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What are you talking about?

We have interstellar objects intrude and fly by our solar system all the time, on several occasions.

Paper planes are over two thousand years old.

NYT is just the epitome of the dunning-kruger in the west.

are Chinese fabs honouring sanctions? what about downstream suppliers of generic ARM chips?

>Apparently even the basics like steel are getting hard to come by.

aren't they a sizeable steel exporter? "2018, Russia exported 33.3 million metric tons of steel, a 7 percent ... Russia exports steel to more than 130 countries and territories."

All sorts of government policies induce deaths: leaded gasoline, lax pharmaceutical safety, etc.

Maybe we should be more frank? Debt is an abomination and is evil.

>Director of Graduate Studies of History Erik Loomis that “Science, statistics, and technology are all inherently racist.”

History department dictates Math dept policy in DurhamU?

  "#263 in Best Global Universities"

  #54 in Arts in Humanities.
  #310 in Physics.
  #701 in Engineering.

is this what a great STEM school looks like?

rankings: https://www.usnews.com/education/best-global-universities/du...

pushing official policy via deniable "private" distribution channels has been the SOP in the West for a long time.

Perfectly valid assumption, especially given this verbiage in the source article, which you can verify for yourself: "Durham University is calling on professors in the math department"

The employer told employees what to do. The end.

2010-2020: a decade of Field's medalists:

  Elon Lindenstrauss   Israel 
  Ngô Bảo Châu         Vietnam 
  Stanislav Smirnov    Russia 
  Cédric Villani       France 
  Manjul Bhargava.     United States 
  Maryam Mirzakhani    Iran
  Martin Hairer        Austria 
  Akshay Venkatesh     Australia

Notably, without exception, all of them were associated with IAS at some point.

Seems biggest consideration here for DurhamU would be to consider making their own very successful IAS and curate that institute membership to whatever criteria and see how it competes globally. Looking forward to their contribution to Ma.

more on DurhamU: I cannot even locate their Math ranking, but with #701 ranking in Engineering, and #310 in Physics, seems they've got plenty of work ahead of them to even come close to the IAS. (usnews rankings)

an irrelevant un-ranked institution making noise?

The west hasn’t seen proper austerity yet, just barely warming up.

Maybe soon.

Paris to Nice is 900km car ride.

The 31 euro air travel “price” doesn’t include a fuel surcharge, airport fees, baggage fees, then a nice fat 20% VAT tax on top, etc, all of which can often exceed the “price” itself. Maybe you should start an airline and report back.

If air travel in the US was such a profitable biz as you say, airlines wouldn’t be constantly on the brink of insolvency.

That’s probably already covered under some “national security” catch-all somewhere.

PE?

elon taking over twitter is pessimistic?

misquote.

The correct quote is ”COMPARISON IS THE THIEF OF JOY.” – THEODORE ROOSEVELT

"Comparison is the thief of joy" - As quoted in Becoming a Great School (2013) by Cooper, Gustafson and Salah, p. ix"

Nothing wrong with expectations, ambitions, drive.

The prerequisites is a very American thing. Most of the world just does medicine as an undergrad, and physicians are just as good. The US pre-req system, as well as the control over residency spots is just supply management to ensure compensation remains high.

However, with supply management of physicians, comes responsibility to ensure reliabile supply to replenish ranks to avoid surprises, and thus all efforts are made to ensure that students can pass. You simply can't have 70% fewer graduates one year, and 170% next.

"With an admit rate of 7%, it is easy to understand why the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine is sometimes viewed from the outside as highly competitive."

"Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Acceptance rate - 7.3%"

If you have good memory, and not a total dolt, you can be a physician. Analytic ability is a tertiary concern.

Ive heard some people go as far using naltrexone, an anti-addiction medication for this.

Does anyone know anyone who actually did this?

How common are the ones that check their ego? 1 in 10?

Unfortunately, you often have to travel at times to find good talent/expertise.

Some people move permanently, in order to obtain medical care. Sometimes, to another country.

Most compounding pharmacies will ship, and most physicians will only require one visit in person in 12 months.

It alludes to the joke: "what do you call the last student from the worst medical school? A doctor"

>Tone down expectations.

This sounds absolutely terrible. Something not to far from victim blaming.

Don't have a home? Learn how to be happy homeless! Husband gave you a black eye? Tone down your expectations!

Medicine drop out rates: 15-18% Engineering drop out rates: 40-50% Math drop out rates: 47%

Dumbest doctor is stupider than avg math/eng. They just tend to be less autistic on avg.

"The American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) found that between 40% to 50% of engineering students drop out or change their majors."

"So, what is the dropout rate for medical school? In a standard, single four-year program, that would put the medical school dropout rate at between 15.7 percent and 18.4 percent, confirms the AAMC."

"In mathematics, the dropout rate is even higher with 47% (U.S. college dropouts show comparable numbers; Chen, 2013)."

It's ok to question and discount doctors. Plenty of incompetent practitioners out there, well protected by powerful lobby, trade union, massive liability umbrellas.

