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by notadoc 7y ago
This is really great progress. 3d printing of tissues specific to a patient that has no rejection risk in vivo would be a major breakthrough for medicine and surgery. Let's hope they can eventually do the same with arteries, muscle, bo
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by notadoc 7y ago
Public shaming a corporation often reverses course, fortunately for this particular developer they enough exposure to stir that up.
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by notadoc 7y ago
How about a TLDR since it's nytimes? Also, what a trash headline. But it is the nytimes, and they've taken a huge fall. "don't do this specific thing" (click to find out!) "this one weird trick you must do&quot
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by notadoc 7y ago
The best social network is already on your phone. Call and text people you care to engage with.
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by notadoc 7y ago
Are any meetings ever useful to anyone? Rarely. Most could be summarized in email.
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by notadoc 7y ago
Wikipedia is far from neutral and full of activists and people with agendas. It can sometimes be acceptable for a broad overview of a subject, but it's so full of opinion, inaccuracy, and misinformation that it should have near zero cr
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by notadoc 7y ago
Someones job function at work is to perform their job duties. Unless someone works directly in politics, then politics do not belong in the workplace. There are plenty of other impolite subjects that are inappropriate to discuss at work too
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by notadoc 7y ago
I'd happily take plain old web banner ads over push notification spam. Are people nuts?
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by notadoc 7y ago
> Brave ads show up as a notification in your operating system outside of the page LOL WTF, no!
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by notadoc 7y ago
Big plus to regain the Escape key. Hopefully the new keyboard is reliable. The Touch Bar is forgettable and a row of physical function keys would be an improvement. I don't know any "pro" user who likes the Touch Bar or who w
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by notadoc 7y ago
For many, exercise works for that purpose
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by notadoc 7y ago
Most ERs would be well served by opening all-hour urgent care clinics directly adjacent, and triaging the roughly 70-80% of people with non-emergent and/or minor issues into that wing rather than to the ER.
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by notadoc 7y ago
> Yeah, people avoid care when they have those plans. Is that a good outcome ? Note the article is about reducing health care costs, not patient outcomes. These are usually two separate goals.
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by notadoc 7y ago
Social media anecdotes! Oh my!
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by notadoc 7y ago
> I guess it worked for him to throw a hissy fit, but there's absolutely no reason to actually believe they're conditioning on gender. Of course not, but why spoil the outrage mobs victimhood narrative du jour?
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by notadoc 7y ago
Total media/moral panic about a virtual nonissue.
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by notadoc 7y ago
> 2757 deaths in 11,074 hospitalizations That seems like a high death rate for hospitalizations, does it not? Would be interesting to see the breakdown of admissions and cause of death.
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by notadoc 7y ago
How far from the original source is the end result? If it's packaged and has a list of 1000 ingredients that you can't pronounce, it's probably heavily processed. Otherwise, don't overthink it.
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by notadoc 7y ago
No
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by notadoc 7y ago
If you were hoping for an insightful piece written by someone with an archeological background on the subject, or even avocational interest in the subject of rock art, you'll want to keep looking. This piece is borderline ignorant, wil
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by notadoc 7y ago
The world needs less digital "social networking", not more of it.
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by notadoc 7y ago
> Mortgage debt will probably not be a problem in this cycle. Disagree if you consider that many people are getting mortgages on overvalued properties at or near market peaks now, and in another significant downturn those could easily be
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by notadoc 7y ago
I have no idea, I've never made an artificial walking stick. Good strong wood is quite sturdy however, but not nearly as light as a synthetic walking stick. Trying to replicate the strength of a hard wood in a very lightweight syntheti
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by notadoc 7y ago
"B-word"? Are you serious? Don't give words so much power. Trying to bend laws to ban words and speech you don't personally like is really not a good idea, in case it isn't blatantly obvious as to why: it will only
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by notadoc 7y ago
The 1st amendment applies to states https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/incorporation_doctrine
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by notadoc 7y ago
> I'm not sure whether it's a case of more people arguably abusing the spirit if not the letter of the policy as part of a modern take everything you can mindset. That's probably a part of it, a long running joke in the sk
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by notadoc 7y ago
> Don't forget, Black Diamond laid off much of the Utah engineering staff and their climbing cams will now be made in China... That might be why
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by notadoc 7y ago
" Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech , or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petit
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by notadoc 7y ago
Apple seems to have lost their focus, and that is reflecting all over their product line.
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by notadoc 7y ago
There are tons of horrible managers (and horrible employees) out there, do your best to avoid them.

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