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by et2o 4y ago
1. It’s just a fact that if all reimbursement was currently Medicare-level, the existing hospital systems in NYC would run a massive deficit and couldn’t provide the services they do now. They wouldn’t be in business barring massive reducti
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by et2o 4y ago
Great points. Yes those are the major barriers. If you have all those, things can go well. Obviously heaps of people in the USA do not.
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by et2o 4y ago
I said “if you have private insurance,” which I think is the key qualifier. One of the other commenters expanded upon it well below. I’m not making an argument for cost-effectiveness either. We can get private insurance to pay for elective
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by et2o 4y ago
I’m an MD who trained in NYC. I have also had emergency surgery in the NHS at one of their most prestigious hospitals in London and so I feel like I’ve seen the system a little bit from the inside. It was far cheaper for me than it would ha
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by et2o 4y ago
I think that’s exactly what OP meant
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by et2o 4y ago
He got a lot of sympathetic coverage because of the goals of his campaign, but if you look into the details he is clearly in fact guilty of bribery, corruption, and fabrication of evidence in Ecuador. Do the ends justify the means? He was a
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by et2o 4y ago
This is exactly the answer. Why would the manufacturer of a professional-targeted camera take an action that would destroy their business?
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by et2o 4y ago
Do you really think Elon Musk cares about potentially making about 100 million on a pump and dump scheme? He’s worth 240 billion
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by et2o 5y ago
I’m guessing the tradeoff in the air is worth it. Can’t stop to run an AED and if they need a shock it’s because they’re in a potentially fatal rhythym
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by et2o 5y ago
Using cyanoacrylate glue is is very common in medicine for skin closure. Doesn’t seem ridiculous to use in other settings.
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by et2o 5y ago
I’m not sure those people would make great surgeons or physicians as a rule. I don’t think lack of talent or intellectual horsepower in medicine is an issue at all.
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by et2o 5y ago
Doesn’t apply to a wrong-sided procedure
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by et2o 5y ago
The number of slots is limited. Am airline not using a spot could be replaced by one that will. This is good because it allows more travelers to travel.
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by et2o 5y ago
I agree. I love using signal and have converted most of my friends to it, but $60/year is too high for me for a chat app. I’d pay a dollar a month, maybe two.
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by et2o 5y ago
Tire wear is a complex interaction of various factors such as compound, slippage, road surfaces, torque, weather etc and not just wheel revolutions
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by et2o 5y ago
CureVac did not have any pseudouridine modifications. This is relatively easy to do and I’m not sure why they did not do it.
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by et2o 5y ago
Well put. We can actually detect well below 50 copies/mL in the laboratory setting as well; we don’t go below this to maintain adequate test specificity and sensitivity in the clinical setting.
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by et2o 5y ago
There is no data that supports this assertion whatsoever. There is a lot of evidence going against it. Theoretically it may be possible, but the probability of this is on the order of 0 and so close to 0 it will likely never happen. Think o
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by et2o 5y ago
Did you read about the ForcedEntry exploit? They implemented basically an entire emulator inside of one pass of an obscure PDF compression algorithm. It’s perhaps the most complicated hack I have ever seen by an order of magnitude at least.
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by et2o 5y ago
Look at the third-to-final paragraph where it explicitly mentions recycling Kevlar vests.
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by et2o 5y ago
Explanation: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graveyard_spiral
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by et2o 5y ago
Lol
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by et2o 5y ago
I was mostly just pretty amazed. Maybe other tech workers don’t realize how good they have it.
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by et2o 5y ago
I wish I worked in a big tech company instead of healthcare. I get more harm inflicted on me everyday than this guy experienced over the entire story. Your lives are pretty good.
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by et2o 5y ago
This is sophisticated intentional misinformation. HN readers are precisely the kind of people who would be deceived by this.
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by et2o 5y ago
Definitely-would want to normalize distance by total state size, your formula works. I'm pretty sure NY would be the winner here, although Alaska might also be close by this metric.
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by et2o 5y ago
After a brief search, Hawaii's is in the ocean between O'ahu and Moloka'i. DC's might be the closest to the state border (about 3.1 miles) but still just about directly in the center of the DC polygon.
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by et2o 5y ago
Interestingly enough, the mean center of population for NY State is only about 9 miles from the NJ border. Given NYC's location, not suprising. I wonder if there are any states with centers of population closer to the border than that.
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by et2o 5y ago
I thought they would already be marked on Google Maps, but they are not. It doesn't seem possible to add them even as a Tourist destination either. Interesting.
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by et2o 5y ago
Dead wrong that a single bought of COVID is better than 3 vaccine shots. You need repeated exposure. Plus, I’m guessing you’re young-the point was to stop the > million deaths COVID is going to cause in the US alone soon. Nice work.

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