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by pg_bot 7y ago
Hi I'm Tom, one of the founders of Scalpel. We started a medical clinic in South Carolina a few years ago and found that existing products did not meet the needs of solo practitioners. So we built these tools to automate the majority o
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Show HN: Scalpel, electronic medical records designed for doctors(scalpel.com)
10 points by pg_bot 7y ago|4 comments
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by pg_bot 7y ago
So why is the crime the same for both people? Also, if he didn't plan on selling the sanitizer then we wouldn't have any (legal) problem with his actions. You can buy all you want with no consequence.
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by pg_bot 7y ago
One man's gouging is another man's market at work. Would your opinion of this man change if he had stockpiled hand sanitizer a year ago?
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by pg_bot 7y ago
The FDA should re-evaluate their opinion on sodium cyclamate. The ban is highly dubious as the study that lead to its ban was funded by the sugar lobby and 130 other countries have deemed it safe for human consumption. https://en
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GitHub Spam?
2 points by pg_bot 7y ago|1 comments
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Can You Hear Me Now? – A Conversation with FCC Chairman Ajit Pai(freakonomics.com)
1 points by pg_bot 7y ago|0 comments
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by pg_bot 7y ago
There is a difference between a calculated risk and a death wish. I am by no means anti daredevil. Go ahead and jump from the edge of space or ride a motorcycle over a canyon. Just don't fly in an amateur rocket if you have any sense o
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by pg_bot 7y ago
Rockets are dangerous and this was entirely too predictable. I think it's worse if he wasn't a flat-earther because he used misinformation to promote and enrich himself.
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by pg_bot 7y ago
You know it's a failure when you have to put your name underneath it. How ridiculous would it be if countries just wrote their names on their flags?
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by pg_bot 7y ago
Seems to be fake news https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-51446663
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by pg_bot 7y ago
I would argue that you did get more across the country, but the question is why is Mondragon more successful. The other benfit they had was the isolation of the Basque region in Spain during the 1950s. They weren't served by railroads
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by pg_bot 7y ago
The reason why Mondragon was able to grow to its current size is their credit union Caja Laboral. Under the dictatorship of Francisco Franco "people's savings banks" were allowed to offer higher interest rates than competing
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by pg_bot 7y ago
If every new phone comes with a charging cable how much are we truly saving?
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by pg_bot 7y ago
DICOM is a standard that does too much. They should scrub everything related to networking and focus solely on encoding/decoding medical images.
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by pg_bot 7y ago
Instead of buying more/better equipment, teachers, or technology why hasn't anyone tried to buy a better student? I'm fairly certain that if you paid elementary students cash for better grades you would see a huge jump in ach
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Ask HN: A New Decade. Any Predictions? (2020)
2 points by pg_bot 7y ago|0 comments
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by pg_bot 7y ago
I got sucked into this problem as an undergraduate in mathematics. I similarly wanted to limit my search space and my initial work lead me down the path of prime factorization. If every prime number follows this pattern then logically every
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Dark patterns influence travel bookings(bbc.com)
3 points by pg_bot 7y ago|0 comments
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by pg_bot 7y ago
"I think this is God’s gift to me to understand that I'm not investing you if your idea doesn't slap, HARD." https://www.parrot.vc/-Lv-_lL5xTiAl_dpthO7
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by pg_bot 7y ago
They still make garbage pail kid cards? Every single major company has had a demo go off the rails. From Bill Gates getting a blue screen of death to Job's wifi and camera issues, the list goes on and on. Whom amongst us hasn't ha
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by pg_bot 7y ago
To quote the conclusion of the article. "Opposition to higher minimum wage laws is increasingly based in ideology and orthodoxy rather than real-world evidence, economists say." The article does not make a persuasive argument or p
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by pg_bot 7y ago
While no system works exactly like models do, there is nothing magical about the economics of labor. Free markets do not depend on equal information. Almost every single market has some level of asymmetric information, and yet markets funct
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by pg_bot 7y ago
There are about 40 countries without a minimum wage. I cherry picked countries that most people on HN would recognize since I'm assuming people would not know much about the economies of Tuvalu, Tonga, or Rwanda.
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by pg_bot 7y ago
You might not lose your job, but you may see your hours reduced or you might not get the opportunity in the first place. Technically the employment numbers don't change, but you shouldn't think of of minimum wage employees like sa
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by pg_bot 7y ago
Oh man, everyone who was involved in the making of this movie should be committed. The more you learn about the production the more insane it gets. From the lack of animal trainers, to the financial and production issues (took 11 years to m
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by pg_bot 7y ago
Wouldn't installing canopy systems be a more cost efficient solution to this problem? Let's do some math, The dealership listed in the article (Rickenbaugh Automotive Group) currently has ~536 cars listed on their website(s) for s
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by pg_bot 7y ago
Cryptocurrencies are a religion. I find the idea that anyone would want to hold a large amount of any currency idle for a long period of time baffling. Yet this is the premise that so many people who are speculating in cryptocurrency "
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by pg_bot 7y ago
No, if you have one piece of toast you put it in the slot that has the lever.
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by pg_bot 7y ago
The data could be used by dating sites, employers, hate groups, insurance companies, human cloning labs, and would greatly help our secret police! This is certainly unethical (informed consent) and probably illegal under federal and state l

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