ForgotAboutDre
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- Comment on Miracle cures 4 weeks ago:
I didnt bother reading the second since the first was blatantly misleading.
The second looks like they’re trying to p hack hack their way to a result.
They also have more relapses in the curicumin group in the second 6 month period than the control group. They also have enough people leaving the control group to cause a shift in their p value to make their results insignificant.
The second papers findings are weak and they aren’t very robust.
- Comment on Miracle cures 4 weeks ago:
The evidence is much better for SSRI, and it isn’t great, but the referred paper even points out that the curriculum wasn’t as effective as an SSRI.
The meme remains true, no proper or valid studies exist. The existence of a paper doesn’t prove that, the paper is self addresses it wasn’t a proper study. They just did it in a dishonest way.
- Comment on Miracle cures 4 weeks ago:
This study is absolutely terrible.
The study found no differences in the first four weeks. More than 10% dropped out during the study. The study was too small a sample to draw any serious conclusions from. The conclusions they did draw from were a subsample of people they declared treatment resistant. They even say in the paper their isn’t enough data to suggest their was any benefit, just not forcefully enough. Just enough to make low information readers think the study was successful.
This study was done in response to two other studies. One which showed no benefit another that suggested a benefit, but the study lacked a control group. So no meaningful conclusion could be drawn.
Finally the researchers were funded by ‘health supplement’ groups.
- Comment on Miracle cures 4 weeks ago:
The placebo effect doesn’t help. It’s just noise in the data collection process. It’s particularly problematic with human trials that rely on subjective evidence. Humans have a bias that actions have effects, even when they don’t (gamblers blowing on dice, wishing on a star etc).
Any intervention will have people think that the outcome has changed because of the intervention. This doesn’t mean the placebo effect helped, it just altered the recorded outcome. If it was a device was used to make the measurement, rather than human opinion, we just call it noise/error.
It’s a common misconception that the placebo effect does something. It does nothing other than artificially increase subjective measurements. Placebo effect is stronger in very subjective medical conditions such as pain, shiny packaging and brand names are reported to provide greater pain relief. Such medicines are so tightly regulated the formulation and supply leaves very little opportunity for medicines to actually have an effect. You don’t see the same effect when it comes to reducing the size of cancer tumours or altering directly measurable quantities.
Doctors aren’t allowed to prescribe placebos in the UK. Because it’s dangerous and a source of corruption. Such as King Charles selling homeopathic services to the NHS. Doctors do recommend such services, they do this primarily to dismiss patients and their issues.
- Comment on Phones have unique phone numbers, why dont computers have unique computer-numbers? 1 month ago:
Google will know. They gather all WiFi and Bluetooth data in the name of location services.
- Comment on Phones have unique phone numbers, why dont computers have unique computer-numbers? 1 month ago:
Android defaults to lying about your Mac address, which can be frustrating if you want to manage your home network.
- Comment on If Britain is so bothered by China, why do these .gov.uk sites use Chinese ad brokers? 2 months ago:
Military and intelligence services are bothered by China. The government not so much. The conservatives are happy to sell our nuclear and communication infrastructure to China. It was the backlash in the media that made them change course.
The British government agreed to allow China to work on nuclear power stations in the UK, it was the intelligence service that made them reduce Chinas access to its design and operation.
This is the same government that stopped the EU from restricting cheap Chinese steel into the EU (prior to Brexit). Recently the UK closed one of its major steel manufacturers. We can only recycle steel in the UK now.
Steels needed for boats and tanks. Especially if a land war in Europe broke out, or a naval war in the Pacific.
The conservatives are weak on all advertising. The shear amount of gambling adverts in the UK are abysmal. As well as direct marketing to children for high strength vapes. We nearly got rid of nicotine addiction in young people, it’s was falling significantly prior to vapes being allowed to advertise to children. They don’t care, they’ll sell anything to the highest bidder.
- Comment on Mr Bates vs Post Office drama lost £1m, ITV boss says 2 months ago:
They made an Irvine Welsh detective drama series called Crime. This was excellent. It does seem like most of their dramas are overdone police/detective shows. Crime had great writing and dark humour. But I don’t think it would have been picked up by ITV if it wasn’t a police drama.
- Comment on Mr Bates vs Post Office drama lost £1m, ITV boss says 2 months ago:
There’s no validation process, even for BBC iPlayer. They ask for a postcode because the regional content within the UK is locked to different countries and regions (ITVX content is on STV player in Scotland).
