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sgmoore

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    Comment #43129121

    > you get 10 days Isn't that the key point and means Dexcom/Libre would cost you (or your insurance company) several thousands of dollars/pounds/euros/etc every single year. For ma…

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    Comment #41668651

    > Since our errant immunity is localized on the insulin producing beta cells being on immune supressants would still be better than being insulin deoendent As a Type 1 diabetic, I'…

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    Comment #37334680

    I have read a few people who say they prefer the dexcom because the freestyle is pre-calibrated and Abbott's software doesn't allow you to calibrate the device. (I've never tried t…

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    Comment #32811808

    Yes. I guess you have never been near a dairy farm at milking time and seen the cows queue up, or hear the noise they make if they are not milked.

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    Comment #32595983

    There are 66K thousand forks of https://github.com/nightscout/cgm-remote-monitor and I suspect the vast majority are using the free heroku version, so I would guess there are going…

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    Comment #30387274

    > But it sounds like bringing blood sugar up is a big part of managing T1D, so I'm just wondering why that would be the case for a diabetic but not for a non-diabetic. If you think…

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    Comment #30385291

    If you mean an up arrow as well as a down arrow, this means it can increase *or* decrease the blood sugar levels. Usually this means it will affect different people in different wa…

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    Comment #30385129

    > You can experience hypoglycemia without any insulin overdose. One of the worst hypos that I have had (Fingerprick said 1.9mmol/l which is about 34 mg/dl) was a 'Lantus low' which…

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    Comment #30384901

    > The good news is that it is actually really hard to die from low blood sugar, assuming good medical care is available. And yet, have there not been a number of cases where medica…

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    Comment #30213079

    Looks like it does not include gmail.

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    Comment #29908779

    So 19th of June 2021.

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    Comment #29908540

    > var Ha = new Date(2021,5,19,0,0,0,0); > My assumption is that this is the launch date for Wordle But not 19th of May 2021, but 20th of June 2021 Every time I look as JavaScript, …

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    Comment #28640782

    I think the usual recommendation is before meals, two hours after meals and before going to bed. So that was 7 times a day for me. The big problem with testing more times is that y…

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    Comment #25871886

    Was also very surprised at this. The only thing I can estimate now are how long shoes last (almost every day for three years), but when I was growing up (several decades ago) I wou…

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    Comment #25593209

    He was in jail for three murders when just two years ago he confessed to ninety more. Do you think he would have confessed if he knew he would face the death penalty?

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    Comment #20970044

    I always felt like my IQ had dropped significantly when I had a cold, as mental tasks were much harder. Also assumed that everyone else felt the same. See also https://www.scienced…

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    Comment #17576326

    A single transaction should not be limited to just two nominal codes. For example, an invoice/payment might be split between Hardware, Software, Haulage and Tax/Vat and the other s…

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    Comment #15008478

    https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeI...

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    Comment #13491768

    You could be right, but I assumed the quotes around the “political reasons,” was because the magazine was quoting someone but didn't want to say who they were quoting.

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    Comment #13490848

    How could that be described as being "purely motivated by “political reasons,”"

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    Comment #11041769

    I appreciate this is a beta, but it is hard to know what already works and what is planned. Also, does not seem to allow uploading files over 100mb, which leads me to ask what exac…