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by arkades 7y ago
I ... surprisingly agree. I generally am in favor of creators on HN sharing a new product with Show HN, or in threads when it’s relevant to what’s being discussed. Hell, when I’m happy with a product, I’ll be the first to chime into the thr
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by arkades 7y ago
Convergent evolution produces similar phenotypes, not exact ones.
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by arkades 7y ago
It's not misleading at all. Prior to the 2003 Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act the federal government did negotiate drug prices. Although it had less skin in the game than Part D pharma plans, it had far
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by arkades 7y ago
No, it’s not. Medicare is legally restricted from negotiating drug prices. Yes, that’s a ridiculous law. Edit: to clarify, Medicare does not only cover seniors. Other important groups include those with end-stage renal disease and those wit
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by arkades 7y ago
I’ve seen a surgeon in my institution pick up something similar. He does a lot of ops under fluoroscopy, and those lead aprons get hot as hell.
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by arkades 7y ago
In my experience I’ve had great results using a buckwheat pillow: it warms very slowly, and the opposite side is pretty much always cool. After a lot of searching for the filling with least/no pesticides and the like sprayed on the buc
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by arkades 7y ago
That site benefited enormously from reader mode.
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by arkades 7y ago
I signed up for this the last time it came up on HN. Although I’ve had trouble on my end with mailing addresses and uncooperative nursing homes, Alex at Nanagram has been absolutely fantastic and proactively helpful. It’s been a niche use-c
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by arkades 7y ago
It’s not “cookbook decision tree”, it’s “data from which to make meaningful inferences about this finding.” It would be nice if we always have that; with incidental findings, we often don’t.
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by arkades 7y ago
Cool, so your serum zorblaxian levels are 300 ng/L. The finding was incidental, so it’s jot tied to existing symptoms / clinical suspicion. It’s a molecule involved in the inflammatory cascade. We don’t know what diseases it’s ass
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by arkades 7y ago
You can’t ignore the noise because we don’t know it’s noise. I know I’m failing to get that idea across, but I honestly don’t know how to articulate it better than I have been. I can tell you’re honestly trying to understand, and I feel the
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by arkades 7y ago
No, it has to do with avoiding harm to patients. I don’t make one red cent more or less from sending someone to an MRI or not. I do care about wasteful testing that is more likely to stress out a patient and send them down a rabbit-hole of
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by arkades 7y ago
Well, that’s part of why there’s constant research into what risk factors / predictive factors are. These aren’t mutually exclusive activities. “Data” implies something neutral. Nothing about lab tests is neutral. Without contextual in
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by arkades 7y ago
We don’t advocate less frequent scans, we advocate targeted scans. Because the probability of a positive result being a false positive depends heavily on the population. In a population with a high baseline frequency, the probability of a p
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by arkades 7y ago
(1) Because we do not have the body of knowledge that tells us how to predict an anomaly is not worth pursuing. It would require a lot of major, expensive, long-term studies involving non- negligible chemical exposures in$ asymptomatic peop
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by arkades 7y ago
I disagree. I think getting angry as hell at having one’s legal rights knowingly stomped on is appropriate, and acting cool about it implicitly validates FB’s behavior. You coolly negotiate with business partners; you get pissed off at bein
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by arkades 7y ago
This thread is what has finally pushed me into registering my name as a domain and begin transitioning off of gmail.
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by arkades 7y ago
> They'd probably lose a ton of money if they allowed you to filter those out. Oh, I agree - which is why I don’t buy the idea that the App Store editors try to highlight “premium” games. Making them easily discoverable would be tri
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by arkades 7y ago
Please clarify whether you’re being ironic. It’s the internet; one can’t assume.
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by arkades 7y ago
> and the App Store editors do try to highlight them, That’s funny, because I place the blame squarely on the shoulders of the App Store. The one function I’ve been waiting for, both directly as a customer and as a parental control, is
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by arkades 7y ago
Correct.
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by arkades 7y ago
call me jaded but: If you’re paying for PR firms to produce cartoons about how good you are for privacy, you’re probably terrible for privacy. This feels like Google’s Joe Camel moment.
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by arkades 7y ago
That’s the standard, not the exception, for PhDs. Which is why it’s not really “those cases” that should be earned income - its the entire category.
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by arkades 7y ago
The email came from a Navy prosecutor, not a marketing department.
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by arkades 7y ago
It does make it less fragile, by putting the spinal nerves back into the protective bones of the spine. We have a shortage of long term data, but studies on kids out to ten years show higher rates of ambulation, and better quality of ambula
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by arkades 7y ago
Long term mobility prognosis depends very heavily on the exact level of the spine where the myelomeningocele occurs. It’s not really “progressive”, though, in the sense that that term is used medically - it’s more just “fragile.” A progress
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by arkades 7y ago
So how difficult is it to take all your information from MailChimp and move onto a competitor? It seems like the sort of thing that should be moderately inconvenient, but given that they seem to be increasing people's costs by double
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by arkades 7y ago
> when used properly by an attentive driver who is prepared to take control at all times, drivers supported by Autopilot are safer than those operating without assistance. For the past three quarters we have released quarterly safety dat
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by arkades 7y ago
> If you try to make sense of human behavior, not just in ordinary life but also in the sciences, then the ascription of intentionality is indispensable. It’s infeasible and not illuminating to explain human behavior at the level of ast
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New claim of “decoding” Voynich manuscript draws skepticism from scholars(arstechnica.com)
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