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by jostmey 9y ago
But there are laws about protecting patient information such as the HIPAA laws, which make it much harder to do research and to start a business that processes patient information. These laws become a major consideration for any committee t
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by jostmey 9y ago
I haven't been able to do my job with respect to this project. There's a distinction between hard and impossible
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by jostmey 9y ago
As someone in the biomedical sciences in the United States, I wish the barrier to access patient information was much lower. The pendulum has swung too far the other direction--toward too much patient protection at the expense of medical pr
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by jostmey 9y ago
I can never go back to Mac. Our last MacBook was a giant turd and huge money hole. Bought a cheap windows laptop and I couldn't be happier
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by jostmey 9y ago
I disagree! Many of the fields you mention are tested through experimental observation. Often times, the outcome is a clear binary response. Hell, I've even seen bacteria evolve antibiotic resistance first hand. When it comes to econom
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by jostmey 9y ago
While in graduate school for biology, I gained a limited exposure to the economics department through some of the students. I saw very little actual "tracking on money" and a whole lot of conjecturing and mathematics. It seemed li
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by jostmey 9y ago
Are you trying to tell me that they won't build more windmills if that's what people are paying for?
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by jostmey 9y ago
No it is not. As a consumer in Dallas we get to choose which power company we want to buy from. Basically, we have to buy our share of electricity that is used from the grid.
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by jostmey 9y ago
I live in Dallas Texas and buy renewable (wind or solar) electricity from the grid. It cost only marginally more
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by jostmey 9y ago
I wonder where the boiling point lies--where the lower class, without opportunity and safety decides to overthrow the current political systems. It happens over the course of history, and many societies are slowly inching toward political r
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by jostmey 9y ago
What planet are you from? I have nothing but negative things to say about comcast and the quality of comcast products I fully believe the press because as a customer of comcast they treated me like a turd on the sidewalk
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by jostmey 9y ago
We definitely absorb huge amounts of information -- but only a fraction of that information reaches the conscious level. Just google search "unconscious visual processing"
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by jostmey 9y ago
Ramblings of non-linguist: The problem with the human body is that is extremely hard to share information. We can absorb gigabytes of information through our eyes and other sensory organs, but we can only emit a few bits of information. Whe
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by jostmey 9y ago
Perhaps we have become too inactive. Perhaps only the fittest, healthiest individuals made it into adulthood and therefore the population enjoyed long, healthy lifespans. Perhaps our genomes have degraded without strong negative selective p
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by jostmey 9y ago
As a family man, I couldn't agree more with this statement! But if these are the sorts of recommendations in the report, it is a pile of trash. The whole point of the report is to identify and reduce misconduct. This is just irrelevant
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by jostmey 9y ago
I used to live in Chicago. The city taxi service was horrible--the drivers were grumpy and sketchy. They would always try to take the expensive way around. I hated the taxi service so much that to get around the airport restrictions I would
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by jostmey 9y ago
Then I think you found a great startup idea. Create the AI that warns you when you are about to inadvertently commit a crime, thereby helping you navigate the complex and incomprehensible legal system. Investors will line up to give you mon
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by jostmey 9y ago
Let me wave my hand around a crystal ball and peer into our future... "Cameras are everywhere and record every crime. Somewhere in the city a man commits a murder. Computers register the crime. Later that same man steps into a self-dri
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by jostmey 9y ago
Scary that airplanes are still allowed to use leaded fuel. Somehow society is stuck between the information age and the stupid age. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/lead-in-aviation-...
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Why the NIH might deserve a funding cut(statnews.com)
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by jostmey 9y ago
Science isn't broken... the academic system is
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by jostmey 9y ago
AlphaGo already won the first game, which 5 years ago would have been considered impossible. It is basically over. Google can pour an order of magnitude more computing power at the algorithm to boost its performance if they choose too.
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by jostmey 9y ago
Gee, even with Trump as president this makes me so happy I live in the United States
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What is a recurrent weighted average (in Japanese)(qiita.com)
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by jostmey 9y ago
Isn't it possible to create poison genes using CRISPR that are always dominant and will lead to a species extinction? Why not apply this technology to completely eliminate Opioid plants? P.S. I am sure there are many reasons why this w
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by jostmey 9y ago
But the Heroin addiction crisis is the result of a legal drug trade--the prescription of Opioids.
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Move Over, San Francisco: Dallas Tops Our List of the Best Cities for Jobs 2017(forbes.com)
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by jostmey 9y ago
What kind of person spends their days looking through other people's software, asking if their collection of questionable patents applies to someone else's hard work?
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by jostmey 9y ago
This belief that nature has control over the planet is sadly mistaken. If humanity wanted to, it could nuke the planet eliminating all insect life. Humanity has invented things far beyond the reach of nature and far beyond what nature can c
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"The mass of insects collected by monitoring traps in the Orbroicher Bruch nature reserve in northwest Germany dropped by 78% in 24 years". That number is scary. If that number is even close to the same across the world, the plane

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