hashmymustache

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by hashmymustache 13y ago
Well black kids were first let into white schools in 1960. That's 50 years ago. You don't think that exclusion shaped cultural views toward education?
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by hashmymustache 13y ago
certainly, and I didn't intend to minimize it, just to highlight the lack of awareness of the deleterious effects of prostate cancer treatments given the oft cited sense of disfigurement from mastectomies. both are terrible for the patient.
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by hashmymustache 13y ago
Well that wasn't the point, but sure they can be ignorant just like anyone else. Reading your comment below I actually really appreciate your point on trusting your doctor, but it's ok to still be informed or to be skeptical of their recomm
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by hashmymustache 13y ago
yea you're right that there's a big difference in the mean age and a more benign prognosis for prostate cancer in general. I just get uppity with all the focus in society on breast cancer with the high rates of lung (3rd most often, 1st mos
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by hashmymustache 13y ago
They're not as unequal as this says. http://seer.cancer.gov/statfacts/html/breast.html http://seer.cancer.gov/statfacts/html/prost.html 23.0 deaths per 100,000 women by breast cancer 23.6 deaths per 100,000 men by prostate cancer But, y
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by hashmymustache 13y ago
It's not just because doctors are ignorant. It's largely in part to a health issue that has become an overwhelmingly political issue that ignorantly preserves the status quo of "more screening = better." For doctors not to abide by such scr
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by hashmymustache 13y ago
Well the PSA test specifically, not prostate exams in general (i.e. rectal exam palpation). And like mammograms it depends on the population of interest and repeated tests. What bothers me is the lack of equal awareness and emphasis of pros
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by hashmymustache 13y ago
yea it's common to say guilt is feeling bad for _something you did_ while shame is feeling bad for _something you are_. But I actually like the use of shame here because it's a light hearted self-deprecating jab announcing "I'm a bad coder.
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by hashmymustache 13y ago
I don't disagree with you, but I'm curious how you explain the test performance disparity across races. If you look at the top public high school, TJ, blacks/hispanics compose 4% of the class at 25% of the population while asians make up 60
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by hashmymustache 13y ago
certainly, but those top notch academics are more relevant for graduate research than undergrad courses. with the swarm of ivy graduates going to work on wall st, I doubt the advanced botany course with a medalist in the field is as relevan
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by hashmymustache 13y ago
the numbers are pretty misleading without context. you gotta compare it to class composition (very low for blacks/hispanics) and raw admissions numbers, not just percentages out of who applied. med school really is a holistic admissions pro
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by hashmymustache 14y ago
Yea it's a pretty ridiculous state we're in. Fortunately this patent was probably filed defensively by RIM, but the moment they decide in the next 20 years that a branch could be more profitable by firing their employees and siphoning some
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by hashmymustache 14y ago
Well the non-obvious requirement of patents to be granted in the first place is defined such that experts in the field would not come up with it in response to the problem it solves. This is not the case with most software patents.
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by hashmymustache 14y ago
While I agree that saying "I'm busy" can come off as "I'm super important," I often use it as fill in for "I want to be alone with my thoughts." Often that helps me feel more joy and mindfulness in my work because my focus isn't as splinter
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by hashmymustache 14y ago
Needs background midi music playing Mortal Kombat
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by hashmymustache 14y ago
+2
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by hashmymustache 14y ago
Even before this, binding Firebase as a service and triggering DOM updates was easy, especially once firebase started managing its own session tokens. angular + firebase + filepicker + amazon S3 = euphoria with easy manageable, powerful re
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by hashmymustache 14y ago
Any recommendations for this kind of thing on iOS? I wanted to use a custom style on a web page on my iPad but couldn't find anything
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by hashmymustache 14y ago
This is a better version of my question. Why use dot decimal notation unless just a fun way to model versions after network addresses
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by hashmymustache 14y ago
This is probably a stupid question that can be answered if I read the docs, but how does versioning work? I love using node, but seeing 0.10.0 makes it appear like such young, teething software that people might immediately dismiss it if no
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Harvard researchers challenge results of obesity analysis(news.harvard.edu)
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by hashmymustache 14y ago
Ok I'll bite. I think the issue should focus on remedying the culture, regardless of whether boys dominate the ends. I will gently mention that boys are 5x as likely to have autism or lie within an autistic spectrum disorder loosely charact
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by hashmymustache 14y ago
What theory says society is run by people at the edge of the bell curve? Edit: though if you mean politicians then you're right, they're definitely at the edge - just the wrong edge. Bzing!
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by hashmymustache 14y ago
If by "if by 'if by whiskey'" you mean to circularly employ the same manipulative tactic of deceptive self-promotion, then I am certainly against it. But if by "if by 'if by whiskey'" you mean to strategically exercise the same practice out
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by hashmymustache 14y ago
Mourning the loss of someone is a personal thing, yes. Friends, parents, teachers will mourn his absence in a deeply personal way, fondly holding on to fading memories. The encouragement to black out HN is an acknowledgement of a communal l
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by hashmymustache 14y ago
What a greedy misappropriation of an otherwise incredible tool. I assume what pushed him into the market was the software's economic analysis of the latent market for spam books on Amazon 2010-2014 As a medical student, I particularly love