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It's the oldest known land animal in modern times. For example, a tortoise could have lived a couple thousand years ago and lived a couple hundred years. The people of that time may have known about it over the generations. Yet, we tod
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I know a lot of nurses and have been following what's happening in hospitals. It's complicated. Here are a couple things I've learned... 1. Many hospitals are under staffed. Schools that produce nurses have stayed steady stat
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> In 2021, an estimated of 57.4 Mt of E-waste was generated globally [1] This is an increase over 2019 and before. The way things are designed and companies drive for profits on electronic things leads to more and more e-waste. [1] http
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From that study... > heart-healthy dietary patterns (eg, Mediterranean-style and DASH-style diets) are inherently low in cholesterol, with typical menus containing <300 mg/dL cholesterol, similar to the current US intake. The CDC
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> “A huge proportion of your immune system is actually in your GI tract,” says Dan Peterson, assistant professor of pathology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. [1] The old saying, you are what you eat is true. A diet th
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I'm overweight (used to be obese) and active. Working my way toward not being overweight but it's not easy once you're there.
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About 1/4 of US deaths each year are from heart disease[1]. When you have it as a chronic disease, living with it, you have less energy and capability to do physical activity. I know people living with it who have trouble grocery shopp
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Do you have any references to their analysis? I would love to read it. Most people talk about ideas and politics without getting into the technical details of what's happening. The Innovators Prescription [1] is written by 3 PhD'
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Hospitals need to break even on finances. What they take in needs to cover their costs. Anything other than this needs to be subsidized by an outside organization.
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Except, the people who have taken the time to study how the system works will tell you that's not the issue.
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A lot of it goes to inefficiency. Think of it this way. If you have a factory that makes 1 thing it can optimize around that. It can become cost effective. If you have a factory that can manufacture 10 different things, it becomes less cost
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The financials around US hospitals are something most don't understand. I didn't for a long time. For example, many procedures at a hospital lose the hospital money. They don't cover the cost. Other things cost more and make
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SUSE is a public company, now. https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/SUSE.DE?p=SUSE.DE&.tsrc=fin-...
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In the area I'm in $850/mo USD is the low end apartments and you aren't going to get a condo or house for that rate. This is in an area that borders between suburbs and rural (different agencies classify it differently). I wo
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> The rates of evictions served are approaching pre-pandemic levels in certain areas Finding meaning in this is hard. Is there any list of the areas? Knowing the areas would allow for some deeper analysis. For example, is an area one tha
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> The safest solution is to use an analytics provider that keeps data on your own infrastructure. People don't want to run their own infrastructure anymore. Everything outside of their own business differentiator they want to outsou
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> nobody has done anything to stop them Sort of yes and no. No one has done anything to stop them just like no one has done anything to stop Apple or the other tech companies. Farmers have done a lot of lobbying and other work around rig
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This is a list of "things" in the cloud native space. Some of them are from CNCF members and some aren't. Some are paid products and services while other things are entirely free and open source. Many (most?) of the things ar
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US colleges have many students from foreign countries on visas. I wonder what the impact of the pandemic is on that segment of the student population. This isn't likely to hit community colleges, which the article touches on. Just tryi
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There is a difference in donation to a legally registered non-profit and an individual. I was reading some us legal code for public companies and it covers stuff like this. Each of the examples here is for a legally registered non-profit.
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> However, software for a fee is not FOSS. Now this is moving into differences between Free and open source software. You can have open source software which has some form of support and specialized feature development for a fee. Many ma
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One of the issues with this is the dynamic of donations. People keep talking about how public corps don't give out donations to developers for projects they use. I'm beginning to think it's not something they can do and I&#x2
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If you read the book "The Design of Everyday Things" you'll find a chapter on error. Human error is a thing and if it's a common error it's a design error. N95 masks need to be worn correctly. If we wear them improp
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Companies choosing a piece of software is more than the quality of the software. A superior piece of software isn't enough. For example, many companies want (and sometimes require) the ability to have a support contract with developers
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The last time I checked, Bitwarden would fill a password into an iframe even if the iframe is for a different domain than the parent. This came up in one of their security audits and changing it was argued against. This has security implica
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There is a lot we don't know and I'm slow to judge and curious for more information. For example, was he getting regular rests due to being tennis? Did the wrong ID for the recovery test result get submitted by accident? This is p
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If he is singled out while the others who successfully went through this process are not wouldn't it should some form of prejudice? Targeting a high profile player to show that a politician in more powerful, or something like that? The
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I don't think I was clear enough. By going for an exception he wasn't trying to cheat the tournament or government. If he tried to cheat while in the process that's a different matter. > Djokovic submitted falsified docume
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Whose fault is it if the tournament didn't put a process together that worked properly with the government? The people who used the process or the organization that created it?
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The exception was a process provided by the Australian Open tournament. More than 20 people applied for it and a handful of people were approved. Should all of the people who got exceptions be turned away now? Was the Australian Open tourna

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