laminarflow
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Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
In the greater NYC area, it's commonplace to have the ETA immediately increase by several minutes (not uncommonly by 50%+) as soon as you're matched with an actual driver.
Based on other comments, it seems this might be a somewhat location-dependent phenomenon.
Comment · 3 years ago
Also see:
"If you cut through this residential street with 4-way stop signs on every corner and make an impossible left hand turn across four lanes of moving traffic back onto the main road, you can shave 1min off your ETA."
- Sincerely, PM of driving directions in SF who takes a company shuttle into the office and doesn't own a car.
Comment · 3 years ago
Regardless of one's political orientation, most examples of "fake news" are in fact "literally true as stated". The broader question is whether we should endeavor to present the news holistically.
It is newsworthy that certain CA precincts might be unlawfully sharing license plate data, and if SacBee is significantly under-reporting the extent of the sharing -- which is the main focus of the story -- in favor of their interpretation of the sharing, that is editorializing.
Comment · 3 years ago
My condolences. Hopefully you never get it, and better treatments are available if you do.
Comment · 3 years ago
In a past life, I worked in prostate cancer ("PCa") clinical research. To drive home the point about how large of an unmet need this is:
A) In addition to 1/6 men being diagnosed with PCa, an ~equally large percentage of men have undiagnosed cancer at the time of death, it just wasn't severe enough yet to be the thing that killed them. (1)
B) Because treatment carries a 50% risk of sexual and/or urinary dysfunction side effects, the standard of care in the US for PCa is literally to leave the cancer untreated and monitor it closely, until it develops into an aggressive cancer. At that point, we treat the entire prostate (the opposite of "focal" therapy referenced in this article) and all bets are off re: side effects. Also, often by that time, the cancer has spread outside of the prostate and is much more difficult to treat.
(1) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S246829422...
Comment · 4 years ago
Does anyone know of an air purifier that does not use proprietary filters?
It would be wonderful to pair some of the features of dedicated air purifiers (low noise, unobtrusive design, etc.) with the availability of standard 3M MERV HVAC filters stocked at Lowe's/Home Depot.
Comment · 5 years ago
AFAIK this is false; Offers began transacting at the Zestimate price in several markets earlier this year
I was curious what the corresponding data would be for brain injuries, and found the below, which is also surprisingly low.
Musculoskeletal injuries represented the vast majority (88.43%) of the 191 encounters registered in the acute setting, while concussions were diagnosed in only 1.57%. The most common orthopedic motorcycle injuries were upper extremity contusions while the most common anatomical area for fractures was the hand.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S09493...