Here is a calculator I built a while ago when I was freelancing. It won't be perfect but will give you a close idea of what an equivalent day rate should be for freelancer compared to a full time sala...
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This topic is concerning freelancer income, so it doesn't involve an employer paying for a portion of an employee's health insurance premiums.It's also very easy to compare even if you are an employee...
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COVID-19 is not a normal respiratory infection. It seems to prevent your RBCs from holding onto O2 and CO2 mimicking high altitude sickness. The disease acts like HAPE (high altitude pulmonary edema)....
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On: Study: Severe Covid-19 Cases Don't Respond to Hydroxychloroq
COVID-19 attacks hemoglobin and that is how it damages the lungs. With your hemoglobin unable to exchange oxygen with blood in the lungs, it causes terrible damage.https://chemrxiv.org/articles/COVID-...
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[IANAD] hydroxychloroquine is an immunosuppressant and shouldn't be combined even with vaccines ( https://www.medicinenet.com/hydroxychloroquine/article.htm#w... ), so using it when immune system is ...
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Not very surprising given the quality of the studies that this fad is based on:https://respectfulinsolence.com/2020/04/03/zelenko-smith-aba...That's a long read, but it's pretty damning.TL;DR: China s...
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The thought occurred to me as well, I got a strong sense of "playing with fire." However, viruses have a very high mutation rate as it is [1], so I'm not sure how much difference it makes.Bt...
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> a promising treatment https://stm.sciencemag.org/content/early/2020/04/03/scitrans...That is frightening. Increasing the mutation rate must carry a large unknown risk. Also surely the first thing to...
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An in-vitro pre-print study ( https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.29.014407v1 ) showed that administering Hydroxychloroquine only after Covid-19 infection is not helping much, while admini...
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That would be just as shallow. The issue isn't brevity, it's genericness. Are we really making the assumption that every study with a small sample is worthless, and that our reflexes know better than ...
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Somehow the hivemind decided a few years ago (it would be interesting to trace how and when) that every study with a small sample size is worthless and merely mentioning sample size is enough to cance...
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Because they didn't intend to use chloroquine as a way to reduce the immune response to cytokine storms.They intended to use it to prevent virus replication in the cells at the early stages of the imm...
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Nobody seems to be talking about the actual reason Chinese doctors found chloroquine (and HCQ) interesting and it has nothing to do with it's immunosuppressing effect:1) Chloroquine (and HCQ) is a zin...
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HarryHirsch says "The zinc notion is total bunk..."I am unclear what you mean here but this in-vitro experiment. which studied interaction of zinc ions with chloroquine in a human ovarian ca...
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There are often "symbolic votes" on issues, especially taken by the opposition party in a situation they know the bill could never become law. To take just one example, many Republicans ran ...
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On: What concept would improve everybody's cognitive toolkit? Ka
Upvoted due to the interesting story, but the point is conceptually unclear (at least to me, but I'm quite slow) how would this improve my cognitive toolkit?I understand the (one) example presented ap...
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Lol I think its a case study in Kayfabe, especially the part where Joe Exotic ironically went off-script and orchestrated a shoot. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoot_(professional_wrestling)A "...
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Eric Weinstein also has a podcast of his own, the most recent episode of which features his original lecture detailing the Geometric Unity model he discussed on Rogan (though even the dumbed-down vers...
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