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Ah yes, put the entire burden on women, coerce them into having kids, let men do whatever. Sounds great, totally sane.

That was my initial reaction, however, there is more to it. The thing that made these breakthroughs feel important was that they seemed to be open ended problems that the system it…

Yes, and those alcoholics also exactly fit the multi-day accumulation pattern. These aren't people taking one day of Tylenol after a bender for a hangover. The pattern is people wi…

What those numbers really don't get into: ~80% of acetaminophen poisoning cases severe enough to end in hospital are intentional suicide attempts. Those patients also have better o…

I absolutely think we should ban acetaminophen in otc combo meds. There was a big drop in hospitalizations when they dropped the max allowed dose in prescription drugs like Vicodin…

"A lot fatalities due to taking after hangovers" no, that's not how acetaminophen fatalities happen. In fact, the article you cited specifically mentions "there is no scientific ev…

Or any love poetry by Lorca, Neruda, Benedetti. The idea that Spanish has to resort to "corazon" and "amor" because it... has fewer words than other languages?? People believe some…

You are mixing numbers that don't go together. OED (171k) is comparable in content to RAE + RAE Americanisms (93k + 70k = 163k) because OED is pan dialect. RAE core dictionary by i…

The only thing you're right about here is that Spanish is "nearly phonetic" by which you mean that the writing system is orthographically transparent and very standardized. That's …

No, it's not though. That's true for antibody tests commonly used for individuals because it's cheap. The window period for nucleic acid testing that is used for blood supply is ve…

There remain undecidable problems even with finite memory/state space. Linear bounded automata (LBA) the halting problem is decidable. But many properties of LBA are undecidable: E…

The bigger worry isn't really false negatives, modern PCR based testing is incredibly good. There is always risk but it's frankly extremely low. The bigger issue is that blood is p…

The very first thing I did when coming to this thread was search for if someone had already mentioned "one book theory". My favorite episodes of IBCK are mostly the self-help trash…

Mass produced EVs and reusable rockets are already decade old accomplishments. His track record this last decade of accomplishing things he proposes is noticeably much worse. Neura…

That's also true inside Japan. True wasabi is really hard to grow commercially and thus very expensive.

BoJack Horseman is maybe my favorite show of all time. But that did start in 2014 and seems like a relic of an older Netflix that would commit to something for 6 seasons.

About 50% of people just don't get gassy from beans to begin with, and 70% of those who do adapt within weeks, according to https://www.researchgate.net/publication/51819295_Percep…

The point I was making re double variants having even more apparent protection is simply that these people continue the dose response curve you expect to see all the way to the ext…

I actually don't think your response is the exact opposite, but you touch on some of the skeptic stuff, so I'll respond to here: First of all, I agree with your points that you sho…

Not longevity in the general sense, but in the cardiac disease and mortality sense, yes, it's pretty firmly established. It's also an area that attracts a lot of quackery, is somew…

April snowfall is also typical. With current forecasts, we will be far short of normal April snowfall as well.

Where I'm at in the Sierra, March is typically very close to as snowy as Dec/Jan/Feb and the snowpack is still increasing, not decreasing. Late March is typically the peak depth. M…

They are nowhere near the world's biggest ISP by any metrics, what are you talking about?

European cheese producers have their own costly methods of managing raw milk cheese safety. They have much more surveillance of the entire process, like rapid testing of milk for S…

The earliest neural network work on perceptrons was done in an applied contract lab for the US Navy, it was not done in an academic setting. Backpropagation has been reinvented mul…