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by Gatsky 16y ago
Multiball works!
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Cannabis and Psychosis(bmj.com)
12 points by Gatsky 16y ago|14 comments
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Air pollution triggers heart attacks(thelancet.com)
3 points by Gatsky 16y ago|0 comments
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by Gatsky 16y ago
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19588335 "AUTHORS' CONCLUSIONS: Single dose oxycodone is an effective analgesic in acute postoperative pain at doses over 5 mg; oxycodone is two to three times stronger than codeine. Efficacy increases w
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by Gatsky 16y ago
A study on post-partum pain from the 1980s? Try this one, a meta-analysis from 2000 on post-op pain: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10796810 Acetaminophen is effective. Most professional guidelines on analgesia recommend the use of ac
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Hacking Memory (the squishy, error prone kind)(psych.wustl.edu)
1 points by Gatsky 16y ago|0 comments
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by Gatsky 16y ago
3. Someone publishes research, holds a self-congratulatory press conference, ignores criticism. Eventually evidence is refuted and the scientist disgraced. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MMR_vaccine_controversy/ for an example.
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by Gatsky 16y ago
What's this? Two submissions about 'The Waste Land' on the front page of HN? As much as I don't like conceited meta-comments, I have to say that this is an incredible and surprising community...
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by Gatsky 16y ago
I think that last comment is over-calling things a bit. There are no studies supporting the conclusion that anti-obesity drugs save lives (this is not to say that they definitely don't, just that no one has proven it). Most of them cause we
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by Gatsky 16y ago
Those abbreviated fatal conditions are severe systemic drug reactions involving skin. They are mostly idiosyncratic - in other words, not really related to the total dose and not more likely with long term use. Some people are unlucky and g
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by Gatsky 16y ago
Pre-publication registration of trials has happened. The major journals agreed they would only publish trials that were registered prior to publication. There are sites for this (www.clinicaltrials.gov). Unfortunately, I saw a paper recentl
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by Gatsky 16y ago
The process is amazing. It's a giant highly optimized molecular recognition library. Random diversity in antibody binding motifs is generated by guided mutation of the DNA coding for the proteins in the antibody. This wide repertoire is the
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by Gatsky 16y ago
Difficult to say much from a forum post... errors in self perception are probably a large part of the problem. I don't think you have a motivation problem. You seem to start lots of things. I have a motivation problem. I haven't started any
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by Gatsky 16y ago
To confirm, the sea floor is 5000ft below the surface, and the oil reservoir 18000 feet below that. There are some good diagrams at NYT and washington post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/graphic/2010/05... http://www.nytim
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by Gatsky 17y ago
Considering that when you rotate the view, the image offset doesn't change at all, I don't think this represents any additional information beyond the standard 2D streetview.
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by Gatsky 17y ago
I agree, these tests are quite useless. In addition to the points above: 1. The huge variability in load times for various pages clearly depends much more on the page being loaded rather than the browser. 2. There is no discussion of what a
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by Gatsky 17y ago
It opens up a new market for the JooJoo tablet as a web-enabled sushi platter.
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by Gatsky 17y ago
Mnemosyne/Supermemo do not support crossword puzzles. Spicy Elephant is an online flashcard service. Mnemosyne in particular is geared towards learning vocabulary, and includes 'three sided' flashcards for learning the meaning, non-roman ch