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Comment Re:"Nonessential"? (Score 1) 200

I don't know where you get that the main problem with MSG is its Na+ content. The main potential problem with MSG is that glutamate is the means by which we sense one of the 5 basic tastes, umami, through glutamate taste receptors. Since glutamate ALSO happens to be the principle excitatory neurotransmitter in the nervous system it's certainly _plausible_ that excessive levels of MSG in our diet could cross the blood brain barrier and give people discomfort like headaches, nausea, or worse through excitotoxicity.

Comment Re:That's funny (Score 4, Insightful) 92

Check out Matplotlib and Seaborn for real plotting. It's funny, but not surprising, that MS is adding matplotlib to Excel since Excel produces some of the most butt-ugly graphs imaginable. The examples in both the above galleries have pithy Python code to produce the plots, so what I typically do is just find a plot style I like, copy-and-paste, and edit to fit my data into it. Brilliant!

Comment Re:What happened to the promise of mrna (Score 1) 173

Moderna says data on their Omicron vaccine will come in March: https://www.reuters.com/busine... At that point, it will be up to the regulators to decide on how quickly to ship the vaccines. They might expedite since the mRNA vaccine platform would have been deemed safe from the OG strain and just the payload has changed. But my gut would say the regulators aren't likely to agree to that kind of thing until the mRNA vaccines, in general, have been more broadly tested.

Comment Re:Unexpected? (Score 1) 32

Agreed that they should've known better, especially because the company that did the re-release used the mobile ports as a starting point, switched to Unreal Engine, and apparently are a pretty small shop to begin with: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

This was obviously a Black Friday cash grab since Rockstar doesn't have anything else new in the pipeline for the foreseeable future.

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