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by arkades 8y ago
Most doctors are already at capacity. They don’t have anything to win by staying open later, and they can’t charge a premium for it. The few docs I know having trouble filling their waiting room work evenings and weekends, and some do house
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by arkades 8y ago
I played for 30 seconds before my screen got plastered by a long and heavy handed essay. I prefer games not be so heavy handed but, If it must, I’d rather the message be part of the game (eg, papers please) than an essay on top of it. It ju
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by arkades 8y ago
I was at an Alzheimer’s talk the other day given by a neuro to the psych, Geri, and palliative departments. You could tell the psychs in the audience hadn’t read up on Alzheimer’s in the last couple of years, because their questions were ju
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by arkades 8y ago
Yes, it’s changed. The changes are just more subtle than non-physicians have insight into. They’re technical details regarding -when- to treat what and for how long, which medications are first line now, etc. I know that seems less in your
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by arkades 8y ago
Not in the same way, but there definitely is in medicine. It’s less severe because you don’t finish training until you are in your thirties, so you’re good until your ... oh, fifties? Maybe sixties? After that, you had better be visibly up
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by arkades 8y ago
>Maybe his comment was playful/less literal, but it didn't come off that way to me. Why?
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by arkades 8y ago
Why is that arrogant? Are there an awful lot of highly successful musicians turned master watchmakers? Seems like an obvious comment to make about being rare as hen’s teeth.
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by arkades 8y ago
That advice applies equally well to miasma (and, in fact, it’s ability to accurately relate to geography of disease is part of why it was taken seriously.) Which is why F. gets credit for actually making detailed observations and hypotheses
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by arkades 8y ago
ITT: sweeping criticisms of psychiatry based on caricatures drawn from pop-sci accounts of psychiatry. I am deeply critical of quite a few facets of modern psychiatry, but this thread seems to mistake the stuff that’s slung around in Guardi
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by arkades 8y ago
The ancient Greeks were long ago discussing the possible existence of “animalcules.” Fracastaro gets credit because he wasn’t just philosophizing, he described actual disease in great detail with supporting cases (I hesitate to say “data,”
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> People buy crap like Amazon echo left and right, and have been carrying little computers with microphones and an internet connection around all day for even longer. Consent. The difference is consent. You may get laid ten times a day f
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Property rights don’t go away because someone made it easy for you to violate them. Mints are put out explicitly for you to take. Property right intentionally transferred.
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It won't be a problem. It's not like Americans bring any tourist money to the EU.
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Average physician has lower lifetime earnings than a UPS driver. Most of the difference comes from time spent in training instead of earning, and ... financing a giant pile of school debt. If one of your exemplars has lower lifetime earning
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by arkades 8y ago
David Lynch's "Dune" is always described as "David Lynch's 'Dune'" because he, uh, made the movie very much his own.
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by arkades 8y ago
> While reading the article, I got a feeling that reading support emails is only one step away from answering support emails - and here you are, suggesting just that. I didn’t get that impression. The article mentioned reading these ema
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>>> such dev behavior is driven by managers >> open source people, who don’t answer to managers, act similarly. Therefore, it seems unlikely to be due to managerial influence. > well open source is a gift of labor, people
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by arkades 8y ago
In fairness, I tend to see two types of responses: One of the kind you mention - “the article actually says ...”, in which the respondent goes to the effort of basically summarizing the article OP didn’t bother to read. Those generally catc
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by arkades 8y ago
It is bad form to criticize posters on HN for not reading the article they’re criticizing. Oddly, it seems to be less accepted than not reading the article one’s criticizing.
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by arkades 8y ago
At best, that says “any badness within 70 LY has already been tipped off.” The METI guys are working on more powerful emitters specifically so as to send additional data that will be coherent over larger distances.
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by arkades 8y ago
To be fair, most health outcomes are directly related to financial issues: controlling for all other variables, it's the single most consistent predictor. If you look at pretty much any general population level outcome, a country with
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by arkades 8y ago
That that degree of behavior would be completely unsympathetic to both jurists and jurors, pretty much guaranteeing it would get slapped down in court eventually, even if totally legit
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In his write-up, he explicitly calls out Wilson as his inspiration.
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No. He’s arguing that if the algorithm is capable of detecting his video, it is capable of finding others like it - so if google wanted to remove such videos categorically, it can and currently chooses not to.
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Yes. It’s crazy to think an IoT device would be constructed to aggressively spy on its owners for advertising purposes ( https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2018/07/09/smart-tvs-are-sp... ).
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Link to the actual article, not the press release; https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-0917-9
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> It's much easier to just have a single point of responsibility (the doctor), as it makes the legal questions more simple. The way it currently stands is even with dilution of authority the doctor is still the final point of liabi
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by arkades 8y ago
No, they're not. (A) focuses on things that are easy. (B) focuses on things that are ambiguous. Their appearance is often a subset of (a). edit: I wanted to clarify. Asking "is it this common, easily diagnosed (meaning: it has ver
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by arkades 8y ago
1) “The equipment is never the same. You have to make sure the data is anonymized. Even if you get permission, it is a massive amount of work." This is literally true, but also, not something I would want to change. Our PHI should be a
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by arkades 8y ago
Words and phrases have meanings. You’re not being a freethinker by taking a popular idiom and redefining it. The fact that you’re receiveing the same response from all commenters should be a hint.

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