They even passed laws to reduce their own liability.

I'm sure they needed that because they are so excellent at their job, they are only the leading cause of accidental deaths.

The guy who came in last in his medical class. In the worst medical school in the country.

..is somehow always better...than everyone else? Always?

Professional opinion is just that, an opinion. Opinion of potentially the worst medical student, from the worst medical school. but because they got a prescription pad, they are now smarter than anyone else in America. Got it.

Health is ultimately our own decision, and ours alone.

>A few people have problems with medical professionals.

>"Death by medical error or accident is the nation's leading cause of accidental death"

Trust the "leading cause of accidental death".

Medical training is extremely limited. Physicians literally don't understand how any of the drugs they prescribe work, and the standard operating procedure is to memorize 2-3 drugs out of one class and never prescribe anything else in that class.

Physicians are constrained by: their hospital policy, HMO incentives, civil liability, criminal liability, boards, legislation, insurance rates, personal biases, past unique experiences, influence of their mentors, weather, bad knees, bad marriage, whatever. Sometimes they are just having a shit day. Some keep practising to the point they are so senile they attempt to sign a prescription with the syringe needle (witnessed that myself).

They are just humans. Rather greedy humans, most of the time. They will never be fully frank with you.

3rd opinion? People often seen 5+ physicians, and spend 10+ years to get a proper diagnosis.

>superpower of being resilient against life's wraths.

how?

Grades are normalized on a gaussian curve.

What's the difference between mean and median in a Gaussian distribution?

Looking forward to your contributions to mathematics.

so is it public square or private company?

or whatever is convenient for you that day, as per the circumstances?

This is the reason why some people suggest not to listening to any comments. A lot of stuff here are factually incorrect:

  1) MAOIs are safe, and Parnate specifically is extremely effective. However, requires a special diet to adhere.
  2) Stimulants ARE prescribed very frequently to augment antidepressants in difficult cases, especially in people with serious illness.
  3) Moclobemide has every effect of an MAOI in effective dosages, including diet restriction. There are no effective drugs without side effects. Moclobemide is not thought to be particularly effective(mostly because on-label dosage is far too low), there is a reason why it's used infrequently.
  4) Etifoxine might be great for some, but it has significant risks of liver injury. There is a reason why Valium is still one of the most common anxiolytics prescribed worldwide.

50% of doctors are by definition below the average.

In reality, roughly 3-10% are good, the rest just go by standard guidelines only and/or punt you off to someone else.

Where are you located? What are the symptoms? Many times, depression is a symptom of a deeper problem, especially if lifelong.

  What do you mean specifically by "I was able to sleep when I wanted to"? You have profound insomnia? Any serious enough sleep disorder will give you depression, and if sleep is an issue - address that first. Sleep medicine is quite involved, and often if it's something subtle you'd have to travel to get expert advice. Stanford is a pretty good sleep medicine centre, both in respiratory and circadian disorders.

As for the safe treatments: there are now clinics that offer ketamine infusions (nearly instant remission even in very severe cases), and psilocybin, under medical supervision.

Both are fairly safe, and have no discontunation/withdrawals symptoms. You will be screened if it's appropriate for you, and it will always be administered under medical supervision the entire time. Ketamine is extremely successful, most in nearly instant remission that least at least a week or two, but the effects do not last forever, and most patients require ongoing treatment. At least you may know what it feels like to be not-depressed.

SSRIs are fairly safe in hands of a competent and most importantly caring prescriber. SNRIs however, at least anecdotally, many prescribers no longer use. Look for someone who truly cares and wants to help. Discontiuation is real, but any competent prescriber will know how to taper it, often a compounding pharmacy is used.

You should have any and all thyroid issue ruled out definitively, all nutritional deficiency ruled out, all allergies/intolerances, no matter how seemingly insignificant eliminated. Full in-lab polysomnography and sleep endoscopy should be done to rule out any sleep issues. Actigraphy might be helpful too, if you have a circadian disorder.

The best proven au-naturel anti-depressants is lots of exercise and lots and lots of social interaction. Did they help?

If not, and you have so called endogenous depression, some sort of medication will be more than likely needed, but in such cases SSRIs will be tried and are often found insufficient. You may need MAOIs, most of the time Parnate will be used. It is safe, but it comes with absolute contraindications to a few foods, and requires a dedicated diet (no cheese, and no fermented foods, not that difficult to maintain), and you'd need someone with an experience using this medication, it's a bit of an orphan drug at this point. I'd try ketamine or psilocybin first.

I never heard of anyone with lifelong depression recover with therapy alone, usually a combination of medication+therapy, and very, very often an underlying condition was found too.

You had an incompetent prescriber.

Tapering doses for all sorts of medications are routinely done, and any pharmacy can handle such an rx. If they can't - you don't want to go to such a pharmacy anyway.

I love how you completely ignored the fact that two post-coup ministers of national security were openly Nazi.

The west shook hands with Nazi defence ministers and sent them weapons.

That’s a good thing, right?