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by logjam 16y ago
I don't understand your comment. Hardware isn't the issue. Physicians were early adopters of a variety of devices, starting with PDAs, thence to pads quite a bit more sophisticated than your odd and ancient example, all to try to solve the
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by logjam 16y ago
What you say may be true for some, but I don't mind looking stuff up in the room with a patient. Most of us try to do what's in the patient's best interests, which definitely includes in my case trying to refresh my highly fallible memory.
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by logjam 16y ago
Many of us have looked extensively at pads long before this, and concluded that they are not ideal. They may have other support uses.
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by logjam 16y ago
I understand the motivation for these applications, but anything that, in a room with a patient, takes one away from interacting with the patient has drawbacks. A lot of docs are taught NOT to use this kind of device in the room. Even buryi
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by logjam 16y ago
I find a lot of the stuff in the Scheme sphere well-written, clear, concise, comprehensive, and eye opening (from the "lambda papers" onward...although the early history of Scheme is probably not exactly the kind of documentation you're ask
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by logjam 16y ago
Interesting. It's known that viruses and transducing phages can incorporate host DNA into their genomes. And of course, going the opposite direction at a metalevel, one theory of the origin of eukaryotic mitochondria is that it is of bacter
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by logjam 16y ago
Well said. It is a colossal myth that pharma companies have to charge a lot for patented medications because of development costs (this is the story pushed, of course, by Big Pharma themselves). However, they spend most of their money on ad
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by logjam 16y ago
/s/string theory/quantum mechanics/g Einstein had a difficult time accepting parts of quantum theory, but I don't think you can say "the world passed him by". He was generating fruitful scientific ideas well into his 60s, if not until his d
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by logjam 16y ago
efreedom, experts exchange, ehow. Would be interesting to have collective access to what people are blocking. I like the approach...being able to click and exclude based on the search results that pop up.
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by logjam 16y ago
> Note well. This is for clinical research. My own experience is that there is much constant questioning about published clinical research. In addition, decision-making of clinicians based on clinical research is tempered with other con
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by logjam 16y ago
Uh, "readily conceded?" The judge took several weeks to finally realize that she made an "ill-thought-thought out demand" to "retrieve the codes".
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by logjam 16y ago
Another example of nonviolent action leading to real political change. Now if the U.S. government gets on the ball, they will redirect some substantial portion of the Egyptian ~$2 billion military aid and announce we will help build science
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by logjam 16y ago
To be taken seriously, you are going to have to provide a citation to support your claim that "there is relatively good science that....you are endangering your child's life by having them vaccinated for some diseases." If you are talking a
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by logjam 16y ago
Perhaps you'd be good enough to explain to us all exactly what an "uncivilized lifestyle" is, what is "backward" about them, and exactly which "uncivilized" and "dark age" cultures you feel currently live lives which are "uncomfortable, sho
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by logjam 16y ago
Relevant: "cultural imperialism" - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_imperialism
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by logjam 16y ago
I've rarely seen more assumptions and projections made in a few paragraphs. On the one hand, you judge these cultures as "primitive" and "caveman". Then in the next breath you decry pomposity and paternalism. Yeah, we've found over and over
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by logjam 16y ago
Robert Pirsig advocated the abolition of grading. From Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: "The student’s biggest problem was a slave mentality which had been built into him by years of carrot-and -whip grading, a mule mentality whic
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by logjam 16y ago
Probably many nuances to this question, but there is some literature out there indicating increased income is associated with increased suicide risk. One case control series reported in BMJ in a relatively large sample (~1500) found that "p
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by logjam 16y ago
http://www.libreoffice.org/download/ ...works for me in Chrome and Safari.
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by logjam 16y ago
"But some things are not as clear: one of my current assignments is to write about travel in Thailand in the first person POV. Obviously, this is already a deception, but then, it’s often acceptable in the industry." "And I don’t trust comm
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by logjam 16y ago
Thanks for the link, but sorry, I don't get it. The accepted answer on SO is right at the top, and if I thought eFreedom had a better interface we wouldn't be clicking through to SO each time. To each his own, I suppose, but I'm not impress
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by logjam 16y ago
Well, I'm not trying to belabor the point and maybe I haven't looked enough on eFreedom, but I don't see any original content there, it's just a scrape. Even the "related links" is scraped. I still don't get the value in that. Where is th
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by logjam 16y ago
"...but a site like eFreedom can potentially add a lot of value." Genuine question here...are you talking specifically about eFreedom, and if so exactly what value does it add? When I've inadvertently stumbled in there, the questions and an
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by logjam 16y ago
"Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open." This was the quote by Sir James Dewar that Morton Thiokol engineer Allan MacDonald put in the foreword to his book "Truth, Lies, and O-Rings" -- highly recommended if you e
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by logjam 16y ago
First of all, this is binary thinking. There are infinite gradations between turning the other cheek completely (as curiously, most of the world's religions suggest we confront our enemies), and the kind of violence you and the OP seem to b
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by logjam 16y ago
Amazing book, highly detailed. Watching the madness of supposedly rational men bowing to militarism and nationalism, whipped along by supposedly inviolate plans and timetables, creating the conditions for not one but two world wars...it's a
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by logjam 17y ago
Maybe we can also get a nice flag for posts tediously and semi-hysterically grinding the same political axe over and over, and another for supposed discussions of science that, you know, don't actually contain any science . Whatever. Fla
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by logjam 17y ago
Oh. Asking for someone to actually back up their emotional little assertions with facts, and pointing out the hypocrisy of the obvious axe-grinding which accompanies their fervent assertions that they are unbiased is...."paranoia and ad hom
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by logjam 17y ago
>The problem is....archaelogical climage record extrapolation is nowhere as sure fire.... Then pray provide us with some science supporting your point. If you cannot, when you just keep bleating you are "troubled" over and over, you r
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by logjam 17y ago
The author of this sorry little polemic is whining about, in part, the justified criticism of an extremely poor paper whose publication and subsequent political use by the Bush Administration caused the resignation of half the editorial boa

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