patientplatypus

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by patientplatypus 7y ago
They take an oath to do no harm and the system they are supporting harms people. And they get a lot of money to do so. I just disagree with you.
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by patientplatypus 7y ago
Doctors make on average $294,000/year. And 2/3 of all bankruptcies in the US are caused by medical issues ( https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/11/this-is-the-real-reason-most... ). Full stop doctors are pro
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by patientplatypus 7y ago
People become doctors because they want to become rich. If they wanted to help people they'd become fire fighters or social workers instead.
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by patientplatypus 7y ago
Well...doctors and nurses are some of the highest paid people in the US and these problems are directly caused by a lack of a social safety net and mental health care. It's like they took the Hippocratic oath and didn't think it a
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by patientplatypus 7y ago
Somehow we just all “decided” that two parent families, where we work jobs we hate (and that if we get fired we’re on our own), where the social space is dominated by corporate interests, where if we get sick we are forced into poverty - th
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by patientplatypus 7y ago
Until it all comes crashing down because we did it by covering the planet in plastic trash, cooking the atmosphere, and eating all the animals. But hey, at least the poor can buy cheap meat. /s
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Show HN: I made an artsy protest website(thedailyblech.com)
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by patientplatypus 7y ago
I just want to say that another great tool is hsluv.org. It shows you what colors go together based on what our eyes see as the same level of hue/saturation/lightness, which is different than what it is in actuality (based on ligh
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by patientplatypus 7y ago
This...seems like a stretch. The author fits the 'safe space' narrative to the story, but it's a little difficult to discount that maybe young people are just tired of the awfulness. I mean stuff like this ( https:/&#x2F
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by patientplatypus 7y ago
I wonder what this will do to the "AREA 51 RAID" planned for September 20th. Weird times we live in.
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by patientplatypus 7y ago
This is the sort of thing that belongs on https://www.reddit.com/r/SelfAwarewolves/
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by patientplatypus 7y ago
When only the top n% are allowed to "win" a seat at the table that comes with the implicit assumption that there isn't enough to go around. That might be ok when you "win" a fancier car or nicer clothes, not when yo
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by patientplatypus 7y ago
As I said in a previous thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20799295 --- *-4 points by patientplatypus 18 days ago | parent | favorite | on: The Next Recession Will Be About Sovereign Debt The next recession will b
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by patientplatypus 7y ago
Think of all the marketing opportunities there are in this sort of evil. It's so positively lucrative. You could televise drone camera footage and have bets on which drones shoot the most fleeing brown people. You could have an e-sport
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by patientplatypus 7y ago
Not really. It's looking more and more like the (human-civilized) world is going to end from an environmental apocalypse because people keep working jobs they hate to buy shit they don't need. And there's nothing that can be
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by patientplatypus 7y ago
Worse still you'll be 10s of thousands of dollars in debt where anyone from a third world country with access to a computer can connect to the internet and do your job for a fraction of the cost. CS degrees are a hazing ritual that kee
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by patientplatypus 7y ago
Will the three cameras allow taking pictures with weird 3D or color effects? IE take a picture with all three of the cameras and interlace them to get trinocular vision or make RGB filters (red on camera 1 etc). You could even do it in vide
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by patientplatypus 7y ago
Does anyone have any idea if this is fatal/permanently debilitating or if it is temporary? That would seem kind of important. EDIT: I guess I meant to say, yes, people have died, but of those that recovered is it a full recovery or a p
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by patientplatypus 7y ago
We’re going to have to stop using up energy driving to jobs the world doesn’t need to produce crap you have to propagandize people into believing they want so they’ll spend money on it and then throw it in the landfill. That’s obviously an
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by patientplatypus 7y ago
So... M.I.T. Media Lab, part of a college with young people, accepted money from a known sexual predator with vast wealth and power. Anyone who concealed this should be put in prison. EDIT: I should clarify as I don't think it's n
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by patientplatypus 7y ago
Ultimately, I think what we are trying to do is find out if a result is "surprising", as in it doesn't do what we would expect or it would do what we would expect, which is based on an emotional point of view from the perspec
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by patientplatypus 7y ago
I have a degree in statistics and I've never understood p-values. Even if it's unlikely that you'll get the result you expect with 5% likelihood, there are enough people doing enough tests that you're going to have 5% wr
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by patientplatypus 7y ago
Counter point - I walked past an artist putting up a new mural today because I live in a place with a lot of graffiti and people generally tolerate the bad stuff and enjoy the good stuff. A lot of the art bring in middle age tourists that p
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by patientplatypus 7y ago
My favorite book of all time.
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by patientplatypus 7y ago
"You're not being asked to believe it," said Dr. Robert. "The real thing isn't a proposition; it's a state of being. We don't teach our children creeds or get them worked up over emotionally charged symbo
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by patientplatypus 7y ago
So if experience has taught me anything, this just means that they made more than $170M on this. Cost of doing business.
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by patientplatypus 7y ago
The economy is turning. High end cameras are a luxury good and one of the first consumer purchases to take a hit.
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by patientplatypus 7y ago
Ah I see. Thanks.
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by patientplatypus 7y ago
I don't recall ever having someone ask me not to post something. Is there an inbox or something or is it all reply based? I get "flagged" sometimes, but that just means someone pushed the "flag" button right? I thou
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by patientplatypus 7y ago
Location: NYC Remote: Sure Willing to relocate: probably not Technologies: Full stack web dev Resume: patientplatypus.com Email: pweyand@gmail.com I'm a full stack web dev that makes artsy websites right now. I can program in anything

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