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ecwilson
·last year·discuss
Medical journalists are incentivized to make you concerned. I highly suggest all medical journalism be run through a good AI to be put into context.

https://chatgpt.com/share/68709753-d2ec-8010-ba8b-e7b57d610e...

TLDR:

  The paper offers an interesting signal that heavy gabapentin prescribing tracks with higher dementia/MCI diagnoses, especially in 35-64-year-olds.  Yet substantial unmeasured confounding, possible reverse causality, and modest absolute risk increments mean we’re far from proving gabapentin is neurotoxic.  It’s a reminder to prescribe purposefully, review regularly, and keep cognition on the monitoring checklist—but not a reason for abrupt discontinuation in patients who benefit.
ecwilson
·last year·discuss
I was going to post this exact same comment. I was obsessed with Etherpad when it came out and to this day, reminisce about it whenever I fire up a Google Doc. Can’t wait to try this.
ecwilson
·2 years ago·discuss
Non-removable storage isn't the problem. You have identified one actual problem: privacy. But even this isn't a real problem if you turn on system-level drive encryption:

https://support.apple.com/guide/security/volume-encryption-w...

Soldered-in components make for higher quality, lower cost production. Anecdotally, every Windows machine I've had has failed. Every MacBook machine I have replaced after 4-5 years when I wanted to upgrade to the latest technology.