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by Cass 11y ago
If the watch can learn to detect irregular pulse/atrial fibrillation (hell, even if it only recognizes it a fraction of the time) it's going to have a huge impact on strokes, too.
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by Cass 11y ago
This might actually be partly generational, if you, like me, grew up using a calculator. I must've done that test with probably about a hundred patients by now, and I have to tell you, the average halfway mentally competent seventy yea
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by Cass 12y ago
I'm in Germany, my tax rate is ~40%, and we do get all those benefits.
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by Cass 12y ago
As a non-technical user with a newish Lenovo laptop, is there some way I can make sure I'm not affected by this?
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by Cass 12y ago
<em>Animals and children running out last-second into the road?</em> I feel like AI would outperform the heck out of us in that situation, because solving it correctly involves a) high situational awareness, which we suck a
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by Cass 12y ago
Not Patrick, but I could see at least two good ways to scale this: - Make it a selling point for the higher tiers of accounts. "If you choose the Serious Business plan, all your questions will be answered by our lead engineer. (Your Se
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by Cass 12y ago
Are you sure it's CT scans? Why not MRIs, which as far as we know cause much less harm to the body? (They're more expensive, but I'd think people who are that worried about cancer would consider the extra expense worth it.)
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by Cass 12y ago
Germany's not doing any better. My hospital's Ebola preparedness plan: Someone printed out a piece of paper with the number of the Ebola advice hotline, underlined it in orange, and stuck it up on the Emergency Room wall. I'm
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by Cass 12y ago
A smartwatch with a pulse sensor could easily detect an arrhythmic pulse, which can be a symptom of atrial fibrillation, one of the most common causes of strokes. You couldn't diagnose a stroke itself just from heart rate and blood pre
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by Cass 12y ago
If someone's far-sighted, as many people above the age of forty are, they might be able to see the street perfectly well, but have trouble reading a GPS screen that's only fourty cm away from their face. And speaking as one of the
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by Cass 12y ago
In countries where it's more socially accepted for doctors to work part time, and where half a doctor's salary is a livable wage (i.e. you don't have to pay off half a million dollars of student loans), a ton of doctors do, e
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by Cass 12y ago
From a human habitability point of view, Mars is fucked worse than the worst thing we could possibly do to Earth (short of accidentally blowing it into an asteroid cloud.) It doesn't even have (enough) water or (the right kind of) atmo
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by Cass 13y ago
It's not exactly cruel, but it's also not exactly the most pleasant way to die. We recently pulled a patient's feeding tube (in accordance with her own wishes - she had terminal cancer, and had been able to see the end coming
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by Cass 13y ago
What are those safer, equally effective alternatives? Ibuprofen causes gastric ulcers, Diclofenac does too, Aspirin is an anticoagulant, and Metamizole can cause agranulocytosis. Also, the maximum recommended daily dose for Acetaminophen is
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by Cass 13y ago
You mentioned in one of the comments that you get a lot of business from referrals, but don't track the number of referrals in any way. Would it make sense to have some sort of rewards program, e.g. one month off for every customer som
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by Cass 13y ago
look at what this drug did to my grandma And this is exactly the sort of crazy nonsense that happens when you give medical information to laypeople without explaining it properly. Warfarin doesn't cause strokes , or if it does, it d
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by Cass 13y ago
This comment is the perfect example of why the FDA needs to be involved with this. They gave you very important medical information. Did they a) make sure the information was accurate and b) explain it to you in a way that's understand
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by Cass 13y ago
If this drug improves your ability to perceive subtle differences in sound the way children can, I wonder if this could also facilitate learning a language with native-speaker pronunciation? As a German who still can't quite get the &q
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by Cass 13y ago
While Munich is in fact hellishly expensive, the Bavarian version of "right wing" is VERY different from what most Americans would probably expect when reading that phrase. (My general expression of the American right wing, partic
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User don’t hate change. They hate you.(medium.com)
3 points by Cass 13y ago|0 comments
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by Cass 13y ago
It's quite common here in Germany. I know several doctors who routinely do it without anesthesia, to avoid the dangers of sedation. Having seen a colonoscopy done that way a few times, I'd personally insist on sedation. Most peopl
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by Cass 13y ago
They actually created a new residency law designed to make immigration to Germany easier for skilled employees just a year ago. Google "blue card". It hasn't had the success they were hoping for, but they're trying.
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by Cass 13y ago
I also really liked Shamus's Project Frontier, a detailed walkthrough on generating an entire procedural world. http://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=11874 He released the executable at the end of the ser
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Kalzumeus Podcast 5: Quitting Consulting Via Productization(kalzumeus.com)
101 points by Cass 13y ago|33 comments
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by Cass 13y ago
But consider this: what value is there in reviving the dead and frozen rather than preserving the living? There'd be lots of value in being able to revive people who died a long time ago, if only for their value as contemporary witne
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by Cass 13y ago
There's nothing surprising about the German tolerance of the US military bases, considering that they do nothing whatsoever to interfere with our lives or inconvenience us in any way, but do provide quite a lot of jobs. These are mostl
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by Cass 13y ago
Finished studying as of November last year, actually. And sure, send me an email, cassandrexx on gmail.
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The Principle of Constant Optimization(mrmoneymustache.com)
1 points by Cass 13y ago|0 comments
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by Cass 13y ago
Or copy an existing business and apply it to the same industry in a different country. No reason, say, Appointment Reminder wouldn't work just as well in Germany.
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by Cass 13y ago
You'd probably do better to target businesses than consumers. Sure, you don't want to call the pharmacy, but how much are you really willing to pay to save yourself one phone call once a month? (Beware, if you're a highly paid and highly an

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