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by robbiep 7y ago
They don’t have a huge number of quarters as a public company (well, they’re 16 years old), and for most of their history they have been in Startup mode. If most people on this forum’s startups went to cash positive in 14 years (which is b
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by robbiep 7y ago
Pretty cool - but maybe not hugely surprising because phenotype reflects genotype (generally) - what’s perhaps more surprising is that the genitalia differences still existed in Asia to be able to make the comparison?!
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by robbiep 7y ago
https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/do-ct-scans-c... Looks like I may have been misrepresenting the risk to some patients; also looks like i've probably caused around 4 cases of cancer
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by robbiep 7y ago
Quite rare to jump straight to an MRI - a chest MRI is a half hour deal. More common to do a CT Chest which has a 1:500 risk of causing cancer
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by robbiep 7y ago
You know that’s what apocryphal means right?
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by robbiep 7y ago
But you don’t want to go full ducking SaaS with things as well, where you don’t know what is coming until the ‘improvement’ is foisted upon you. Software gone mad. Spoken as a SaaS vendor
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by robbiep 7y ago
It’s what a doctor does (at patients bedside, without ecg) - irregularly irregular; fast or slow, high degree of accuracy
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by robbiep 7y ago
I don’t believe the nature study results presented there. The MMSE is such a basic test that it is almost impossible to score less than full marks unless you are cognitively impaired. I’ve run through it hundreds of times with patients. The
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by robbiep 7y ago
Because viruses mutate quickly and are highly specific to a type of bacteria or other cell/species
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by robbiep 7y ago
There’s nothing wrong with setting up company structures that have radically different rights wrt. Shares; what is important is that the market prices them correctly. And the market clearly has no idea how to price the control. Look at Face
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by robbiep 7y ago
Unless you’re concerned about us as a species not making it out of the local minima of the comfort of earth before an extinction level event wipes us out. Which, fair enough, most politicians aren’t.
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by robbiep 7y ago
For reference, 6 years ago when I left medical school the average survival for metastatic melanoma patients was 6 months.
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by robbiep 7y ago
Just because I’m not a skilled enough developer to code Linux from scratch doesn’t mean I can’t make a patch for it. Also doesn’t guarantee that I won’t generate unintended consequences Point being - you don’t have to be capable of making t
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by robbiep 7y ago
How good that kiwis have a private rocket company and Australia doesn’t. Frankly, having done a reasonable amount of business over the ditch the last couple years, the kiwis are just so much more practical and ‘get it done’ than we are. Les
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by robbiep 7y ago
We haven’t had any major threats and frankly life is fucking good. And with ‘good’ comes complacency. It’s sad. You need shocks to the system to spur you on. I don’t know what to think but it’s still a lovely safe place to live and maybe th
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by robbiep 7y ago
A 100% compatible donor is a identical twin or clone. Besides the MHC haplotypes which govern large parts of the immune response to ‘self’ there is the actual makeup of the rest of the genetic material which may be presented as antigens and
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by robbiep 7y ago
There’s no point even commenting on the sycophantic nature of our (Australia’s) political leadership at the moment, so I’ll just leave it half un-commented - But maybe this means I can be an astronaut?!
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by robbiep 7y ago
More than likely that is how he caught it - but it is not a bacteria
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by robbiep 7y ago
Michael Douglas’ cancer was caused by HPV - a Virus not a bacteria. HPV is a well known oncogenic Virus
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by robbiep 7y ago
I take your point but it’s not binary - in the sense that I have strong doubts that the MIC (Minimum inhibitory concentration) of antibiotics would touch much of a colonisation in a neonate should it be present. Having a single dose of abx
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by robbiep 7y ago
Thanks. This is new knowledge since I was at medical school. The paper you link however is not at all convincing. A better paper here: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2019.0112... Does a better
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by robbiep 7y ago
Increasingly in developed countries twin births are caesars; the risk profile of twin births often necessitates this for patient safety. When a normal vaginal delivery is possible (ie first twin cephalic) generally the second will follow. M
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by robbiep 7y ago
A Caesar mother does get a stat of antibiotics before opening. In crash caesars this would barely have time to distribute; normal operating procedure calls for the dose to occur 30 min to 1 hr before skin incision though. You have a bit of
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by robbiep 7y ago
I have no idea how old you are but the truth is farming techniques have changed significantly, even in the last 20 years. Nowdays if you don't consider yourself a steward of the land then you aren't doing the right thing by it. My
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by robbiep 7y ago
> Organic farming includes crop rotation, fertilizer, soil quality, and erosion control standards that would hypothetically affect mineral contents. So does ‘conventional’ farming
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by robbiep 7y ago
3 and 4 are certainly false; whilst 1 and 2 are true, the end result of any change to the status quo of our environment (ie sea levels) is that society simply can’t afford a 7-70m rise in sea levels. Whether or not you ‘believe’ and this is
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by robbiep 7y ago
I wasn't aware of this - thanks. [edit] seems like he may have come back a bit? https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/archived/rnaft...
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by robbiep 7y ago
The poem at the bottom is by Leunig, a sydney morning herald comic and one of my favourites for years. My mum sent me this (the cartoon accompanying the poem) a couple of years ago when he published it - hope you enjoy it too https:/&
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by robbiep 7y ago
Just a guess as I am not in the industry but I would imagine has to do with the photoresists and masks - perhaps we don’t have ones that work with X-ray. Not much good using a wavelength that passes through or is unabsorbed by the resist ma
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by robbiep 7y ago
Must have been aliens then. I wish they’d come back.

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