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by imagist 10y ago
From the article: "The group concluded that heavy patients should first be counseled to lose weight because a lower weight reduces stress on the joints and can alleviate pain without surgery ." (emphasis mine) I don't have a
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> What were those 'ideals'? What was that vision? I don't know that. > That was McCarthy's vision: a tool for AI research. You don't know that. > No, Scheme went away from the idealized Lisp. -> R6RS. Ne
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> I think that refusing to explore other treatment options in tandem is wrong, "Exploring other treatment options in tandem" in this case means cutting someone open and possibly killing them, in tandem with helping them lose we
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This is frequently held up as an example of CL being more true to McCarthy's vision than Scheme. The counterargument is that code-compatibility is a poor measure of conceptually realizing McCarthy's ideals--rather Scheme's mo
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If you understand what the title means well enough to object to its usage, that's solid proof that the title has communicated effectively. > What is a very bad in that title is that it focuses on Racket, just as if the title was: &
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Yeah, 17-20 in that link do a better job of expressing what I wanted to express than I did. :)
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Just like store owners pay rent for their building... I'm not saying the rent seeking is good--on the contrary, I think it's very bad. But the fact is that your views on which is better for drivers are not shared by drivers. You&#
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I agree, we need better help for weight loss. However, that's not what most people here are arguing for. The specific case here is a complaint that people are denied surgery, and people feel that this is denial of care; that is, people
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> I agree with your argument about common usage but I'm not sure what the common usage on HN really is and what's a vocal minority using it incorrectly until it becomes common. I just don't think "correctly" and
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I don't see any evidence that patients whose knee and hip issues weren't fixed by weight loss are unable to get surgery.
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Restarts, call/cc, reasonable error reporting, reasonable error reporting , real tail-call elimination.
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> Despite horrible service, a forced monopoly, and continual racist crimes, you want to support the incumbent system. That's half of what I said. I also described why I want to support the current system. > Taxi drivers pay ~$2
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> Newcomers are always confused by the distinction, this doesn't help at all to put them in the same big bag. This classification is not wrong, but mostly useless when you see how the different "dialects" evolved (they are
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I think that big people are discriminated against. I've experienced this in the workplace firsthand, where people were not hired for positions where their weight had no bearing on their ability to perform the job. However, obesity do
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The study did not show systematic discrimination. It showed that obese patients presenting with hip and knee problems were systematically denied surgery in favor of weight loss as a treatment. There is a strong case to be made that weight l
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TBH, almost any Lisp is beyond Clojure. Don't get me wrong, Clojure is an amazing tool. While it addresses a very specific use case (functional programming on the JVM) that use case is common enough that it's a very useful tool. B
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Lisp is a family of languages that includes Racket and Clojure. C is a language, not a family of languages that includes Rust and Go. The Lisp family of languages also contains Common Lisp. In some contexts, it's reasonable to assume &
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Sure, by removing all nuance from what I actually said, you can argue for anything.
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> Every driver I've met who has made the switch from taxi to Uber/Lyft says they're happier now and earning more. This was true initially, but is no longer true. Many drivers are switching back, or switching to Gett. >
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> Most of the people that I know who have needed hip or knee surgery are thinner people. I'm proposing that weight loss is an effective and reasonable treatment for hip or knee problems in obese people, so this observation is consis
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1. It's true that BMI doesn't provide a complete picture of a healthy fat percentage, but weight and waist measurements provide even less information, so I'm not sure why you would present that information as if it contribu
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> How convenient they don't mention the name of that survey, who conducted it, how it was formed, or link to the actual survey itself. Ugh, you're just wrong, and I can only conclude you didn't read the article. They menti
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> Do you have resources on the scientific basis for BMI's efficacy as a health indicator? http://www.cdc.gov/healthyweight/assessing/bmi/adult_bmi/ind... http://www.cdc.gov/health
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> Denial of care, or dangerously mismeasured care, is not acceptable simply based on BMI (a non-scientific measure invented in the early 1800s). How did you conclude that BMI is non-scientific? Did you know that Centigrade was invented i
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So, I'm in strong agreement that it's reasonable to have weight cutoffs as requirements for surgery, but let's make that argument based on facts, please. You said: > This survey doesn't confirm that surgeries are refu
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Brooklynite here. In theory, I want to be behind taxi drivers. They're a local business owners with ties in the community, and I would rather support them than a Silicon Valley startup with a questionable stance on privacy and poor tre
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That's exactly why we're in a bubble. "Because other people are paying even more" is a really bad reason to pay too much for something. But that's the entire basis of Twitter's price--it's people investing
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> The way every standing army out there does it by just being there and having guns? And how is that, exactly? The cold war, where much greater threats than the threat of standing armies were at play, exhibited itself in violence all ove
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Agreed.
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The number I cited was their claimed active users. I'm not sure why you consider $29 per human user a steal. There are two sides to a transaction--what you pay and what you get for it. What exactly do you think investors are getting fo

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