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maxweylandt
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- another example: packing paracetamol in blister packs seems to have reduced suicides.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC526120/
> Suicidal deaths from paracetamol and salicylates were reduced by 22% (95% confidence interval 11% to 32%) in the year after the change in legislation on 16 September 1998, and this reduction persisted in the next two years. Liver unit admissions and liver transplants for paracetamol induced hepatotoxicity were reduced by around 30% in the four years after the legislation.
(This was posted here on HN in the thread on the new paracetamol in utero study that I can't seem to dig up right now)
- neat! Small typo in 'Paul's first Journey' :
>This first trip laid the framework for hsi other trips further afield.
should be 'his'
- > Counter to the authors claim my experience is that friction is an essential building block of literally any organization.
I don't read the author as claiming that at all. In fact I came away thinking this was an argument for friction, if anything.
- Would that be stressed on the last syllable? (octopodés? Don't know how to formally mark stress, sorry)
- How is public transport to nearby commuter towns? If it's affordable/convenient/reasonably quick that can help a lot, I suspect. (But am quite ignorant so appreciate correction!)
- 3 points
- Hello, please specify Fully Remote (US) in the heading of your post
- Thanks for teaching me about this! I listened to it and immediately thought I recognized it from Jamie XX's Oh my Gosh. In the event I was wrong, it samples Lyn Collins -- another classic sample I believe, certainly in hip hop. But I'm sure I'll hear it pop up in lots of places now, always nice to learn a piece of history.
https://www.whosampled.com/sample/343380/Jamie-xx-Gosh-Lyn-C...
- Very well done, always nice to see non (not yet?) professional scientists contribute :)
This reminds me I've been meaning to set up a moth trap.
- It's a good poem. I learned the original off by heart two months ago to recite it to my sleep-averse child as part of their bedtime routine. It definitely benefits from recitation, which really unearths the lovely wavelike rythms.
(edit: this translation does a good job of matching the syllable count, almost perfectly. It does mean it strains a bit in places. But compromises always have to be made!)
- I just completed my PhD at an American university, and I had a great time. Granted, my institution's stipend was on the higher side for the social sciences and I lived in an affordable city, which helped a lot, as did the kind and supportive faculty. I often feel the negative voices dominate discourse on this topic --- which is maybe fair given the many structural issues --- but it is possible, sometimes, to enjoy it.
(to clarify I'm not disagreeing with you, US academia does have lots of issues that lead to many having a bad time. But still, getting paid to learn is a dream)
- Somewhat related: Isaiah Berlin's "The Hedgehog and the Fox". From wiki:
> hedgehogs ... view the world through the lens of a single defining idea, and foxes, who draw on a wide variety of experiences and for whom the world cannot be boiled down to a single idea
- Alternatively, I'll take a thick lens, flush in a thick case, which might then make space for a thicker battery
- 3 points
- Dang, thanks. Sloppy on my part!
- I don't think the article mentions what animals this is about, but I was curious - this is in mice.
- Just uploaded the most complete and fine-grained dataset of Parliamentary election results for my country, Namibia. (https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi...)
Official data sharing practices are poor - results are are often in the wrong format or not available at all. I had to be quite resourceful to put this all together. As I transition out of academia I hope this sort of data helps others do interesting work.
- Would've enjoyed a randomized approach to this. A paper I like a lot randomly exposed south Africans to luxury cars and found increased support for reidstribution.
- There's also the financial exploitation. https://youtu.be/_gXlauRB1EQ?si=C4prkNgGgK0bR_MX
- Getting the same on mobile chrome
- First encountered this game about a decade ago at the TATE gallery in London on an exhibition showcasing their newly created video game collection. Was immediately taken by the soundtrack and chased it down. Fantastic game, fantastic music
- I have one and never thought about sheet music. Would you mind sharing a bit about your setup in terms of the apps you use?
- For movies letterboxd does this quite nicely but it's a small part of the service rather than central. But any movie has a 'where to watch' section with links to the movies on berries platforms, if you're subscribed of course. This is powered by a third party service, JustWatch, which might work for you - they do seem to have their own thing, not just an API
- 74 points
- Noise in cities is primarily driven by cars. Densification if done right could even make things quieter (e g. Reduce stroads and have more bicycles)
- The article claims/repeats the claim that this cost valve $250 million, but I don't see how. If the leaked version wasn't very playable the damage can't come from lost sales
https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/usa/uni...