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Comment · 4 years ago
From blood tests, yes
Comment · 4 years ago
I've noticed the same. I'm a woman so bleed often, I'd feel the fatigue but my blood work didn't show anemia, so my primary care physician didn't feel the need to prescribe it yet. I decided to take supplements on my own and monitor the ferritin levels to make sure I don't over-do it.

Note, if you aren't bleeding regularly, it's very unlikely you need it, and iron might be harmful. Make sure to test your ferritin levels before and regularly as you do it.

Comment · 4 years ago
This sounds fantastic. The blood pressure cuffs are very bothersome for anyone needing to do a 24-hour analysis. My mom did one and it would take a measurement every hour during night time and it was very hard for her to sleep through it. It would be tight enough some times to burst capillaries. And once an hour is a really low resolution.
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I've heard explosions similarly far away (although it was at the coast and in an unusually quiet place). Explosions in the air travel really far. And every time I heard explosions so far I looked at the news/social media.

In one of these incidents the news article seemed like it might be a coverup to me so I looked up user forums in case someone leaked the real information.

Comment · 4 years ago
Not noticing doesn't mean the world doesn't care. There are a lot of reasons people vanish and it's harder to notice the absence of something than its existence, and people usually vanish for positive reasons, so I think nothing of it. I cried after discovering some people I hadn't known personally but were adjacent to me have died. I didn't notice their absence but I can empathize with the suffering they felt before their death, or the feelings of their family coming to grip with their absence.

While I have a strong emotional reaction to it, I don't think it's a bad thing, it is a part of life and a reminder for me to savor life.

Comment · 4 years ago
Firefox will make it possible to upload manifest V3 extensions to their store (eventually). It's a good thing because it makes it easier to make an extension that works unmodified for both.

Chrome is additionally planning to remove support for manifest V2 as well, Firefox can't start to do this because they don't support V3 in their store yet.

Comment · 5 years ago
They're "funding the israeli government/military" as much as a purchase from a US firm funds the US military - they're legally required to pay a tax and some of that money goes into the military.

Once released from the military these people have no additional obligation to pay for the military more so than people in more tame business - in fact, they might be seen as owed something for serving in the military, rather than the other way around.

Comment · 5 years ago
I'd like to think I've been getting better at it. I find that I'm more familiar with what successfully finishing a task "feels like".

- doing the less appealing subtasks you've been putting off. it's objectively more difficult towards the end if you work this way.

- not treating "it works" as a finish line, remembering there might be more steps like code review, writing tests, and so on.

- avoid self-punishing comments like "I wanted to finish this on Friday and it's not done yet".

this often combines with the previous point - "I felt the task is done when it worked, but now I have to do all the tedious things like tests and I already declared it to be done on Friday!"

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Here's a study with a sample comparing 596,618 vaccinated matched with the same number of unvaccinated people by my own healthcare provider:

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmoa2101765

This healthcare provider is able to follow up on people with detail for a really long time - they are notified of any vaccination, PCR test result, hospitalization and death within the country. They've likely made it possible to calculate the same data for the current day within a moment's notice, and use this information for quick decision-making.

I would expect other healthcare providers in other countries to have pooled this information if they are able to do so (and possibly publish it too).

Comment · 5 years ago
We have mountains of data about the current vaccine. This amount of disease-tracking is unheard of. Almost any institution in the world has regular discussions about this singular disease. Governments spend huge resources to pinpoint the exact minimum measures that can control the spread enough.

My country attempted a 3rd dose, and within 2 weeks they were already reporting data on reduced risk of catching the virus in comparison to 2, 1, and 0 doses. These are studies done with sample sizes of millions of people.

Comment · 5 years ago
I am under the impression that a lot of places consider recovered cases as equivalent to fully vaccinated.

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