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by arkades 8y ago
Wait, what? The raging measles epidemic in my state came, in large part, from granola munching upper west side moms. (The balance came from the ultra-orthodox Jewish community in Brooklyn.) They have absolutely nothing in common except th
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by arkades 8y ago
The journal(ist) doesn’t own the information in the article, just their particular execution of conveying that information. Altering that execution isn’t copyright infringement, though admittedly, outline puts its toes right up to the line.
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I don’t know what happened, but it sorted itself out. Love it.
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I just tried it out. Looks fantastic; I immediately bounced from the three day free scan to the six month. I appreciated the spam estimate. I did have the problem that the six month scan just hung up at 29%. Went to account info for scan hi
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by arkades 8y ago
> They are right more often than you’d expect. When the "they" is at least another expert in the same field and not a total stranger completely ignorant of pretty much every relevant detail, and the "you'd expect&quot
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by arkades 8y ago
Incarcerated people are generally treated as not having fourth amendment rights - everything in that context is considered not unreasonable.
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I understand the purported rationale for killing URLs. My comment was clarifying where the google spokesperson made a statement I interpret as “we are going to kill URLs.”
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>"What we’re really talking about is changing the way site identity is presented," Stark told WIRED. "People should know easily what site they’re on, and they shouldn’t be confused into thinking they’re on another site. It
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by arkades 8y ago
Office365 still has a desktop executable, parallel to its online program. It's not all browser-only. I think that's why you two are talking past each other.
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Eh. Loom appears to be some kind of facetime / video teleconferencing product. I wouldn't really imagine a non-competitor bothering to advertise by fake-slamming a non-competing product. Maybe I'm just lacking in imagination.
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"... could hire someone like this but to handle job outreach and negotiation ..." There are lawyers you can hire to do this sort of negotiation for you. A relative of mine is one such, and did a job offer negotiation for me. Thing
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by arkades 8y ago
Interesting that their press release claims the “public facing” version of the app is free ... but I can’t find anything except the peak brain trining app, which keeps decoder behind its pay wall.
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I think that comparison would be interesting, as well as perhaps a third title that carries many of the same marketing mechanisms but in a different genre, to control for trends in that vein. Perhaps something like Path of Exile or Hearthst
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by arkades 8y ago
Nothing in this article is even vaguely unique to fortnite. It’s a passable description of many f2p games - which don’t have fortnite’s success. That makes it a pretty poor argument for these factors being the key.
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by arkades 8y ago
As regards propublica: I’ve a great deal of experience in the healthcare field. Their recent series of work on healthcare has been amazing and amazingly bad: they’ve chased down data, analyzed it thoroughly, and apparently not bothered to s
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Keep this in mind every single time you read a piece about the American healthcare system.
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I find it interesting that we think of Amazon as having gotten "customer service" right. I've had two classes of experience with Amazon: Products they act as a seller for, and products they act as a producer for. When I'
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by arkades 8y ago
It’s dog walking, not artisanal mango cultivation. The vast majority of people picking up unskilled labor gigs through apps are just trying to make a buck. It’s almost the entire source of the app’s labor pool. And it’s not an inherently ba
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by arkades 8y ago
I know it's not generally accepted on HN to say "please read the article before commenting on the article." But it's worth noting that the contents and effect of the "brine" as distinct from "sea water&quo
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2.5 L of water go in. 1 L freshwater comes out of pipe A. 1.5 L wastewater comes out of pipe B.
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Just to be clear, "brine" isn't "salty water." > This untreated salt water can’t just hang around in ponds—or, in worst-case scenarios, go into oceans or sewers. Disposal depends on geography, but typically the w
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by arkades 8y ago
Ish. Research in the educational setting involving routine educational activities is exempt from most IRB requirements, except for an initial review to confirm that it is the above.
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Well, for starters, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services uses “what percentage of people with qualifying conditions get the right pill” as a quality measure, which reduces your income as it goes down. Docs can’t fight CMS. That’
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The first line recommendation is always diet and exercise. Pills are second line. Some docs burn out and just start giving pills first line because 99,999% of patients do not ever do the diet and exercise, even after repeated counseling rou
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The short version is: Every state has regulations on the exact process by which private individuals can be deprived of their property rights due to "abandonment." Not a single one of those regulations is as straight-forward as &qu
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> Is ECG output really that easy to read and unambiguous? Not even close. But nurses generally don’t know how to read EKGs except for the most obvious findings, so when they say “it’s all fine” either they mean they don’t see something v
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They’re pretty shit. Probably half of the essentially normal EKGs I see come with the automated interpretation of “Abnormal EKG,” and no meaningful information. You absolutely 100% cannot rely on them, and all doctors are trained - from the
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You generally don’t get, or expect to get, every last file in a medical record. That said, a discharge summary is just that - a summary. For a cancer to be found inoperable, the record would usually include multiple imaging studies, patholo
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Faxing to you carries a bunch of bureaucratic hurdles to avoid HIPPA violations. Facing to another physician doesn’t, and the other physician will be quite good at narrowing down exactly what records he wants. It’s just way less work to sen
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We do this for a reason. Not only do different people ask specific questions that try to elicit different things, but patients stories evolve with each repetition. People don’t realize how much, but by the third time you’re getting that his

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