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by aaavl2821 9y ago
Governments that do not destroy rivals even if capable of doing so and civilizations that can peacefully trade with other civilizations have existed as long as governments and civilizations have existed. China is certainly not the first nor
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by aaavl2821 9y ago
There is a drug used to treat a form of eye disease that causes blindness. The product, eylea, has dominated the market despite (until recently) having no evidence that it improves vision vs the competition, provides no significant improvem
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by aaavl2821 9y ago
You typically don't try to "predict", you just learn about customers' wants and needs and solve for those. Why try to guess what attributes are important in a product when you can just ask / test
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by aaavl2821 9y ago
I've never heard someone say they've never heard a good case that emotions exist before. Would you mind elaborating? For me, I recognize emotione in myself that fit my understanding of the word "emotions", and that is s
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by aaavl2821 9y ago
Id argue that rather than him exposing the class as a hoax, he exposed that his level of comfort with the course content was quite low. The class is about emotional intelligence, and he essentially admits he is lacking in this (not able to
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by aaavl2821 9y ago
Nor are heart rate monitors an accurate or reliable predictor of emotion
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by aaavl2821 9y ago
I think sutters CEO is in the top 3 or so highest paid non profit CEOs, and sutter may be the biggest / second biggest non profit health system in the country, so I don't know that there are many industry comparables I'd love
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by aaavl2821 9y ago
I got the steam version in 2014 and it was the best $5 I've ever spent, although the performance was laggier compared to the voobly platform (the platform you use to play the cd version). I haven't played the steam one in over a
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by aaavl2821 9y ago
when microsoft "remastered" age of empires 2 for steam ~15 years after original release, there was a small community-built platform that had kept the original game alive. microsoft released a buggy mess that was inferior to the c
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by aaavl2821 9y ago
the article i saw said that the $270M profit was for a single hospital, sutter memorial hospital in sacramento, which does revenue of $3B per a separate article i found. it is interesting that sutter's overall system-level profit is $3
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"Population health" at work! That is terrible about your family member though. Its a horrible system
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i think one of the most interesting things about healthcare is how local it is. Most hospitals around the country are struggling, but there is a subset of large powerful hospitals that are making money hand over fist. They are basically buy
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there is a published study showing that loud rock music cures type one diabetes in mice, along with 400-500 other therapies, none of which work in humans. There are two main vendors for these diabetic mice; for some reason, mice from one ve
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by aaavl2821 9y ago
i guess an analogy that could be appropriate here is to imagine there is a study that compares two interventions for treating cancer: chemotherapy as one intervention, and chemotherapy plus playing video games for several hours as another i
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by aaavl2821 9y ago
I'm not religious, but I know many many people who practice religion because it helps them in very real ways. From having a community to providing meaning to taking comfort in rituals to praying as a form of meditation, there are many
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the full context of the quote you used from my comment is that mbct "failed to show a significant benefit vs the control". Your shortened quotation misses that very important context. The control exists to account for all the othe
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a "placebo" generally refers to an inactive control arm of a study of a drug. For studying something like meditation, you would use a different kind of control arm. The most common example is "treatment as usual". So ha
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i fully support mindfulness and meditation as tools with real potential benefit, but the literature on clinical effectiveness leaves a lot to be desired. see a good overview of this issue here by one of the leaders in mindfulness research: