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by Cass 14y ago
The thing that makes bone marrow transplantation so expensive (about € 100.000 a pop in Germany, probably more expensive in the US) is that in the time between killing off the patient's own immunosystem and the donor immunosystem taking hol
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by Cass 14y ago
I'm not talking in hypotheticals here. I'm saying that of the many, many people I know who do in fact work closely with the badly injured victims of traffic accidents every day, not a single one has been scared away from driving.
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by Cass 14y ago
I've worked in an Emergency Room. Literally every single person who worked there drove a car. Both trauma surgeons were motorcycle enthusiasts. I'm friends with pulmonologists who smoke, psychiatrists who drink, endocrinologists who are fat
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by Cass 14y ago
Interesting. I remember you talking about how it likely wouldn't make much of a difference, because almost all parents have less than eight kids, and almost all teachers have more than 20, so the number of people who'd be induced to buy the
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by Cass 14y ago
"I have probably told a hundred anecdotes like “I just did an A/B test and increased software sales by 70% with 99% statistical confidence. The change was a two-character configuration tweak that I dismissed on a hunch six years ago.” (T
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by Cass 14y ago
I studied medicine at the TUM and its sister university, the LMU (The schools teach their med students together for the first two years). Their site would reliably go down every third Friday evening, when the anatomy exam results were poste
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by Cass 14y ago
There are straightforward how-tos on every aspect of medicine easily available for everyone, and no need to turn to survivalist guides, either. How do you think doctors learn this stuff? The exact same medical textbooks we use are sold free
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by Cass 15y ago
it will probably work something like electrical engineering you can do in minecraft: you never need to do it at all for the game to be fun, but if you want, you can steal a plan for an automated monster-trap from youtube, spend a few hours
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by Cass 15y ago
I think Facebook has thought this stuff out quite well: When people use real names on their service, it's easier for family, friends, and college acquaintances from thirty years ago to find them, thus increasing user engagement with the sit
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by Cass 15y ago
In addition to the things you mentioned, I'm also quite happy about the existence of a party containing many young, inexperienced members in the government. They seem to be reinventing the wheel at least partly out of ignorance of the way t
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by Cass 15y ago
I don't suppose you have a link to whatever article's that from? I'd like to read it, but google's not bringing it up.
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by Cass 15y ago
Is this going to be programmers/engineers only? I hang out on HN because I'm interested in general tech news and like the entrepreneurial spirit of the site, and would enjoy meeting like-minded people. But I'm not a programmer myself, and i
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by Cass 15y ago
You don't need to be a doctor to run an MRI scan, but you do need to be one to interpret the results. In addition, you should really have at least one doctor around to decide exactly what you need to MRI in which way for optimal results for
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by Cass 15y ago
MRIs aren't much use for screening. They can't be used to diagnose many diseases at all, and for many others, their sensitivity and specificity are quite low. In addition, they produce a large number of huge, highly complex images that have
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by Cass 15y ago
MRIs in Germany (or at least my part of it) tend to be relatively rare and booked almost completely full, because with the prices the way they are, they're not profitable unless they're utilized as much as physically possible. There's there
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by Cass 15y ago
I'm surprised Fog Creek kept commissions around for so long, considering that Joel has been writing articles about how incentive pay causes dysfunction since 2002 (Edit: 2000, even!) http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000070.ht
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by Cass 15y ago
It's really not, though. I'm not a programmer, but I can solve Fizzbuzz and Hello World in Ruby, and I still wouldn't know where to start with a bingo card creator. I could manage to randomly reorder a series of words, but putting them into
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by Cass 15y ago
It's probably at least partly a matter of how the rest of your room is lit. Your sight is sharpest when your pupils are small, so a bright monitor in a bright room will work best for many people. However, if you're looking at a dark monitor
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by Cass 15y ago
I've had plenty of taxi drivers who could barely drive, let alone find any given address in their city. And as for doctors, see my answer to potatolicious above - I've seen some terrifyingly incompetent ones who really should have been scre
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by Cass 15y ago
"5 years at County General" for a MD, with a clean record, is a pretty decent guarantee that your candidate is in the ballpark." Scary but true: There are plenty of experienced doctors who couldn't pass a medical Fizzbuzz. My supervisor at
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by Cass 15y ago
I'd be interested in the link to that study, if you have it.
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by Cass 15y ago
He's making quite a bit more than that. "Today, Pinboard is Ceglowski's fulltime job, pulling in $250,000 in revenue over the past two years. He says the site has 25,000 registered users with about 18,000 active ones each month. Ceglowski's
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by Cass 15y ago
That's how it works in the best case. Unfortunately, medical research is not a perfect science. Realistically, with many medical treatments, you can't have a double-blinded study. With chemotherapy, the side effects will often quickly tell
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by Cass 15y ago
This is not a question of being "rational", and there's no right or wrong answer. People make trade-offs between quality and quantity of life every day. Do I want to quit smoking, drinking, drugs, and take up sports, etc for a chance at a l
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by Cass 15y ago
Medical research benefits hugely from terminally ill patients who are willing to try anything for even two more months of painful life. There are a lot of of experimental, highly dangerous cancer treatments that could never be justified if
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by Cass 15y ago
To everyone considering a "NO CODE" tattoo after reading this story: Don't. If you're really that serious about not wanting to be resuscitated under any circumstances, wear some kind of bracelet or necklace with those words on it, and, just
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by Cass 15y ago
I'm not a huge fan of the idea of paying people for bone marrow, but "poor people won't be able to afford bone marrow" is fairly irrelevant as an argument. Poor people already cannot afford to pay for any of the costs associated with a bone