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by alphaoverlord 14y ago
I feel like this story is a great example of how its easy to come up with ad hoc justifications. After you decide to do something, it's quite easy to find evidence for your perpsective and justify standard practice. At the point that there
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by alphaoverlord 14y ago
There are a variety of technical online references. One example would be uptodate.com. they are generally behind pay walls though, so hard to access as a patient. It is frequently referenced.
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Create the face of Mobile Medicine - Summer Internship
1 points by alphaoverlord 14y ago|0 comments
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by alphaoverlord 14y ago
Looks like protovis, unless they are using different tools for each graphic. http://mbostock.github.com/protovis/ex/pack.html
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Show HN: Visualization Mapping FDA Approved Drugs to Diseases(dl.dropbox.com)
2 points by alphaoverlord 15y ago|0 comments
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by alphaoverlord 15y ago
so what's the plan doc? EHR in the style of practicefusion, drchrono, Epic, GE Healthcare?
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by alphaoverlord 15y ago
Generally Enron is described as an example of deregulation gone wrong as Enron was able to control supply. That has nothing to do with passing off costs to ratepayers. Even if that's not a perfect example, do we really disagree that a pure
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by alphaoverlord 15y ago
Necessity vs. non-essential is quite a slippery slope as there is a gradient of need. How would one draw the line? As Enron and countless other examples show, a purely free market does not always result in an optimum outcome, even for somet
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by alphaoverlord 15y ago
I really like the visualization as gel electrophoresis. What are axis? X is the letter, color/intensity is frequency, Y - I assume is the time? If Y is the time, I can imagine that there would be mostly times without any activity punctuat
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by alphaoverlord 15y ago
This brings to mind the excellent Feynman quote: “You know, the most amazing thing happened to me tonight. I was coming here, on the way to the lecture, and I came in through the parking lot. And you won’t believe what happened. I saw a car
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by alphaoverlord 15y ago
> Yes, neither of these companies may be offering me the best deal possible, but unless they are colluding, the government should not be involved. It's interesting that you make a dichotomy between collusion - in which you think the gov
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by alphaoverlord 15y ago
There is an equivalent - its called Antabuse (disulfiram). It inhibits the enzyme that metabolizes ethanol, causing the bad side effects of 'Asian glow' to a more severe extent. The idea is to cause negative feedback for alcohol. Notice by
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by alphaoverlord 15y ago
In this case, there is no need for a trial. The evidence is indisputable and the OP admits to the action. In a free market, I should charge what I want. Why does Comcast need to create a higher tier when 99.9% don't need or want it?
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by alphaoverlord 15y ago
Implicit in the title of "250GB of legitimate use" is the assumption that torrenting or things of that nature are not legitimate. And also supports Comcast's claim that 99% of people do not use that much bandwidth. Sure a bandwidth cap is n
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by alphaoverlord 15y ago
There are both vaccines for HPV (cause of cervical cancer) and HBV (cause of liver cancer).
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by alphaoverlord 15y ago
By far the least impressive paragraph. I have the same numbers, but thats really nothing to write home about. I would be the first to admit that test scores doesn't really show creativity or potential. While the other applicants described t
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by alphaoverlord 15y ago
Summary: Advances in medicine has increased the life expectancy of Americans. As a greater proportion of people live longer, there will be stresses on our economy and healthcare system and society's expectations/perceptions of the elderly w
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by alphaoverlord 15y ago
I would be interested to see how he justifies each of those 150 pills + 70 substances, much less how he priorities these three as the "top three"
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by alphaoverlord 15y ago
I'm curious why the OP thinks the first five entries on the list are "obviously faulty entries". They do seem like a lot of money, but I am sure there can be edge cases, after all, the sample size for each of them is really small. The title
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by alphaoverlord 15y ago
Although it can be argued that current higher education is being commoditized, the OP is making an unrealistic comparison to some idealized past where education meant more and people were more educated simply because they went to college. L
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by alphaoverlord 16y ago
> $41M distributed among many different startups would be better for the tech ecosystem/community as a whole In what ways? How would that be true? It's a free market - you get what you can get. You can argue fb doesn't deserve its valua
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by alphaoverlord 16y ago
But in this case, they are actively trying to "lock" their door. Speaking abstractly, this misalignment of interests has nothing to do with the mechanisms of action. That's like saying the cops can use heat-sensors to look at houses, becaus
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by alphaoverlord 16y ago
Unfortunately, metagenomics is currently the lowest hanging fruit of genomics/biology right now. Sequencing has gotten exponentially cheaper to the point that these types of projects are feasible (the paper you cite is actually a proof of c
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by alphaoverlord 16y ago
~300 million is the population of the US We have 2.5x the population but 25x the landmass. That's an order of magnitude difference in population density. Now imagine a natural disaster.
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Cargo Cult Science, Medicine, and Science Fatigue(alphaoverlord.wordpress.com)
1 points by alphaoverlord 16y ago|0 comments
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by alphaoverlord 16y ago
Are they really deciding function by form? I honestly can't tell how the plant/animal moves from a static picture, and even if its an animal, it could be a stationary animal. IE. Coral, sponge, things of that nature.
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by alphaoverlord 16y ago
Without scales or legends, one cannot tell if the range is from "great to good" or "good to bad". I would be interested in seeing the same information normalized to other countries or at least given some solid numbers.
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by alphaoverlord 16y ago
13% of physicians have iPads? And 1.5% of all iPads went to physicians? Can you give us a citation of how you got that number? The estimate is that there are less than 1 million doctors in the US. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB100014240
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by alphaoverlord 16y ago
"The percentage of U.S. physicians who own their own practice has been declining at an annual rate of approximately 2% for at least the past 25 years." http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp0808076 Most numbers I have see range from 5
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by alphaoverlord 16y ago
I'm interested in learning how DrChrono is planning to market to physicians. I personally think DrChrono is going for a diminishing slice of the healthcare pie. The current trend in healthcare is that a decreasing proportion of physicians a

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