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New comment by rosegold in "Researchers propose a new interdisciplinary subfield called “Machine Behaviour”"

rosegold — Sat, 27 Apr 2019 06:55:45 +0000

Perhaps this meets your requirements for valuable policy research https://distill.pub/2019/safety-needs-social-scientists/

New comment by rosegold in "The enemy within: Gut bacteria drive autoimmune disease"

rosegold — Mon, 09 Apr 2018 01:40:59 +0000

A recent study indicates clinical evidence for remission through diet in IBD:

"Clinical remission was achieved by week 6 by 11/15 (73%) of study participants, and all 11 maintained clinical remission during the maintenance phase of the study."

Konijeti, Gauree Gupta et al. “Efficacy of the Autoimmune Protocol Diet for Inflammatory Bowel Disease.” Inflammatory bowel diseases 23.11 (2017): 2054–2060. PMC. Web. 9 Apr. 2018.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5647120/

New comment by rosegold in "The enemy within: Gut bacteria drive autoimmune disease"

rosegold — Sun, 08 Apr 2018 23:50:25 +0000

This is not the only research regarding microbiome and autoimmune disease. While this article states that their findings seem most promising for Lupus Nephritis, there are recent articles that point to other microbes which are relevant to rheumatoid arthritis: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/07/160711151315.h... and https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/gut-mic... among many others with the search "rheumatoid arthritis and gut microbes". See this for MS https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/gut-germs-appear-... This is my all time favorite that just came out in Nature which shows that anti-inflammatories may contribute to slow growth of beneficial gut microbes. I have identified at least two first line DMARD's used in rheumatoid arthritis that are mentioned in this article. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-02780-x?utm_sourc... So, while autoimmune diseases amy not stem from gut bacteria, there is definitely some relationship about which we need to learn more.

New comment by rosegold in "The enemy within: Gut bacteria drive autoimmune disease"

rosegold — Sun, 08 Apr 2018 23:14:31 +0000

Yes, there is a hospital in South Africa that is successfully using water fasting in autoimmune disease. I'll pull some documentation and post.

New comment by rosegold in "“Pinterest needs to be removed from Google IMO”"

rosegold — Mon, 19 Mar 2018 23:46:46 +0000

Happy to help you share a board or pin from outside Pinterest. I've absolutely never had a problem with any of the things you mention. My problem with Pinterest is that it is way too commercial now with lots of links to buy and spam contained within images. I used to enjoy it but not so much now.

New comment by rosegold in "Ask HN: What medical datasets do you need?"

rosegold — Sun, 09 Apr 2017 19:12:34 +0000

For many autoimmune-related conditions patient’s symptoms also appear to fluctuate randomly, with symptoms such as pain and fatigue coming seemingly out of the blue. This includes chronic diseases such as Lupus, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Fibromyalgia and a long tail of other conditions [1].

People with these lifelong illnesses typically experience a roller-coaster of recurring symptom flare-ups, wreaking havoc with their lives. Yet there are patterns to the flare-ups. This is an opportunity to make a big difference for millions of people [2].

[1] https://www.aarda.org/disease-list/

[2] https://www.aarda.org/autoimmune-information/autoimmune-stat...

New comment by rosegold in "GitHub for Lawyers (2013)"

rosegold — Sat, 21 Jan 2017 16:59:28 +0000

Agree with much of the above with some exceptions: secretaries create documents for partners and senior level associates. There is usually a bank of standard provisions that the secretary pulls from. Partner A says pull the standard template plus x and Y provisions. Secretary prepares and Partner reviews. On the billing, you may see preparation charged at the secretary's hourly rate with review at the partner's rate. Lawyer's have plenty of accountability from their clients. Corporate clients hire outside firms to review billings. Each year corporations review their outside counsel and decide if they want to find new counsel. Big Corp invites big law firm X, Y and Z in for a "dog and pony show". Competition between law firms is fierce.

New comment by rosegold in "What Founders Ask Founders About Getting into Y Combinator"

rosegold — Sat, 01 Oct 2016 18:12:17 +0000

Just tried to jump on. Host was not on. Will try again. Thanks so much for this. Super helpful.