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by wittyreference 5y ago
Because it’s bad to be stupid. People are ashamed to be stupid because it’s a shortcoming. There is no world in which we can value a trait (intelligence) and not feel proportionately bad about its crippling deficiency. Pretending otherwise
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by wittyreference 5y ago
“Do no evil” is idealism. “Don’t undermine our marketing to grab data assets that don’t align with our business model” is cold self-interest. I have much more faith in a company staying true to the latter. Not 100% faith, because their asse
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by wittyreference 5y ago
Yes. As a physician, I wish more folks appreciated that “disability” is a property of the relationship between a person and their environment, and can emerge (or disappear) based on changes in that persons capability as well as changes in t
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by wittyreference 5y ago
As an aside, for future potential markets: powerlifters have the same sort of needs/problems around chalking for grip.
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by wittyreference 5y ago
Same question. I’m a lifelong NYer, and a metro card has never failed in me in use or in structural integrity. I tend to replace them every five years or so for eventually /losing/ them, but that’s it. What more could you ask for?
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by wittyreference 5y ago
In my advanced cardiac life support training, an EMT once put it this way (addressing some nerves at being responsible for a critical life or death event): Their heart is stopped - they are dead. You can’t kill them any more dead, you can &
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by wittyreference 5y ago
I was briefly interested, until I found that full access as a physician requires using a Facebook account to prove identity. Thanks, no thanks.
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by wittyreference 5y ago
Any bank at which you are a customer will notarize documents for you for free.
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by wittyreference 5y ago
> A problem with modern psychology is the diagnostic criteria aren't very much based on underlying causes as on being able to reliably diagnose patients based on symptoms regardless of physician. This leads to people agreeing what y
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by wittyreference 5y ago
I don’t really know why this prompted straight up downvotes. These are the exact concerns voiced in multiple Nature articles over the past decade or so.
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by wittyreference 5y ago
They comprise a large percentage of the caloric intake of a lot of bird species, which are already fragile due to ecosystem fracturing. This could result in a hit to bird populations - and if the mosquitos adapt and rebound, the birds are u
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The battle for 1042 Cutler Street(washingtonpost.com)
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by wittyreference 5y ago
Neuronal glucose uptake is via transporter GLUT1, which is insulin independent. Insulin-dependent glucose uptake is primarily GLUT4. Even in insulin absence, the brain gets its sugar.
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by wittyreference 5y ago
Serotonin syndrome is due to an excess of serotonin almost exclusively due to serotonin agonists. Seizure is pretty rare - it produces stuff that looks like seizure (myoclonus, tremor, delirium), but actual seizure is only seen in SS so sev
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by wittyreference 5y ago
Do you have any sort of citation for this? I’m not trying to be snarky, I’d really like to read more. My understanding of the med lit is that bipolar and epilepsy aren’t particularly associated, and pure BD in particular is a rarity - when
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by wittyreference 5y ago
> T his reads out exactly how a manic or hypomanic person would experience things and rationalize past events and feelings. The idea that it has to be something complex and in a sense grandiose compared to "just being burned out&quo
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by wittyreference 5y ago
Does anyone remember that Reddit post where a guy thought his landlord was sneaking into his apartment and leaving him notes? He insisted the handwriting was completely different. Then a poster suggested he get tested for CO poisoning, whic
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by wittyreference 5y ago
They went on to describe the forearm experiment which showed a much higher rate of awareness. I don’t see why you’ve chosen to omit that. You seem to casually discard the idea that awareness without memory is irrelevant, but when I’ve infor
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by wittyreference 5y ago
How do folks contribute to the list of game types? I went in looking for a blades in the dark campaign, and found it wasn’t a valid search term. I know it’s not as mainstream as d&d, but...
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by wittyreference 6y ago
Are machines immune to entropy? If not, I suspect that a few thousand years of transit time still pose an obstacle, even for a machine civilization.
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by wittyreference 6y ago
My main complaint about Firefox mobile is the menu locations - three dots on the upper right, hamburger on lower right, page select on bottom. With the issue being that there's nothing intuitive around what lands in the dots or the bur
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by wittyreference 6y ago
The problem, from my perspective, is that we're fighting the battle on two fronts: I need to get all my data from my old EMR into my new EMR, and I need my new EMR to slot in where my old EMR was with respect to feeding data to my data
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by wittyreference 6y ago
I made my comment two weeks ago, describing a fall in mortality that began three weeks prior. The z-score of mortality for Israel peaked as I described in my last post, and has continued to fall. The 65+ group in particular is well within h
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by wittyreference 6y ago
Since HLX has become increasingly required, I've seen that the lock-in doesn't mean diddly squat. Now we're not "locked in", but for my new vendor to drop-in means I have to pay an extra "API Fee" for them
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by wittyreference 6y ago
What’s the business model? Free app without updated privacy details raises a flag for me.
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by wittyreference 6y ago
Most people who attend casinos aren’t bothered by gambling mechanics either. Says nothing for the quality of gambling as gaming, though.
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by wittyreference 6y ago
In the Twitter threads where they all pearl-clutched in response to the satire removed in the linked article.
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by wittyreference 6y ago
Installing this browser for a look-see as we speak. So, as a "privacy focused" browser, what's your revenue model?
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by wittyreference 6y ago
It is, because another way of phrasing that is "coresidence provides no additional explanatory power beyond economic circumstances." When that's what your data looks like, proper study design either involves testing that hypo
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by wittyreference 6y ago
Controlling for confounders is better than not; it's also far short of adequate ("controlling" means "reducing a little," not "eliminating"), and in collinear variables you can easily kill the significance

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