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And prior: 2008 happens, fed takes interest rates to zero in final days of GWB. Ultra-low interest rates through 2019 under Obama and then Trump. Trump demanding negative rates and…

It is about PEPFAR, a massively successful US foreign aid program. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/President's_Emergency_Plan_f...

I have experienced the flip of this: a less experienced MD specialist not recognizing a lab error, and wanting to act on it, which was recognized (correctly) as an error by PA prim…

These are all topics in the article, which doesn't deny energy in = out at all. It specifically points out that it's clear that this is how the medical interventions discussed in t…

"The vast majority of new infections are through gay men having sex. IV drug use only accounts for 7% of new infections" In the US. The vast majority of infections (90%) in Africa …

Basically because it affects performance. You really don't want to write any buffers! This is sort of a deep topic, so it's hard to give a concise answer but as an example: CuBLAS …

Floating point math is not associative: (a + b) + c != a + (b + c) This leads to different results from accumulating sums in different orderings. Accumulating in different ordering…

Only guitar in that list comes to English from a Spanish etymology, the others come from Arabic via medieval Latin, French and Italian, not Spanish.

CMU School of Computer Science has its own admissions for undergrad which is dramatically more selective than CMU as a whole. It really is well known for undergrad CS, it's not jus…

This was a common theme for HIV/AIDS denialists and was actively embraced in South Africa with tragic results. South Africa pursued an anti-treatment strategy for a period: https:/…

Shingles is the latent chickenpox you already were infected with reactivating so people who already had chickenpox is exactly who the vaccine is for. You can have shingles multiple…

Yes, shingles is reactivation of latent herpes zoster (chickenpox) usually acquired in childhood. The vaccine prevents these reactivations You can have shingles multiple times, and…

But that's the top marginal rate filing single. A California tax payer earning $677,272 pays 49.3 percent on each additional dollar but 43.9% is the effective rate on whole income.…

Coast redwoods (sequoia sempervirens) are not serotinous. Giant sequoia (sequoiadendron giganteum) are, but that's not what's in Big Basin. Coast redwoods propagate by stump sprout…

It's been very incremental and spread out. Another commenter pointed to "Attention is all you Need" as particularly breakthrough. Even that paper just merged at the time current tr…