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by odyssey7 5y ago
And yet, as a freelancer/work-from-homer, I am told that my coffee shop receipts are not tax-deductible.
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by odyssey7 5y ago
Do you find that it’s a good filter as well as being quick and cheap? Couldn’t tell if this was meant to be ironic.
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by odyssey7 5y ago
This is fascinating.
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by odyssey7 5y ago
I can't keep responding to this thread. The following is what I said in the beginning of it. > we need to set high standards for engineering, security, user consent, and privacy expectations for companies working in this area
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by odyssey7 5y ago
This is where consent comes into play. Today, a lot of people have already consensually downloaded their healthcare provider's patient portal app onto their mobile devices, so some subset of their doctor's EHR's data has alre
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by odyssey7 5y ago
The specific concern raised in the parent comment is about healthcare data leaks. In my view, every company handling healthcare data should be responsible for keeping that data safe and having proper consent, regardless of whether the softw
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by odyssey7 5y ago
The same could be said about electronic health record software generally. Electronic healthcare data as a phenomenon isn't going anywhere; it will only get bigger, and individuals stand to benefit tremendously from this fact as it will
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by odyssey7 5y ago
I doubt it. Absence makes the heart grow fonder. Assuming the pandemic does end, we’ll see greater appreciation for these things.
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by odyssey7 5y ago
> That's not how it works, unless you control your partner's Apple ID and you lie about their DOB when you create their account. Rather than reassuring me, this sounds like an achievable set of steps for an abuser to carry out.
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by odyssey7 5y ago
Are you advocating that a good economic system is one that kills people who aren’t working? I just don’t clearly understand what you mean by “survive.”
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by odyssey7 5y ago
I’ve heard so many times that ideas are not all that scarce in business — that ideas are everywhere, and that execution is the true differentiator that can make an entrepreneur successful. There is no shortage of talented, capable people
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by odyssey7 5y ago
Humans are high-maintenance. Because we have skills to maintain ourselves in advanced ways, the optimal answer was apparently to give us more problems to solve while liberating us from the drawbacks of built-in solutions.
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by odyssey7 5y ago
I've seen very promising people lose their dreams to depression. Often times, I think back to one profoundly talented programmer who I met in Miami years ago, who is no longer with us. (When I met her and saw what she was working on, I
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by odyssey7 5y ago
The “someone else’s programmer” metaphor isn’t totally accurate, because of a key difference between cloud vendors and no/low-code vendors. To support more customers, a cloud vendor needs to have linearly more computers. A no/low-
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by odyssey7 5y ago
I can’t see the scientists being harmed by a layperson’s curious engagement. Every scientist was once a curious layperson.
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by odyssey7 5y ago
Does somebody know the environmental impact of this? Would the lithium concentration in seawater become meaningfully lower, and if so have we verified that organisms aren’t dependent on it?
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by odyssey7 5y ago
When Benjamin Franklin wrote in his autobiography about establishing a library, he explained: “The objections and reluctances I met with in soliciting the subscriptions, made me soon feel the impropriety of presenting one's self as the
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by odyssey7 5y ago
And yet, this will stimulate the culture sector by giving 18-year-olds demand that contributes to gdp.
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by odyssey7 5y ago
I read this as: the universe doesn’t bother with bringing things where they would go, until their spot needs to be computed due to some other spot depending on that spot’s state.
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by odyssey7 6y ago
This got me wondering: what is the advantage of genetic information (DNA / RNA) over a self-replicating entity without those convenient molecules? My impression is that DNA / RNA-based organisms have a high tolerance for changes t
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by odyssey7 6y ago
I’m not sure this would save you. The deer get CWD by eating the grass other deer have been around. A zoonotic CWD would find its way into plant-based diets.
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by odyssey7 6y ago
If this product weren't already on the market, and this link was suspected, would it be easy for it to come to market in our regulatory environment? Now that it's on the market, and the link is suspected, how hard is it going to b
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by odyssey7 6y ago
Our profession is misunderstood by the public, and some effort is required to let people know that this is in fact high-skill, demanding work. Recently, a non-technical executive berated me for not working faster. I wanted to tell him, &quo
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by odyssey7 6y ago
This is a fair defense of stoicism. It addresses my critique nicely.
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by odyssey7 6y ago
Interesting question, though the same could be asked for hot fusion.
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by odyssey7 6y ago
> I thought I had learned the hard way earlier in my career not to presume I know better than the original author. It happens in other fields, too. When I moved to a new city, and my new doctor disparaged a prescription from my previous
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by odyssey7 6y ago
It makes sense to me now why this team was so well-positioned to quickly respond to the novel coronavirus. An individualized vaccine for cancer has to be created and administered fast, within the course of a specific patient’s cancer treatm
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by odyssey7 6y ago
Ah, you may not be aware of this. Collagen supplements are trendy with the wellness crowd as a protein powder, and bone broth is too under closely related reasoning. People who buy these things are thinking, "I want my skin and tissues
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by odyssey7 6y ago
Animal protein seems to be good for wellbeing, and there's a lot of overlap between veganism, wellness awareness, and alternative food choices. Given that and the already-existing ability to create collagen/gelatin in a lab that&#
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by odyssey7 6y ago
Ryan Holiday, who is an author of several stoicism books and even sells "memento mori" coins that you can keep on your person to remember that you will die, happens to be American Apparel's former marketing director. Incident

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