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by kurthr 2y ago
That's why there are good Samaritan laws. No person who in good faith, and not for compensation, renders emergency medical or nonmedical care at the scene of an emergency shall be liable for any civil damages resulting fro
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by kurthr 2y ago
So unsatisfying for "mysterious tunnels", that aren't really tunnels, are barely plural, if at all, and don't seem mysterious.
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by kurthr 2y ago
Usually, they use HPLC (high pressure liquid chromatography), which uses a solvent and packed diffusion columns.
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by kurthr 2y ago
It seems like there's a lot of stuff over the last 10-15 years that has "created" a lot of "value", but hasn't made much if any profit. Whether we're post-truth or not, the "market it until you make i
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by kurthr 2y ago
Most inks up until the 20th century were carbon black (some vermilion and prussian blue). That changed with the introduction of both organic and inorganic color dyes over the last 100 years. Only recently has there been much regulation at a
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by kurthr 2y ago
It's been bad since iTunes became a garbage heap. There are pockets of competence, but it's not a company priority (even the audio/video apps suffer). That such mediocrity has crept into the OS is even worse.
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by kurthr 2y ago
It's a very demanding job, physically and emotionally, as well as, specialized training and liability since you literally have people's lives in your hands. You have to deal with people at their worst. Pay is quite high, and it&#x
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by kurthr 2y ago
I thought I had seen businesses run by every conceivable group, founders, engineers, sales, marketing, finance... and then I saw a hospital and realized it was run by HR. Every "may" in a rule becomes "shall" since anyth
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by kurthr 2y ago
Same with nursing. Of course there is discrimination against men, but there are so few that it's mostly based on other things (like which island you're from).
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by kurthr 2y ago
The Stanford Hospital Nurses strike was driven by similar dynamics. Nurses had to work overtime through the entire pandemic while executives literally phoned it in for years! They were shocked, shocked, to discover that there was anger and
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by kurthr 2y ago
It's amazing to me how many people working in artificially simplified fields look at real world mechanics and think it must be simple. Only the models are simple, and they are still impossible to solve analytically, with tensor project
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by kurthr 2y ago
See also China, which has seen massive overbuilding (50M empty units and 20M paid for but unbuilt), many empty buildings, and now the beginnings of a crash. Why? Because everything was financialized. Houses became an investment rather than
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by kurthr 2y ago
It's not the right to privacy, it's the manipulation and subjugation of your own state by what is ostensibly a foreign adversary. Or maybe they're all traitors, who knows.
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by kurthr 2y ago
Yeah, almost makes you wonder who's actually behind it. Wouldn't be a bad political psyop for a UK/democracy adversary to go after. If the intelligence agencies don't know that their own tools can and will be used agains
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by kurthr 2y ago
Yeah, this reminds me of "asbestos" which is not a single thing and has many non-dangerous examples, but has been banned because a few of them (and contamination is a worry) are a significant hazard. If the different structures we
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by kurthr 2y ago
Oh man, I'm gonna have to upgrade my AOLPress from 1.2.2 to 2.0!
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by kurthr 2y ago
Interesting, please explain China. Seriously, all of the cities are massively overbuilt. More so the smaller ones, but even Shanghai, Beijing, Shenzhen, Chongqing. AirBnB is not allowed. Huge numbers of units sit never used and off market.
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by kurthr 2y ago
Yeah, you want some separation from the house to the coop. Granma just picked em up by the neck and cracked the whip. Did it two handed on holidays. She knew which were sick, old, or just not laying. The feet did keep going for a while, and
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by kurthr 2y ago
So Trump presided over close to $9T in debt. That's about 1/4 of the total debt in 4 years. https://www.crfb.org/papers/trump-and-biden-national-debt My guess is that this time a solid $T goes straight into h
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by kurthr 2y ago
Yes, they're too busy siphoning off a few trillion dollars.
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by kurthr 2y ago
Except that is where the majority of research is done, where the prestigious schools and students are, and where those people want to live. Plenty of good research gets done in Arkansas, and Texas, and North Carolina, but not in the cheap p
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by kurthr 2y ago
I'm frankly astounded at the difference in gas prices you'll see. At one point within 2 blocks there was a station selling $1.6 less, and it wasn't even crazy busy. The other station still had plenty of business. The price di
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by kurthr 2y ago
Maybe you can see something in that noise, but I just plotted those and looked at their correlations, and it's garbage. Even looking at their sums, they have different slopes (over decades), all you can say is "number go up".
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by kurthr 2y ago
See, there's my mistake. You could tell. I'll try harder to appear genuine.
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by kurthr 2y ago
Yeah, sounds right. Let's list the unnecessary drug treatments funded directly by NIH. The treatment of HIV with AZT and other HAART drugs. AIDS is caused by "poppers" not HIV, duh! Treatment of breast cancer and Myeloid Leuk
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by kurthr 2y ago
The Grubbyhub whale you delivered whale vomit to gave you a $1Million tip in Crypto! Ohhh, snap too bad when you tried to deposit it they stole your whole account. Sleep in your car tonight so it doesn't get repossessed.
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by kurthr 2y ago
In game crypto currency betting! What could go wrong?
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by kurthr 2y ago
I'm shocked it's that low. I suppose, it's limited by the number and motivations of people who apply for postdocs, but the amount of soul crushing disappointment and borderline abuse of postdocs is legendary.
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by kurthr 2y ago
It's so dumb I'm tempted to believe that it's outrage bait invented by the author to advertise the knife.
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by kurthr 2y ago
It's been banned and unbanned in Pakistan at least 4 times. It is permanently region banned in China and India, and has been for years.

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