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by otoburb 2y ago
Given the rise of Physican Assistants and Nurse Practitioners and their expanding scope of (even independent) practice across various states, specifically to address this growing shortage of primary care physicians (PCPs), it almost becomes
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by otoburb 2y ago
Did you consider Zulip? I've always wondered why Zulip isn't used more often by communities. Seems like it could be a great hybrid between Discord and Telegram.
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by otoburb 2y ago
This post doesn't address the elephant in the room -- wages in biology seem to be supressed due to an oversupply of life sciences scientists willing to do tasks in various corporate and academic labs. Since life science wages (rewards)
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Port strike freezes shipping on East Coast(washingtonpost.com)
1 points by otoburb 2y ago|1 comments
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by otoburb 2y ago
Your description of the NHS sounds exactly like the Canadian healthcare system. >> Keep begging my parents to just go private [...] Except for this difference as we don't have the option to choose private care except for a out-p
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by otoburb 2y ago
... except because NotebookLLM is a Google product your dream also includes the hope that it won't be discontinued at the worst possible time.
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The AI Research Assistant You've Been Dreaming Of(every.to)
3 points by otoburb 2y ago|1 comments
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by otoburb 2y ago
This post reminds me of the John Goodman "The Position of F*ck You" scene in the 2014 movie "The Gambler", not only the tone but also the the attitude of self-sufficiency.
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by otoburb 2y ago
>> I wonder what plan B should be for the Western labor forces that are not competitive with 9-9-6 kind of labor It's not really tongue-in-cheek to suggest that labour rights for other countries are being fought to emulate other
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by otoburb 2y ago
>> which is symmetrical under the rotation operation that I had just painfully taken a great deal of time to execute This critical symmetry property only holds if the mattress is assumed to be uniformly lumpy (including no discernabl
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by otoburb 2y ago
" [...] multiple issues that limited the building’s potential for conversion into residences: 10-foot-tall ceilings, which are short by today’s standards [...] " I didn't know that 10-foot-tall apartment ceilings are consider
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by otoburb 2y ago
Sounds similar to recently launched buffer ETF products, specifically BlackRock and Innovator that hedge 100% of downside while capping your upside across different time horizons indexed to the S&P500.[1] [1] https://www.bloo
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by otoburb 2y ago
Thank you for your service. You're a boon to your community and helping people in real need.
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by otoburb 2y ago
There are two main sets of legal teams in bankruptcy cases: the estate, usually represented by the court appointed trustee's legal team, and individual or groups of creditors who can afford legal representation. The Trustee in this cas
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by otoburb 2y ago
>> When MtGox went insolvent, the price of bitcoin tanked and they had enough cash on hand to replace everyone’s funds, but the lawyers said no because there wasn’t enough fees. Which lawyers are you referring to that said "no b
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by otoburb 2y ago
There's a moral justification, and a desire to change the social norm, versus the terms of an agreement. This is where educational articles like this are important to improve the understanding throughout the industry so that employees
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by otoburb 2y ago
But perhaps a cheap(er) school, almost by definition not quite as competitive, could still be better than "no college degree whatsoever".
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by otoburb 2y ago
For people lacking some background, South Korea used to have coordinated mass labour strikes across the country in the 90s[1][2] and early 00s[3], some of which turned violent. This type of 'polite' (possibly 'passive aggress
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by otoburb 2y ago
In the state of New York, I believe during COVID our state tests became optional. In order for your idea to work, standards referenced tests would need to be coordinated _and mandated_ across three levels of government (sometimes a 4th muni
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by otoburb 2y ago
>> I distinctly remember having a conversation in like 2018 [...] 20 years ago (a generation[1]) is very different from only 6 years ago. Your anecdote seems to reinforce the author's point. [1] https://en.wikipedia.o
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by otoburb 2y ago
Can we pre-order the 13.X" version?
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by otoburb 2y ago
>> I wish it had page turn buttons. I had the same thought, and then I realized that they claim to have customizable "action buttons" which supposedly can be used to turn the page if that's the action that was configur
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by otoburb 2y ago
>> Some parents expect their kids to buy them a house and you can imagine how brutal it is in the current housing market. Yes, but you left out that in most Asian-X cultures, first generation immigrant parents typically sacrificed al
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by otoburb 2y ago
I loved Descent and Descent2! Most importantly, because speed was coded as uniform in the unit axes (x,y & z), everybody who played always chorded and flew in a permanent diagonal, which I recall was much easier to pull off with the key
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by otoburb 2y ago
NYC has both, because I generally consider compost a type of garbage and that is definitely stored in bins and hauled to the sidewalk, at least for the buildings that have opted into the composting program.
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by otoburb 2y ago
When the weather is colder in NYC, there are fewer rat sightings. But don't be fooled -- it's not because there are magically fewer rats, but instead likely due to several confounding factors such as being darker more often while
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by otoburb 2y ago
There was a NYT article recently asking this very same question[1] with some background information about the pecularities specific to NYC which make the problem more complex. Obviously, this could be fixed, but would likely meet with fierc
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by otoburb 2y ago
I think you're being sarcastic, but the purpose of leaving the garbage bins outside is so that the garbage trucks can pick them up, as their contract stipulates that they pick up from the sidewalk and not from inside the (numerous) bui
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by otoburb 2y ago
Exactly -- this chart exhibits massive undercoverage bias for the actual proxy measure (number of daily rat sightings), except the skew in this case likely means the actual value is much higher. Somehow, I'm thinking that this won&#x27
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by otoburb 3y ago
Minus the massive public shoot-out with automatic weapons.

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