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by mcmancini 12y ago
Hospitals can be a pretty dangerous place. You're a braver person than I if you're willing to treat a likely benign and possibly asymptomatic meningioma without fully investigating the lesion, including rate of progression.
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by mcmancini 12y ago
Yeah, I was surprised too when the project was pitched to me. At the time we did the article, a working group had proposed a revision to the Macdonald criteria that still included bidimensional products, and this paper was in part a resp
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by mcmancini 12y ago
I coauthored a paper a few years ago on the intra-observer variability of measurements of brain tumors when using the bidimensional product. An increase of 25% in the BP is taken as an indicator of brain tumor progression. We found that t
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by mcmancini 12y ago
It seems reasonable to assume that Apple, being a competent design house, did some research and listed "x hours of battery life for function y" on their market requirements docs. I guess I don't understand how meeting their d
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by mcmancini 12y ago
Emory?
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by mcmancini 12y ago
Is this actually only about the calendar entry, or is there more to the complaint? From a separate article at Online Athens ( http://onlineathens.com/local-news/2014-12-03/uga-continuing... ): >Elsewhere in UGA’
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by mcmancini 12y ago
I think this observation is spot on. My parents are in a rural location and for years had horrible random and difficult to trace problems with their computers while they were on satellite internet. The mysterious problems went away when t
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by mcmancini 12y ago
Isn't there a way to have Homebrew monitor a "make install" operation so that Homebrew can manage (or at least be aware of) your own installs?
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by mcmancini 12y ago
Thank you for doing so, this was an enjoyable and interesting read that I probably wouldn't have found otherwise.
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by mcmancini 12y ago
"Almost every other country" doesn't wash their eggs, which strips the protective cuticle that allows eggs to remain safe at room temperature. They also immunize against salmonella. Again, do you have any sort of credible sci
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by mcmancini 12y ago
Your advice seems to contradict the FDA: http://www.fda.gov/Food/ResourcesForYou/Consumers/ucm077342.... What is the basis for your claims?
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by mcmancini 12y ago
Don't know about them.
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by mcmancini 12y ago
No, the license allows one to offer engineering services to the public and the PE title is granted in recognition of that right. It is generally illegal to call yourself an engineer, but most people are able to use the industrial exemption.
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by mcmancini 12y ago
Sort of; they were likely never engineers in the first place. Engineer is a licensed profession, like physician or lawyer. You can graduate law school, but that doesn't make you a lawyer; passing the bar does. In the US, it depends on
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by mcmancini 12y ago
I'm not sure you're informed on this topic. The whole point of having ABET accredit programs is to standardize a basic body of knowledge. Curricula in mechanical, chemical, electrical, and biomedical all include solving DEQ and PD
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by mcmancini 12y ago
No, and the US has an "Order of the Engineer" modeled after that. It always seemed silly to me to wear a ring on your working hand when the first thing you do when working with your hands is to take of jewelry. "Engineer&quot
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by mcmancini 12y ago
Or Texas. Or, as I have heard, Florida. Now that there is a proper software engineering PE exam, maybe more states will follow. It makes sense for safety critical areas to hold people to professional standards and legal liability. Edit: spe
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by mcmancini 12y ago
Your coworker should look into a minivan with fold-flat seats. I rent them when I needed to move equipment. They have great cargo carrying ability with the flat floor, plenty of anchor points, and not having to worry about where to stash
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by mcmancini 12y ago
You're probably living in a city? Outside the city limits, where connectivity can be marginal, it's not uncommon to need to run a card through the carbon copy imprinting thingy. Seems to happen most frequently at old gas station
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by mcmancini 12y ago
I had a subscription in the beginning and cancelled it. I was expecting something along the lines of a high-tech New Yorker, but The Magazine never met my expectations. There was also a level of pretense and hipsterism in The Magazine that
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by mcmancini 12y ago
Sounds awesome, thanks for the tip. The comments on the HN thread have been far more fruitful than the original article, in my opinion.
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by mcmancini 12y ago
Agreed. That was my first thought when law enforcement started getting press for screaming "think of the children". I'm surprised and disappointed that people have apparently forgotten recent history. This is why I greatly re
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by mcmancini 12y ago
The problem I have with this product, as well as Coin, is that seems to be far less convenient than pulling a card out of my wallet. Maybe George Costanza would get some use out of one of these, but I'm usually choosing between an ATM
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by mcmancini 12y ago
One of my labmates from grad school did colloidal quantum dot synthesis, and he regularly cursed Ostwald and his infernal ripening. Just general curiosity if it came up in this area, and if so, how it was dealt with. By the way, your serie
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by mcmancini 12y ago
Is Ostwald ripening a problem?
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by mcmancini 12y ago
Yeah, I hate to stereotype biologists but it's true, there is a serious safety culture deficiency. I learned cell culture from a guy that didn't wear gloves while working under BSL-2 conditions. Back then, I thought he was so cool
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by mcmancini 12y ago
In this case because participating in the system by playing the tenure-track lottery helps to sustain the system, among other things. The academic system is badly broken. Personally, I think that the only winning move is not to play.
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by mcmancini 12y ago
This article makes it sound like this is a new problem, e.g., "But in recent years, the postdoc position has become less a stepping stone and more of a holding tank." As was pointed out in the comments of the article, the grey-ha
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by mcmancini 12y ago
Nonsense, you can run a perfectly good student lab with a cheap notch filter and pull a usable spectra off something like polystyrene or Tylenol. What I'm wondering is if this thing could even do that. Looking at the abuse the diffract
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by mcmancini 12y ago
Everything he used can be found in a home workshop, especially the workshop of someone with metalworking experience. I'd guess you'd have easier time finding these tools than a home CNC mill that can handle Al.

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