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by wittyreference 6y ago
I’ve had zero run-ins with thugs in NYC in my entire life. What the hell were you doing?
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I think they meant when they go for their regularly scheduled -"usual" flu vaccine, and their question was meant to address what strains would be targeted in a given year.
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There's cross-reactivity, and they target both Influenza A and Influenza B strains (usually), so you'll get broader protection than strictly the strains most targeted by the vaccine. That said, you can ask the pharmacist for a cop
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by wittyreference 6y ago
>> So why isn't there a cure for the common cold? The "common cold" refers to a benign, self-limited upper respiratory viral infection by over 200 viral subtypes, including many strains of coronavirus (causing collectiv
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by wittyreference 6y ago
In this instance, cutting corners is equivalent to not gathering data , and acting on the premise that what you want to be true is true. Which is another way of saying: when there are massive consequences, is not the time to proceed on wis
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by wittyreference 6y ago
My XS is running noticeably slower upon upgrading.
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Time to sit down and read a book for 30 minutes. I miss that.
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> - Manufacturers obviously want to take their hands-off during warranty claims if the car has been tuned or modified. And to some extent, rightly so. The mod in the featured article has a mode that disables traction control. I would not
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by wittyreference 6y ago
You’re quite right. That was a typo/brain fart, and by the time I noticed it my comment was past editing.
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by wittyreference 6y ago
Sorry, your question is fair -- let me elaborate: I feel the OP puts forward two statements, categorizing depression as "adaptive", or "adaptive response taken too far." I wish to address each of these separately. Having
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Largely because articles like this generally focus on what I think of as “layman’s depression”, or “layman’s anxiety.” That is, a mild form of the condition that straddles the gray area between “personality” and “mild personality disorder,”
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by wittyreference 6y ago
Mods, can we replace the linked page here with a link to the guardian? The page here is just two paragraphs of no-content and a link to the guardian. This is its link: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug&#x2
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by wittyreference 6y ago
> One time, an officer told me, which I wrote down: Just because you say you work at the consulate does not mean that you are not smuggling drugs into the country. I asked him to explain. He responded, I don’t know, but I do know what dr
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by wittyreference 6y ago
> That's how it works in the material world. Data works differently. Data is infinite. Except you're not copying an RNG. You're copying someone's carefully crafted work, whose artificial scarcity is the mechanism by w
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by wittyreference 6y ago
I find those studies to be ... I'm not sure what the word is. Laboratory artifacts? When a small portion of super-enthused users are doing the bulk of the pirating, piracy is going to manifest different effects than if it's massiv
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by wittyreference 6y ago
English/Russian: I see names that work in Russian, and names that work in English, and very few that actually work in both.
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by wittyreference 6y ago
Ai et al. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32101510/ analysis of 1014 patients in Wuhan; Yang et al. looked at another 213 in Guangdong. Kucirka et al ( https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M
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by wittyreference 6y ago
Ai et al. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32101510/ analysis of 1014 patients in Wuhan; Yang et al. looked at another 213 in Guangdong. Kucirka et al ( https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M
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by wittyreference 6y ago
Ai et al. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32101510/ analysis of 1014 patients in Wuhan; Yang et al. looked at another 213 in Guangdong. Kucirka et al ( https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M
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by wittyreference 6y ago
PCR has a 30% false negative rate. You make it sound like they entered a clean room. They did not.
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by wittyreference 6y ago
We developed ethics around clinical research. One of those principles is that if you’re going to actively expose people to something - to create a possible harm where there previously wasn’t one - you have to be honestly uncertain of the po
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That is assuming you trust Soviet stats on Chernobyl deaths. I’m acquainted with one of Russia’s chief oncologists, who was one of the primary physicians that dealt with the consequences of Chernobyl. She’s been quite clear that the number
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by wittyreference 6y ago
And is it available for Firefox?
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I wish the addendum to that rule was “because we will just delete their post anyway.” The lowest value contributions on HN are inevitably those that use a headline to air personal grievances vaguely related to the subject of the post (“Appl
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by wittyreference 6y ago
If you guys implement that, I’d certainly be in. That’s my only hurdle for dropping a few bucks to try something new.
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by wittyreference 6y ago
Is there a way to export the whole kit and kaboodle as a set of markdown files?
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by wittyreference 6y ago
What's the takeout process like? I love having an external brain, but "lock-in" and "external brain" are mutually exclusive in my book.
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> They're in favor of expanding the number of residencies available since everyone knows there is a shortage of doctors. They were in favor of restricting slots some 25-40 years ago. The facts have changed, but the memeplex hasn’t.
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Is it? You have to pay a Microsoft tax to sell anything that functions on the Microsoft device. Is it different because the fee is structured somewhat differently?
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> powerful animal tranquilizer on a human being just to make some cops' job "easier" You’re waxing hyperbolic. It’s a sedative drug used in normal human clinical practice, and in many settings is preferable because it has

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