okaram

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I'm a CS teacher at spsu.edu, a state university in an Atlanta suburb.
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Comment · 2 months ago
They are NOT saying they're not ready for college level work, right? They may not be ready for UMich college level work.

Also, they may need an adjustment period, which makes sense.

I think we need to wait and see how it works, before blindly criticizing a possible good idea

Comment · 9 months ago
There's two issues, success rate (about 5%) and time ... even if it is successful in humans, it will be 5 to 10 years before it's available (and 20-30 before it's affordable)

This is not being a contrarian, but a realist.

Comment · 9 months ago
They have a PDF in the downloads, and an epub one if you have an ebook reader like a kindle or kobo
Comment · 10 months ago
Porque no los dos?

He was a super-rich guy, who had had too many people telling him he was a genius for way too long (reminds you of anybody?), and so was way too sure of himself. A bunch of his ideas were crazy, which doesn't mean others weren't trying to dismiss his views.

Comment · 10 months ago
Comment · 10 months ago
There's nothing particularly bad for adult males.

The benefits may be statistically lower, since you may have been infected by some of the variants already, older males may have fewer sexual partners in the future, and cancer takes a while to develop.

In the USA, it is recommended by default for adults up to 26 and kinda for 27-45.

Comment · 1 year ago
That would be up to individuals or health departments, who decide what risk is high enough. The risk for non-promiscuous people in 'western' countries is so low, that I don't see any country giving this to everybody.

This is not a vaccine, BTW, and it needs to be given every 6 months.

Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
It is some of both. Business conditions have changed, but also the bosses kinda collude to reduce power of the employees.

Eventually some companies will start scooping talent up, and everybody will zig :)

Comment · 1 year ago
There's so many different people, and it's hard to know if that's made you lose customers.

I would immediately discard any website that makes me send an email to order.

Comment · 1 year ago
We do, it's not as if we aren't doing any testing. I've been getting a yearly prostatic antigen test for several years now.

The recommendations tend to take these into account, and then you and your doctor adjust.

Sometimes politics gets into it, like with the recent changes to breast cancer recommendations, but, overall, it works well for many people.

Comment · 1 year ago
You only get that probability if the test results are completely uncorrelated, chances are, they're not.

I'd assume the chances of getting a second false positive if you already got one are much higher.

Comment · 1 year ago
The way most countries who have it (including Canada) have solved it is to add waiting periods, and layers of reviews. In Canada, you need two different doctors to sign off on it. If you're not actively dying, you also have a 90-day period of reflection. And you have to be of sound mind.

This seems to me like good enough safeguards, don't you think?

Comment · 1 year ago
I don't think anyone envisions having no cars; public transportation make it so we don't need cars, and other nudges make it so we have fewer cars than we would otherwise have.
Comment · 1 year ago
And, correct me if I'm wrong, they also have a person somewhere around and a big red button, right?

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