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by rhombocombus 8y ago
That's a faulty analogy and unsupported by anything outside of popular culture. Nothing in the scientific literature supports this conclusion.
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by rhombocombus 8y ago
Dr. Nuland saved my aunt's life in the '80s. He has contributed a great deal to humanity and I am grateful that ECT saved his life.
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by rhombocombus 8y ago
I would suggest doing some research into the clinical efficacy of ECT, for many it has been a lifesaving intervention, and it is nothing like the treatment depicted in one flew over the cuckoos nest.
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by rhombocombus 8y ago
What issues? Lawsuits != research. Most clinical research suggests ECT has high efficacy with fewer side effects than many pharmacological interventions. Your baseless claim is mental illness shaming and treatment shaming.
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by rhombocombus 8y ago
That's awesome! My grandpa had an alpha desktop back in the '90s and I loved that thing. It was my first non-apple or ms-dos experience so I have a soft spot, and I haven't heard anyone mention those in years.
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by rhombocombus 8y ago
The difference here is not that we don't do surgeries efficiently, but that we are subject to the effects of regulatory capture, which stops any kind of price competition in its tracks and leads to $300 bags of saline.
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by rhombocombus 8y ago
Great summary! This book has been collecting dust on mt shelf for some time, but I am now inspired to give it a read. I love the synthesis you have prepared here, and as a tech lead it was revelatory in many ways and makes me very grateful
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by rhombocombus 8y ago
Anybody could do it, but they didn't and you didn't either. It's really easy to bag on any art with that line of reasoning, but the fact of the matter is that art lives in time and space, and at the time that piece was made n
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by rhombocombus 8y ago
I don't think it's fearmongering, especially when you consider that children are allowed to drive (at least here in the US, and with minimal training). This isn't about being a nanny state or keeping folks from driving fast
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by rhombocombus 8y ago
I feel like there are easier ways to get someone's wifi credentials, particularly with the weak passwords folks tend to use (I am guilty of this as well).
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by rhombocombus 8y ago
And to add to that many of their telephony products are best in class. I sometimes regret that my biz-2400 has a wire on it, but it has the best noise cancellation of any headset I have ever used and is a pleasure to use all day. Not a shil
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by rhombocombus 8y ago
I hadn't considered that, and looking at the prices I think that might be my next car!
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by rhombocombus 8y ago
Article is paywalled, but based on the first paragraph it seems like this might not be entirely bad, as long as the banks are doing their due diligence. My wife's income is 100% 1099 self employed, which has made it challenging to get
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by rhombocombus 8y ago
as unequivocal as it seems, certain air conditions can make it hard to pick out the runway, particularly if the runway is concrete and the rest of the ramp area is in blacktop. Ford made a big mistake at a major airport, but having landed a
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by rhombocombus 8y ago
Countering trim forces was the first scary thing I learned about go-arounds, the first time I did one, my instructor let me figure it out all on my own, and battling heavy nose down trim when you're trying to make best climb is stressf
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by rhombocombus 8y ago
I frequently wonder if my impostor syndrome was acquired in graduate school, or if it's an artifact of working at a job that is primarily intellectually driven. I didn't experience it until grad school, but I certainly still get i
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by rhombocombus 8y ago
Not to mention the fact that good sleep hygiene provides immediate payoffs as well. The single best thing I have done for my health was giving myself the gift of a regular sleep schedule and sticking to it. I perform better in every aspect
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by rhombocombus 8y ago
I managed a bikeshop/tavern prior to my transition into tech and we did a lot of groupon promotions. Their sales folks were super greasy and it was almost impossible to opt out once you were in, whether or not it made business sense to
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by rhombocombus 8y ago
They also work great if you are actually sick. I had some British family visiting and they left me some and it was a great relief to my ailing guts.
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by rhombocombus 8y ago
Also, just because they are a charity, does not mean that I am, or that I can afford to be. I spend a third of my waking hours working for someone else, which makes the time I spend with my family outside the walls pretty close to non-negot
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by rhombocombus 8y ago
How does it compare to big iron enterprise ETL tools like IBM datastage? I have only dabbled but it looks far more appealing for a variety of reasons.
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by rhombocombus 8y ago
I am appalled at the ads I see targeted to that generation for cash out refis. Why would you want to do that to your kids?
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by rhombocombus 8y ago
Bravo Sparkfun! They are the group that I hold most responsible for reigniting my interest in programming, which eventually led me into a happy career in software development. Their projects, products, and educational materials helped me se
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by rhombocombus 8y ago
My father went from having a comfortable nest egg to living on social security alone because he was unable to get insurance before the ACA. All it took was a trip to the emergency room and a heart catheterization, followed by another proced
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by rhombocombus 8y ago
Apparently in spite of that they still used that evidence in determining his sentencing. I am not a lawyer, but as I understand it it would be the difference between getting pulled over with a lot of drugs vs getting pulled over with a lot
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by rhombocombus 8y ago
I mean, it's the same company but a different product (aside from the ads which are the real product). IG has pictures that are cute or funny or cool, FB is a sordid wasteland of misinformation, bickering, and unhappiness. I'm rea
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by rhombocombus 8y ago
That was my first thought, I do ETL work at a large insurance company and we use shell tools almost exclusively unless we need to do more complex transformations. Unix tools are really low overhead and work extremely well for this task. Als
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by rhombocombus 8y ago
A lot of these stores still operate on a model that requires a salesperson to fetch the product (i.e. the non-display shoes are kept in the back). That in combination with the ever dwindling margins in a brick and mortar retail store makes
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by rhombocombus 8y ago
I know the feeling, but having wound down a business with a similar asset profile, I can say that it is better to be nursing credit cards a few years later having learned scores of valuable lessons than it would have been jumping off a brid
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by rhombocombus 8y ago
This is great, I wish he were giving it to high schoolers and GED recipients too.

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