mrestko

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Comparison of Mortality Rates for Patients Treated by Male vs. Female Physicians(jamanetwork.com)
11 points by mrestko 10y ago|1 comments
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by mrestko 10y ago
Can you link the paper?
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by mrestko 10y ago
Does a foxhole protect from the overpressure blast of a nuclear explosion? With fragmentation grades, you're getting behind cover that will absorb the shards before they hit you--cover can't do anything about a wave of pressure.
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by mrestko 10y ago
If you read the article, in at least one instance someone ended up with a broken jaw. That much force is definitely enough to kill someone, it would just depend where they were hit and their baseline health. Imagine a child standing next to
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A New Tack to Stave Off Alzheimer's Years Before the First Symptom(blogs.scientificamerican.com)
71 points by mrestko 10y ago|15 comments
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by mrestko 10y ago
Well there's this infamous interaction which is shown to most U.S. officers during their training: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOSELcrJ7Kw Admittedly, the officer starts the interaction with a command rather than a
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by mrestko 10y ago
I think the general public is unaware of how dangerous physical altercations are. The antisepsis of staged fight scenes on TV make it seem like any well-trained person can recover from a tussle and be back to normal by the next scene. In th
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by mrestko 10y ago
> "Planning to Execute Occupy Protesters With Sniper Teams" One hit on Google to your usage here. Please provide a citation.
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by mrestko 10y ago
I thought Bump was a pretty cool idea. It's a shame that it didn't take off.
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by mrestko 10y ago
I live right by here and had actually noticed an odd sign in the window of that shop referencing some problem with car key fobs and that "the police are aware". Maybe I'll stop by and take a picture tomorrow if I have time.
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by mrestko 10y ago
Sounds like alcohol might have been involved.
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by mrestko 10y ago
Didn't you hear? "Climate change is weaponizing the atmosphere."
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by mrestko 10y ago
Aye, which supports the argument I was trying to make even more strongly. We will not realistically replace drug discovery as currently practiced in academia and industry with open source efforts.
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by mrestko 10y ago
The resources required to work on open source software: a computer for maybe $200-$300, an internet connection, and curiosity. The resources required to discover a new therapy and prove that it is safe and effective: Literally hundreds of m
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by mrestko 10y ago
He does write about this in one of his books (although I've forgotten which one). He tells a story about arguing with a colleague and coming to the conclusion that "trivial" in the context of mathematics is often used to simp
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by mrestko 10y ago
His videos are wonderful.
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by mrestko 10y ago
Got in a shouting match with a cabbie once in Chicago for this same thing and when I opened the door to get out after he insisted repeatedly his machine wasn't working, he threatened to kill me if I didn't pay. Then, when I threat
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by mrestko 10y ago
There's no maybe. You're weird. Nearly all maps we're exposed to growing up have North at the top of the page. However, you would be right at home in this segment of West Wing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
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by mrestko 11y ago
I was not aware of that. Thanks for clarifying.
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by mrestko 11y ago
The amount forgiven is counted as income for that year and is taxed as such. I believe this is what the preceding commenter was asking about.
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by mrestko 11y ago
They should use real video on their homepage instead of CGI. I immediately thought this had to be a scam until I watched the Smarter Every Day video linked in the commments.
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by mrestko 11y ago
I don't think your Groupon experience is representative.
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by mrestko 11y ago
It's funny, this is the exact opposite advice I've heard from most business owners. They all have recommended learning enough accounting to make sure that you understand what's going on with your books so that you're nev
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by mrestko 11y ago
I believe the issue is overall capacity. Sure, you can up transaction fees and get your transaction processed rapidly. But that's not a sustainable strategy if bitcoin continues to rise in popularity. Since total capacity isn't in
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by mrestko 11y ago
A few more examples would have been nice.
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by mrestko 11y ago
I believe adding ".LOG" to the beginning of file also automatically inserts the date each time you open the file so you can use it as a journal. I don't have access to Windows right now to test that though.
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by mrestko 11y ago
Other nerdy folks will be happy to grant that an icon is merely that and not intended to be a perfect embodiment of a molecule.
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by mrestko 11y ago
No offense but "ew". The demo page is hideous and I don't see how you can easily do graphics with that. Maybe it's fine for making slides for people to look at later, but for actual presentations slides, that looks like
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by mrestko 11y ago
LibreOffice Impress is horrifically bad. The Undo function is unreliable which is an enormous data-destroying pain in the ass when editing a presentation. The tools for editing text and vector graphics are also inconsistent and buggy.
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by mrestko 11y ago
Then don't use it. It's clearly designed for a specific use case and there's no reason to expect that use case to apply to every user of email.

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