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Half of people with Alzheimer's carry at least one APOE ε4 allele. However , a full quarter of the population carries that mutation, and most carriers never go on to develop Alzhei…

Source? There are so many explanations for that beyond just "bike lanes kill businesses".

This is pretty different - in both of those, the officer faced consequences. Unidentified masked ICE officers have killed about a person a month with no consequences, many times ov…

> This new technique doesn’t just recycle materials; it recovers most of them at an unbelievable rate. I'm so tired of reading articles written by LLM. There are several sites that…

Thankful that California banned them, others should follow suit.

EMT now is often used as a stepping stone to a career with a liveable wage, like physician.

> most people die because vitamins, minerals, amino acids deficiency every day The most common cause of death globally is cardiovascular disease. The people buying supplements from…

He's going about this in the least scientific way, though. When n=1 and he has a million confounding variables, it reads more like fear of his own mortality than a meaningful resea…

Doesn't read like it's AI-written to me.

This article isn't focused on LLM for code generation.

Billionaires can spend unlimited money convincing people to oppose anything that benefits them, and we have an entire industry of social media influencers who get rewarded for stok…

I think they're arguing that a somatic cell from an older human contains mitochondria that's more degraded. Egg cells are all created before birth, and each is pre-seeded with a la…

Most states had lotteries before this though. At least those brought in tax money and were designed to be relatively fair. Online gambling can shut down your account and refuse to …

fanduel and draftkings poured massive amount of money into advertising, pumping their numbers to make it seem like gambling was too big to stop.

The live scammers targeting kids are pretty vile: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYTPI57GLac Seems like it's just a game of whack-a-mole, nothing is really being done to stop scam…

They influence clinical decisions by adding to treatment options, but they do not make clinical decisions. If we believe that a drug's potential risks outweigh its benefits, clinic…

I can understand being frustrated and cynical with the pharmaceutical industry, but I have never worked with a single doctor that approaches patient care with the goal of getting t…

I have a family member who works in estate planning. From all the stories he's told me, a lot of wealthy people compulsively screw over people / refuse to follow the contract they …

How do we know there's any plan to accomplish this, and that this isn't just funneling $25M to a family member?

They aren't interested in those responsibilities, just enriching themselves and attacking their enemies.

The American right to free speech has never extended to fomenting an armed mob and directing them to commit criminal acts.

Took two minutes of reading his Twitter to find him comparing black people to chimpanzees.

LLMs can be a useful second opinion for a highly educated patient with good insight into their health and body, but this is not the average patient I see in an urban emergency depa…