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The article mentions that mothers give toddlers antibodies from exposure to viruses during pregnancy.

It's not clear they're referring to Sarvecchio. Some people think Sarvecchio is as good as real Parmigiano.

EWG doesn't test anything, they merely analyze the list of stated ingredients.

A randomized controlled trial in children found that undercorrection accelerated the progression of myopia. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12445849/.

This trial had a similar but not statistically significant result: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16907670/

(There are conflicting observational studies, but these two were controlled trials).

Berkeley, UCLA, and UC San Diego do not have a guaranteed transfer agreement with California community colleges. https://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/admission-requi...

That being said, they prioritize California community colleges when it comes to transfer admissions, so getting in via a CC is a little easier than trying to get in for regular 4 year admissions.

It can be a service offered by an exchange or by another company. Coinbase and Binance have OTC desks, for example.

Oddly enough, I think someone like the author (self-taught background but perhaps lacking fundamentals), would thrive at a top computer science university. Of course, the difficulty is getting in.

My experience at Berkeley is that all of the topic specific classes were very well taught and rigorous. The world-class researchers teaching my classes were usually very good teachers as well. There weren't that many specific requirements, so there was a lot of space to take free electives. I was able to take a couple graduate level courses and they were extremely fascinating (and of course very difficult). Someone like this would thrive because the main bottleneck in many of these classes was still programming aptitude and debugging skill. Many (most?) students have no experience programming before coming to university.

If someone is a poor adult, schools stop considering your parent's finances once you're 24, so financial aid at top universities can also be quite generous in these situations.

That's not really a mark against your school's curriculum. Web frameworks are still changing really fast. No university or community college is going to keep up.

I did some web dev give years ago and I already feel pretty out of the loop with the latest popular trends/frameworks in web dev.

I don't really consider it a negative in terms of employability either. The companies that are looking to hire new grads are not going to be testing you on the latest frameworks.

The programming-as-a-trade niche is filled by bootcamps. There are longer term bootcamps, if you think three months is too short. Bad signaling/reputation is the main negative about bootcamps and why many people prefer to go to a university.

The US government is already investing billions in carbon capture. Oil companies are also investing in this area. Coal companies are probably doing the same. I would guess Saudi Arabia is very interested in this area as well.

I don't think any rich companies or rich countries are spending much money on malaria. So Bill Gates probably feels like he can make a bigger difference there.

Same reason you would need it in California. Some people don't have insurance, against the rules.

In California, at least, this exists: https://www.mylowcostauto.com/

There are a lot of decisions in dentistry that are subjective. There are a ton of borderline cases of cavities where you ask 5 dentists what they think, and 2 say to treat and 3 say to wait and see. This is what I'm talking about where dental schools will probably lean towards treating.

Yeah, but these same arguments apply in favor to the diode laser treatment the original article talks about. There is biological and chemical reasoning behind it. There are favorable vitro studies. And a couple of the systematic reviews linked in the original article conclude there is weak evidence that it is weakly effective (same with flossing).

I've looked into this myself and one negative is that students still have some pressure to overtreat because students have graduation requirements (e.g. must do a certain number of fillings, crowns, etc.). Granted, having to run everything by a supervisor will eliminate the egregious cases.

I mean, some things that dentists believe in do have strong evidence, like water fluoridation and fluoride in toothpaste. And some things dentists believe in don't, like flossing.

> Ideally you do want to get even small ones filled as a preventative measure.

To add even more confusion, this is mostly untrue. Fillings don't last forever, so prematurely filling "starts the clock" because the filling will eventually fail and every time a filling is made, more healthy tooth must be removed. (I say mostly untrue because mercury amalgam fillings really can last multiple decades, but these have fallen out of favor).

> Is it best to go ahead and get those fillings now? Probably, as far as your dental health is concerned.

This is mostly untrue. Fillings don't last forever, so prematurely filling cavities "starts the clock" on the longevity of the filling. When the dentist is replacing a broken filling, the dentist has to remove more of the tooth. Eventually you will need a root canal and/or crown. So for maximizing your health, the dentist still has to make a judgment call on how early or late to fill.

I say mostly because mercury amalgam fillings do seem like they can last effectively forever (20+ years), but they have fallen out of favor.

The poison pill specifically mentions groups.

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/twitter-adopts-limi...

Wait, this is definitely news to me. I'm pretty sure secondary coverage becomes primary if you don't have personal insurance. I re-read the Amex terms and conditions and it says nothing about requiring primary coverage (https://www.americanexpress.com/us/credit-cards/features-ben...).

Everyone commenting on Covid got something wrong at one point.

You should finish reading the article, the author's reasoning for each automaker is listed at the end, and pretty much addresses your points IMO.

That is mentioned in an update at the end of the article (so the article was last updated a few weeks ago).

If you think inflation was 20% over the past year, that's equivalent to saying someone's salary going from $100k to $119k in a year has resulted in them being poorer. That just doesn't pass the common sense test, IMO.

This epidemiologist points out several major flaws with that website. For one, the website selectively picks the best result from each paper, which results in the website aggregating a bunch of unrelated measurements, including measurements that were not even each paper's main outcome/measurement. https://twitter.com/GidMK/status/1422044335076306947

I would caution against anyone supplementing with NAC for general health reasons (e.g. other than a specific condition like bronchitis).

In mice, very high doses of NAC causes tumors to form. https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/n-acetyl-cysteine-...

More broadly, there is a lot of emerging evidence against directly taking antioxidant supplements. For example, it is well established that antioxidant supplementation counteracts the benefits of exercise in humans (free radicals are a cue the body uses to initiate recovery). https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/NFS-03-2.... You can find similar articles/studies for other antioxidants.

All the seronegative subjects had a PCR cycle threshold >= 29, with the vast majority above 35, indicating relatively low virus levels.

Figure 1, B: https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/27/9/21-1042-f1

1. This only applies to forwarding. You still get all messages in the Google Voice apps.

2. My totally uniformed speculation is this has more to do with Google's own numbers being flagged as spam by telecom carriers, rather than Google Voice not being able to detect spam itself.

This epidemiologist points out several major flaws with that website. For example, the website selectively picks the best results from each paper, which results in a bunch of unrelated clinical endpoints (outcomes/measurements), including endpoints that were not even each paper's main endpoint. https://twitter.com/GidMK/status/1422044335076306947

The two studies I linked were randomized controlled trials. The study you linked was not.