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by pitpatagain 11mo ago
Prosecutors talk about cases all the time. But they specifically don't talk about matters occurring before a grand jury because it's illegal for them to do so. Grand jury secrecy means they are supposed to never disclose what happ
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by pitpatagain 11mo ago
It's not that there's a single money shot message, it's that the conversation throughout is just stuff that no normal prosecutor would ever say anything but "no comment" about in regard to an active case. The prosec
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by pitpatagain 1y ago
Yes, having this many crashes over a period in which they only drove 7000 miles is noticeably worse than human driving.
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by pitpatagain 1y ago
People didn't used to expose themselves to as much direct sun and covered themselves with a lot more clothes. Traditional clothing in arid sunny areas typically covers everything, look at people in the middle east today. I live in a ve
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by pitpatagain 1y ago
They reported 3 accidents up to July 25 on a fleet of, at the time, 12 cars, doing barely any miles. No data is yet reported for August. The requirement is to report within 5 days, why are the reports happening now? It's actually quite
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by pitpatagain 1y ago
Change it to "Tesla is trying to hide the details of 3 Robotaxi accidents" then. They have reported that accidents happened, and redacted all of what actually happened. It's very clear what the complaint is in the article des
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by pitpatagain 1y ago
Read the table of examples in the article. Other companies report crashes with significant detail visible to the public that Tesla is redacting. Compare Waymo report: "On [XXX] at 10:31 PM PT a Waymo Autonomous Vehicle ("Waymo AV&
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by pitpatagain 1y ago
It's already clear that there is no possible timeline in which they actually remove safety drivers by the end of the year, it's such a joke. The weird thing is that between the extremely underwhelming tiny supervised test they run
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by pitpatagain 1y ago
"As it does with its ADAS crash reporting, Tesla is hiding most details about the crashes. Unlike its competitors, which openly release narrative information about the incidents, Tesla is redacting all the narrative for all its crash r
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by pitpatagain 1y ago
It's not just the past empirical observed rate, it's the type of virus it is/other things that we know about it. On top of being structurally a dsDNA virus which doesn't change much, HPV is subject to "purifying sel
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by pitpatagain 1y ago
The study is linked early in the article and is fairly dense, the article summarized it well and is a lot more readable. 16/18 are the most carcinogenic strains, they have been close to eradicated in Denmark. "Denmark close to wip
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by pitpatagain 1y ago
Also after some research about rate of change: It's extremely slow. HPV is a double-stranded DNA virus with very high replication fidelity. The emergence of types like 16 and 18 happened hundreds of thousands of years ago. I did know i
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by pitpatagain 1y ago
The total prevalence of all high-risk cases went down in the study, from 46% in the pre-vaccine era to 32% post vaccine. 16/18 were chosen because they are highly carcinogenic and cause the most cancer, they are the two most aggressive
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by pitpatagain 1y ago
That's because other strains weren't covered by the original vaccines: Strains 16 and 18 were the high risk strains covered in the 2008 roll-out, the roll-out to young girls of the broader vaccine covering other high risk strains
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by pitpatagain 1y ago
https://www.hpvworld.com/articles/the-frequency-of-hpv-infec... It's incredibly prevalent, but most people clear it within a couple years, and won't even know that they had it. The time to clear it is just va
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by pitpatagain 1y ago
The protection from the vaccines lasts (probably) a lifetime, and HPV is quite widespread because it is: very easily communicable, and infections linger for potentially long periods of time without any obvious symptoms Something like 80% of
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by pitpatagain 1y ago
> But also because he’s not an elected politician but more of an everyday activist Wait, assassinating elected politicians is... better? Interesting take.
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by pitpatagain 1y ago
That's the proposer of visual map-based theory, a different explanation for the same things axial twist theory tries to explain. Axial twist is much more recent.
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by pitpatagain 1y ago
Americans move significantly less today than they did in the mid 20th century, not more: https://www.marketplace.org/story/2024/03/14/why-might-ameri...
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by pitpatagain 1y ago
Ah ok, you meant the second thing. I don't think the Plato's Cave analogy is confusing, I think it's completely wrong. It's "not in the article" in the sense that it is literally not conceptually what the artic
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by pitpatagain 1y ago
I can't decide how to read your last sentence. That reflection seems totally off to me: fluent, and flavored with elements of the article, but also not really what the article is about and a pretty weird/tortured use of the elemen
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by pitpatagain 1y ago
Or that's who you notice. My husband takes ozempic for type 2 diabetes and it completely fixed his blood sugar while causing very moderate weight loss. What the people in this study have causes abnormal visceral fat accumulation in the
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by pitpatagain 1y ago
This is specifically a study on people with HIV-associated lipohypertrophy, which is associated with accelerated aging. Not clear what this would mean for people generally.
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by pitpatagain 1y ago
> Maybe the lack of occult infections with shorter acting drugs makes everyone confident that they won’t happen with longer acting drugs? Previous experience is definitely part of it. It's not just Truvada, this isn't the first
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by pitpatagain 1y ago
I want to emphasize that the parent comment of all this is straight up incorrect on the mechanism of action of this drug class. "This means that before it can work the virus has already infected the cell and added its RNA to the host c
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by pitpatagain 1y ago
Yes, my phrasing was responding to the way the parent stated it as "90% more effective, and also it's easier to take". As you say: It's 90% more effective precisely because it's easier, not and also. Behavioral fact
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by pitpatagain 1y ago
This is incredibly misinformed, the drug has been specifically studied as prep, and this is in fact not at all what happens, despite your theories about the drug's mechanism of action. It does prevent infection.
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by pitpatagain 1y ago
Prep has been studied for IV drug users. It works, enough that it is recommended, but is much less effective. IV drug use is a massively more efficient transmission route than any type of sexual contact.
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by pitpatagain 1y ago
I think it's pretty clear that being easier to take and not mess up is the reason for the difference in statistical effectiveness. The reason for lower numbers for effectiveness of daily oral Truvada prep is primarily measuring differe
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by pitpatagain 1y ago
I cook basically all my meals but also have no fear of "unnatural" ingredients (I have a shaker of msg right next to the stove, I have cooked mac and cheese with sodium citrate, etc) and no, this ingredient list is not like normal

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