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by idiot900 11y ago
Publication cost should be considered on an equal footing with all the other costs necessary to run a lab. Reagents and buffers need to be paid for out of grants, why not publication costs?
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by idiot900 11y ago
"Scary" really depends on the clinical situation. It's much more difficult to define clearly than it seems. Too much NSAID or local anesthetic is usually worse than too much of a short acting, easily countered drug like pheny
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by idiot900 11y ago
A very small number of teens do, which is fine with them.
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by idiot900 11y ago
Now at least they can't then decrease his budget to less than $10. Another way to do it is to provide for a certain percentage of "overhead" costs, as with e.g. NIH grants. So if for every $10 that goes to Professor X, $6 goe
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by idiot900 11y ago
Can you share your experiences of better alternatives? Not hard to imagine VNC has been substantially improved on.
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by idiot900 11y ago
I live in Manhattan and use both Uber and regular taxis regularly. Never had any similar problem personally with either. The streets are always crowded. Instead of having no hope of catching a cab in a timely manner at peak times and places
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by idiot900 11y ago
The floor could be dirty, and then the foot pedal goes back into your bag.
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by idiot900 11y ago
And, a farcically low payout for otherwise very expensive consulting work from highly skilled people.
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by idiot900 12y ago
Very common. In NYC for example there is a social institution that taxi drivers are tipped.
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by idiot900 12y ago
Overall, make a case to truly be worth the time and effort. Anything that second guesses my clinical judgment, and/or requires extra paperwork to do so, had better be able to show its justification in an intelligent manner. There is a
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by idiot900 12y ago
tashfeens, I'm always skeptical about healthcare startups. A few questions: How accurate are your predictions, and how do you assess accuracy? (Do you have any prospective studies?) How is this better than the nanny reminders in curren
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by idiot900 12y ago
I don't understand why he doesn't attempt to leave the university and get a job as a programmer. CAD 34k is a joke and less than the stipend I received as a graduate student.
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by idiot900 12y ago
Already been done: http://www.marinol.com/
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by idiot900 12y ago
I like the solution to this problem: teach others best practices and you'll become better too. This is, incidentally, how academic medicine works.
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by idiot900 12y ago
Looks very nice but I haven't tried it. I have used other NCSA systems in the past and they were also excellent. NSF funding of supercomputers is a godsend for researchers needing a lot of cycles.
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by idiot900 12y ago
I use Stampede regularly via NSF's XSEDE supercomputer access program. It's a fantastic resource, very well designed, easy to use, and the TACC staff are remarkably good at what they do.
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by idiot900 12y ago
I hope you're right. Outside of my tech-oriented friends, most people I've discussed surreptitious electronic government surveillance with are either unconcerned about it or actually for it. And these are highly educated people wh
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by idiot900 12y ago
Interesting. Is there a demo login with dummy data, so we can see how well it actually works?
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by idiot900 12y ago
A well written PR piece, but no new insights here. Verizon feels it is not Verizon's job as an Internet service provider to provide adequate service to parts of the Internet that its customers are paying them to access. This wouldn&#x2
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by idiot900 12y ago
No mention of the baseband source code. Unless everything running on the phone is open source, there cannot be a guarantee of privacy.
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by idiot900 12y ago
> It's not that simple. A society cannot afford the triple-A gold standard of everything for everybody. The society in question has not realized it. > US medicine has been very successful at creating a guild system that's pr
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by idiot900 12y ago
True, that is the experiment to do. It is not without ethical concern though. Unfortunately, most patients are not sufficiently informed about medicine to make a rational market choice. (Indeed, outside my specialty, I am not really either,
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by idiot900 12y ago
> greater human trust in computers and recommendation systems I am an MD and have a degree in CS. Expert systems are not remotely there yet for this purpose. On no planet would I trust care of my patients to a computer. Far too many subt
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by idiot900 13y ago
FWIW I thought the insults were pretty funny. They put into context the uselessness of learning to multiply and divide marginally more quickly.
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by idiot900 13y ago
Seems like a tiny amount of money for something that would be worth quite a lot to them...
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by idiot900 13y ago
You didn't reserve a car, you reserved a rate along with a minimum standard of car, for some ordering of cars as determined by the company.
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by idiot900 13y ago
dylz: Because the moment Capital One 360 started becoming predatory, I'd move my money out to another bank. So far they've been fine.
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by idiot900 13y ago
So if the manufacturer charges a dollar for the bag of saline, and the hospital marks it up a couple orders a magnitude, hospitals must be absolutely swimming in cash, right? Did I miss that part in the article?
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by idiot900 13y ago
> Good programmers document their code. The equivalent goes for doctors, too. The information is there; there is simply too much of it to go over with the next person in the limited time available. I understand your point about commentin
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by idiot900 13y ago
At my hospital, residents take 24-hour calls. The trouble with shorter calls (say, 12 hours) is increasing the number of transfers of care. With 25 patients on a service, spending even five minutes on each means each "shift change&quot

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