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Seems easy to rule out vitamin D if sunlight exposure isn't relevant at time of infection then.

Before the vitamin D link was so widely reported, I remember seeing a bunch of comments online (including HN) from people saying things along the lines of "We've been self-isolatin…

The article is about this being a global phenomenon, with emphasis on France and the UK. Weird to believe that this is any worse in America than it is anywhere else. It's human nat…

> It's fascinating to me hearing about how Hong Kong and Tokyo have similar cost of living to even some of the most expensive metros in the US It's truly fascinating because I've n…

This is a joke, right? Being taught something != actually feeling something. You can say "that's bad" and people will repeat after you in agreement. Doesn't mean the voice in the b…

And the parent comment saying Americans who aren't out there being entrepreneurs and starting businesses are "drowning themselves in self-pity" is insulting. When I immigrated, I l…

> The USA is an absolute paradise for an immigrant. This is really the key point. When immigrating to a country, you’re already taking a huge risk. You’re leaving behind extended f…

They feel like they're designed to optimize discomfort. There are really only two ways I can sit in them. One is that just one small point of my head makes contact, and my back is …

I've been picking out pictures of fire hydrants and stoplights for five years now with no end in sight. Sometimes literally. They'll show me series of fire hydrants that don't end …

Boredom is a really overlooked one. If I’m outside and doing something all day, or I’m really involved in reading a book or painting something, over half a day will pass before I r…

>subsidized by hundreds of millions in VC funding for almost a decade That hasn't stopped any company from total collapse before and it won't now. Other social media sites have peo…

Wearing masks, like hand washing, has limited benefits if most people aren't doing it. Vaccines are also far more effective if a large number of people get them. Studies comparing …

My current game dev project is being done with relatively low poly models and non-realistic textures. I've tried adding higher levels of detail to the game, but gave up pretty earl…

Yeah, the article mentions some news sites being banned temporarily in Japan, but as someone who reads those sites near daily, I never noticed it happening.

There's a considerable difference between galleries holding physical goods with extremely limited space and needing to curate things for a specific market, and one of the largest c…

The poster said their kid wasn't interested in fiddling with workings of computers before social media was a thing, so I don't think that's the problem in their specific case.

Yeah I definitely had that experience a few times. Using the maps on my phone in a different country where nobody spoke my language and I didn't speak theirs with 25% battery life …

Seems like your kid just isn’t interested in the same things you are. If the flashy entertainment were stripped away, they probably would’ve never cared about it. And that’s okay.

Should the biological process through which most mammals carry on their future existence be considered an act of parasitism? I think being a parasite usually requires two condition…

And if a presumably sentient creature is aborted before it attains sentience, has it suffered?

I feel like the demand for desktop versions of simple phone games is pretty low. Mac users who hope to play anything from their steam library or dual boot Windows are going to be v…

I think it also depends on the audience and group you're with. If you're moving around a lot, you might end up in expat/international/diverse groups. Most people who move to severa…

Is fish oil anything more than snake oil? I've never seen concrete evidence that it does anything. Wikipedia also seems to say it's all ambiguous, with studies flip flopping as muc…

Americans were fighting in Vietnam for about a decade. Bombing was already at high levels in 1965. America pulled out a decade later. The idea that bombing was working and politica…

> There isn't a single country in the entire world that could challenge USA to a 1-1 military battle I guess that really depends on what you consider a "1-1 military battle." Gentl…