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by Calavar 3y ago
Look at a picture of a skull in profile. You'll see that there is half a nose, not no nose. That half of the nose that you can see is the bony part. The missing half is the cartilaginous part. Why is there a hole? Because your nasal ca
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by Calavar 3y ago
> Our immune system is dysfunctioning because of something (not natural occurrence) So, an autoimmune disease? Because that falls within the parameters of what you've described. > What is that something? - vaccines - toxins, pest
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The lower half of the nose is cartilage and is pretty soft. The upper half of the nose hard and is bone.
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A bit off topic, but this website has some of the most draconian TOS I've ever seen > You agree that the information on this website is copyrighted, and you therefore agree not to distribute this information (whether the downloaded
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by Calavar 3y ago
That pricing sounds fair. Unfortunately, I feel that's the exception. Adobe Dreamweaver CS6 was $400 [1]. Now Dreamweawer Creative Cloud is $250 per year [2]. So after 1.75 years, you've already taken a loss. [1] https:/&#x2
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> If doctors later in the diagnostic process fail to take the differing base rate into account, that is not the fault of the preventative test, that is an error in determining what the correct follow up care is. In today's medical m
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So did the indigenous people of the Americas, and yet it's estimated that as many as 90% of them died within the span of about 150 years.
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by Calavar 3y ago
I read it three or four times. It's never explained. If the print("lol") version has a branch-less-than, what does the regular version have? It must either be a branch or a conditional move, but we aren't shown that part
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What are some of the other use cases?
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> This is a research question you can't answer with a prospective analysis either, because it's not ethical to randomize whether you're removing a body part. But that's exactly what we did with the appendix, multiple
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by Calavar 3y ago
This is a fluff piece. We've known for decades that the thymus is an important part of the immune system. It's not an organ that's been believed to be vestigial, like the appendix. > For the study, Kooshesh mined data from
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I think this is somewhat naive. The growth mindset pervades the entire economy, and virtually everyone's interests are bound into it one way or another. Yes, of course there are people who prioritize lifestyle over chasing money. No on
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Insurance based reimbursement is not financially lucrative for physicians. That's why plastic surgeons, who take almost entirely out of pocket payments, are the highest paid physicians. As for why US salaries are so high, it's bec
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by Calavar 3y ago
I don't understand why so much breath is wasted on the lab leak debate. As I see it, there are four questions regarding the lab leak theory that have actionable answers: 1. Is it feasible in principle for dangerous viruses be release
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I've seen crypto mining scripts on sports streaming websites. Issues like permacookies and having half a dozen tracking scripts on a single page are pervasive, even on "legitimate" websites. As for sniffing browser history, I
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by Calavar 3y ago
You leave Javascript enabled, open 15 tabs, and in all likelihood 2 or 3 of them are discreetly running cryptominers, another 2 or 3 are using the timed visited links attack to sniff your browser history [1], another 4 or 5 are installing p
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by Calavar 3y ago
> In general, if you can think of an obvious confounding factor in about five seconds, then it’s a safe assumption that professional researchers thought of it too. I work in academic medicine. I read a lot of papers. This is not at all a
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by Calavar 3y ago
Maybe a minority opinion here, but I find the idea of trying to see what it's like to live with a disability first hand without taking a minimum effort to understand the nature of the disability or how people with that disability typi
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by Calavar 3y ago
They may be referring to the research of Brian Wansink, who was exposed a few years ago for at the very least shoddy research practices and at worst active data manipulation [1, 2, 3]. A large body of his work centered around how to rearran
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by Calavar 3y ago
> Doctors report being more burnt out than ever. It's an attractive proposition to outsource the hard and messy stuff to a firm that knows the business angle well so that they can keep their sanity and focus on what got them interes
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by Calavar 3y ago
> 100% taken into account when determining things like bonuses and promotions Eh, there's some truth to what you said but it's a bit of a stretch. For bonuses, it depends on specialty and practice. In my current job I have zero
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by Calavar 3y ago
In the US, C-sections reimburse higher than vaginal deliveries across the board. What's changed over the years is who gets the extra money from the C-section. It used to be the physician, but nowadays it is increasingly the hospital. T
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by Calavar 3y ago
Another good article in this space is the New Yorker's report on Hahneman Hospital [1], which was acquired by a private equity firm and dissolved a few years later. [1] https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021&#x2F
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I feel that it is disingenuous in the same way that it would be disingenuous to write an article about neolithic agricultural practices and title it "How Google Came to Be." Are these things causally related? Yes, they are. But th
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The solution is to move the system to the car. Cell phones are the wrong tool for the problem. Rollout will be much slower on the automotive side, but this can be addressed if we legistlate such systems up from luxury safety features to man
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Well as with most beliefs, sometimes it's wrong and sometimes it's right. I don't know anything about your mother's case, and I don’t personally have any experience with the NHS, so I can't say if it would have been
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by Calavar 3y ago
For what it's worth, I'm a doctor and I find this story hard to believe. It does sound to me like wishful thinking by an AI hype guy. In my experience, these sorts of situations happen when two things come together: 1. The patient
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Personal history. "Many" is relative. We are talking about a fraction of a percent of the general population, but if you are looking specifically at the population of people who have some form of long standing heart disease, it&#x
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Plenty of insurance plans cover ICD implantation because it is recommended by the American College of Cardiology for specific situations: 1. moderately to severely reduced systolic function of the heart due to a heart attack that persists &
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If the user kills your program with Ctrl-C, you don't have any destructor guarantees. If your program is killed by the OS because the user logged off or powered down their machine, you don't have any destructor guarantees. If your

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