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by robbiep 8y ago
I've heard that the procedure is quite similar in price (ie new tech, high $$), but when you compare a 4 hr open heart procedure, 3 days in CICU and another 3-4 days on the ward with 1 hour in the cath lab and observation overnight the
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by robbiep 8y ago
That’s not a hard rule, we treated a patient who was an IVDU who had 3 aortic valves in 3 years (IV drug users seed bacteria into their system which then form vegetations on heart valves, and there is an increased predisposition for the veg
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by robbiep 8y ago
Aortic valve disease is bi (Tri- for unileaflet but that usually presents at about 5-10 years) modal; trileaflets around 70-80, bileaflets at 40-50. There are quite good reasons to not replace, not least of which is that replacement valves
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by robbiep 8y ago
Same with us - we use it as a direct line of communication with our users, either incoming or existing. Intercom is a very valuable aspect of our support
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by robbiep 8y ago
You’re right. I believe the Soyuz uses two modes, the first is architecturally similar to the Apollo system (ie uses the ‘towed’ mode) whereas the crew dragon has abort built into the capsule.
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by robbiep 8y ago
If you read the article you’d probably be able to work it out, but essentially: - it marks the return of American human launch capabilities after a several year hiatus from the retirement of the space shuttle - it is being done on by a priv
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by robbiep 8y ago
You do realise the safety profile of a large tank of petrol right?
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by robbiep 8y ago
Using ‘a 3% mortality rate’ is not a very accurate way of conveying the burden of disease of a chronic condition such as crohns. People can be fine for ages, have stable disease, then experience a flare up, and if they have a perforation an
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by robbiep 8y ago
Ken MacLeod is a sci-if writer who uses elements of the concept in a few books - the corporation wars being the key ones. It’s an interesting read if sci-Fi is your vibe :)
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by robbiep 8y ago
A p-zombie. You’re going to split people 50-50 here
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by robbiep 8y ago
Communication outside of (spoken) language is still a form of language
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by robbiep 8y ago
For those thinking this is revolutionary, it’s a method that has long been used in your standard excel spreadsheet for valuing companies, it’s called Monte Carlo analysis. And it is prone to many of the flaws of a DCF/NPV approach - th
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by robbiep 8y ago
Even assuming your argument is correct and the world floats on with between 90-70% ‘dead weight’ as you seem to put it, GDP would fall significantly because you have significantly less consumers spending. Not to mention that society would p
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by robbiep 8y ago
I may be getting the wrong impression - but what is the point you’re trying to make - and did you just choose a shitty example? The left, thumb, Two, carries so many problems - do you mean palmar or volar surface? Medial or lateral? I can
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by robbiep 8y ago
Phalanx also means finger to most students of history. It is, after all, Greek for Finger (secondary to Aristotle dubbing the bones so). What's your point? It seems to be that medical terminology (or the expert body of knowledge that d
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by robbiep 8y ago
You’re really displaying your total ignorance of medicine now - our anatomical naming conventions are highly specific. Anterior, superior, distal, medial, ... hell, even phalanx means finger. Your lack of knowledge is causing you to make ve
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by robbiep 8y ago
Your example is not analogous to medicine - there is consistent and highly specific naming conventions for a reason
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by robbiep 8y ago
Not necessarily. Fevers can cause seizures and they can have detrimental effects in paediatric patients. For the bulk of the general population, these painkillers/anti inflammatories are simply symptom relief. For those talking about h
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by robbiep 8y ago
I am not an expert but on your oversimplification on the ‘High energy = higher wavelength’ Whilst this is true, it is also a bit irrelevant. Gamma rays are higher energy than visible light but you don’t need to focus gamma radiation (should
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by robbiep 8y ago
That might be really useful for you, but for those of us who don’t design nuclear reactors it is utterly meaningless - what are the consequences of each of the results and how much should I care about them? I would be blown away if more tha
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by robbiep 8y ago
A typical dose is 25 mcg, I certainly wouldn’t give an opioid naive person 100mcg in a go. Dose low and go again if relief not adequate
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by robbiep 8y ago
The interesting component to this is what happens when the payment system $hits the bed. 3 weeks ago last friday and saturday in sydney the communications system underlying about 50% of all financial transactions (taxi card readers, many A
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by robbiep 8y ago
What is the startup doing heartbeat generated art selling? I agree 100% with OP, the term startup has been totally devalued by this trend towards ‘everything is a startup’, when a lot of things (such as some of these projects) would be bett
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by robbiep 8y ago
Ultimately the answer to the economic value of Rome destroying Carthage was that Rome became the undisputed ruler of the Med for 500 years. Up until not that much time prior to the Punic wars, it wasn't at all clear that Rome would bec
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by robbiep 8y ago
The most outrageous part of the 2007 election was that they won. State politics is so unbelievably uninspiring
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by robbiep 8y ago
It’s a long draw of the bow to go from the US tracking Osama under the guise of a polio campaign to your regular anti science anti vaccine westerner being justified in their pseudoscience. The answer to your question is the same way trust h
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by robbiep 8y ago
In other words, ‘just trust me’. Your business is not self evident
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by robbiep 8y ago
> Thirdly, they talk of the PLA approaching plant owners and such; to do all this, a lot of people would need to know about it, from the top to the bottom. I imagine that would be very difficult to keep secret. Well the bloomberg articl
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by robbiep 8y ago
Not to harp on about this too much, but that is exactly the problem: results that speak for themselves but don’t have any rigour are sham results and leave you open to accusations that you are simply using marketing flash or selective stati
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by robbiep 8y ago
The history of the ford plant and the $5 a day wage was a seminal moment in the growth of the Industrial Age and the middle class, in general, worldwide (or at least in the western world). There are hundreds of sources, you should be able t

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