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My ancestor died of a splinter

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My step-father had sepsis two weeks ago. IV antibiotics and a few other interventions and he was sent home from the hospital after a few days with some Cipro. Antibiotics are fantastic and I hope we somehow stave off the dystopian post-antibiotic future.

Well, bacteria are super motivated to evolve (naturally), so our antibiotics are doomed to be ineffective (naturally) sooner or later.

> he was sent home from the hospital after a few days with some Cipro.

See this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15868937

Cipro is not good. Stuff has messed me up a lot in the short time I took it. Be warned.

What doctors never seem to tell patients is what you need to do to clean up the mess left behind in the wake of powerful antibiotics.

Your step father would be wise to actively try to repair the damage to his gut flora, get excess yeast under control, remedy any nutrient deficiencies he has been left with and flush any drug residues from his system. Otherwise he is likely to have another health crisis fairly soon. It can become a vicious cycle.

My grand-uncle died of a chill. He was a pall-bearer for a neighbor on Saturday, in the pouring rain. Came home soaking wet. Grandma said "Let me make you a warm bath!" he said "I'll do the chores first". Came in shivering uncontrollably. Short story - they carried him the next Saturday.

So yeah, antibiotics are wonderful.

My Ublock Origin count on that page is 80. I waited until it stopped counting and then got out of there.

The seems rather bizarre. What is the point of waiting for it to stop and then not staying around to read the article?

Principles

Principles such as what, though?

"I won't read an ad-sponsored site's article for free if the number of blockable items I didn't actually see is appallingly high."

I could actually see someone adopting that approach, on the theory that as the number of items you consider to be bad on the site goes up, so does the probability that it will include bad items that your blocker does not yet know how to stop.

However, someone using that approach should bail on the site when the number blocked reaches some fixed threshold. That's why I thought it bizarre to wait around until it had finished before leaving.

> The seems rather bizarre.

A HN user called Bizarro, posting a bizarre remark?

What are the odds ...

With NoScript in the mix blocking all the javascript, the Ublock Origin count is only 11.

When in doubt just paste it to archive.is

https://archive.is/MwzNr

The page kept refreshing and scrolling back to the top. Unreadable on my iPad.

And so many ads as well, even with an ad-blocker installed :(

There's something seriously wrong with the ads on this site. Even with my ad blocker disabled, the ads constantly refresh as I view the page. I wouldn't be surprised if this were some sort of ad fraud scheme, along the same lines as the one that hit Myspace last year:

https://www.buzzfeed.com/craigsilverman/ad-industry-insiders...

(Yes, it's Buzzfeed, but it's them doing some real investigative journalism.)

Agreed! Unreadable!

FWIW, works fine with uBlock & uMatrix preventing JavaScript from running.

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