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by ctoa 1mo ago
Ah yes, put the entire burden on women, coerce them into having kids, let men do whatever. Sounds great, totally sane.
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by ctoa 1mo ago
That was my initial reaction, however, there is more to it. The thing that made these breakthroughs feel important was that they seemed to be open ended problems that the system itself made independent progress on. That the results were not
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by ctoa 2mo ago
Yes, and those alcoholics also exactly fit the multi-day accumulation pattern. These aren't people taking one day of Tylenol after a bender for a hangover. The pattern is people with an impaired ability to process acetaminophen (alcoho
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by ctoa 2mo ago
What those numbers really don't get into: ~80% of acetaminophen poisoning cases severe enough to end in hospital are intentional suicide attempts. Those patients also have better outcomes though: family members know what happened, they
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by ctoa 2mo ago
I absolutely think we should ban acetaminophen in otc combo meds. There was a big drop in hospitalizations when they dropped the max allowed dose in prescription drugs like Vicodin, there's no reason these otc things like NyQuil need t
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by ctoa 2mo ago
"A lot fatalities due to taking after hangovers" no, that's not how acetaminophen fatalities happen. In fact, the article you cited specifically mentions "there is no scientific evidence that people with AUD (alcohol use
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by ctoa 2mo ago
Or any love poetry by Lorca, Neruda, Benedetti. The idea that Spanish has to resort to "corazon" and "amor" because it... has fewer words than other languages?? People believe some really crazy stuff.
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by ctoa 2mo ago
You are mixing numbers that don't go together. OED (171k) is comparable in content to RAE + RAE Americanisms (93k + 70k = 163k) because OED is pan dialect. RAE core dictionary by itself is not the same type of coverage as OED. The 1M+
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by ctoa 2mo ago
The only thing you're right about here is that Spanish is "nearly phonetic" by which you mean that the writing system is orthographically transparent and very standardized. That's true and a huge benefit for learners. Th
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by ctoa 2mo ago
No, it's not though. That's true for antibody tests commonly used for individuals because it's cheap. The window period for nucleic acid testing that is used for blood supply is very short. This test is similar to what's
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by ctoa 2mo ago
There remain undecidable problems even with finite memory/state space. Linear bounded automata (LBA) the halting problem is decidable. But many properties of LBA are undecidable: Emptiness: Does an LBA reject all possible inputs? Unive
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by ctoa 2mo ago
The bigger worry isn't really false negatives, modern PCR based testing is incredibly good. There is always risk but it's frankly extremely low. The bigger issue is that blood is pooled before testing to make that powerful testing
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by ctoa 3mo ago
The very first thing I did when coming to this thread was search for if someone had already mentioned "one book theory". My favorite episodes of IBCK are mostly the self-help trash.
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by ctoa 4mo ago
Mass produced EVs and reusable rockets are already decade old accomplishments. His track record this last decade of accomplishing things he proposes is noticeably much worse. Neuralink is just another medical device company right now. The t
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by ctoa 4mo ago
That's also true inside Japan. True wasabi is really hard to grow commercially and thus very expensive.
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by ctoa 4mo ago
BoJack Horseman is maybe my favorite show of all time. But that did start in 2014 and seems like a relic of an older Netflix that would commit to something for 6 seasons.
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by ctoa 5mo ago
About 50% of people just don't get gassy from beans to begin with, and 70% of those who do adapt within weeks, according to https://www.researchgate.net/publication/51819295_Perception... My casual observation is
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by ctoa 5mo ago
The point I was making re double variants having even more apparent protection is simply that these people continue the dose response curve you expect to see all the way to the extreme low end. Single variant people have massive protection,
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by ctoa 6mo ago
I actually don't think your response is the exact opposite, but you touch on some of the skeptic stuff, so I'll respond to here: First of all, I agree with your points that you should consider the individual. My long term interest
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by ctoa 6mo ago
Not longevity in the general sense, but in the cardiac disease and mortality sense, yes, it's pretty firmly established. It's also an area that attracts a lot of quackery, is somewhat hard to study (for the normal reasons that a l
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by ctoa 6mo ago
April snowfall is also typical. With current forecasts, we will be far short of normal April snowfall as well.
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by ctoa 6mo ago
Where I'm at in the Sierra, March is typically very close to as snowy as Dec/Jan/Feb and the snowpack is still increasing, not decreasing. Late March is typically the peak depth. March avg snowfall is 62", this year we g
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by ctoa 6mo ago
They are nowhere near the world's biggest ISP by any metrics, what are you talking about?
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by ctoa 6mo ago
European cheese producers have their own costly methods of managing raw milk cheese safety. They have much more surveillance of the entire process, like rapid testing of milk for STEC (the microbe involved in this outbreak) and adding biopr
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by ctoa 6mo ago
The earliest neural network work on perceptrons was done in an applied contract lab for the US Navy, it was not done in an academic setting. Backpropagation has been reinvented multiple times, because it is a basic application of the chain
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by ctoa 7mo ago
It's currently down to about where it was on Feb 23, everybody panic.
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by ctoa 7mo ago
Most Tahoe buildings are not A-frames, 500-800" snow years are big years, not average, and also those are resort numbers, not towns where more houses are. Modern buildings in Tahoe are engineered to hold very high snow loads, typically
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by ctoa 8mo ago
Well, that's exactly the problem with focusing too hard on one macro nutrient recommendation out of context of other balanced diet recommendations. Adding lean meat, dairy, eggs to protein poor diets is good, I love all of those things
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by ctoa 8mo ago
Yes, but the standards aren't based on "the best protein to absorb", they are based on whole diet consumption. Studies like the one I linked to are where the recommendations come from. It is a misunderstanding to read a recom
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by ctoa 8mo ago
When I did strength sports and would eat ~180g protein a day (which for me was 1.8g/100kg), I ate a lot less meat than you would think, I was carefully tracking all my food for a while and you have to count the whole diet. I really lik

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