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by arkades 8y ago
> I found practical assignments were better when they felt less synthetic, it's much easier to motivate to learn for something when the task seems more authentic. So much this. When I was doing organic chem back in the day, I found
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by arkades 8y ago
No, reasons to not want a supposed smoking cessation product to not be available - which by the way, wasn't a position I was taking - is because it has other harms , and the magnitude of those harms has to be weighed against the magni
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by arkades 8y ago
(1) nicotine gum is used as a weaning assist, not an ongoing alternative (2) you chose to overlook his point that vapes are also an on-ramp to smoking, not just an off-ramp. (3) people really oversell the whole “vape isn’t combustion” bs. B
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by arkades 8y ago
>Also I don't want to go and take any kind of anti-depressants as I think it's not a solution that actually works long term. Your body will just learn to rely on the medications. > cure from within This is a really misguide
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by arkades 8y ago
Memory/learning difficulty is a symptom of depression. Taking your words at face value, maybe you go see a doctor.
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by arkades 8y ago
I’ve tried to transition from gmaps to Apple maps a couple times in the last few years. It’s not broken anymore, but it’s still sufficiently inferior that attempting to switch was painful and I ended up going back. This despite wanting goog
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by arkades 8y ago
Is that an honest question, or do you mean to draw a parallel between “accidentally getting in the path of an emergency responder” and “intentionally going out of your way to stick yourself in the middle of an emergency situation”?
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by arkades 8y ago
I’m inclined to agree about our over-zealousness to punish, except... It’s already a felony to impede emergency rescue efforts. And rightfully so: it places lives directly at risk. It’s intuitively illegal, and intuitively grave. “Curiousit
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by arkades 8y ago
So what you’re saying is, learn from those most likely to get into car accidents, rather than the least likely? https://article.images.consumerreports.org/prod/content/dam/...
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by arkades 8y ago
>including the failure of voice recognition with speech impediments There’s a massive wave of geriatrics coming, and various dysarthrias (be it as significant as a stroke or as minor as edentulism or poorly fitting dentures) are extraord
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by arkades 8y ago
> If it benefits others. That’s all I care about. I don’t see this benefiting anyone at all, so please put aside talking about this like a martyr. You took someone else’s property and publicly hosted it. Dropbox or gdrive or sticking it
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by arkades 8y ago
> What threat? The strongest word in there is "demand", and (IANAL) I believe that to be standard legalese for "could you not do that?“ Yep, they’re officially called “Demand Letters.” It’s legalese, not stormtroopering.
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by arkades 8y ago
In healthcare the pharmaceutical shoppe gives you what your insurer defaults to - the cheapest. Neither the insurer nor the pharmaceutical shoppe are manufacturing the drug (neither the brand name nor the knock-off). Amazon - the shoppe - i
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by arkades 8y ago
>Inner projections at Disney present that even after elevating costs at roughly double the speed of inflation over the previous 5 years, it may cost way more than it presently does with out driving away too many shoppers, an individual
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by arkades 8y ago
“Disorder” is explicitly pejorative. I’m not sure where I stand wrt the position that autism is just a non-inferior neurovariant, but let’s not pretend we don’t understand the difference between asserting it’s a value-neutral variant and a
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by arkades 8y ago
> but if you come up with the right checklist and get the right buy-in, you do see fewer complications. Bingo. What the state of the research shows is that you have an active QI-focused culture and buy-in, checklists work over the medium
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by arkades 8y ago
> I don’t think his ideas are shallow or one dimensional, but I havent read all of his work. You wouldn’t. He adds depth through humanity, while eliding the pile of data that contradicts his points - data you have no reason to notice is
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by arkades 8y ago
Oh, I know he’s a surgeon. He and I have very similar backgrounds, save that I spent a decade in hc QI and Health insurance mgmt before going to medical school, rather than picking it up subsequently. I point that out so you fully understan
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by arkades 8y ago
>Atul Gawande is a brilliant person with interesting ideas on how to make healthcare more humane and robust No, he’s not. No offense to him, but he’s a -popularizer-. He takes various bits the HC quality improvement folks have been talki
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by arkades 8y ago
You’re begging the question. Given performance to date, real world deployment is no way certain to be as safe - much less safer - than human drivers at the current state of the tech. I don’t doubt it will get there and, when it does, these
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by arkades 8y ago
> . I remember playing BC and had a blast trying to complete quest. You had to really pay attention and read the quest for specifics and clues to figure out what was needed or where to go. I remember that experience of discovery. It only
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by arkades 8y ago
> If the loss of a finger would endanger your livelihood, you probably shouldn't be in that profession in the first place. If losing that finger is a common and reasonable expectation in your society, yes.
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by arkades 8y ago
You have to be a member, or accompanying a member, to walk in the door. The hot dogs lie beyond the checkpoint.
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by arkades 8y ago
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2018/06/13/a-min... Most minimum wage workers can’t afford a 1br apartment in most of the country. “Kind of sort of not terrible” may actually be a h
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by arkades 8y ago
Fair, I was looking at US market, where they hold 35%.
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by arkades 8y ago
Huh. I always just thought of it as bears hibernating / being lethargic. And the other ones the other one.
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by arkades 8y ago
Apple owns 1/3 of the market. And insofar as it’s skewed upmarket, rather than a randomly distributed one out of three people, it easily owns entire social circles. On what planet is 1/3 dead?
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by arkades 8y ago
I believe gp was suggesting emulating Ada Diamonds, the startup, not DeBeers.
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by arkades 8y ago
The article led with direct measures of net population decrease and indirect measures such as the extreme asymmetry in the cost of moving trucks into/out of the Bay Area.
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by arkades 8y ago
What’s sad isn’t how far off you are in your conception of what the process looks like; what’s sad is that what you’re describing sounds like an entirely reasonable security effort, and it’s disappointing that it has almost no reflection in

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