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>That night my family watched a war movie on the VCR, maybe saving private ryan or something similar, and the helicopter struck me. If there was a helicopter in the movie, then we …

> As the patient's temperature approached 22 °C (72 °F), low-frequency and low-amplitude sinusoidal electrical deflections were noted on his electrocardiogram. Dunno about you, but…

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I think this fits into some "Commoditize The Complement" strategy. https://gwern.net/complement

> I said build on top of wlroots, not DWL. Turns out, the wlroots API is so volatile atm that even the developer of the super small compositor DWL has to throw in the towel for now…

Current status: > 2025-08-16: dwl IS CURRENTLY UN-MAINTAINED. AT THE PRESENT TIME, I (@fauxmight) DO NOT HAVE THE TIME OR CAPACITY TO KEEP UP WITH wlroots CHANGES. https://codeberg…

FTA: > [Einstein's General Relativity] tells us that the universe is expanding Does GR really tell us that though? The way I understood it, GR's differential equations will produce…

You're ignoring the elephant in the room: frozen mammoth dung. To restore the gut health of humans, there is this thing called "fecal transplant" [1]: use another person's poo to b…

> the assumption that every non-white person hired is a "diversity" hire before even looking at their qualifications is incredibly racist. That's not an assumption that GP makes.

So this is about epidemiologist Martin Kulldorff being fired by Harvard for doggedly sticking to the evidence regarding covid immunity. Some excerpts: > With a genetic condition ca…

>You can find a meta-analysis to prove anything you want. I'm not trying to prove anything. I just rely on the judgement of domain experts. In this thread I cited Cochrane, The Lan…

>You sure? > https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/article-abs... That's just one RCT. The Cochrane meta-analysis looked at a bunch of them. >When the medical field phas…

>literally quoting from that meta-analysis, which does not include many clinical trials that have demonstrated an impact: Yes. To their credit, they only looked at randomized contr…

>This isn't complicated. You can just look at any COVID thread and see what a shitshow it is. I hardly see any covid threads here. I happened to see the one of this week. It got 8 …

It's "self evident" yet a large Cochrane meta-analysis finds no benificial effect of masks whatsoever: https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD...

Here's some serious research, spanning one year. Note how the confidence increases throughout time. You can't blame nvm0n2 for taking for granted what is already well-established s…

>The six foot rule was based on what the best understanding of the experts was at the time, and probably saved thousands of lives. You can't just make up the beneficial effects of …

> It seems to me that the quality of any public discussion tends to increase when it’s relevant to the expertise in the room, and decrease when it involves people’s casual reads of…

> I'm not interested in expending extra effort to rescue marginal stories with a low likelihood of generating a good conversation. I didn't ask you to expend effort in rescuing sto…

> lots of people flag stories based on their experience of what the threads are like IMHO story submissions should be judged based upon their own merits. Toxic commenters can be do…

> The top comment complains that the title submitted to HN is both not the original headline, and not an accurate characterization of the content of the article. What do you mean: …

> I think reading the top comment on that post provides plenty of explanation why users would flag that post. That top comment complains that the HN title is WSJ's informative subh…

> In fact, I don't see a single story that I personally feel should not have been removed. I don't understand why this story was removed: "It turns out the six-feet social-distanci…

> They vaccinate for all sorts of diseases. Covid is no different. But the covid vaccines ARE different: Vaccines typically take 10-15 years of research and clinical trials before …

> I don't understand your goal. Why are you doing this sort of comment? Taking the time to dull peoples minds against whats happening to the world? > Is it for yourself? Are you sc…