NoPie

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by NoPie 11mo ago
From another perspective – she wants to restore democracy in her country and wishes it again to become a prosperous society with growing economy. And perhaps your attitude is why it is more globally relevant than many people think. Many cou
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by NoPie 1y ago
If m-dashes becomes a turn off, GPT users will simply replace them with hyphens and using m-dashes will become a sign of real professionalism or alternatively a sing of completely clueless.
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by NoPie 1y ago
It is actually stupid to adjust to writing without m-dashes because one can easily replace all m-dashes to hyphens in chatGPT generated text. I predict that obsession with detecting chatGPT by m-dashes will be short-lived because it will be
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by NoPie 2y ago
The RTCs didn't find significant difference between N95 and surgical masks in hospital settings. How can a request for evidence be absurd?
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by NoPie 2y ago
That applies only to lab conditions. No RCTs have found much effectiveness so far in real life.
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by NoPie 2y ago
We now know that masks were barely effective or not effective at all. They could even be net negative by causing people to take more risks. Isolating was the only way. A lot of elderly in the UK did this successfully and never got covid. Lo
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by NoPie 2y ago
I was actually commenting for Herman Cain. Sorry, for this mistake. Yes, they made announcements without clearly thinking how they will be perceived. I agree that it was unnecessary and then dying suddenly didn't look good. Nevertheles
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by NoPie 2y ago
The problem with this is that he had been diagnosed with stage IV colon cancer in 2006. It is rare for a person with stage IV cancer to survive for another 14 years. He received treatment but most likely eventually he would have died anyway
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by NoPie 2y ago
It's actually quite clever from the part of the scientist. The incentive would be money, maybe the pay for doing this test was not good enough. Or maybe the scientist was motivated by thirst of discovering something good for humanity l
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by NoPie 2y ago
sic transit gloria mundis https://archive.is/VZDDN I cannot believe they wrote this in 2022 when it was all clear that covid doesn't matter for children and had already become endemic.
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by NoPie 2y ago
Santa Cruz where most of the local population lives gets half of its water from desalination plant. Desalination is already cost-effective and can provide water for tourists if needed. They would just need to build a desalination plant in t
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by NoPie 2y ago
I find him more relatable than most musicians, journalists and actors.
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by NoPie 3y ago
What do you mean by high bar? Cochrane group are specialists who do exactly that and provide gold standard of evidence. Sometimes the evidence goes against accepted wisdom. That's how science work.
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by NoPie 3y ago
>> That's one paper out of dozens, feel free to pick another. It is not. It is the review of all available evidence (studies).
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by NoPie 3y ago
>> If the claim masks don't work didn't come from the same people who said isolating didn't work, I might take them seriously. It didn't. The claim came from Cochrane group. So, are you taking it seriously now?
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by NoPie 3y ago
If we already have strong evidence that the current vaccine is effective, then I agree, we don't need to to do another placebo controlled studies. But very often in medicine we don't have any evidence besides our beliefs.
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by NoPie 3y ago
I agree, they are not politicians. However, they are deciding policy and that means their job is political.
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by NoPie 3y ago
Actually we could. Maybe we won't do such studies because they are irrelevant because avoiding spitting into the surgical opening is a reason good enough. But then we cannot claim that masks during the surgery prevent the spread of air
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by NoPie 3y ago
That's not accurate. Obviously there are many different studies with different conclusions. But by “evidence” we usually mean the total conclusion from all of them. In medicine it is usually done via metareviews and even then evidence
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by NoPie 3y ago
I understand how public can misunderstand this phrase but scientifically it is clear and justified. Sometimes “no evidence” means that we haven't found compelling evidence yet. Some people are desperate and want all the studies to be d
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by NoPie 3y ago
I understand how public can misunderstand this phrase but scientifically it is clear and justified. I looking at that page and sometimes “no evidence” means that we haven't found the evidence yet. Some people are desperate and want all
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by NoPie 3y ago
The important conclusion here is that Russia tried to influence the Baltic States by political destabilization (they had plans for Russia as a second official language, reducing importance of NATO) and it failed. Russia seemed to have more
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by NoPie 3y ago
Ukraine and Baltic countries are not the same. This comparison is false. No wonder the whole world went mad and demanded vaccine mandates for vaccine that does not even prevent the spread of infection. Too much reliance on “experts” that re
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by NoPie 3y ago
Is it? Everybody is an expert online. My trust in those experts is 0.
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by NoPie 3y ago
Russia had no military strength to take over Kyiv and yet it tried to do that. Intelligence tried to warn about that and most European governments ignored that. The theory is that Russia has nothing to lose. Their plan may not be to win but
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by NoPie 3y ago
Diazepam can sometimes cause people to act like that. They are not sleeping but are completely on autopilot, even driving a car etc. and afterwards they don't remember what they were doing. Some people are afraid to fly and use diazepa
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by NoPie 3y ago
I don't think that there is a big mystery. He might have lost his memory due to stress, fatigue, lack of sleep, use of drugs (such as diazepam) etc. Maybe he was supposed to change flights in Copenhagen to somewhere else, to Russia or
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by NoPie 3y ago
Lithium (an active substance) is a drug, Priadel (a brand version of lithium carbonate) is a medicine. Drug and medicine is specifically distinguished in medical science. But again, in many contexts this distinction doesn't matter and
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by NoPie 3y ago
It just shows that precise definitions are not that important in medical science. We all know what is a drug. And there are border cases where our ideas of drug and food overlap. It is only a small issue for regulators to decide what regula
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by NoPie 3y ago
I use cheap airlines and they are bargain in most cases. Sometimes you get a problem, extra luggage fees, unplanned check-in at the airport etc. so that you are forced to pay much more. But counting all together they are still cheaper and m

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