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by ashelmire 7y ago
Physical therapy is evidence-based health practice. This is sort of a "no shit" piece. Doctors want to operate on you - it's what they are trained for, it's how the make money. Hospitals make money off of surgery. Yet ph
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by ashelmire 7y ago
Is it worrying? I see it as an opportunity to create and use a competing service.
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by ashelmire 7y ago
I think a perception problem occurs if less-qualified women get more funding than men. That means that the male scientists who get funded will actually just be better at their jobs, which is going to have the effect of perpetuating the perc
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by ashelmire 7y ago
Yes, google it.
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by ashelmire 7y ago
> To my naive understanding of evolution, it has little incentive to fix anything that breaks after reproduction age. So I would not expect evolution to catch on cancer ever. We have high cancer rates for children as well.
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by ashelmire 7y ago
The fact that Roberts actually wrote this without his head exploding is astounding: "Vote dilution in the one-person, one-vote cases refers to the idea that each vote must carry equal weight. That requirement does not extend to politic
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by ashelmire 7y ago
The pharmacies aren't the point where price is inflated. It's the pharmaceutical companies, which make the drugs, not the stores that sell them.
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by ashelmire 7y ago
That was a great ad for Slack, but I don't think it's true. I've never had any issues with any other chat app. Many people still use Facebook chat and IRC and the functionality is basically identical between each of the new c
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by ashelmire 7y ago
Or they got offers of money.
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by ashelmire 7y ago
Man that is an extremely ugly language. Is this supposed to convince people to use it? Who’s designing this language?
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by ashelmire 7y ago
> Money doesn't make a difference in grad school It makes a very big difference in getting there.
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by ashelmire 7y ago
The people at the top like to be seen and heard, feel their own impact, and they don't trust their employees to work if they can't see them. Obviously that's a broad generalization and untrue of places that do allow remote wo
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by ashelmire 7y ago
> So if you look nationally, yes, the coverage is split between several companies, but at the local levels the areas serviced are often carved up such that there are local monopolies. It's not just that they are monopolies, but that
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by ashelmire 7y ago
> international students have some advantage that domestic students do not. They often do have more money. And rampant cheating. But regardless, Chinese students can attend any university in China or the US, while an American cannot real
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by ashelmire 7y ago
Don’t most of them return to their home countries? Seems like freeing up those spots for American students that will stay would be a boon for American science.
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by ashelmire 7y ago
> The overwhelming majority of the tourists I encounter fall into the Millennial bracket, and I don't think it is possible for them to be less enthusiastic about visiting the US. You could say the same about American millenials. We
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by ashelmire 7y ago
Not just download, but write yourself in a short time. And the code could be shared, and I’d guess you can build a decent system to do this in a few hundred lines. It’s a ridiculous proposition to restrict software access, akin to making it
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by ashelmire 7y ago
The title of the article (which is different from the title here, which is merely clickbaity) is misleading, though there is the potential that ad blocking becomes much worse due to the deprecation of the webRequest api mentioned in the art
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by ashelmire 7y ago
It looks like that resets with each search, but thanks for the tip.
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by ashelmire 7y ago
If I’m doing a google search, you’re probably right. If I’m searching my gmail account, you’re probably wrong. I’ve searched for exact phrases that occur in my email (for both gmail and outlook) and failed to get the matches anywhere in the
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by ashelmire 7y ago
- customers expect "personalized" search results; having built up a history of searches centered around particular subjects (say, programming), you'll expect much different results for "string" than the general popu
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by ashelmire 7y ago
Falsehoods Google, Microsoft, JIRA, and others seem to believe about search: That, when searching for a string, I don't want exact matches to appear in the results. If your search ever DOESN'T return exact matches (barring common
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by ashelmire 7y ago
My general rule is to skip bars that have bouncers, because it means they regularly get a shitty (and sometimes violent) crowd.
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by ashelmire 7y ago
I don’t think you need to learn every cli tool in depth. I don’t know awk, but I recognize its power. However, I’ve got a set of tools I find easier to use, a few that I’ve written, and Ruby or Python at the command line. I’m sure awk could
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by ashelmire 7y ago
Another perspective on this is as western malfeasance in economic and actual warfare in the east, which we are now starting to pay for as China ignores our IP and denies us the ability to compete in their market.
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by ashelmire 7y ago
Or you'll just get harassed more as a black person[1]. Funny enough (actually the opposite of funny), the systems used by law enforcement are designed to create more false positives, which then leaves it up to law enforcement to decide
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by ashelmire 7y ago
From my observation, these companies become wealthy and successful first, then develop awful cultures as innovation becomes less important (and more difficult as you get away from your core business), and extracting maximum value from curre
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by ashelmire 7y ago
This is a meta-analysis of 13 studies. The rate change is certainly real, but remember this wasn't a study targeting that characteristic. I also didn't read the studies mentioned, so I don't know what time frame the change ap
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by ashelmire 7y ago
Average rates appear to be 12.5 per billion miles, and it appears Tesla Autopilot is at 3 for over a billion miles with the system engaged. That's a quarter of the usual fatality rate, for anyone counting. Saying "there’s no evide
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by ashelmire 7y ago
Good. No more 4 hours challenges with unlimited scope.

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