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> And now, separately but connectedly, we’re focusing on the question of how Dennis coaxed the typography of his dissertation, the type fonts and positioning of the mathematical notations and laye…

Sounds nice. But in the real world all humans are both sinners and saints at the same time. Good luck being the one with the power to decide what an upstanding citizen is. This is cancel culture in a …

I’ll bet they worked with my friend who is the Deputy Surface Mission Manager for the rover. He gave us a little presentation of what he worked on, including the little helicopter that is attached to …

I hope so. I haven’t looked at how healthy the study cohorts were to begin with. I doubt they had the same distribution of conditions that you’d find in the general population.

I meant “trial efficacy”. See my comment on elof above.

Efficacy describes what happens in a carefully controlled study. Vaccine efficacy is the percent reduction in disease incidence in a test group of vaccinated subjects compared to an unvaccinated gro…

I’m curious to see what the actual effectiveness (vs lab efficacy) is of all these vaccines. The gaps can be quite large.

> federal officials declared the monarch butterfly “a candidate” for threatened or endangered status but said no action would be taken for several years because of the many other species awaiting …

Yes. Was supposed to step down yesterday. https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/11/30/21726645/ajit-pai-fcc-... …

Sounds like all of this and more would be solved by more competition at the carrier level.

Facebook? Riot? Microsoft? SoftBank?

Not a comment on this one in particular, but I tend to stay away from documentaries. I have a friend who is a documentary editor and he can take the same footage and tell completely opposite stories w…

Nice theory. But neuroscientists and neurologists don’t know either. Just like pretty much every drug that affects mood and behavior.

This makes sense for big, well researched investigative journalism. But that is not the case for the other 95% of the drivel on most news sites -— the engagement driving crap that keeps the lights on.

Damn useful but at what cost? Unfortunately we often don’t know the cost until 10 to 50 years on. It’s impossible to close Pandora’s box once it’s open. Look at DDT https://www.latimes.com&…

Agreed. The same thing happened with BPA — banned in toys and bottles after decades of harm to be replaced by at least 40 other chemicals that haven’t proven to be unsafe — yet.

I see the point you’re making but cooking for others is one of my greatest joys —- I don’t consider it “crappy” work. And independence has its downsides. Sterile, impotent loneliness is not a future I…

You're being downvoted without comment, the implication being that calling the safety into question is heresy and that all vaccines are 100% free of side effects. I am NOT an anti-vaxxer by any m…

Just curious, what do you actually do with your sleep data? After trying several trackers and building up a week or two of data I don’t really see a use for it. What’s the point of regularly monitorin…

No battle plan survives contact with the enemy.

Either that or “Alcatraz”

Many doctors are good people and entered medicine to help others. But after about 5 min in practice realize you have no idea how to actually help most people, let alone cure them. New drugs get advert…

We know very little about how the body as a whole functions, especially from a systems perspective. Sure doctors can set bones and give you drugs that are in many cases the physiological equivalent of…

- Against the Grain - Man’s search for meaning - some discworld books

Do you have any recommendations on how to learn more about this? My brother has a steep hill on his property and Ive been wondering about the feasibility of PSH. How high the tank should be, the equip…

So do many Americans. It is a vocal and proselytizing minority getting outsized coverage that makes it seem like “everyone feels this way”.

Whatever else this does, keep in mind it is an immunosuppressor, which we should expect it to have many of the same side effects of similar drugs.