment I think the parent is referring to Niles' brief stay at the Shangri-La, not the Montana.
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by valarauko 3y ago
Still seems fishy. Does the pharmacy section not require HIPAA and siloing off from the regular consumer data?
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by valarauko 3y ago
That seems ... bizarre. Does something like HIPAA not prevent companies from using pharmacy patient data against their regular sales info on the same person? I get It's supposed to be anonymized data, but how can they figure out who&#x
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by valarauko 3y ago
Side note: The Buddhist 'hamsa' in SE Asia derives from the 'hamsa' frequently mentioned in Ancient Indian texts. Oddly, it's not clear which bird the hamsa refers to, or if it even refered to different birds - perh
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by valarauko 3y ago
He's been Chair since July 2021. At Stanford, Yang has served twice on the board of trustees, the first time from 2005 to 2015. He joined the board again in October 2017 and has served as its vice chair. Yang & his wife have also g
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by valarauko 3y ago
Sorry for the delay - just noticed this comment. Looking at my own pantry of Indian branded spices I purchased from Indian grocery stores, I see they are packaged in the UAE and not India, and don't carry the AGMARK. I couldn't fi
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by valarauko 3y ago
> You could show up with your laptop and work, and not get the kind of side eye you’d get from coffee shops. Conversely, as someone who wants to actually sample the offerings at different coffee shops, I find it incredibly annoying that
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by valarauko 3y ago
Let's take one of the source studies linked in other comments and investigate: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5415259/ The product recalls mentioned are all American brands, and their origi
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by valarauko 3y ago
> You sometimes still see mustard advertised as "argemone-free" This was a response to the 1998 outbreak. I remember in the early days it was suggested the culprit was argemone poisoning, and honestly that's what I thought
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by valarauko 3y ago
tbf lead testing is pretty standard in Indian spice brands for a long time now, though for some reason the brands don't really advertise it. Reputable brands like MDH and Everest would be pretty safe.
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by valarauko 3y ago
I recall we did simple tests like this in school - we had to bring in samples of foodstuffs from home to do the tests, and the school would provide a positive control. This must have been the seventh grade or so? https://www.vasa
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by valarauko 3y ago
I suggest asking your Indian friends where they buy their spices from, and check out your local Indian grocery store - the spices are from major Indian brands and undergo a lot of testing, with additional certification for export to the US.
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by valarauko 3y ago
I'm a little surprised at the initial confusion about the source of lead, or perhaps it's the way the article has been written. As someone who grew up in India, our school textbooks in the 90s had a list of common food adulterants
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by valarauko 3y ago
My recollection of the books is a bit rusty, but I think he also spoke Welsh (his brother-in-law's family was Welsh) and maybe Dutch as well? The Netherlands were the main market for English wool, and were the nursery of early English
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by valarauko 3y ago
I found DataSpell to run much slower for me, and didn't find any value above something like VSCode.
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by valarauko 3y ago
In many countries, the standard of care for low vitamin D is a bolus dose of 60K IU once a month is perfectly fine. It's only a problem if you were eating this much every day.
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by valarauko 3y ago
That is annoying for sure. It was a cultural adjustment for me with American theaters and no intermissions, even for the very long films. Funnily enough, since I went to a couple of Broadway shows before the movie theater, I was primed to e
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by valarauko 3y ago
> Indian movie theatres just forcibly introduce a break in Hollywood films so that they can send people to the concession stands and restrooms. Is this still the case? It's been probably over 10 years since I saw a movie in an India
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by valarauko 3y ago
Sure, though you're using the community definition of the term, while the US government definition encompasses anybody from those countries, regardless of ancestry. So a Lebanese - Mexican or Chinese - Mexican with no Spanish ancestry
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by valarauko 3y ago
Thankfully, the Intermission is a hallmark of Indian films. It's a little funny to watch Indian films in the US, since the intermission messaging is part of the film itself, usually at a cliffhanger, the music builds to an emotional hi
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by valarauko 3y ago
I think 'ethnicity' is a complicated term, since it's a catchall for all sorts of identities we can't quite assign to something easier to parse. In the example of the Australian Indigenous, that identity is a Venn diagra
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by valarauko 3y ago
You're off by a few centuries. Even if you use the boundaries of present day India as the threshold, Muslim led empires have controlled a majority of the land and the people since at least two centuries before Babur. Nor was it restri
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by valarauko 3y ago
Which Hyderabad?

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