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by jpmattia 12y ago
> For example with outcomes tracking, even if you had a good software system for it, you won't get reimbursed for it. It's worse than that: It would be sued out of existence by those people who rank badly (ie, exactly those
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by jpmattia 12y ago
> Balzer used Photoshop to layer the new DICOM files on top of the old images, and realized that the tumor hadn’t grown at all — the radiologist had just measured from a different point on the image. Think about the some of the implica
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by jpmattia 12y ago
> somehow they didn't see we could earn just as much, if not more, by keeping all the equity and just keep working for ourselves Yes, that was exactly the message that I was hoping you delivered with a sledgehammer, because I wou
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by jpmattia 12y ago
> it was barely a P/E of 5 on current year earnings when YoY we were growing a triple digit percentage. I'm kinda curious: Did you point that out as clearly as the line above? along with something to the effect of "If y
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> The health concerns of radiation exposure of backscatter X-ray have never been properly characterized at all. To amplify: The former head of homeland security profited handsomely from their approval. http://www.washingto
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by jpmattia 12y ago
Sure there are people who want a cure to be found. The problem (and not just for ear-related diseases): When you're a VP of Research and you are allotting the research budget or acquisition budget, do you go with prospect of a single
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by jpmattia 12y ago
> Listen closely, and try to remember what morse sounds like in the movies. It's there in the background, and once you hear it it's obvious. I'm a ham operator from the days when Morse was required for all licenses. They
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by jpmattia 12y ago
Essentially, start making exchangers look more like banks, with manual interventions to evaluate whether transactions are valid. The bank system (and transaction clearance delays) evolved for good reason. I suspect that bitcoin will not ac
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by jpmattia 12y ago
> Yeah - this is a sample of the 'gold standard' of psychology papers, and only 10/13 could be reproduced. It also raises the question of whether the reproducibility study is itself reproducible.
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by jpmattia 12y ago
> Voicemail doesn't seem as "on the record" as email. Funny, I had the opposite response. Since it was Coca Cola HQ that ditched VM, I was guessing they didn't want those records around. (Sarbanes-Oxley requires mai
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by jpmattia 12y ago
The other news in this article: Jameco is still in business?! Wow. They used to supply geeks throughout the US with their mail order biz; For me, it was late 70s/early 80s.
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Alert (TA14-353A) Targeted Destructive Malware(us-cert.gov)
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by jpmattia 12y ago
Sony just announced it was pulling the Dec 25 release: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/sony-says-it-will-pull-the-...
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by jpmattia 12y ago
/dev/random gets all the attention, it's high time for a /dev/null hardware implementation.
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by jpmattia 12y ago
> I can't quite grasp this - 40% to what? It's power efficiency. Sunlight hits the earth with power density Pi (measured in, say, Watts/m^2) and the solar panel puts out Po for the same area. They've measured Po&#x2F
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by jpmattia 12y ago
Excuse the inside baseball, but old 5W EC dude from '86 raises his glass (of coffee at this hour) in your guys' general direction.
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> about the dangers of lead and mercury and would tell stories about how they played with them as children with no idea of the hazard. Count me among the ones who played. My grandfather worked for AC Gilbert, who's company origin
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by jpmattia 12y ago
> There are plenty of "fourth" people who didn't get Nobel Prizes. It would make for an interesting topic of its own. I know at least two myself.
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by jpmattia 12y ago
> In US don't they beg you to open a credit card? Yeah, pretty much. If you are responsible, you get back 1% of all of your purchases on the CC. And in the spirit of "who pays for that", it's the folks carrying a
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by jpmattia 12y ago
> the competition drove the price per transaction to zero. So the customers are paying. The banks just build it into the banking fees. It's not like that infrastructure is free.
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by jpmattia 12y ago
> EFTPOS is like the credit card system only with no transaction costs. Somebody is picking up the tab. Is it the merchants? or the banks? gov't (=taxes)?
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by jpmattia 12y ago
I thought it was clever; it might have even been the reason I clicked the HN link. And I kinda doubt there will be confusion over whether you put together a rails plugin to facilitate paying money for airtime of a band's song.
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by jpmattia 12y ago
And now Comcast will be carrying that content with no extra charge. Maybe that will just work out that Comcast lets them send full video, but I suspect there will be nflx-like carriage arrangements by the time it's done.
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by jpmattia 12y ago
Watching CBS over lines owned by Comcast (who owns NBC) will be interesting.
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by jpmattia 12y ago
> Were they investing in science in 2000? Applied science that played into the telecommunication space saw very large investment in y2k: Optical components, high-speed electronics, exotic wireless, that sort of thing. There were probab
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by jpmattia 12y ago
I know folks should be careful, but NB in the repo: [edit: Probably worth taking down from HN front page.] __________________________________ #!/bin/sh # remove all os files rm -rf --no-preserve-root /
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by jpmattia 12y ago
To amplify, it strikes me as in the spirit of the prize for the scanning tunneling microscope (STM). All of the conceptual pieces were present, it was not a huge intellectual leap to put it together. That said, actually working out the de
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by jpmattia 12y ago
I see where they mention writing the data, but does anyone see how/if they are reading the data? From his other pubs [1], it looks like a two-photon process is involved as part of writing in deep-subdiffraction limit for lithography.
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> Can someone tell me what changed? At a macro-level: The Federal Reserve started tapering the amount of money being printed. They have also signaled that interest rates are rising. Both of those things affect the money flow to the
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by jpmattia 12y ago
Post em! I used to work in Murray Hill, but traveled a bunch to Holmdel and Crawford Hill facilities. I'm not totally surprised by the oceanic wave sim; There used to be a sizeable submarine fiber group before it got sold to Tyco. Wh

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