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by vjk800 2y ago
It sounds like, even in the best case scenario, the drug doesn't really cure arthritis but just blunts the pain. I was thinking it would be something that helps the worn ligament grow back. That I would consider a real cure.
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by vjk800 2y ago
My understanding is that exposure therapy is nowadays the recommended way to deal with milder allergies. My daughter was allergic to eggs and the doctors advice was to start to slowly introduce them to her diet. About half a year after star
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by vjk800 2y ago
With a little bit of search, it's possible to find lots of papers that claim to solve the issue with some kind of novel treatment. Sometimes it's training the LES or other muscle (like in the article), sometimes it's correcti
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by vjk800 2y ago
There are people with giant hiatal hernias and no GERD and there are people with bad GERD and no hiatal hernia. Hiatal hernia seems to at least make GERD worse, but is not the only factor and the causal link between hiatal hernia and GERD s
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by vjk800 2y ago
I'm still waiting for a similar discovery to treat GERD. Having the condition, I've become a bit of a couch expert on GERD literature and it seems that everyone and their dog have a completely different opinion on what, in the end
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by vjk800 2y ago
Does this heart speed up/slow down as the demand for blood in the body changes (like heart rate goes up or down)? If not, will people just pass out if they exert themselves more than the blood flow from the artificial heart can support
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by vjk800 2y ago
My company has a bunch of Oracle databases. It's a large bank so I assume they are paying a lot. I don't know why Oracle was chosen in the first place, but it surely wasn't by people who were very passionate about databases o
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by vjk800 2y ago
Why wouldn't they. Oracle stock has increase by 244% in the past 10 years and is at all time highest.
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by vjk800 2y ago
To be fair, most people probably are hypochondriacs. Somehow we have come to expect that all our nagging ailments should be fully treatable by either a pill or a surgery. In reality, human body is pretty good at self-repairing and self-regu
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by vjk800 2y ago
I really disagree on potato. It goes soft fairly quickly in the room temperature but keeps for ages in the refrigerator. I eat a lot of potatoes and haven't noticed anything wrong with them after long periods of refrigerator storage.
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by vjk800 2y ago
Cucumbers also seem to last surprisingly long time just in the room temperature on the kitchen counter. I always buy about half a week's worth of cucumber (we eat a lot of cucumber so this is usually 3-4 large ones) in one go and just
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by vjk800 2y ago
The remote-by-default working style that started during the pandemic has been the single biggest change in my entire adult life (well, that and getting kids). Talking to people who don't have the remote option for legit reasons (like w
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by vjk800 2y ago
After-WW2 development has been largely the same everywhere - more cars, wider roads, etc. Also in Europe and Japan cities an neighbourhoods that were built after WW2 are often very hostile to pedestrians while those built before are walkabl
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by vjk800 2y ago
I'd argue that iNaturalist counts as a leisure research community. It's a platform for tracking animal and plant species and sharing your findings with others. Of course most people who use it don't produce publications or an
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by vjk800 2y ago
This, I think is why all (most) old people are conservative while young people tend to be more liberal (both in politics and in personal life). If you know that a single mistake can ruin everything, you focus on not doing that mistake over
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by vjk800 2y ago
Indeed. I think it fulfills some sort of social need to read/hear back my own thinking in slightly different and often more coherent words. It gives me a feeling of being understood, which is of course sort of artificial when writer of
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by vjk800 2y ago
Fruitland, North Carolina has population of about 2000. Something tells me you too can buy a house while driving a laundry truck if you're willing to move to Fruitland.
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by vjk800 3y ago
> From novels in the 18th century to the bicycle in the 19th and through comic books, rock and roll, marijuana, and violent video games in the 20th century, there are always those who ring alarms, and there are always those who are skept
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by vjk800 3y ago
The biggest owner of TSMC is National Development Fund, which is a fund owned by Saudi Arabia. I'm not sure if a US owned fund would be slower and more ineffective in corporate governance than a Saudi owned one.
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by vjk800 3y ago
What we usually see in cities all over the world is that increasing population density drives the house prices up, not down. For whatever reason, people like to live around other people. The more people already live in a city, the more othe
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by vjk800 3y ago
My own armchair economics theory of why housing is so expensive is that places where housing is not expensive tend to wither economically and people move elsewhere. Let me elaborate. We have made pretty much everything else than housing che
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by vjk800 3y ago
> * my knees have improved so much that I feel like being 20 again. I no longer remember which one gave me so much trouble that I almost ended up in surgery in 2017. They are both just fine. I had shit knees when I was around 30. I start
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by vjk800 3y ago
I have a history of mental problems and I mostly attribute it to physical problems. At some point I realized that chronic pain prevented me from sleeping well and when I don't sleep well, I feel like crap. When this goes on for a long
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by vjk800 3y ago
If labeling has fuzzy boundaries, perhaps it shouldn't have strong implications. If it does, the boundary cases behave chaotically, which is usually not acceptable behaviour. I mean, if the labels have no consequences, what is the poin
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by vjk800 3y ago
I first looked at the results and thought "this is kinda cool". Then I proceeded to read about the whole competition and how thoughtfully it was organized and thought that "this is extremely cool". I wonder what else c
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by vjk800 3y ago
Alternative internet communities with higher (even if only slightly) barriers for entry and no financial incentives to ruin everything. Maybe mastodon/matrix communities or something? I honestly am not up to speed on what exists in gee
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by vjk800 3y ago
Indeed. For all the shit fossil fuels (rightfully) get, they are pretty damn good for storing energy. When you look into this, it really isn't a wonder that it's so difficult to transition away from them.
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by vjk800 3y ago
Someone could make an NLP algorithm to determine whether a given card is well made. Training data could just deleted/non-deleted cards from a power users such as you.
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by vjk800 3y ago
It it's a choice between drinking with friends outside or playing on your phone alone at home, it might be that the first option is better for most people's mental health even if alcohol, in isolation, is bad for it.
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by vjk800 3y ago
> It's an irrational response that persists even when there is no reason to be unhappy. What if there is? Generally, we are not very good at judging what makes us happy. Happiness research points to things that many of us are indeed

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