phobosanomaly

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by phobosanomaly 5y ago
Medical errors kill around a quarter-million people a year. Third-leading cause of death. Anderson JG, Abrahamson K. Your Health Care May Kill You: Medical Errors. Stud Health Technol Inform. 2017;234:13-17. PMID: 28186008. https:/&#
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by phobosanomaly 5y ago
> care team You used this phrase, and I like it. I see this as the core of the problem, and I might just be re-phrasing what you are saying. I risk veering off into politics here, and I don't really want to, but I do think that th
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by phobosanomaly 5y ago
Maybe this just isn't the type of problem we should be looking towards a physician to address? They spend at least seven years in school learning to handle certain types of problems that can be addressed with certain types of solutions
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by phobosanomaly 5y ago
You can enjoy the intellectual challenge of what you do, while understanding that the political context of it is bullshit.
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by phobosanomaly 5y ago
They're patriotically serving their country doing an intellectually challenging job. If you compare it to what many intelligent individuals wind up getting stuck doing in other developing countries it's a pretty awesome opportunit
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by phobosanomaly 5y ago
Sounds plausible, but is there any sort of evidence or indication that this is happening?
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by phobosanomaly 5y ago
It could just be that you need a nap. I used to do a basic powerlifting routine in the morning, and my brain would get progressively slower and slower until noon when I took a nap. It was like hitting the reset button and I was fine for the
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by phobosanomaly 5y ago
Yeah, it's literally paying someone to follow you around all day and control what you put in your mouth. There's no guy in spandex telling me not to buy those Reese's Pieces at 7/11 when I'm bored on a Sunday.
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by phobosanomaly 5y ago
I see this as exacerbated by the lack of anywhere to go and do work for people stuck in quarantine. Some people despise work-from-home in it's current manifestation, but might not hate it at all if they could rent a quiet coworking spa
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by phobosanomaly 5y ago
I had a boss who finished an online master's degree on his train commute every day. It was a good way for him to timebox the work, and stay consistent day-in-day-out without having to burn through a ton of self-discipline.
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by phobosanomaly 5y ago
It really depends on the curve. Weed-out classes are famous for having extremely aggressive curves. You can be perfectly smart, be intellectually curious, and have a great grip on the material, but due to the competitiveness wind up with gr
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by phobosanomaly 5y ago
That requires lots of risk that may not be feasible to students funding their education with debt, and with skills in spaces that have regulatory overhead.
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by phobosanomaly 5y ago
Many community colleges offer excellent programs for later-in-life learners to get them up to speed on things like math and writing skills. You can use community college to go from being a college dropout to transferring into Berkeley. It&#
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by phobosanomaly 6y ago
I would make the case that it's like running a program on a PC with an unknown codebase. If you don't have access to the source code, and you're just watching the program running, it's this magical thing that behaves in
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by phobosanomaly 6y ago
Are you arguing for the existence of an intangible soul?
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by phobosanomaly 6y ago
I mean, it's all chemicals, right? It's chemicals all the way down. Neurotransmitters secreted by lipid-bound sacs (cells) packed with protein and sugar, arranged in vicinity of each other based on chemical and electrical (chemica
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by phobosanomaly 6y ago
Out of curiosity, what is it that gets you before you go to sleep? What is running through your mind when you experience the panic attack? (I mean, not specifics, but in a general sense.)
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by phobosanomaly 6y ago
I've had panic attacks during loosely-structured periods in my life where sitting in the shower after waking up in the morning and having to decide what to do with that day was absolutely overwhelming. Sometimes when you have a lot g
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by phobosanomaly 6y ago
Your point about interests is interesting. What would you consider an interest that would catch your attention? If hiking is an activity, then would the interest be ' getting outdoors. '
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by phobosanomaly 6y ago
> Birth control and condoms have been widely available for one billion years at this point. Many, many women prefer not to use birth control (for a variety of reasons), and many men find that the decreased sensation from condoms doesn&
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by phobosanomaly 6y ago
The implication of the data used to generate the graph that the article is focused on is that young females are having more sex than young males. " Americans overall are having less sex than they used to. Young people, in particular yo
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by phobosanomaly 6y ago
They might not know that they're part of a harem if they're struck by the man's good looks and there's asymmetric information.
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by phobosanomaly 6y ago
I mostly just fill my time with work and hobbies. The rest of the time I spend alone with myself. Doesn't fill the mental needs, but you just get better at suppressing them over the years. Would be nice to meet someone who shared my in
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by phobosanomaly 6y ago
I think you raise a really interesting point with this, and I want to offer a counterexample that I managed to come up with. So, yes you can make an FGC-9 in your garage. Fair enough. But are the barriers to manufacturing one in the garage
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by phobosanomaly 6y ago
One thing is, you have to subtract bolt guns, and bolt gun calibers from circulating firearm and ammunition totals. That should cut the number down quite significantly. The guns wouldn't instantaneously disappear overnight in this sc
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by phobosanomaly 6y ago
Through buyback programs and legal penalties for possession, the amount of weapons in meaningful circulation would likely decrease substantially over a period of years. As that process occurred, the value of the weapons would spike as scarc
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by phobosanomaly 6y ago
I'd like to riff off of the above poster's great comment. Even taking an inexpensive trip through Mexico by bus (Autobuses ADO) and staying in hostels might effectively hit a 'reset' button. If you've already had CO
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by phobosanomaly 6y ago
Americans are pissed about a lot of the things we see around us, yet we also have a political system that, were all of us involved, would likely provide the means to fix many of those things. If you ask an American about, say, the problem o
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by phobosanomaly 6y ago
If you're into that kind of thing, I highly recommend William T. Vollmann's Imperial.
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by phobosanomaly 6y ago
There are two kinds of reading. Reading that is hard and reading that is easy . Nobody who reads 100 books a year (or even 50 as the author cops to) is reading anything particularly difficult. It's either fluff self-help, or fiction

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