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by ghufran_syed 3y ago
agree - which is probably why Elon Musk is so obsessive about increasing the efficiency and thrust of the merlin and raptor rocket engines, a huge amount of downstream capability can be achieved by increasing that number (all other things b
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by ghufran_syed 3y ago
If you’re a military unit about to get wiped out by an enemy force due to running out of ammo, I imagine getting 100 tons of ammo in 1 hour vs in 19 hours would be a big difference?
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by ghufran_syed 3y ago
reminds me of working on a derivative sales desk for an investment bank - they wanted me to write something everyday about what was happening in the market to send to clients, but then my boss would criticize me for "being too much of
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by ghufran_syed 3y ago
What do you propose the doctors should do instead in this situation?
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by ghufran_syed 3y ago
but I think the point is that by being "100% user supported”, the way to get rich is by getting more paying users by “making things people want” vs optimising a metric like “growth” in order to temporarily fool the next investor into o
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by ghufran_syed 3y ago
I’m in Northern california, I just got a heat pump installed by these guys: https://www.heliosclimate.io/ - a YC company btw, for those who think they just fund consumer apps :) Overall it was a great experience, there were
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by ghufran_syed 3y ago
If anyone has experience with animal research, specifically mice, I'd love to chat about a potential proposal (contact info in profile)
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SpaceX Request for Research Proposals(spacex.com)
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by ghufran_syed 3y ago
I looked into a startup working on a similar problem - as long as the digital text and audio are for personal use, I think it should be ok (or at least, not worth going after). If it's possible to share with other users or post the out
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by ghufran_syed 3y ago
if its political, perhaps this isn’t the appropriate forum?
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by ghufran_syed 3y ago
So government intervention didn't do what it claimed, in fact the opposite, and the solution (per "Democratic health care wonks") is to...have more government intervention? The leaches didn't work to help your diabetes
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by ghufran_syed 3y ago
Maybe they are different versions, or I'm an outlier, but I love epic - I used a relatively new build of the software last year for a new months, just the ability to message other staff in the context of a patient's chart saved
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by ghufran_syed 3y ago
same, in england - they fired a 303 and a 5.56 caliber blank round at around 10cm range into an empty soda can, it basically ripped it in two
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by ghufran_syed 3y ago
lets not forget how the US government first forced doctors to give out more and stronger pain medications by 1)issuing edicts that “pain is the fifth vital sign” (i.e. equivalent to pulse, bp, temp, respiratory rate), AND 2) tying reimburs
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by ghufran_syed 3y ago
as there is between the average high school student and those who make it to college?
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by ghufran_syed 3y ago
Besides the many useful suggestions below about which software to use for this assuming he wants to make a COMPUTER game , I would also explore what is his idea? Could you just "build" it with cardboard, a board drawn on a comput
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by ghufran_syed 3y ago
or maybe she has, quite rationally, developed “epistemic learned helplessness”? edit: forgot to add the link ( which was reposted to HN earlier today) https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/06/03/repost-epistemic-le
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by ghufran_syed 3y ago
In general, intelligence agencies don’t tend to kill their assets to keep them quiet, because that “benefit” is massively outweighed by the negative effect when trying to recruit the next 1000 assets over the next few years - pragmatism a
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by ghufran_syed 3y ago
this is so dumb - first of all, patients weren't randomized to drug vs placebo, so almost certainly, it was the sicker patients who got the drug. If you repeated the analysis with “hospital admission” as the variable of interest, you’d
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by ghufran_syed 3y ago
“so little understanding of health” - compared to, for example, you? Whats your method of developing this understanding and does the state and society in which you live recognize your tremendous ‘understanding of health” and allow you to pr
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by ghufran_syed 3y ago
She should find a doctor she likes and stick with that doctor - apparently, “if you like your doctor you can keep your doctor” (with obvious extension to that doctor’s nurses,techs, clerks etc) If that statement is not true, perhaps we shou
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by ghufran_syed 3y ago
why do you think general education is necessary? went to med school directly from high school in england, and loved the fact I didn't have to waste time and money on “general education” - I can read and I know what a library is, I do
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by ghufran_syed 3y ago
How is this different from giving a patient a drug that they say they are allergic to? Doesn’t seem to have anything to do with the patient being autistic
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by ghufran_syed 3y ago
I don't know if you would classify this as a "maths research book", but it's a wonderful personal and emotional description of the process of math discovery: Birth of a Theorem - A mathematical adventure by Cedric Villan
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by ghufran_syed 3y ago
I’m pretty sure adobe is not dumb enough to start a lawsuit that would give the defendant the right to go through their records …
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by ghufran_syed 3y ago
The even more mind-blowing fact is that if SpaceX starship succeeds, it will be possible to launch a space station with half that volume in a single launch
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by ghufran_syed 3y ago
Starting with the "classic" techno-libertarian slaves who each claimed "I am spartacus"
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by ghufran_syed 3y ago
There are also pretty significant differences in diet and substance use between different income quartile...
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by ghufran_syed 3y ago
"So it's his fault that all that happened to him?" No - he's saying that acting like everything is his responsibility and that believing that only his actions care improve things is much more likely to lead to actu
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by ghufran_syed 3y ago
very glib (though true) - but do you have any evidence in this case as to what reality is? If so, could you please explain how the given statement is "contradicted by reality"?

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