mikecsh

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by mikecsh 10y ago
> It is really weird how we concentrate all sick people in one place, and then act surprised when they start growing weird diseases. I don't think anyone finds it that surprising really. But healthcare is expensive and centralising
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by mikecsh 10y ago
This link (pdf) provides the missing context: https://www.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/712.fall02/papers/p761-thomp...
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by mikecsh 10y ago
Having thought about this a lot, the best definition of life I've been able to come up with is as follows: An object is considered to be alive if it consumes energy to create or maintain its own order (in opposition to the general effe
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by mikecsh 11y ago
Wow this is an unnecessarily bitter comment!
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by mikecsh 11y ago
"Super-fine" cause mechanical haemolysis and will give inaccurate results for many routine blood tests
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by mikecsh 11y ago
The calm, fun music was a big part of it too I think!
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by mikecsh 11y ago
Everything is relative and evidently a (good) programmer can wield even more "power" another factor but that comes with its own shortcomings in terms of cost, time, maintenance etc. I stand by the point that Excel is an extremely
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by mikecsh 11y ago
Also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_deviation
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by mikecsh 11y ago
Well.. this is a bit silly, given that half the world's businesses run on Excel. It's an incredibly powerful and useful piece of software despite its (numerous) shortcomings.
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by mikecsh 11y ago
Absolutely!
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by mikecsh 11y ago
Im sorry to hear that you had bad experiences in Canada. However your personal story is effectively one data point and not necessarily representative of a good comparison between healthcare systems. This analysis is a pretty good overall an
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by mikecsh 11y ago
Have a read of this - the Commonwealth Fund rankings of wealthy country's health care systems, published last July: http://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/fund-reports/20... Just to add some colour: Qua
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by mikecsh 11y ago
I didn't either, but interestingly on this image and the ones on the OP, if I tilt my laptop screen (Macbook Air) such that I'm looking at it very obliquely I can see the other image..
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by mikecsh 11y ago
Sorry, what? Please provide some sources for these claims. As far as I'm aware melanoma is most definitely related to sun exposure and there is no consensus opinion on vitamin-D and cancer prevention, with the most evidence being for i
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by mikecsh 11y ago
Beautiful landing page!
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by mikecsh 11y ago
Ad-free != altruistic
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by mikecsh 11y ago
As do CQG
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by mikecsh 12y ago
Yes, my comments are limited to MRI. A full-body CT scan is a very large dose of radiation.
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by mikecsh 12y ago
Actually, I addressed this point in my original comment: > As for not over-treating, that is a physician led decision - just because there is an anomaly on the scan does not mean that it will be removed or even necessarily treated at all
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by mikecsh 12y ago
>Scanning is still fairly invasive (w.r.t. radiation/dosages). And in general, the better the resolution, the more damaging. This guy had MRI scans which don't rely on ionising radiation and have no known adverse effects. >e
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by mikecsh 12y ago
This is tripe. Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1217/
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by mikecsh 12y ago
And Spectre! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectre_%28video_game%29
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by mikecsh 12y ago
-- The most successful bacteria are those that can live off a host without killing them E.g. Tuberculosis
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by mikecsh 12y ago
This is an inquiry examining events before and after his death in 2006. The post mortem (autopsy) would have been done shortly after his death.
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by mikecsh 12y ago
An inquiry is being heard to review the case.
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by mikecsh 12y ago
Can we stop making these responses every time anyone suggests a feature or critiques an open source project, please
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by mikecsh 12y ago
Do you have a link/reference to this lecture?
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by mikecsh 12y ago
Yes! I used to have an Amstrad CPC 464 with a tape deck and it would play the tape through its internal speaker as it was loading a program into memory. The amount of time sat around watching screens like this: https://www.youtub
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Ask HN: Did the NSA impact the cost of hard drives?
4 points by mikecsh 13y ago|2 comments
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by mikecsh 13y ago
That's such a BS comment that gets trotted out every time something like this is discussed. It's meaningless. The invention of the AK47 and its ease of manufacture led to its proliferation which led to more people being able to ki

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