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Variants can have mixed qualities. For example, one could be suitable for maximum spreading yet also have a weakness that makes it easier to treat as an illness

Quote: Chassin gets it exactly backward. In 2011, a doctor in Oregon performed surgery to correct a 4-year-old boy’s wandering right eye, but the surgeon erroneously operated on the child’s left eye. …

Also: https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2010/06/03/... …

Another quote: Since 1990, U.S. pickup trucks have added almost 1,300 pounds on average. Some of the biggest vehicles on the market now weigh almost 7,000 pounds — or about three Honda Civics. These v…

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-11/the-dange... Quote: Among the increasingly popular heavy-duty models, the height of the truck’s front end may reach a…

Not sure from a rational point of view that the risks are lowered; safest cars today are not SUVs Tragedy of the commons: everyone takes a bit more land to feed their extra goat, the field is overgraz…

typo in title?

There are a lot of big pickups and SUVs on the road. There's a tiny percentage where the vehicle suits the use, but in the vast majority of cases, the vehicles are entirely a fashion with no real…

When I’m not trying to get them

Yes and no: it’s very true that you have to adapt to new volumes of free time; but there is a positive psychology in much work: social and rewards of productivity—-when these are removed we can loose …

About news sources: some better than others but all highly deficient

One is here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8481107/ …

Yes, I am similar in this regard: pleasure and leisure are not absolutes, but rather exist as contrasts- during lockdown I would force myself to be productive so I could ‘relax’ later. Otherwise I’m u…

I do wonder though about vaccines lowering symptoms and ‘disguising’ infection, thus potentially promoting spread NZ Herald: a disgrace to the nation.

Frequently in New Zealand we hear government and journalists suggesting vaccines affect transmission. In truth, masks affect transmission, jabs affect rates of hospitalisation. We had the impression e…

> It will be said that while a little leisure is pleasant, men would not know how to fill their days if they had only four hours’ work out of the twenty-four. In so far as this is true in the moder…

Maybe so but every time I continue with something I’m watching after a day it shows the buffered content then crashes. I have to find the show and start again, although it remembers the place I was at…

I don’t get pieces like this, asking a question like it’s the first time someone ever thought of it. Do some basic research. I’d start here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langua…

The question here is how do you deal with the sudden, unexpected and almost certainly overwhelming pressure? You can’t practice it because the conditions that produce it are so rare

3rd time? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29273406

What’s a bonsai is the question you’re headed towards. But when people buy a small simply styled tree in a pot, what are they to call it if not a bonsai. It’s a muddle because 99% of what’s sold as a …

Yes, as the article suggests, a lot of people stay away from bonsai because it smacks of effort, but it can be done simply and easily if you disregard the bonsai love of complexity, age, and perfectio…