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by broguinn 11mo ago
Doesn't the AMA serve the medical industry? They don't have to make profits themselves. If a byzantine coding process raises medical treatment costs, they'll do it. Just like how they intentionally cap med school admissions t
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by broguinn 11mo ago
+1. To all of the marketing site developers out there: never mess with scrolling defaults.
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by broguinn 1y ago
I don't know if this is useful for you, but getting my MTHFR and COMT genes sequenced has been incredibly helpful for managing my own mental health. Since getting these results, I've been able to understand my own neurology better
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by broguinn 1y ago
Who among us can compare with that colon?
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by broguinn 1y ago
I added 6 mosquitofish to my 110 gallon container pond two months ago. There are now nearly 100 in there, and the mosquito count in my back yard has definitely diminished. Cool mosquitofish facts: - An adult female can eat between 300-400 m
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by broguinn 1y ago
Ahh, thanks for clarifying! It's the origin being compared, not the context - of course.
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by broguinn 1y ago
This Web Security lecture by Feross Aboukhadijeh has a great example of Zoom's zero-day from 2019 that allowed anyone to force you to join a zoom meeting (and even cause arbitrary code execution), using a local server: https:/&#x
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by broguinn 1y ago
The above comment is getting downvoted, and I suspect it's due to a misunderstanding of their intent. Yes, high speeds can make collisions (especially, as another commenter points out, to pedestrians and cyclists) more dangerous. Howev
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by broguinn 2y ago
I ordered the KO-II for a friend, after reading about it on Hacker News. I love Teenage Engineering's playfulness and creativity, but was disappointed when the KO-II had quality issues with its input nob, making it unusable. They were
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by broguinn 2y ago
I haven't seen this mentioned in the comments yet, so I'll mention it here. For the last year, I've seen health pundits (Huberman, etc.) recommend delaying caffeine intake for two hours after waking, for the purpose of allowi
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by broguinn 2y ago
This hasn't been my experience.
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by broguinn 3y ago
Very interesting - thank you for sharing his work. From my very cursory glance at Todd Ecological's homepage, their projects look scaled to individual residential and commercial wastewater filtration applications. I was hoping to see e
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by broguinn 3y ago
Here in Austin, Texas, we're lucky to have Ladybird (Town) Lake downtown. For most of the year, algae blooms are so severe that it's not safe for people or dogs to swim in the lake. It drives me crazy that people consider this any
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by broguinn 3y ago
Someone flashed their lights at me this very morning at around 5:00 am. At first I thought it was because my lights were off, then realized they thought my brights were on. They weren't, it's just that my new car has LEDs that are
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by broguinn 3y ago
I've looked at the dishwasher detergents at a few of my local grocery stores, and all of them contain either ethoxylates or "fatty alcohol alkoxylates", which some brief googling tells me are a class of chemicals that include
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by broguinn 3y ago
Wow, way to drop the Baldur's Gate 3 spoilers, Apple!
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Cruise Suspends (Driverless) Operations in Texas(twitter.com)
2 points by broguinn 3y ago|0 comments
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by broguinn 3y ago
There's some evidence that NAC can improve long COVID-like symptoms: https://medicine.yale.edu/news-article/potential-new-treatme... Other than antibiotics to clear a lingering infection, are there interventions t
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by broguinn 3y ago
I had the same thought seeing the hero videos on this page displaying beautiful mountain scapes and vistas - I wouldn't want to be the person disturbing this space with an intrusive drone.
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by broguinn 3y ago
Are you sure this data is accurate? By the site you reference, r/nottheonion has ~30 comments a day: https://subredditstats.com/r/nottheonion But if I actually visit the subreddit, I see many posts from within the
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by broguinn 3y ago
Your point is a good one - what you're describing I've heard referred to as "the novelty effect". In fact, a lot in this article reminds me of another essay critical of the short-sightedness of many A/B tests: http
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by broguinn 3y ago
I read the same book, and while it did help me in several respects (nasal breathing, mandibular and maxillar expansion via an orthodontic device, mouth taping), I only used its box breathing techniques under acute stress. It wasn't unt
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by broguinn 3y ago
I also learned in a Not Just Bikes video that the US tire lobby prevents regulation on quieter car tires. I bet there are ways to make tires that shed fewer microplastics - it's just that we don't do it.
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by broguinn 3y ago
Israel has completely stopped fluoridation.
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by broguinn 3y ago
This, so much this. My family often jokes about how I'm the health and fitness "freak", because I care about my wellbeing and stress levels. However, this is very normal in my social circle - and I would argue - in my class a
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by broguinn 3y ago
I'm sorry they didn't hire you because of your disability. IANAL, but I suspect that your disability is a protected status in the United States. I'm not saying that you should've pursued legal action, but that what they
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by broguinn 3y ago
Read this; helped me get to staff. Some takeaways: - If your management chain isn't supporting you into a staff promo, it's because they don't value the work you're currently doing. - A staff engineer isn't a highly
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by broguinn 3y ago
I thought of this exactly. Is the Desulfovibrio bacterium's presence correlative with TCE exposure?
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by broguinn 3y ago
Filter your drinking water. From the Minnesota Dept. of Health: "Activated carbon filtration can remove TCE from drinking water effectively."[1] [1] https://www.health.state.mn.us/communities/environment/
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by broguinn 3y ago
> Biochar is made today by heating waste materials like wood chips, rice husks, or *water-treatment sludge* at high temperature in a low-oxygen environment. Holy shit.

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