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by jonlucc 9y ago
For most industries, definitely. It may make it much harder for startups in the medical space (if it becomes more difficult to get that single payer to pay them).
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Pharma companies don't necessarily lose out with single payer. Consider that the vast majority of drugs prescribed are generics, and most generics (aside from those making headlines) are available pretty cheaply (you can check GoodRx t
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Indiana also has it figured out. We gave a ton of state money to a company to save face for a national political campaign so that they could automate the jobs away faster.
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Ronson has been pretty clear on Twitter that he doesn't consider this such a case. I believe his thought is that these people are putting themselves out in public in front of a bunch of news cameras. They are intentionally drawing the
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This is not my field, but you can measure inflammation a couple of ways. One is by quantifying cytokines present and another one is to count blood cells.
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Entirely anecdotally, but that is what slowed me down the past few years. I am not in the industry at all (biologist), so I'm usually very late to development technologies. I tried to pick up Laravel about a year ago, and I just don&#x
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On your first point, even if they know exactly what will be done, they can't answer. I can't look for it at the moment, but there was a Vox video maybe last year about a man who wanted to find out the cost to deliver his and his w
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There are benefits to continuity of facilities, though. Anecdotally, my wife went to her regular doctor for a nominal fee at her yearly checkup. They drew blood, then asked her what hospital she wanted a follow-up diagnostic procedure to be
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You'd think they'd use this opportunity to run a sale for Safari to ease the transition for people who aren't yet on the platform. Maybe they didn't expect this to cause any problems?
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Yes; I think they were intentionally using slurs that would apply to the lawyer. The problem with that, is that you're relying heavily on how offended a single person is as an indicator of how offensive a word is, but the point was mad
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by jonlucc 9y ago
If it was the Planet Money episode [1] I also heard, I thought it was interesting how uncomfortable I was when the reporter was asking the lawyer what words should be off limits, and he was fine with every one of them being trademarked. [1]
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This is certainly the case for credit cards, and in my experience, with checking accounts. The bank or processor will manage the investigation and go after whomever stole the money to recover their loss after reimbursing you. Interestingly,
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I think there's another problem with this. I recently was rear-ended while I was stopped at an intersection, and the second question my insurance company asked me is if the car was being used for commercial (ride-sharing) services then
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In the most recent podcast (I think released today or last night), Harris discusses the Vox article and why he thinks it is exactly the sort of intellectual dishonesty that they were pointing out in the first place. He also gets into the to
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If I'm not mistaken, the truckers are generally 1099 contractors (owner-operators), so it's not that they are just clocked out when they aren't moving, but they are paid by the mile to the destination. Of course, that results
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This is increasingly sounding true with research that show periods of starvation are probably beneficial for health. Of course there has been a lot of discussion about fasting, but there is also data that show parental stress during child-b
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Sure as a percentage of total taxes paid, but they generally pay less as a percentage of their income or worth. Which is a better measure is certainly a reasonable discussion, but saying that one is unequivocally politically motivated while
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Budapest! I only know this because of a tweet I saw today [1]. [1] https://twitter.com/WeeMissBea/status/843888937659744257
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I assume it would be easier to get the data directly from the state government, right?
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Well the first weekend of Uber's cars in San Francisco and they had to pull the project because it ran a red light very close to a pedestrian. It only takes a couple videos like that for people to be swayed against statistical informat
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I suppose this is just a slightly more expensive version of the idea that we could do away with spam by charging a penny or a tenth of a penny per email sent.
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BioRxiv [1] attempts to be this, but it isn't widely used as it is in the physics/math/compSci world. [1] http://biorxiv.org/
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I think this is the case, and it has been mentioned elsewhere in this thread. When I see a paper published that I am interested in, I have to fit it into the context what I already know about a field, the standards of the the journal its pu
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No, but the burden of videography is a lot higher than the burden of writing a paper. In fact, a paper isn't written for every study, so in order to write a paper, you'd have to take video of every study just in case one of them
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In my job, I work with an outside contract research organization. The way this works is pretty similar to what you're describing, and its a living hell. For starters, it takes 6-10 drafts back and forth to get a protocol to start with,
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You've gotten a couple of answers, but my answer might rely heavily on my field. I work in early stage pharma discovery research. So our goal isn't to determine the basal level of some cytokine, for example, in normal mice. Our go
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There's some neat software now (not sure if it was around when you were in college) to translate video into reliable data about the movement of animals. I've used it for fish, but the same software can be used to track people arou
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Additionally, not everything appears on video. We have found major differences between identical studies run in rooms set at different temperatures. Also, many of the procedures I do would essentially require a camera operator to capture al
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You can add to this that if you are in a facility with both rats and mice, you should never house them in the same room, and you should probably not enter a mouse room after being in a rat room. In the wild, rats are predators of mice.
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Exactly; I've just installed the app now. I don't use Uber a ton, so it won't be a big hit, but I will certainly try Lyft first.

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