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by ksenzee 11mo ago
If you’re really poor, you can get Medicaid. It’s the working poor who earn too much for Medicaid who are really shafted. The ACA tried to fix that for as many as it could, by expanding Medicaid to households making more money; the Republic
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VA staff flag dangerous errors in Oracle-built electronic health record(washingtonpost.com)
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by ksenzee 11mo ago
This type of problem has very little resemblance to the problems I solve professionally - I’m usually one level of abstraction up. If I run into something that requires anything even as complicated as a DAG it’s a good day.
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by ksenzee 11mo ago
a) ok whippersnapper, b) new community members have the most energy. I’m not actually sure there’s much need for volunteer mods on HN tbh, but the best volunteers are often the newest folks around.
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by ksenzee 11mo ago
I respectfully submit you might feel differently about it if your child were suicidal. When someone has to be watching them 24/7 already for fear they'll hurt themselves, the black box warning is a lot less worrisome. SSRIs preven
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by ksenzee 11mo ago
Fluoxetine has received FDA approval to treat major depressive disorder (8 and older), obsessive-compulsive disorder (7 and older), panic disorder (with or without agoraphobia), [and] bulimia nervosa... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.g
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by ksenzee 11mo ago
Okay, but nobody is paying doctors to prescribe medications like sertraline and fluoxetine that have been generic for years and are cheap as dirt.
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by ksenzee 11mo ago
It sounds to me like you're saying suicidality in children either doesn't exist, or shouldn't be treated, or should only be treated with talk therapy. If what you're saying instead is "this SSRI is especially danger
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by ksenzee 11mo ago
It’s disturbing that a seven-year-old was treated for suicidality? Or it’s disturbing that people are opposed to such treatment?
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by ksenzee 11mo ago
I’m suggesting we come up with a replacement for the web before we kill it off.
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by ksenzee 11mo ago
Note that the black box warning has nothing to do with long-term effects of the medication. It was added specifically because kids were killing themselves within weeks of starting the medication. > This is one of the most shocking things
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by ksenzee 11mo ago
How do you know an anxiety pill is treating symptoms only? What if the cause is physiological, and the pill treats that? It is entirely possible to sit in your therapist's office and mutually shrug because neither of you can find an un
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by ksenzee 11mo ago
There are more somebody elses than there are mes.
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by ksenzee 11mo ago
...they said, on a web page.
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by ksenzee 1y ago
I did, thanks :)
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by ksenzee 1y ago
You truly don't see how "you didn't get my joke because you're autistic" is not an insult, to people who did you the courtesy of assuming good faith? Not to drag this out, and I don't personally have an autism
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by ksenzee 1y ago
Sometimes if a joke doesn't land, it's because the joke wasn't funny. (Also, yes, a lot of folks here are autistic, maybe cool it with the veiled insults.)
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by ksenzee 1y ago
I agree, everyone makes small sacrifices and concessions to the people they live with, and I would never break up with someone over such a small issue as temperature preference. But trying to trick your partner or housemate into thinking yo
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by ksenzee 1y ago
Have you considered just not living with people you think so little of?
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by ksenzee 1y ago
Illegal, yes.
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by ksenzee 1y ago
This is a great tip. One of our QA engineers noticed recently that a particularly difficult-to-reproduce bug was affecting records saved at :21, which is when a particular cronjob hits. Without that extra info we’d probably still be scratch
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by ksenzee 1y ago
Not to be that person, but spaces around em dashes is AP style. No spaces is Chicago style. They’re both valid.
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by ksenzee 1y ago
It literally did not. Celibacy was much more common (or at least commonly aspired to) and was considered virtuous.
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by ksenzee 1y ago
If you’re an outlier, I’m out there with you: I’ve also been writing software professionally for 20 years, I have no CS degree, and I’m not fool enough to reimplement algorithms like quicksort that are sitting right there in stdlib. I simil
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by ksenzee 1y ago
We don’t have time to hang our clothes out on the line and bring them in again and iron them. We’re too busy working. sobs
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by ksenzee 1y ago
I’m referring to governments, not parents. If I don’t send my child to school, the state of Washington will have a word to say about it. There are laws.
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by ksenzee 1y ago
Sorry, I didn’t mean to make it sound like I was arguing with you. It was more vehement agreement.
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by ksenzee 1y ago
If the subject matter isn’t something the kid has a natural aptitude or interest in, and it’s not practical, and it’s not being taught in an unusually captivating way, why wouldn’t kids push back? I don’t blame them. I think adults should b
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by ksenzee 1y ago
This is entirely understandable, and entirely the fault of whoever thought bash scripts belong in configuration files. If you’re trying to stuff a tiger into a desk drawer, the natural consequences are hardly the fault of the desk drawer.
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by ksenzee 1y ago
I do make crêpes from scratch, on the rare occasion I make them. They’re simpler than buttermilk pancakes, with fewer ingredients, and it is a one-bowl operation.

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