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by arkades 7y ago
Mathematics hasn’t been “computation” since the days of hand-tabulated lists of logarithms.
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How does one become an amateur gem faceter?
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Lots of people that are housing and food insecure, desperate and in need of basic resources? Historically this is a recipe for raising cheap armies, and finding something to do with them.
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by arkades 7y ago
I'm not sure I understood your comment about the shape of the earth's orbit. The earth's orbit around the sun is an ellipse. But it's an ellipse that takes one year to traverse. The closest thing that gets us in terms of
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by arkades 7y ago
Well, the thing is, an effective turnstyle that makes it difficult to get through but makes failure to get through harmless is distinct from a barricade that makes it somewhat harder to get through, and makes attempts more likely to cause i
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by arkades 7y ago
So, the thing is: Would you endorse a law that would break bones or crack skulls for fare evasion? Would you consider that just? I’m not asking whether you endorse fare evasion, just whether that punishment is proportional. In this case, th
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by arkades 7y ago
> And this is shaping up to be yet another case where doctors and researchers ignored what their patients were telling No, it’s a case where doctors and researchers disagreed with one another and continued gathering data to try and reach
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by arkades 7y ago
I didn’t used to fee this way. Or rather, I kind of did, but didn’t really /care/. Then I had a kid, and the question of “do I trust this thing to go into or onto my kid’s body?” actually mattered. Suddenly, my purchases from amaz
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by arkades 7y ago
Quality improvement.
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So what’s the business model here? Last time I tried something similar (unroll.me), I paid in privacy.
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by arkades 7y ago
The body takes 2-3 weeks to adjust to a significant increase in heat, and can lose that adjustment pretty quickly. So in places where it’s routinely hot (esp if it’s dry) the physiologic impact is far less severe than in locations where it’
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by arkades 7y ago
Actually large hospital systems tend to hire one or two systems engineers to be part of the QI department. But yeah, most QI is front line staff.
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Most concierge practices retain the same business model. They ditch insurance, and the billing staff they hired to wrangle the insurance, and reclaim the time they personally spent wrangling insurance. They then keep roughly the same busine
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by arkades 7y ago
1) I think it’s effectively a medical opinion. It’s implicitly a broad-brush diagnosis. 2) I would call the office - or drop by - and speak to the practice manager. Doc on the clock usually doesn’t have time to take a dump, and the front de
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by arkades 7y ago
Spotify became a second class citizen on my phone once Apple started sinking money into Music. I have good podcast apps. I want them supported, not crippled because they suddenly became apple’s competitors.
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From a father they will be flying out to see. The eclipse being a two-fer.
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I'll answer both of your questions, spoken and unspoken: The first: an excellent question. It's hard to actually pay a doc for their time. We're all up to our eyeballs in the current system, including contracts with insurers
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by arkades 7y ago
Because pertussis vaccine targets a specific, purified protein from the target microbe (that is, a fairly non-conserved element, that is fairly small and provides fewer targets for variation in Ab targets). Most vaccines don't do this,
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And there's no Dunning-Kruger effect at play here, at all. You're entirely equipped to evaluate highly-trained technical specialists in a field not your own.
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I don't really think it's a caricature. "Doctors are idiots following algorithms and don't actually have any knowledge or information and just scam everyone for money all the time until their eventual replacement by the
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by arkades 7y ago
> But if the problem doesn't fit those known processes, isn't mechanical, and you are relying on doctor for real troubleshooting of problems, that is where it falls short. I mean, you're not wrong, but... No one pays docs
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by arkades 7y ago
That's an interesting hypothesis, but man, that's a seriously garbage paper. It's borderline satire. It repeatedly comes back to an argument along the lines of: "Drug has side effect X. X is not inconsistent with disrupt
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by arkades 7y ago
Because vaccination creates a series of various antibodies that are not identical from person to person, and often target highly invariant portions of a target microbe. The GP just conflated two wildly different things. A citation is not li
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by arkades 7y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20434325 It's a puff piece for Stegenga's new book.
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by arkades 7y ago
It's not so much that it ruptures tendons, as they were some studies in dogs a while ago that showed that if you marinate canine achilles tendons in cipro some of the fibroblasts die off - which has the effect of diminishing the tendon
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<s> Didn't you read the other front page article on HN today? Modern medicine is useless anyway. </s>
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If I had any devices that still accepted discs, ... but I don’t. I can’t honestly remember the last time I had a DVD player. Maybe a decade ago?
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I do those things. Also, I watch movies, which is obviously what the question addressed. I don’t think your answer added anything substantive or meaningful to the conversation at all, and was at best a condescending distractor.
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They should be available cheaper than if they weren’t subsidized, proportional to the degree of subsidy. Which is usually the point of subsidizing something’s production. Whereas basic science is almost entirely tax funded, making a pretty
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What’s a good alternative? Their Netflix Originals are owned by them; non-original library sucks to begin with.

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