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by travisp 2y ago
It seems very likely that it's possible to force people into lucid dreaming. However, it seems that any external methods rely on external cues during REM sleep and I'd worry that in doing so you might be subtly reducing quality of
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by travisp 2y ago
Yes, rickets and osteomalacia (when caused by vitamin d deficiency) are both treatable with vitamin d. Randomized controlled trials clearly show this, unlike the vitamin d trials for most other things that people are pushing vitamin d for.
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by travisp 2y ago
Yet nearly every controlled trial supplementing Vitamin D has limited or no effect, except maybe in the most deficient people. Many many trials have been conducted. Vitamin D advocates always have an excuse — it’s too little vitamin D; no,
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by travisp 4y ago
Methotrexate is standard of care, considered “strongly recommended” over hydroxychloroquine (source: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/acr.24596 ) for rheumatoid arthritis. If I read the paper
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by travisp 5y ago
Yes, my wife is an emergency medicine doctor. She frequently ends up wearing her mask in the car and other places where it’s unnecessary until I remind her she’s wearing it.
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by travisp 5y ago
You're asking me to comment on the entire theory, I think. I'm only commenting on the value of an unseen intelligence report of unknown source. None of what you've said increases the validity of this report. Everyone commenti
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by travisp 5y ago
Maybe. But this is according to a paraphrase of unverified (possibly not even American) intelligence. Both the document's authority and origin are disputed, and the WSJ can't even say which department or agency wrote this. This do
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by travisp 5y ago
This isn't hard for to check. Yes, basically all research on RaTG13 did appear after the Covid pandemic, as you would naturally expect given that scientists were interested in it given the similarity. Nobody was interested in the RaTG1
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by travisp 5y ago
> And the decline has not been because of a lack of testing. Since late September, 1.3 million specimens have been tested for influenza, more than the average of about one million in the same period in recent years. Source: https:/
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by travisp 5y ago
This is just wrong. Vastly more tests were done for the flu during the covid pandemic than have ever been done.
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by travisp 5y ago
I too rarely got sick for years, even with international travel. Until I had kids, which I notice you don't mention anywhere in your comment.
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by travisp 5y ago
That would have nothing to do with HIPAA. HIPAA generally only covers patient information held by health providers, payers, etc. It only applies to "covered entities", which is a specific set of entities. It's a myth that HIP
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by travisp 6y ago
"Physician and clinical services" includes far more than pay for US doctors -- it's the entire costs for "services provided in establishments operated by Doctors of Medicine (M.D.) and Doctors of Osteopathy (D.O.), outpa
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by travisp 6y ago
It's true that US doctors are paid more (although the gap isn't as big as it used to be). However, pay for US doctors makes up a fairly small portion of overall US medical expenditures (less than 10%). So, you could ask every doct
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by travisp 6y ago
Many therapists don't write names in their psychotherapy notes, and instead use initials, and store them separately from records that require identifying information. It could be possible, but difficult to identify people from these re
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by travisp 6y ago
Nothing in the article suggests that you should not say no to your kids -- it just says that your kids will be upset about you saying no, which is probably beyond your control and therefore is a factor that will weigh in your decision. Your
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by travisp 6y ago
You're missing how many people have gotten infected and where. If a region has not yet had substantial transmission of the coronavirus, then it won't have many deaths. This would also be like saying in August, "the flu has on
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by travisp 7y ago
Even if you're right (and finger count is a common example for students to teach the concept of heritability), this will run counter to what people think when they hear "heritability." Most people wouldn't think "nu
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by travisp 7y ago
It's important to understand that the way many people understand heritability usually isn't what most scientific researchers mean when they say "heritable." > Heritability is an important concept in quantitative genet
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by travisp 7y ago
I agree there are reasons to be concerned overall, but Tim Cook is very clearly stating in this interview, which happened after the nationalization, that 1) China doesn’t have access to the encryption keys themselves and 2) for much of the
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by travisp 7y ago
No, they still don't have access to the encryption keys, as reported after those articles you post: "Encryption for us is the same in every country in the world...We worked with a Chinese company to provide iCloud, but the keys [.
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by travisp 7y ago
That link does not show that they've given control over encryption to the CCP. Apple is on record stating that they have not done this. "Encryption for us is the same in every country in the world...We worked with a Chinese compan
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by travisp 7y ago
The article is misleading. Apple has not given the iCloud encryption keys to the Chinese government. As far as I'm aware, there is currently no evidence that the Chinese government is any more capable of accessing iCloud data than any
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by travisp 7y ago
The possibility that someone in the company is secretly (how!?) providing the Chinese government access to the encryption keys is a wildly different claim. There is no evidence that Apple has done it, and an important executive has testifie
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by travisp 7y ago
Apple has not handed over the iCloud keys and has testified in the US under penalty of perjury that they have not done this and not made an exception for China. Repeating this is dangerous because it’ll cause people to take different (proba
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by travisp 7y ago
Have you ever checked your blood sugar on a zero carb diet? It’s far from zero. This medication is intended to block glucose transport to cancer cells while not blocking to non-cancer cells. Even if a zero carb diet would be a good idea for
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by travisp 7y ago
It's not just blood shortage in total numbers (which is a problem), but people who receive transfusions often develop additional antibodies, which makes it even harder for them to receive compatible blood in the future. There are actua
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by travisp 7y ago
Homeschooling is a small effective class size, but my parents were by no means wonderful teachers (even though they are wonderful people). For homeschooling during 6th and 7th grades, I mostly used the purchased curriculum books myself with
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by travisp 7y ago
The biggest piece of data that speaks to me against hours of homework being generally necessary for learning and academic success is homeschooling (at least secular homeschooling). Many homeschooled children, especially pre-middle school, h
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by travisp 7y ago
And Allison had nothing to do with the paper and was quoted total of one time in the article.

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