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by bmj 6y ago
Remember that in, say, a cancer treatment trial, patients are signing up to potentially not receive the treatment depending on the run-in and randomization phases. I'm not suggesting these patients are forced into that decision; rath
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by bmj 6y ago
I also wonder if there is better reporting of the data, so searches are not necessary. For example, I can read my local news online, and get the appropriate daily numbers for both the country and my county.
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by bmj 6y ago
How much English do I need for writing? That would depend on what sort of writer you were and what sort of ideas you are trying to share (and, I guess, your audience). Most famously, Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea is written
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by bmj 6y ago
I guess the question is whether there is any sort of screening done prior to a patient receiving the vaccine. A simple question ("do you carry an adrenaline autoinjector") would have prevented this.
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by bmj 6y ago
The Hedgehog Review ( https://hedgehogreview.com/ ) The New Atlantis ( https://www.thenewatlantis.com/ )
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by bmj 6y ago
Phase 4 trials are typically post-approval and used to validate marketing claims ("Pfizer's Covid vaccine is also proven to promote weight loss," for example). The result of a phase 3 trial is a release candidate, and the FD
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by bmj 6y ago
Take a look at Matthew Crawford's latest book, Why We Drive , for a deeper dive into the "hacker" side of the automotive world.
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by bmj 6y ago
St. Igantius of Loyola (founder of the Catholic Jesuit order), outlined a process of discernment that is very similar to the decision journal method nearly 500 years ago in his Spiritual Exercises [0]. Of course, there is a distinct focus
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by bmj 6y ago
I can't speak to skiing, but many rock climbing areas have been feeling the strain from large crowds this year. It's a bit of a perfect storm, though: a combination of the reality of COVID and remote working plus the explosion of
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by bmj 6y ago
The article doesn't mention it, but there is a long tradition of hesychastic prayer[0] in Christianity, starting with the desert Fathers, and continuing in the practice of the Jesus Prayer. Some teachings about the Jesus Prayer which
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by bmj 6y ago
Any work is going to break down your body. It's the nature of the beast.
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by bmj 6y ago
This strikes me as a different class of problem. Of course software developers are at the mercy of other software and hardware, and have been since the days of yore. And even in that case, you could still potentially debug the issue. This
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by bmj 7y ago
This is likely a godsend to H&R Block-style businesses. Many states are closing all non-essential businesses, and they would suffer quite a bit from having to close their doors a month before tax day.
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by bmj 7y ago
Romney said that the idea would "help ensure families and workers can meet their short-term obligations and increase spending in the economy." Given that many states are closing all non-essential businesses, where, exactly would
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by bmj 7y ago
Yeah, that's how I am reading that. Given the headaches caused by Apple finally barring UIWebView (the basis of frameworks like Cordova) from new App Store submissions beginning in April, I'm not surprised FB would do this. There
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by bmj 7y ago
He went further and said that several years before that, when there had been a recession, everyone at HP -- all the way up and down the ladder -- worked 9 days out of 10, and took a 10% salary cut, in order to ensure that there wouldn&#x27
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by bmj 7y ago
You are assuming that the music is the most important thing. It very well may be, but part of the culture around vinyl is, I think, the actual physical product, particularly the art that accompanies the vinyl. Add to that the DIY ethos
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by bmj 7y ago
I was able to switch to Residential, and that showed an option for my home state.
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by bmj 7y ago
I would argue that management often doesn't truly understand "Agile" beyond "software engineers should operate this way." In my organization, the engineers are willing to be disciplined with Agile practices, but pro
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by bmj 7y ago
There are plenty of recipes out there. Molasses is a popular addition because of its potassium content.
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by bmj 7y ago
There is strong cultural pressure (at least in the US) to constantly progress in your career. This is measured primarily by title and compensation. I've been a senior developer at the same company for 13 years. I feel that most of th
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by bmj 7y ago
The code gets better, but the business outcome remains unchanged so it may look like waste. Herein lies the issues for many of us in the corporate world. Unless I am get the rewrite done in the current testing (assuming the feature I&#x2
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by bmj 7y ago
Oh yeah, and our kids don't really need all these plastic toys we buy them. Maybe it wouldn't be a terrible thing for them to have to go outside and play like we did? Sure, I played outside a lot as a kid, but I also had plenty
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by bmj 7y ago
A counterpoint to Girard and his thought: https://arcade.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/article_pdfs...
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by bmj 8y ago
And, you know, if you had a decent set of anonymised or fictitious customer data to work with, you wouldn't need to run your IDE in docker, and there would be less surface area for attackers to get to the data. I see this particular
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by bmj 8y ago
While not explicitly distributist in their thinking, many of the so-called Kuyperian or Neocalvinist theologians pick up the strands of Catholic subsidiarity (a critical piece of distributist thought) and call it sphere sovereignty. That s
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by bmj 8y ago
This assumes that we are currently using a sane system. But your point is well-taken.
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by bmj 8y ago
The case for bad coffee: https://www.seriouseats.com/2015/10/the-case-for-bad-coffee....
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by bmj 8y ago
Agreed. I generally see a lack of attention to detail with regard to things like linting, unit tests, and documentation. Our CI builds fail way too often due to the first two items, which can be easily done via a single build target on a
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by bmj 8y ago
I reckon it's a bit of both. As the internet allows people to share information about "special places," more people will travel there. I see this all the time with rock climbing--areas get more publicity, and climbers flock

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