There isn’t a way for them to check your TV licence on ITVX. Even then a TV licence is only required if you watch the livestream broadcasts on the app. If you watch catch-up, streamed but not live broadcasts, a TV licence isn’t required except for BBC iPlayer. An IP address outside the UK isn’t likely to work either.
- Comment on military industrial publishing complex 2 months ago:
The articles published to the journal. That’s where the peer review happens. The university will then host a copy of the published paper with open access. The university doesn’t peer review this, it just provides the hosting. Often the motivation for doing this is compliance with open access. Many areas have well regarded journals that authors want to publish in that are closed, but the research is funded on the condition of open access.
These papers hosted by the university may have different formatting, but will have the same content. They are often harder to find as the references will be to the same paper published in the journal. Some paper search engines will include links to the university’s free access page, but you often have to search separately on a general purpose search engine to find that copy.
- Comment on military industrial publishing complex 2 months ago:
I did this once. They wouldn’t give me a copy, I didn’t push it because they were retired and did try to give me advice about contacting librarians to add the journal to their subscription.
I do imagine your people publishing more recent work would be more open to sharing their work.
For anyone else seeing this the university of the author often also publishes their papers free access. Even when the journal the paper is published in is paywalled. So it’s worth checking that. This is especially the case if the work was funded by bodies that require open access.
- Comment on Why do Americans measure everything in cups? 2 months ago:
The metric system uses a similar principle. 1 liter is a kg of water. It’s just named better.
- Comment on Feels like Apple is more about fashion then tech IMO 2 months ago:
Before all phones were phablets, a tablet was a good middle ground between phone and laptop. Especially for casual browsing and media not having a keyboard in the way and the better battery life was a real benefit to sofa computing.
Now we are seeing phones encroach on 7 inches, what would have been a small tablet a decade ago their use case has dwindled. Now they are a laptop alternatives or child minders.
- Comment on Feels like Apple is more about fashion then tech IMO 2 months ago:
The iPhone was a big departure from smartphones. They used a better touch screen technology, one that was more responsive without a stylus. They also made innovations in how a touch screen would be interacted with. They then packaged it up into a sellable product. They were the ones that figured out the UX of device. The concept existed before, but it wasn’t a product that could sell because the UX of touch screens was so bad.
All the other smartphone manufacturers followed apples change. Android was completely reconfigured when it launched.
As far as consumer Innovations its one of the biggest. It ended feature phones and all other types of smartphones. They connected it to the iPod jumping the product category from business user/professional only to everyone. It wasn’t that it was fashionable, it was that it was useable that lead to their success.
- Comment on Hooooooooooooooooooot 2 months ago:
Hydro power uses running water not hot water.
Squeezing can be converter to electricity with pizeo electric. Heat difference can be converted into electric directly with peltier devices. Both of these are very inefficient ways to make electricy.
- Comment on World first UK prototype could pave the way for constant energy all the time - from space | Science & Tech News 2 months ago:
The higher up you are the longer it takes for the sun to set so you get a longer day. You can see more of the earth. Or the earth appears smaller, so is less likely to be blocking the sun. The higher you go the easier it is to always be able to point at the sun.
A geostationary orbit has a 42, 000 km radius, the earth has a 6000 km radius. It’s like looking at a 30 cm ball from 2.1 m meters away. Not much will be obscured from your view. It like a ball on the floor at the opposite end of a room, you would expect it to block the view out the window.
There may be times when the sun is eclipsed by the earth, but this will be infrequent. If the satellite isn’t in the same plane as the earth and sun, then this will be unlikely. The UK is relatively far north. So the satellite would be looking ‘over’ the earth during night to see the sun. The satellite would only be a small fraction of it total distance to the sun further away at night. So the power generation impact will be minimal. The elliptical orbit of the earth around the sun would be a bigger factor.
- Comment on acceptable screws 2 months ago:
This is a common misconception. Phillips was not supposed to solve over torquing. It was designed to allow higher torques, stop slipping and self centre. It was only really good at self centering.
A screw designed to stop it being over toqured is a terrible idea. The screw should be smaller to prevent if higher torque is needed. If over torque is an issue then reducing the power to the driver is a much better solutio (easily done in industrial setting Phillips was designed for). You can also reduce the size of the screwdriver supplied.
- Comment on acceptable screws 2 months ago:
Posidrive is very common in the UK. Especially in trades. They are so common screwdriver sets will include posi and slotted with no Philips. Philips is still common in electronics.
Posidrive is much better than Phillips, but just as easy to quickly screw lots of things. Torx and hex take longer to align and have many more sized drive ends. Posidrive has three sizes and 90% of them are number 2. But if you need more torque then they are no good. But at that point you need to switch to a different tool like an impact or wrench.
