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by gmarx 2y ago
I have a friend who was course VI at MIT but also a serious (chemical free) bodybuilder. He told me the story of working summers at a gym and he saw this one guy eating a large number of bananas as he trained. I don't know the number,
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by gmarx 2y ago
I stopped going to dentists for years because two dentists in serial made up cavities. The first guy I let him drill. The second guy, a friend of my dad's (supposedly)I declined. This was in the early 1990s I told this story to a frien
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by gmarx 2y ago
before the US entered WWII the british had an office of propaganda with offices in New York that was dedicated to getting the US to enter the war.
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by gmarx 2y ago
I don't understand? Which way? Making people overestimate or underestimate risk? I think it works both ways in medicine and public health. In public health (as evidenced by the pandemic) people are still vulnerable to acting on small a
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by gmarx 2y ago
This is well known in medicine except it often works in the opposite direction, i.e. it tricks people into way overestimating the chance that something rare will happen. So yes, across a population, some children will die of COVID, but your
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by gmarx 2y ago
I refer you to the definitive resource on this issue- the movie "Mean Girls". This movie is the key to understanding the current age.
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by gmarx 2y ago
I'll second what everyone else said and add that the guy was absolutely amazing at capturing drums. Everything I ever read about the guy sounded positive to me even though the authors might not have agreed
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by gmarx 2y ago
The success of these ML models has me wondering if this is what Quantum Mechanics is. QM is notoriously difficult to interpret yet makes amazing predictions. Maybe wave functions are just really good at predicting system behavior but don&#x
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by gmarx 3y ago
Based on what is reported in the article (and without reviewing the review studies) we can only say that claiming in a survey to eat less red meat is associated with a small reduction in heart disease risk. After decades of nonsense high pr
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by gmarx 3y ago
They certainly try to give that impression in the article but if you look at the animation showing where all the homeless are being sent it sure looks like the bubble around LA and SF grew a lot during the time frame. Where these bubbles ne
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by gmarx 3y ago
The only way to arrive at this conclusion is to group the short term and long term homeless together. I concede it might have changed since I last read up on the topic, but the short term homeless are the great majority and these are regula
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by gmarx 3y ago
But it is the drugged out visible long term homeless that this article is about and the problem everyone wants to solve. It is also the problem that hasn't been solved at all. In my city (LA) we have successful programs for the person
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by gmarx 3y ago
That puppy example is special. In many cases (most?) the fact that a pet needs more than $10k it is likely too much to put the pet through. No way I would give a dog chemotherapy for cancer for example
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by gmarx 3y ago
I disagree. This would be handled by trade secrets. California doesn't stop you from requiring ex-employees to continue to guard trade secrets they learned or created under your employ
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by gmarx 3y ago
I haven't researched it in depth but I gather a much larger issue is the use and abuse of environmental law by the minority who don't want the projects done
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by gmarx 3y ago
abortion legality was determined by unelected judges from 1973 until 2022. Roe v Wade was overturned and now we have the situation you consider not weird. Elected legislators in each state determine to what extent abortion is legal
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by gmarx 3y ago
Hard to blame this on Federalism when states had more relative power in the first half of the 20th century and we were able to complete amazing public works projects on reasonable schedules
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by gmarx 3y ago
People like to discuss who they think deserves to get into Harvard but almost no one ever tries to model what functions Harvard admissions are attempting to maximize. I really don't know and have never read an explanation. Could easily
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by gmarx 3y ago
That's a hypothesis. It is known that (supposedly) that strain can cause cytokine storm more than other flus do. I would not assume that means cytokine storm was the primary cause of death or even the primary cause of death in young ad
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by gmarx 3y ago
The Spanish flu really was very bad but would not have killed as many people if it occurred today. Malnutrition might have been a factor (though today's obesity rate might also be a problem) but the bigger thing was lack of antibiotics
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by gmarx 3y ago
I think it's the opposite. Most of the people actually working as writers cannot write a passable show. Writing something original and compelling enough for people to watch all the way through is extremely difficult. One of the tricks
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by gmarx 3y ago
I think the search for tiny effects and the belief that they should drive treatment, is one of the biggest things wrong with medical research. Doctors will put millions of people on a pill that hits a vital metabolic pathway, for life, base
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by gmarx 3y ago
No it doesn't historically and in most places even in the US. If you live in an unusual area, e.g coastal California, at an unusual time, e.g. the past 20 years then yes if you bought 20 years ago your cost would be much less than equi
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by gmarx 3y ago
This is a new argument in the past few years and it doesn't make sense. You do not need a parent with a paid off house to go to college and be successful. I didn't have that and I don't know many people who did. My friends wh
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by gmarx 3y ago
You'd need to know the percentage and scores for ivy league applicants to say such a thing a clear. It's likely true but not from these numbers
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by gmarx 3y ago
You are making some assumptions about what Harvard is attempting to do when filling its classes. If its goal is to have a class full of people who did the most with what they had you have an argument. If their goal is to maximize alumni sup
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by gmarx 3y ago
Where did you get 30 million? One online source estimates 1 million net worth and has some reasoning to back it up. My guess is that if he has owned a house in the DC area since he has been on the supreme court, he would have a lot of home
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by gmarx 3y ago
When Sandra Day O'Connor cast the deciding vote in favor of keeping AA back in 2003 even though she was against it, she suggested it might be done away with after another 25 years. We have had affirmative action in college admissions f
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by gmarx 3y ago
There are many situations in economics in which the marginal effects are quite large especially WRT setting prices. I haven't read or done an analysis but I would never assume that 5% of a market has a 5% influence only in determining
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by gmarx 3y ago
Share my background? I am an M.D. How about you?

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