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by maj0rhn 12y ago
The penicillin story is not what most people think. Fleming discovered the mold and its anti-bacterial effect in 1928 by happenstance, but this knowledge languished until the outbreak of WW2 in Europe in 1939. At that point, the Oxford gro
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by maj0rhn 12y ago
The reasonable upper bound of benefit when designing a new OS or a new information-sharing medium is, a priori, much higher than the upper bound of a new measuring cup or a new dessert. So, this means someone entering those quests can reas
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by maj0rhn 12y ago
The marketplace disagrees strongly. Otherwise the cost of an angled measuring cup would approximate the cost of a nurse, which it does not -- the difference is at least 4 [decimal] orders of magnitude.
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by maj0rhn 12y ago
> What, exactly, is it about nursing, as a whole, that > makes the field universally superior to the measuring > cup industry? You lose credibility when you ask a question like this.
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by maj0rhn 12y ago
You be the judge, but be fair about it. Does the world need more pastry chefs, or does it need more nurses? Does it need more people trying to improve on fresh strawberries, or does it need more water engineers to keep millions of people
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by maj0rhn 12y ago
The "save some money" bracket was not intended. If you can do that, great, it will give you flexibility. But the real value is in learning deeply about non-trivial problems. And, yes, I am saying the best preparation for worthy
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by maj0rhn 12y ago
The unstated assumption in this blog post is that any [ethical] idea that makes money is worthy. I would hope that persons of talent aspire to higher goals. A better measuring cup is of trivial benefit to humanity. A new dessert is actual
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by maj0rhn 12y ago
Of course education doesn't stop at 22. But the interests you develop at that age have a way of carrying forward, and lower the threshold for re-engaging those interests later in life. If you never appreciated the genius of Shakespea
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by maj0rhn 12y ago
When I look around Silicon Valley, I see a lot of 40-somethings and older who have been very successful in their technical endeavors, but now have narrow lives because they never took the time to become complete persons. The best thing you
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by maj0rhn 12y ago
Death is not the statistical norm at age 60 in the United States among the upper middle class.
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by maj0rhn 12y ago
Please. "Plain old heatstroke" -- in northern California in springtime? The high temperature for that day was 63 degrees, according to: http://www.timeanddate.com/weather/usa/berkeley/historic It
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by maj0rhn 12y ago
We know for certain that Seth had coronary artery disease. How? Because he had a non-zero score on his coronary CT scan. It is not normal to have calcified coronary arteries -- at any age. It may be so common as to be the statistical no
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by maj0rhn 12y ago
Doing all the right things won't guarantee survival to age 100, 80, 60, or even 40. I think about it like this: We're all born with a genetically determined maximum life span that is unknown to us. Our environment and our choice
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by maj0rhn 12y ago
Dude, I am trying to save lives here. The more people that think his methods were safe, the more people who are going to die. I would even like to save your life, despite your propensity for name-calling. Now is the teachable moment.
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by maj0rhn 12y ago
No. Coronary calcification is but one stage in the process of atherosclerosis. So he could have had severe atherosclerosis without extensive calcification. This is why coronary CT is not a perfect test for prediction heart attacks. Furt
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by maj0rhn 12y ago
They are completely appropriate and very timely. "Collapsed while hiking." The only way that can happen is with an interruption in blood flow, which means a clot or a bleed. If you want, I can go into details, but with his butt
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by maj0rhn 12y ago
Almost. I think you're confusing "heart failure" with "myocardial infarction." They are two different diseases. Collapse during exertion can happen in either one, but in Seth's case myocardial infarction is
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by maj0rhn 12y ago
You owe it to your readers to say that Seth's death is a warning to those who would flaunt conventional medical wisdom, as he clearly did. Anyone who stakes their life on a single published meta-analysis is unwise. Anyone who puts fai
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by maj0rhn 12y ago
Collapsed while hiking. That is a cardiovascular death until proven otherwise. In a guy who ate a half a stick of butter every day ... quelle surprise. Listen to a cardiologist trying to talk Seth out of his course, at around 11 minutes i
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by maj0rhn 13y ago
Hours-per-week is not the issue. The issue is the tradeoff between productivity-per-week (which is related to, but not identical to, hours-per-week) and how worthwhile the project is (in terms of what you'll sacrifice to achieve it).
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by maj0rhn 13y ago
Using some discipline with indentation easily solves the issue of nesting table-related tags. Also, I would gently recommend that asserting one's status is a poor substitute for discussion of an idea's merits. Dogmatism is always
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by maj0rhn 13y ago
I'll admit that the table-cell approach is nice -- thank you. But how curious that the article, which purports to be an in-depth examination, doesn't mention it. And how curious that the table-cell approach has not turned up in th
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by maj0rhn 13y ago
This is a pointless post. Use the TABLE tag. Yes, it will violate the purity of CSS, but you can trust it, and it will make your day better because it will free you angst and from extensive cross-browser testing. Simple is better than co