A washing machine I recently had to repair had three different sizes of torx and it isn’t obvious which one till you test fit. Posidrive is easy to identify the size by eye and many different screw diameters share the same posi head. Coupled with self alignment they are just more convenient. I have Robertson bits from multipacks but never needed them.
- Comment on Windows 10 is the last version of Windows 2 months ago:
They are both right.
- Comment on How Much Would You Pay to Make Sure You Never Sawed Off a Finger? 2 months ago:
A stick solves this problem. You shouldn’t need a saw stop, everyone should be using push sticks for table saws. Legislation forcing saw stop technology is insane.
- Comment on That gourmet luxury blend... 3 months ago:
The other things in honey is what makes the difference. Good honey is a magical thing. But it wouldn’t be mixed with anything else. A marker of high quality honey is being single source and single season (similar to single malt whisky).
HFCS has uses - many. But it’s not a good substitute for honey if the honey flavour is important. This product is the cheapest honey mixed together and then added to HFCS to push the price down and make the low quality honey more tolerable in taste. There’s a market for it only because honey is so expensive.
- Comment on temperature 3 months ago:
There’s also no such thing as an inch. It’s defined by the meter, there isn’t an official yardstick.
The only reason the UK, Canada and USA used the same inch is because they needed to interchange parts for weapons and machines during WW1. Despite all thinking they used the same measurement system the definition had drifted between them. Metric was defined by enlightenment people with better methods of reproducing the standard. So it was easier to adopt a inch definition based on 25.4mm.
The UK and US inch only match because of WW1. The imperial volumes are still different.
- Comment on Microsoft paid $13B for this tech 5 months ago:
The problem is the model. It was trained on lots of poor quality data. The lobotomy is the consequence of the poor data. If they spent 13 billion on having the data analysed prior to training they could have made their own thing much better.
- Comment on Your typesetting will look professional, they said 5 months ago:
It by default places them more intelligently than word. This frustrates people that want it to be placed where they want it.
Word doesn’t place images intelligently, but it makes it easier to move images for novice users. This makes word simpler and may initially seem better. However, if your document gets large and has more content added. Word can alter the locations of images erratically and you may find yourself constantly fixing them. If you understand how latex works and accept it methods, it can be a whole lot less stressful when working on larger documents.
- Comment on Researchers fear the British spoken 'r' is ready to roll away from the last bastion of rhoticity 6 months ago:
Northern Ireland isn’t part of Britain. Hence why the UK is great Britain and Northern Ireland.
- Comment on inches plus coins equals metric system 6 months ago:
Using 12 and 16 makes for easier maths (pre-calculators). It’s easier to divide and get an integer. With easy access to calculators and highly precise measurements (especially digital systems) metric makes more sense and is easier to interpret quickly.
- Comment on Conservative Party is still receiving large donations from individuals and companies with links to Russia 7 months ago:
Campaign donations limits should be linked to minimum wage. Something like 2% of full time minimum wage salary after taxes. This would make influence over political parties more democratic.
Also limit donations to eligible voters, to party’s/candidates that they can vote for.
- Comment on OK Microsoft... trying to log into Teams while work lapop updates to Windows 11. No longer works in any iPhone browser, including Edge. The app will not authenticate my work login... 7 months ago:
It’s harder to track you in some browsers, like safari and Firefox.
But the best apps are the ones that tell you to go to the web page to access some key feature. Despite the website telling you, you need to download the app.
- Comment on Some people who knew barely knew each other meeting for no special reason. 8 months ago:
No amount of money in the world justified the crimes he committed.
Enabling one evil to banish another only exist in hypotheticals and the conscious of the wicked.
Money and financing for charity can be had without sponsoring Epstein. Bill Gates of all people would have access to sufficient funding for any charity endeavour he has taken on.
If Bill Gates lost all his money and access, he would still be better off than most by a large margin. He is extremely unlikely to end up worse off than Epstein’s victims.
- Comment on Some people who knew barely knew each other meeting for no special reason. 8 months ago:
Bill Gates went to visit Epstein in prison after he got charged.
Allegedly Epstein’s behaviour was well know. Donald Trump commented on it before it came out, saying Epstein liked them too young.
Epstein died prior to fully testifying, in suspicious circumstances. His partner was charged with trafficking, with no customers being identified.
It’s highly probable some of his associates were his customers. It’s right to treat them with suspicion. We don’t know who they were, but we know they got away with it. They will continue to get away with it, if everyone just forgets.