addisonl
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Comment · 2 months ago
Misleading comment.
From https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ijc.35463
> Cutaneous melanoma (CM) accounted for around 331,700 cancer cases globally in 2022
> An estimated 267,353 (95% uncertainty intervals [UI]: 242,818, 278,638) CM cases were UVR attributable globally in 2022
UVR = Ultraviolet radiation
Cutaneous melanoma (CM) is the vast majority of melanoma cases in the US at least:
> The percentages of melanomas that were cutaneous, ocular, mucosal, and unknown primaries were 91.2%, 5.2%, 1.3%, and 2.2%, from https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9781962/
tl;dr ~80% of Cutaneous melanoma cases are attributable to UV exposure.
Comment · 2 months ago
> This also means that you are likely to get melenoma form something other than the sun.
Quantifiably false statement. Incredibly dangerous misinformation to spread—shame on you.
From https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ijc.35463
> Cutaneous melanoma (CM) accounted for around 331,700 cancer cases globally in 2022
> An estimated 267,353 (95% uncertainty intervals [UI]: 242,818, 278,638) CM cases were UVR attributable globally in 2022
UVR = Ultraviolet radiation
Cutaneous melanoma (CM) is the vast majority of melanoma cases in the US at least:
> The percentages of melanomas that were cutaneous, ocular, mucosal, and unknown primaries were 91.2%, 5.2%, 1.3%, and 2.2%, from https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9781962/
Comment · 7 months ago
> Question: A fair die rolling a 6 twice in a row is more likely than rolling 1-2-3-4-5-6 in sequence
Two 6s in a row is 1/36 chance (1/6)^2
1-2-3-4-5-6 is a 1/46656 chance (1/6)^6
Website is claiming they are the same probability:
> Same probability: 1/46,656 — Both outcomes have exactly the same probability: (1/6)^6 = 1/46,656. This illustrates the representativeness heuristic — random-looking sequences feel more probable than ordered ones.
Website's "answer" is wrong: was the question supposed to be rolling a 6 six times in a row?
Comment · 10 months ago
Its actually not "pretty clear"—about 25-30% of people are hyper responders who are impacted by dietary cholesterol.
Comment · 3 years ago
I mean these analogies could be applied to AI image gen too. Open up an image gen tool and press generate. Do you get a great image? No, because you didn’t even enter a prompt.
Comment · 3 years ago
Cruise has been operating in Phoenix for many years now.
Comment · 3 years ago
I love and share this view—whenever a website uses dark patterns like this to try and get me to do something I just close the website and thank them for helping me reduce my screen time!
Comment · 3 years ago
Best way to block people on Twitter after this: delete Twitter.
Comment · 3 years ago
A temporary outage that only impacted sites that happened to critique or compete with Musk?
Comment · 3 years ago
> HN discussion did not particlarly have "reasonable skepticism".
That’s definitely not true despite your attempts to gaslight us.
Comment · 3 years ago
> If that claim breaks down whenever the driving conditions are anything other than perfect, then self driving cars lose their only supposed benefit
False dilemma: value from self driving cars is a sliding scale, not all or nothing.
> “The airplane yawed to the right so far and so fast, it felt like it was going sideways!” said Osterheld. The SR-71’s right engine had just experienced an “intake unstart.”
Doesnt seem like a "hiccup" would "tear apart" if one engine failing entirely (intake unstart) didn't.