Medicalidiot
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Comment · 6 years ago
This is why I was having issues watching Youtube 1.5 hours ago. I thought it was my internet, kept doing all kinds of stuff because I was having slow internet in general.
Comment · 6 years ago
I wonder if this is because people are dating more before getting married, which probably leads to more mature people who know what they're looking for in a spouse.
Comment · 6 years ago
I have only had getting the steam client to launch, and only after a fresh install. This was mainly on OpenSUSE a few years ago; I could get it working maybe 2/3 times after a fresh install, depending on whether I installed all the hacks in the correct order. Once it started up, I never had problems booting it again.
Comment · 6 years ago
When you look at the bacteria that generate spores, the only population that is usually affected is neonates; which is why it's advised not to give honey to anyone under the age of 1-2. For spore forming bacteria, they're not prevalent in the environment and their transmission is usually limited.
Comment · 6 years ago
If we ever have a pathogen like Archaea I will shit my pants. Prions already are able to survive 242F for 15 minutes and caustic chemicals so we already have enough on our plates.
I'm going to pose something that was interesting when the Chief Medical Officer of NASA spoke at my school: bacteria in space will have massive amounts of genetic changes -> bacteria on a Mars mission may become pathogenic to the point where we would not want people who traveled to Mars to come back. He also talked about intracranial hypertension being an issue with people going into space and how to remedy that one. It was fascinating to hear a physician in charge of astronauts talk about what medical challenges needs to be overcome.
Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaea https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/news/nan... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5509877/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26099128/
Comment · 6 years ago
We had our computers go down for ~12 hours one day. Paper charts came out, which was a massive undertaking. I could not imagine my system being down for 5 weeks.
Comment · 6 years ago
PBS News Hour. I've never watched more boring and informative news in my entire life.
Comment · 6 years ago
My buddy moved into a closet there ~4 years ago now. His rent was something like $2,500 per month. I am living in an apartment now that has twice the space and better ammenities while only pay $1,000 per month. My friend has since moved to Denver because mainly of price.
Comment · 6 years ago
Downloading science articles on an "open campus". Something that should be celebrated was instead castigated.
Comment · 6 years ago
Bachelor's degrees only went down slightly, which isn't too surprising. What's worrying to me is that associates and certificates have dropped significantly. Both are primarily for individuals who are in lower socioeconomic status categories, which is more emblematic that there is a problem than anything else.
Comment · 6 years ago
France, the one country that challenged US intelligence because their own intelligence contradicted the CIA and NSA reports. Absolute studs.
Comment · 6 years ago
I didn't even think of that, but that's probably a good idea at this point.
Comment · 6 years ago
I went from Ubuntu to Fedora because of the recent decisions made by the devs and the hard push of Snaps. I use Chromium every once in awhile and am amazed at how long it takes for it to start up; it's almost instantly on every other distro.
Comment · 6 years ago
I was an early adopter of Voat during the first Reddit purge but it turned into a racist cesspool. I'm wondering how many of these alternatives will follow that trend.
Comment · 6 years ago
Malaria is probably going to be one of the hardest maladies to overcome. There was some promise with a vaccine, but it looks like that was fairly disappointing. The selective pressure is so high with malaria that sickle cell anaemia is a fairly common congenital disease that if one is homozygous for can be lethal in early age; conventional medicine has significantly increased life expectancy, but it's still fairly poor. Hopefully, it will be to the point where it can be controlled because the African continent has had its economies ravaged by it.