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I don’t think that she means it as literally as you are interpreting her. It’s a _feeling_ of not belonging to or probably feeling welcomed to join the culture that surrounds her d…

A big reason is clinical trials. They take time, they are expensive, and there isn’t another good way to determine an intervention’s safety and effectiveness.

There is also a category of people who are “mixed-handed”, who have a strong handedness preference for a given task, but which hand one prefers varies based on the task. I didn’t k…

who is our/us?

From walking around holding them with your left arm when they were babies, or from something else?

They were both brilliant, but from everything that I've read, Jobs was an ass****, and Woz was the opposite, and that is a huge, huge difference. The mythologizing of Jobs is the c…

Today I took the subway at a different time than I normally do, and I saw a very different mix of people. Fascinating.

It probably means to air-dry (to not use a dryer)

you summarized my 5+ year experience living in Germany with one sentence in a way that I have never found the words for - thank you, really, thank you I feel that in Germany, the o…

Firefox on iOS, I see strikethrough but the strikes are at varying heights.

Interesting that GLP-1s might have different effects on cancer _incidence_ vs. cancer _survival_. A different study "GLP-1 Receptor Agonists and the Risk of Thyroid Cancer" was pub…

I think this analysis is cool, and the comments are too critical. The author put something out there, documented it, and I learned something by reading it. Thank you. Maybe the tit…

That guy should start a PR firm

Ugh this is so tragic but I think correct

novice -> informed -> asshole I strive to be at the informed part of the spectrum. Wine example: - Novice: "I'd like any red wine" -> waiter brings you something you don't like - I…

https://www.jacc.org/doi/10.1016/j.jacc.2025.08.047

I had the 13 mini and now the 12 mini and the 13 mini was noticeably better - battery life, camera, screen brightness (big difference when using phone on a bike for navigation)

I applaud anybody who makes visualizations of difficult to grasp concepts - so, thank you very much. As a visual (spatial) learner, I often wonder how my math/science education cou…

Some people think that American pizza has far too much cheese.

that is so cool - I mean the fact that this example stuck with you so long is a single of good teaching to me

thank you for this *edit (I mean this sincerely, it made me laugh and I did not see it at first)

I totally agree that learning German grammar as an adult is… demoralizing. Knowing, and accepting, that you will make a mistake every time that you open your mouth, hurts. Also, th…

This thread is worth a read regarding Lambda school: - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40067939 - the “dupe” post with a title that specifically refers BloomTech aka Lambda Sc…

Is this what tools like Nextflow or Snakemake aim to do? I don't know, and I'm genuinely curious, because I'm starting to work in bioinformatics and doing different parts of an ana…

Does beginning a submission title with "Genomic study:" provide an air of credibility? As in, before any reference to what is being studied, genomic study is mentioned. I'm actuall…