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by arkades 7y ago
No, because you go to work to fulfill someone else's agenda, not yours. If you do not execute their agenda, you are replaced by someone who is. As a free-market capitalist, I feel funny having to go back to communism 101, but: manageme
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Agreed. Although it's funny how my perspective on this has changed over time: Once, I would just be delighted that I could get a company to accept a return and not eat my money for their fuck-up. Now I take that for granted, and I dema
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by arkades 7y ago
My best/worse "duplicates" have arisen since they started using their own last-mile shipping: A package gets marked undeliverable. I go ahead and re-order the item. The next day the package is marked delivered on-time (it def
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by arkades 7y ago
He's rebinding them, too, with cardboard - which is to say, turning them into half hardcovers. You could argue he's not even reducing their lifespan.
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by arkades 7y ago
I don't see anything in the article to indicate it wasn't just the word grooming. To quote the relevant part: She compared how reporters develop a friendly rapport with sources to how sexual predators “groom” children they’re targ
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by arkades 7y ago
Same here. Tracking where my money was going was the only reason I signed up for it - having to put all that time and energy into making it actually do that killed its entire value proposition for me.
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by arkades 7y ago
total addressable market
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by arkades 7y ago
Not a single article covering this has the quote - they all refer back to the The Information article. I suspect if the quote was as damning as it is being made out to be, it would be included.
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by arkades 7y ago
Personally: because I've been hearing it non-stop throughout my life, in very nearly every single thing I've read about flu or pandemics. So I find a comment that says "I don't understand why (this thing I have never sto
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by arkades 7y ago
It's fairly inelastic. You're in training into your thirties, you've given up your entire twenties, and your average social cohort aimed at things like finance and big law, and has been making for several years what you won&#
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by arkades 7y ago
The cost of medical school is over 200k (mine was a blessed ~250), at an interest rate generally about 6.8%. This doesn't account for loans generally needed to pay for living expenses (assume another 50k for four years' rent), man
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by arkades 7y ago
> I often wonder whether my experience was not representative Everything you described is concordant with what I saw on my surgery rotations in medical school, and everything I've seen of surgeons in the hospital since then. Especia
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by arkades 7y ago
I'm so sorry to hear that. I know that scenario too well, and I know the pain is unbearable. You learn to keep an impersonal distance with 90% of your patients, just put on a good show, but once in a while you connect, and you see it a
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by arkades 7y ago
Excellent question! It addresses a point I didn't explicitly state. There's more demand than supply for physician services. The result of increasing residency training spots has two phases: Phase 1, which I skipped discussing: A g
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I'm really sorry to hear that. I've seen so many people crumble in residency and fellowship. I'm unfamiliar with the details of how Germany structures its medical training; for her, does residency imply she's already sel
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by arkades 7y ago
This has been manipulated since roughly the eighties to increase HMO profit. There was a thesis that most physicians are not trying to maximize revenue, but trying to hit a target upper middle class lifestyle. If you cut FFS reimbursement d
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by arkades 7y ago
There are a lot of misconceptions and misinformation coming out in this thread. I'm going to try and shed some light on them. (HN says my post is too big, so I'll have to split up a bit). There are four major groups of physicians:
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by arkades 7y ago
Very true. I got the watch for exactly those features,
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The press release noted no negative effects. The poster they presented to the neuropsychopharm folk the other night noted a few hundred, but none life-threatening. Poster: https://compasspathways.com/wp-content/uploads&
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by arkades 7y ago
I'm not familiar with the company running this trial, but I can basically guarantee you they have found a way to patent this. Their intention is to come to market in 5 to 10 years, and there's no way they're bearing the expen
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by arkades 7y ago
No. For phase 1, it's generally sufficient to show that few or no people had life-threatening adverse effects, that none of the life threatening effects were plausibly related to the drug, and there were no meaningful hiccups in CNS, p
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by arkades 7y ago
The vast majority of drugs don't make it through phase 3. Most will fail by the end of phase 2. If we trumpeted every time a prospective intervention underwent the earliest phases of study... well, I guess we'd have what we have h
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by arkades 7y ago
Acute toxicity and LD50/fatal dosages are fine when you're worried about acute overdoses or unintentional ingestions. Those are not the measures we are concerned with when we're talking about uncommon or rare effects (which,
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by arkades 7y ago
This is NOT a trial that was designed to assess the safety of psilocybin. This was a trial meant to show that a particular dosage of psilocybin is /safe enough/ to pursue further research in that dose range. This was a /phase
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by arkades 7y ago
Bottled water is tap water. https://clark.com/deals-money-saving-advice/pepsi-aquafina-t...
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Bingo.
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The marine on the beach isn’t the one designing our armed forces. So I don’t particularly see why an un-nuanced perception on the part of ground troops is particularly relevant to the question of “why are our armed services designed in this
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by arkades 7y ago
This is correct. And it is alcohol’s direct action in the brain that causes impairment.
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by arkades 7y ago
Uh, incorrect. Resting o2 sat is 99% in most young healthy people - like aviators. In older people, or the unhealthy, you may see it start to drop due to diffusion or ventilation defects - but barring serious lung disease, neuromuscular de
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by arkades 7y ago
That takes so much more than an hour.

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