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by dan000892 8y ago
Something isn’t right when you’re considering lawsuit potential when making patient care decisions. I stand by my argument that a GP prescribing an anticoagulant based solely on an iWatch having detected a-fib is grossly negligent (just as—
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by dan000892 8y ago
“Since all medical interventions come with risks, many people will suffer harm from unnecessary tests and procedures.” I agree with this statement generally, but in this specific case it seems tenuous. If the iWatch’s 1-lead EKG detected a-
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by dan000892 8y ago
Rather famously, a Canadian casino in the 90’s had a keno game which was powered down nightly as the casino was only open 18 hours a day. While the game’s RNG was demonstrably random, a critical error was made in its implementation: the see
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by dan000892 8y ago
Your thought is in line with traditional thinking, but a 2015 study in the Wilderness & Emergency Medicine Journal found that cold packs applied to capillary-dense surfaces (cheeks, palms, soles) caused a greater reduction in body temp
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by dan000892 8y ago
As someone who previously worked for a Dialogic customer with a single-digit customer number, I didn’t realize Dialogic had sold its hardware business off (again; after the IBM acquisition and subsequent spin-off). About time. That said, I
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by dan000892 9y ago
> Spotify doesn’t make anything... television and film industries aren’t up in arms over Netflix the way music makers are up in arms about Spotify... because Netflix makes stuff. Great stuff... Meanwhile, Spotify pockets 30% of all the r
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by dan000892 9y ago
The firm who investigated presented at DEFCON this year. Here's the PDF. https://media.defcon.org/DEF%20CON%2025/DEF%20CON%2025%20pre...