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by kaitai 9y ago
This is why I have found a favorite brand of canned tomatoes and only cook with them unless I can pick my own tomatoes or find them at the farmer's market. Supermarket tomatoes often taste terrible!
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by kaitai 9y ago
Overall agree... even with Danielle Steele comment... but what about paranormal reindeer shifter novels? Or erotic menage a trois set in Victorian England? There are plenty of "simply sweet" books you wouldn't mind being aske
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by kaitai 9y ago
It's just not good science. Why assume "most shoveling done by men" when you could also have "women are rate limited by arms that are on average weaker" for instance? There are plenty of other ideas to float, too. A
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by kaitai 9y ago
Where do you think those "professional researcher" jobs are, if not at research universities?
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by kaitai 9y ago
I seem to remember something about fireplaces or wood stoves being required in new construction, as well, in order to maintain energy independence on an individual-house basis if necessary.
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by kaitai 9y ago
Tons -- if you want to look at the evidence, look at the gender and ethnic makeup of programs for kids gifted in math in the US. First-generation kids are deeply overrepresented, and by the third generations kids of any ethnicity are all eq
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by kaitai 9y ago
This would only work if there were a mechanism to pay for diagnosis. Internal medicine specialists are supposed to be "diagnosticians," as you envision it -- they have more training than general practitioners if they're inter
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by kaitai 9y ago
Isn't that how all non-Veterans Administration medical care in the US works? Genuinely curious -- my understanding is that almost all medical care profit in the US is driven by volume of procedures, and even non-profit care is reimburs
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by kaitai 9y ago
"Better tried by twelve than carried by six"
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by kaitai 9y ago
Not agreeing that turnabout is 100% fair or virtuous, but in many philosophical systems or legal systems "extenuating circumstances" are fair game for consideration. I agree it would be nice to be progressing, but as someone who d
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by kaitai 9y ago
"[T]hey refuse to consider.." We all bring our own experiences, but as one of those highly educated women, many men refuse to consider me. A lot of guys do still want someone who doesn't match them economically or intellectua
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by kaitai 9y ago
You can live on Doritos and donuts for weeks or years. You can be an ill-informed and lazy consumer and survive. I have learned when I can substitute oil for butter without problems and when it'll cause disaster. How many people on HN
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by kaitai 9y ago
"Improving Value in Health Care — Against the Annual Physical" has some links to papers that look at the annual checkup per se. http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1507485
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by kaitai 9y ago
There is a big story here that is not being told, alluded to in one paragraph of the parent article. "[R]eplacing the decades-old VistA medical record system." VistA used to be the VA's electronic health record system. It is
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by kaitai 9y ago
They're in the bottom 10th percentile of doctor salaries in my metropolitan area (middle of the country, not very high COL). Recruitment of docs at the VA isn't funded like recruitment in private practice, so they can't adver
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by kaitai 9y ago
I think it's telling that parent says "we can change anything" and you went to "just tr[ying] harder". This is what many of my students do (I'm doing poorly in math, I need to just try harder, but trying harder
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by kaitai 9y ago
Serial rapists aren't that rare. Here's a Fivethirtyeight article that covers the two major studies about that over the last few years: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/what-if-most-campus-rap... The crux
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by kaitai 9y ago
Consider a fecal occult blood test -- much cheaper than colonoscopy, has the same impact on mortality on a population level, non-invasive. If you get a "positive" on it you might be able to access care somehow.
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by kaitai 9y ago
This was a great write-up about the author's experience. I, too, have self-published a niche book -- a coloring book with patterns from modern math, starting with Penrose tilings and then heading through totally symmetric self-compleme
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by kaitai 9y ago
It would be great to know more about the robot. Robotex has video from each day posted to Youtube but it's 8hrs/day and I don't have time to investigate where we might see the robot in question.
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by kaitai 9y ago
In addition, further reporting about that story indicates that at least the team captain's family is poor: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/03/world/asia/afghan-robotic...
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by kaitai 9y ago
For people who seem upset that these girls won a different, US, prize for courageousness, in a different competition in a different month for a different robot... Someone was going to get the courageousness prize at FIRST. Why not the kids
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by kaitai 9y ago
Again, you're talking about a different competition than that discussed in the article. The way you have presented the background information is misleading. The "entrepreneurial challenge" prize at Robotex has different crite
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by kaitai 9y ago
You are mixing up two competitions. The prize for courageous achievement was won in the FIRST Robotics competition, in the US, last summer. This new prize is for a different robot, at the Robotex competition in Tallinn, Estonia. The divisio
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by kaitai 9y ago
How does that square with the news that the captain's father was killed in a suicide bombing just four months ago?
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by kaitai 9y ago
Dotted. Even better than graph paper if you draw a lot of diagrams/figures, in my opinion. I use Fabriano dotted saddle-stitch as a cheaper and lighter alternative to the Leuchtturm1917, for instance when I'm traveling or at a con
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by kaitai 9y ago
See Oct JAMA article; while food may contain only trace amounts we're ingesting and excreting more than ever.
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by kaitai 9y ago
A piece of evidence to add to the puzzle: new study just came out in JAMA looking at urine levels of glyphosate in older adults in California. It's increased a lot over the last few decades. Humans are definitely getting a lot of it.
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by kaitai 9y ago
I have to say I'm a little surprised at the downvotes. I said much snarkier things elsewhere. US good at medical intervention for neonatal mortality, Finland good at providing consistent prenatal care -- what's the offensive or un
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by kaitai 9y ago
I gotta say, I got pregnant despite taking measures to prevent it. It's not that abnormal. (Now you're going to tell me that I had sex so it was a choice. Let the reader reflect on his or her own experiences.) Also, state incent

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