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by ghkbrew 12y ago
As the article mentions, HIPAA gives you the legal right to access your own medical records. If you request it your hospital or health care provider they have to give you a copy. Admittedly it may not be as timely as the OpenNote system,
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by ghkbrew 12y ago
> I think the assumption is that the money you save by reducing the complexity of the welfare bureaucracy would be passed into the income itself. Agreed, but there are currently many more people who aren't currently receiving benefi
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by ghkbrew 12y ago
To be fair, they do claim you can disable alerts on a per-application basis. Plus, given that many drivers are going to check their messages anyway, I'd say a HUD is saf er than looking at your phone
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by ghkbrew 12y ago
That's almost by definition. If you take all the money currently being spent by programs targeted at the poor/needy and redistribute it among the entire population, the average amount that a poor person would receive will decreas
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by ghkbrew 12y ago
Is there a reason for the combination of register-based (logical ops) and stack-based (arithmetic ops) operations? Otherwise fun project.
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by ghkbrew 12y ago
So, basically what the paper linked from this article describes is a method of taking a set of interacting regulator genes and determining the minimum set of genes which have to be perturbed (activated or repressed) to move the overall expr
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by ghkbrew 12y ago
> what other languages have an OO system so massively flexible that you can easily build stuff like this on top of it? Lisp ...sorry I couldn't help myself
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by ghkbrew 12y ago
Do you have evidence to back up that claim? It seems counterintuitive that slowing down the top few percent fastest drivers would improve traffic. If there's enough traffic to cause congestion wouldn't they be stuck behind slower
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by ghkbrew 12y ago
There are plenty bacteria [0] that perform photosynthesis too [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyanobacteria
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by ghkbrew 12y ago
I'd like to point out that every green plant you see outside your window is getting its energy from pure electro-magnetic radiation ! Which I honestly think is a cooler accomplishment. And I would argue that light is just as pure
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by ghkbrew 12y ago
Seems like there's a good case to be made for a 3rd level of visibility between private and public. Similar to Java's package level. I'd like to see (from least to most public): private: only visible inside the current namesp
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by ghkbrew 12y ago
I think that sort of depends on how you define your terms. Generally albedo is how much of the light which hits an object is reflected. A perfect black body, by definition doesn't reflect any light: all of it is absorbed and conver
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by ghkbrew 12y ago
As a techie with a medical doctorate, I've considered these sorts of things too. The basic problem is that if you want to have records in the computer someone has to input them in a more or less structured manner. This is the issue th
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by ghkbrew 12y ago
my go to is: right click link -> "open in incognito window" for chrome at least. Firefox has similar functionality, though I'm not sure if it can be accessed from a right-click.
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by ghkbrew 12y ago
> Validate the integrity of the device from looking at the screen? Essentially, yeah. If you can't turn it on, it could be an IED disguised as a cellphone. (Or so the TSA seems to think) Of course it's all just pointless secur
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by ghkbrew 12y ago
Thanks. I read the whole article thinking he was using PANDAS ( http://pandas.pydata.org )
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by ghkbrew 12y ago
> Which is actually an ethical quandary when you think about it. You're right, of course. But whether a study is scientifically valid and whether it is ethical are two orthogonal questions. Similar concerns are why most cancer ther
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by ghkbrew 12y ago
The right to anonymous speech is can be considered (and is by many) an implication of first amendment rights to free speech. One way to look at it is that the requirement that a person be identified before being allowed to speak is itself
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by ghkbrew 12y ago
> What would a control group consist of? It would be an equivalent population who weren't asked to change their diets. There are multiple reasons the patients in this study might not be comparable to participants in other studies or
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by ghkbrew 12y ago
I see, that is disconcerting. Though it doesn't seem to be an issue with the multisig transaction api specifically. The single signatory api implies a certain amount trust that they'll produce the correct transaction as well. I a
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by ghkbrew 12y ago
Seems more like signing a check someone else filled out for you. You can still verify the amount and refuse if it's wrong. Or am I wrong? Doesn't the transaction have to include all the relevant details before it's signed?
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by ghkbrew 12y ago
I don't know. Social Security Numbers (SSN) we have are a national ID number in pretty much everything but name. And even though they are explicitly not supposed to be used as identification (it says so on the card), that's how
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by ghkbrew 12y ago
In the US the Supreme Court is the final arbiter of how the law is interpreted. So, off the top of my head, there are at least 2 ways the effects of a judgement can be reversed. 1) The law can be specifically amended by congress and 2) the
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by ghkbrew 12y ago
What advantages does this have over Phantom.js[1] ? [1] http://phantomjs.org
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by ghkbrew 12y ago
You're right. Legally ERs can't turn away patients. They have to "stabilize" them before discharge. However not all ERs are equal. It's entirely possible that procedures like this wouldn't be available in
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by ghkbrew 12y ago
Or played at 1.5x speed. One of the problems with lectures is that they tend to be geared towards the lowest common denominator. The great thing about the few of my college courses that provided online lectures was that I could go through t
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by ghkbrew 12y ago
Yes, there are ways of producing antibodies outside the body. One could argue whether hybridomas (essentially immortalized b-cells used to produce a specific antibody) constitute truly synthetic production. I considered mentioning them,
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by ghkbrew 12y ago
Pretty much no. Most synthetic blood efforts are focused on replacing the oxygen-carrying components of blood i.e. red blood cells and the hemoglobin they contain. That is what's needed in emergency settings and surgery where lack of
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by ghkbrew 12y ago
He's talking about a specific cycle in computing where it has moved from centralized processing to decentralized multiple times in the past. For example -first there were mainframes with glorified type-writes as terminals -then we had
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by ghkbrew 12y ago
I think we need to start a new meme. Something like: Double-blind randomized control trial or it didn't happen Anyone?

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