leereeves

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by leereeves 1mo ago
> and, well, they’re frankly not spending enough time with each patient per appointment. Many doctors would agree with you. They're under enormous pressure to work faster from both non-medical administrators and non-medical reimburs
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by leereeves 1mo ago
In what way did you mean it? Economically was the most logical interpretation in this discussion of "how to preserve economic growth despite a shrinking population and declining productivity".
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by leereeves 1mo ago
Poland faltering? Three days ago HN had: Poland now 6th-largest EU economy, ahead of Switzerland and Belgium https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49235323 "Poland's rise is primarily the result of years of econo
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by leereeves 1mo ago
I would be confused if someone called Wales a country. I thought Wales (unlike Scotland) was a region of England and had little autonomy. TIL.
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by leereeves 1mo ago
The two worst Roman emperors ruled hundreds of years before the fall: Caligula from 37 to 41 CE, Nero from 54 to 68 CE. Not many people could name, or recognize the name of, any emperor from the last hundred years of the Western Roman Empir
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by leereeves 1mo ago
What age were they when they died?
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by leereeves 1mo ago
Oh, if you mean campaign strategy, Democrats and the media spent most of 2016 (and all the years since) mocking Trump. How well did that work out?
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by leereeves 1mo ago
> It doesn't matter what the reality is, but what it can be made to look like. I disagree, I think it matters what the reality is, but do what feels right for you.
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by leereeves 1mo ago
It was, in fact the article also refers to it as a catering truck .
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by leereeves 1mo ago
That article was published July 16, 2024, before the election. Biden was in charge of US intelligence agencies when they claimed Iran was trying to assassinate Trump.
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by leereeves 1mo ago
> Crawling around in catering trucks or carts to avoid Iran's threats is at best demeaning to the entire nation. The article actually says "secretly shuttled minutes later to a smaller plane via an airport catering truck &quot
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by leereeves 2mo ago
> I don't think most folks I know in the US are willing to touch the historical wrongs (genocide and slavery) with a 3.048M pole. I hear those discussed quite often in the US. Someone is obviously willing. And more importantly, it&#
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by leereeves 2mo ago
> The US does not exactly have an entirely pristine history either. Shall we discuss the post-9-11 related infrastructure of Guantanamo Bay ? Or the "Detention and Interrogation Program" that included a network of clandestine e
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by leereeves 2mo ago
> and they are not forced to do so That would be my concern. I bet in at least some cases they're told something like be here at 2 AM or don't be here tomorrow.
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by leereeves 2mo ago
> CCP as it's now was created after reforms by Deng. Their policies changed, so they're no longer responsible for their own history?
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by leereeves 2mo ago
It's a shame this became a high-profile political issue, because there is a real unanswered medical question there, as even that study acknowledges ("associations observed in other models", including that study itself outside
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by leereeves 2mo ago
> [Asians] received 57 percent of the offers for the specialized schools for the fall Does that imply that whites received less than 44% of the offers, and does that make whites underrepresented?
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by leereeves 2mo ago
For Hickisch himself, yes, but that part was about data from "Hickisch’s home country of Austria".
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by leereeves 2mo ago
Yeah, magnesium citrate is used medically as a laxative. Because it is poorly absorbed, it draws water into the stool osmotically, making it softer. (But that also draws water out of the body and can be dehydrating.)
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by leereeves 2mo ago
> The appearance of two 3.5-sigma events suggests that the data is no longer being randomly generated around that mean, but is instead drifting away from that mean. Not if the two 3.5-sigma events are in opposite directions, as in this c
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by leereeves 2mo ago
> Every avoided pregnancy is economically that woman being productive back in the workforce or managing the family on a lower overhead. > Every avoided child death [or additional child born] is 40-50 years of productive labour from th
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by leereeves 2mo ago
I see what you mean, there's a clear gap in the fitted (regression) lines, suggesting the trend of dementia with age is different in the two groups. But I wonder if that's just a statistical artifact. The overall trend looks the s
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by leereeves 2mo ago
I think I'm failing to understand your subtext. Obviously older people have higher rates of dementia. A study reporting that doesn't tell us anything about the effect of the vaccine.
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by leereeves 2mo ago
> No one ever cared, at least in the U.S. about 'food rent healthcare transport'. In the U.S. we don't combine those ideas together. Unless you're a student or a politician, almost no one talks like that. GP said &quo
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by leereeves 3mo ago
> leaving people on the back in a state of precariousness. What do you mean? Don't they benefit from Sweden's generous educational and welfare systems in addition to extra support for migrants?
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by leereeves 4mo ago
> You can also tell the LLM exactly what you have in the fridge or what allergies you have and get customized recipes. Can you really though? Are the results delicious? I've never tried that.
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by leereeves 4mo ago
The Nova classification system isn't based on the number of processing steps, it's based on ingredients. Putting a loaf of bread into a bag certainly doesn't move it from the minimally processed to the ultra-processed categor
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by leereeves 4mo ago
The current healthcare system was mostly shaped by Democrats with the Affordable Care Act (sometimes called Obamacare) at a time when Democrats held a filibuster proof majority.
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by leereeves 4mo ago
As evidence for mortality related to saturated fat, that AHA statement cites only three sources. First, in the Oslo Diet-Heart Study, "there were fewer cardiovascular deaths in the experimental group by 27% (P=0.09)", a non-signif
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by leereeves 4mo ago
> Replacing "seed oils" with hamburgers and french fries fried in tallow won't magically help your health. If anything, you would die quicker from the huge amount of saturated fat you're now intaking. I'd like to

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