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I notice a big shift in my social circles the last few years. Non alcholic beer has gained a lot of popularity. I was advised by my doctor not to drink more than one beer a week du…

A full cure would probably have less side-effects, since a functional cure means a life-long dependence on drugs.

Lots of reasons. The new drug could be cheaper to manufacture, fewer side effects, a full cure in stead of a functional cure.

The current situation is that the person that doesn't know programming will do it anyway. They will likely make more mistakes than an LLM will.

Not an expert, but I think the algorithm works for any base, not just 10. The python implementation uses base 2^30 for their multiplication. Base 10 is just a convenient illustrati…

I had access to several health datasets for my research in the past. Date of birth was rarely given, especially for the bigger projects where there were more resources to allocate …

It doesn't. The Netherlands has a system with both not-for-profit and for-profit insurers, that works reasonably well. - Transparent, identical rules for minimum coverage and stric…

During a 50 km hike you are not anywhere close to your VO2 max, so it makes sense that the VO2 max is not predictive for that distance.

I would say that gambling with skill component is still gambling. For example, in blackjack you can limit your losses by following a basic strategy, which is a 2x2 matrix with rows…

Because there is little solar in the 3 winter months, so you would need a lot more storage for solar then for nuclear.

Most net worths over $2 mil are created by growth in share value, not by income/salary.

I think this would work for the summer months. Overnight storage is manageble/cost-effective by load shifting/battery storage/etc. This is now estimated at about $100/MWh ($0.10/Kw…

They are indeed fair. The strongest poker bots are not AI in the way it is commonly defined. From my understanding they calculate the nash-equilibrium for a simplified game and ext…

In the Netherlands, there is street charging everywhere. It is indeed a bit more expensive if you do not have a dedicated parking place, but not more complicated. By law, public ch…

Normally a long payback time is fine, but I would expect that in ~5 years, faster charging will be prevalent and the current chargers will already be obsolete, or at least less pop…

This article is from 2023

Replace author 2 by reviewer 2 and this is probably what happened.

This is, at least for now, a relatively small market. Illumina acquired the company manufacturing these chips for $100M. Analysis of a genome in the cloud generally costs below $10…

Not just safety, but also effectiveness. FDA checks whether the trial(s) to prove the drugs effectiveness were run correctly (eg. the randomization, the control group, etc.), if th…

This already happens, it's called 'compassionate use' https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/human-regulatory-overview/resea...

Why is that a better fix? Transit also has externalities (pollution, congestion, noise), just fewer than cars.

Do you have any references to these claims?

They already do for a lot of publications. Check the 'reporting summary' in this random article https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07171-z#rightslin...

Purely speculating here, but perhaps omitting the reason was a condition of the hypervaccinated individual to cooperate with the study?

AFAIK there is currently know way to reliably tell from DNA sequencing data whether a prostate cancer will become dangerous. That may change, but I suspect there may be some inhere…