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by wittyreference 6y ago
The real earning power of minimum wage (aka, the standard teenage job) has declined by, what, 70% since the 70s? If it's more expensive, in real terms, to have a car, to rent a hotel room, to go out, then yes, it's going to be mor
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by wittyreference 6y ago
If they find no relationship between changing economic circumstances and the outcome, and but a positive relationship between likelihood of co-residence with parents and the outcome, the likelihood that they have made statistical blunders g
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by wittyreference 6y ago
Because the publisher didn’t pay them agreed-upon sums, and they’re withholding the game awaiting said payment. I don’t know which parts are true or false, but that’s right in the post, and makes complete sense.
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by wittyreference 6y ago
39 hours + "you come running when we call or you lose it." It's just shy of full-time (to withhold benefits), but not exactly the same thing as a side gig. And you're bent over a barrel.
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by wittyreference 6y ago
> Here's one of many if you google. https://natural-fertility-info.com/study-wi-fi-laptop-comput ... So, a quick rebuttal to this trash blog post recounting a trash publication. This is a cut-and-paste from a real re
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by wittyreference 6y ago
In the situation where the argument being put forward relies on the explicitly or implicitly stated expertise of the orator - such as an article which says "Take heed of my opinion of the important medical factors here, for I am a doct
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by wittyreference 6y ago
That's the height of obnoxious. I can't really imagine the level of self-centeredness required to think that's okay.
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by wittyreference 6y ago
It's a common thing. Perhaps not where you are.
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by wittyreference 6y ago
A couple. Some basic neuro papers have found that it's directly neurotoxic. Others have found that it exacerbates the neurotoxicity of certain other compounds (e.g., lead). And other studies have found that pthalate exposure increases
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by wittyreference 6y ago
We've been collecting increasingly reliable data on the harmful effects of pthalates on human development for at least two decades. How much data must accrue, and how harmful must it be, for an immediate ban to not be alarmist?
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by wittyreference 6y ago
There are multiple variables in play at one time. Like, ... every other thing in medical science and public health. It would probably be more helpful if someone went ahead and just looked closer at the activity of the compound of interest,
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by wittyreference 6y ago
> 36 participants > 18% > “many” people reported Let’s not overstate the findings here.
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by wittyreference 6y ago
The latter was a debate about materialism, and whether the divine had any physical component (in which case there was a finite number of angels on a pin), or did not (and therefore infinite), with consequences for the debates about whether
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by wittyreference 6y ago
dFosB also accumulates in chronic pain and in some types of acute and inflammatory pain. The grand-parent comment to which I am replying describes near-instant addiction in the context of an opioid prescribed for pain control.
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by wittyreference 6y ago
1. Hacker News 2. Kaiser Health News
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by wittyreference 6y ago
HN previous discussion: every other week for the entire history of HN.
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by wittyreference 6y ago
I've attempted purchasing paid-for alternatives to all of the Google services, and so far they haven't stuck. But yeah, if I could get the advantages implied in being a paying customer (privacy, customer support, UI updates that a
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by wittyreference 6y ago
As a physician: No, the 'vast majority' do not. I've supervised medical grade opioid administration to more than a few people, both acutely and chronically, and *folks without a pre-existing substance use problem* do not ofte
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by wittyreference 6y ago
"Opioids are insanely and ~~instantly~~ quickly addictive." Do you have a source for this assertion? I'm just a physician with a particular specialty in medically managed (as opposed to procedurally managed) pain, and I'
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by wittyreference 6y ago
Ever taken codeine again? You may have a genetic variant of CYP2d6 that makes codeine, in particular, hit you hard. It's not an effect common across opioids.
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by wittyreference 6y ago
That was an interesting graphic, so I decided to revisit the Israeli graph on EuroMOMO. The delay in registration is for deaths that occur up until the week-end update; it is a one-week retrospective potential bump. The fall to baseline in
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by wittyreference 6y ago
Israel's issue has been and continues to be a very large orthodox and ultra-orthodox community which has flouted all quarantine laws and appeals to vaccination, in a tiny dense country where said orthodox and ultra-orthodox can't
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by wittyreference 6y ago
That was a helpful link! Your comment is surprisingly true! And utterly out of context. As of today, Israel's deaths - both for the 65-and-overs and all-ages - is nearly down to its historical normal range, per your link. Going back tw
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by wittyreference 6y ago
People say that like the "debt" doesn't ultimately matter - as if adopting a policy of "you only get property ownership rights if you can prove you're sorrier than the person who claimed your stuff" won't
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by wittyreference 6y ago
I have a hard time imagining something more destructive to the ability to run an organization than putting forward all managerial initiatives for public consent, just in case some portion of the public disagrees with that choice. Talk about
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by wittyreference 6y ago
What? Lawyers are absolutely liable. Their only shield is in the most complex realms where the actual legal theory isn't yet tested in court / with a regulator, so you know going in their advice may not pan out, because it's
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by wittyreference 6y ago
Viruses are believed to become less deadly over time when being less deadly offers an evolutionary advantage in ability to spread . If being more deadly and more spreadable have the same mechanism (e.g., avoiding spike protein-inhibiting a
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by wittyreference 6y ago
Oh, it is. I meant that that is also part of 'natural' immunization. The distinction between the 'natural' exposure and the vaccine is that the natural exposure targets a number of epitopes, which may or may not include
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by wittyreference 6y ago
The primary benefit of the vaccine over 'natural' immunity (other than avoiding actual exposure) is the emphasis on neutralizing antibody formation.
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by wittyreference 6y ago
Most medical stuff comes as kits. In no small part because each individual manufacturer tends to have their own process for the details - it's not as interchangeable as you'd think. In part I think it's a liability thing. It

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