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by evolve2017 9y ago
Not quite true - we're down to around 14 days with the latest generation of tests. The ideal would be a rapid 'fever' panel that tests for all the viruses we currently pay a ton of money for. This sort of test could pick up e
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by evolve2017 9y ago
I'm not an expert, but this seems like an area of debate. See a reply to that article: http://www.pnas.org/content/113/45/E6908
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by evolve2017 9y ago
To the moderators, the title would be more accurate with 'fMRI' as opposed to 'MRI'. The latter is typically used to examine structural brain elements, whereas fMRI is thought to correlate with brain activity and, by ext
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by evolve2017 9y ago
Thanks, this definitely bas been a well-played gambit on their part - I had no idea how extensive their lobbying had grown.
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by evolve2017 9y ago
I think this is a pretty bold claim and would appreciate the sources you found probative. If the statements you offer constitute sufficient evidence for you, I would say that numerous companies and industries have more contact with our lawm
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by evolve2017 9y ago
That's a very interesting claim. What's your evidence?
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by evolve2017 9y ago
Your parents' story is very impressive, but I think it highlights some aspects of privilege I have also encountered: - The people who are able to emigrate from a poor/devastated country are generally the educated and former middle
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by evolve2017 9y ago
I think it’s unfair to discounts papers in a foreign field to one’s own as ‘minimum publishable unit’ - often the novelty and importance of a finding requires some background, which the new, longer narrative abstracts in Science are trying
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by evolve2017 9y ago
As an opposing viewpoint, turning off wifi is exactly what I used to do when boarding a plane - my bluetooth radio is always off.
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by evolve2017 9y ago
This is patently false (I have just done the very thing you said, then confirmed that the wifi was in fact still on ). I think this whole argument just lends more support to the idea that Apple is being deceptive with this UI.
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by evolve2017 9y ago
I wonder if this means that the super resolution microscopy techniques are also in line for a Nobel...
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by evolve2017 9y ago
This is very controversial - in short, there is no national recommendation for mammogram screening to start at 40 years. Multiple professional organizations disagree (see below). For the societies that recommend age 45, they suggest that co
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by evolve2017 9y ago
Many surgical items are reused - for example scissors, and retractors. Surgeons may have their own set of tools that they continue to use. Lower cost items are not reused (a scalpel, which might simply be a piece of plastic attached to a bl
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by evolve2017 9y ago
Very interesting! I'm not sure I agree with your reasoning for the mitochondrial mutation point: > * Mitochondrial DNA is passed by mothers only and so undergoes very little mutation It's true that mothers pass on mito
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by evolve2017 9y ago
On mobile, so I may not get to reply fully! We actually do have some idea about necks and I believe noses - the important elements are DNA enhancers. There was a presentation at the Society for Developmental Biology in 2012 on this topic, t
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by evolve2017 9y ago
I remember seeing this result. It's tantalizing but - and in the absence of mandated reporting perhaps the best we may have. I will take a look at the paper but I wonder what biases exist in officer-initiated reporting. Lastly, we&#x27
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by evolve2017 9y ago
I find this very curious - why do you think this movement came to attention if the killings are rare? Also, your comment implies that there's an acceptable number of police killings of unarmed/fleeing suspects - what would you say
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How Redlining’s Effects Lasted for Decades(nytimes.com)
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by evolve2017 9y ago
I made this comment a few days ago, but I think a lot of readers are getting tripped up in his (likely very artfully deployed) wording and avoiding his underlying messages. The passage in which that quote occurs clearly implies that the b
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by evolve2017 9y ago
I think this is the fallacy of hiring that every startup makes, the idea that only Linus is good enough to write your CRUD app. Incidentally, we do not know whether his statement is true, or whether the changes to Google's hiring pract
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by evolve2017 9y ago
I'm not sure how you're privvy to his thought process. Also, the idea that finding ways to employ more women+minorities leads to poorer employees is exactly what many people don't after about - essentially, your argument is
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by evolve2017 9y ago
I think this has been talked about multiple times over - Damore did not have a line that states that women and/or minorities are bad engineers. He does, however, clearly state that Google's hiring standards had 'lowered the b
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by evolve2017 9y ago
I see what you're implying with your UC/Crohn's reference, but it actually underscores why CFS is so hard of a diagnosis. In UC/Crohn's, patients presented with recurrent bouts of bloody diarrhea in the absence of i
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by evolve2017 9y ago
I happen to share your skepticism about a mitochondrial origin for this syndrome, though I am not familiar with the research (would appreciate a review on the topic - I saw one linked earlier in the comments from BMC Genetics that seemed to
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by evolve2017 9y ago
I think that's an issue that a lot of science-minded folks disagree with. I happen to think there's a lot about the author's time/mental state/life circumstances that one can find in the words themselves. A much mor
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by evolve2017 9y ago
I'm finding this to be a fascinating look at how people, as a group, do literary criticism. I think, if we step back from the actual words on the paper and examine the author's intent, his choice of evidence, and the mere fact tha
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by evolve2017 9y ago
These also happen to be the most difficult to use in terms of dosing frequency and rate of blood glucose control. In the US of all places, there isn't a good argument for the very, very slightly modified newer insulins to cost so much
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by evolve2017 9y ago
I don't quite understand the snark in your response - were you, unlike the purported cheering liberals, fond of the purveyors of fake news?
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by evolve2017 9y ago
I agree with you in part - I find the biological explanations very unsatisfying given the many peculiar things we are socialized to do (proms, engagement proposals, baby showers, amongst many others, likely do not find their origins in our
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by evolve2017 9y ago
I think I'm outside the edit window for my comment. As a coda, it looks like mortality due to measles may have been declining before the incidence of measles began to decline; this further supports a role for other societal development

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