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Problem is management doesn't go for it. It was many years ago in a startup kind of situation. I recommended that instead of hiring 10 people to handle a modest workload, it would be better to employ 5 superior workers, give them twi
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Gender Identity Disorder is not homosexuality, and it's now called Gender Dysphoria (GD) in the most recent diagnostic manuals. Homosexuality is not consider an illness, and does not require treatment, in fact no treatment is known.
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Bad for many people requiring medications for a wide array of conditions. It is completely wrong that warrantless searches are permitted. I hope more states follow Oregon's example and defend the privacy of medical care. It's ex
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Thanks for your observation! I'll have to try it. I'm assuming having to check manually for updates but that's not a big burden. Hopefully no inadvertent "side-effects" from running as a metered connection.
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Regarding unanticipated software updates, this may be slightly off topic, but updates are particularly troublesome with Windows 10. Unfortunately Win10 doesn't permit reviewing updates before downloading them, an option that was availa
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Keeping "rubbish" out of the journals is a reasonable goal, though judging by what's in the journals I read, you're right rubbish still leaks through from time to time. I believe I was the beneficiary of good fortune in
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Having experienced bias against publishing truly novel findings, I can testify this form of bias is a potential hazard re: scientific progress. Back in the early 2000's, in the course of clinical practice I encountered some unexpected
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It's pretty common to look at code without highlighting, for example, in code snippets included with comments here on HN, or printed out on a terminal. Often it's not too difficult to understand in that circumstance, but it might
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One thing easily overlooked is that recommendations for sodium intake depend on individual considerations. Sodium restriction may be important in conditions other than hypertension. For example, people who excrete too much urinary calcium a
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Your story is one that's familiar to me and I appreciate the courage it takes to face the realities you describe. In my experience you have really nailed the important elements of dealing with these seriously disabling conditions, and
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This is an important topic, not only from the perspective of drug dependency and substance use disorders (SUDs) research, but also re: potentially misleading statements which may discourage use among people who could benefit from stimulant-
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I've been using Vultr ( https://vultr.com ) for a couple of years. Good, reliable service and responsive, helpful support. Very documentation too. Cost is lower than most competitors, especially for FBSD instances, though
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Thanks for the additional info. I see your point about the robot operating autonomously. At the rate things are developing, what is "pretty far away" may not be more than a few years down the road. I guess we'll find out.
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By no means am I an expert on military hardware, and I don't seek out info on the subject. However I did encounter this bit of news which I think approximates the idea of "killer robots". At least I found the video at this l
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It's hard not to agree with the premise of the article, basically that we should live by the values we assert. Or as often expressed on HN, we should "eat our own dogfood". I guess it's the familiar problem of awareness
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Based on prior discussions I've had the impression that the BNC2 and other skin-related Neanderthal genes were associated with less melanin pigmentation. Melanin reduces penetration of UVB into skin cells, important in an equatorial en
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According to a quick look through the documentation, C code is called though a simple interface: (call-c-func "c-function-name" args …). OTOH it didn't appear that it's possible to call Scheme from C, which may be a dis
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> I didn't open link, based on non-nazi references to the page's elements. I assume the "link" is to the article. If so, that's unfortunate, the article was very well written and thought provoking. The essential
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The book you reference is no doubt a lot more thorough, but the wikipedia article is a pretty good brief overview: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_transistor
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The story of the FET is interesting. Patented in 1925 and 1928 by Lilienfeld, the invention wasn't implemented until the 1940's. Researchers at Bell Labs, Shockley and Pearson, build operational devices based on Lilienfeld's
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I certainly wouldn't argue with neuroscientists and network experts here, but as a clinician dealing with products of brain function, that is, thinking, problem solving, sensory phenomena, etc., what happens in brains has long been a s
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It's already a huge problem. Post-op infection is common and hard to treat. There are new approaches in use to reduce risk. I recently needed to have surgery. A preventative measure was a gown with ventilation ports. I was told cir
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That's an excellent way to express the situation back then. Given the ease of converting results with modern technologies, it's hardly a handicap to use the Imperial units, besides doing so preserves the "feel" of the e
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My guess is that when it was constructed 50 years ago, the "device" was engineered with the units that were familiar or already organized into formulas to plug data into. In the early to mid 60's, simple extremely limited de
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The "email server" situation has received a lot of air time, so interesting to see some quantification of it. It will surely remain a hot button issue politically, I won't wade into that. The relevant part of the story would
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Didn't see it mentioned in other comments, but a particular failing of LED lamps is their unsuitability for critical color matching applications. Fluorescents and CFLs are available for that use, but to date haven't seen LEDs tha
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I completely agree with the idea of simple, flexible tools for interacting with programs and providing good tools for users. A while back I was putting together a DB query tool for volunteer staff to use. I deliberately made it simple and
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Adverse outcomes of meditation practices described in the article covered a range of disorders, e.g., depression, panic attacks, possibly frank psychosis. These conditions are familiar to psychiatrists and not rare, guessing something like
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I can see why you might say it "smells like BS", but it's not entirely implausible. The parent referred to 2 elements: summertime birth, and "playing in the mud", both contrasted to being confined to indoor environ
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Thanks for the links, I didn't previously know that Feynman was a synesthete. Grapheme synesthesia is the most frequent type of synesthesia. I'm also a grapheme synesthete which is no doubt the only talent I'd have in common

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