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by robbiep 8y ago
have you thought of doing a crossover study and reducing fees for a portion of a cohort? If your method has results, then you should be able to catch them up, and then you can go to market with real numbers (alternatively, it might hint tow
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by robbiep 8y ago
How can you have great results but not be able to prove it? I see this perception coming up again and again, and it has, in my experience, always been due to 2 factors: the time has not been taken to determine a study design; or the improve
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by robbiep 8y ago
You’re correct and I apologise - the US does not pay for red cell or platelet donation
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by robbiep 8y ago
This is a really interesting article that highlights for me a concept that is foreign: paid blood donation. I was well aware of the exploitation of paid US blood donors (for those who have not taken the time to read the article, or are fami
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by robbiep 8y ago
Carl Segan at the end of The Demon haunted World talks extensively about this mechanistic worldview, where animals were once thought of as clockwork. I’d just note that your comment reads a bit like I endorse this view - whereas the intenti
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by robbiep 8y ago
I grew up on a farm and I have seen animals free from human interaction display playfulness, happiness, fear, pain and anger - Dogs, horses, cattle, sheep. In all cases I found these behaviours unambiguous and demonstrating a relatively ric
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by robbiep 8y ago
As a medical student I sat through assessments of liver failure patients to assess their suitability for transport. There were some particularly heartbreaking moments there, such as when a patients wife seperately said to us that she didn’t
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by robbiep 8y ago
That’s great until it starts feeding on every plastic item in our modern world
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by robbiep 8y ago
... so Flettner’s a bad guy? (I’ve ancestors who perished there too, you can’t lump everyone, including those involuntarially held, as this situation seems, in the same bag)
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by robbiep 8y ago
There’s a strong gun culture in Australia as well, and as an Australian, and a gun owner, I am perfectly fine with not being able to have an assault rifle. Because no one else can either, and schools don’t get shot up
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by robbiep 8y ago
Photosynthesis is about 1% efficient so when you combine optimal watering and nutrition with 20-hr light cycles (last I looked at it, some darkness was useful), you still have a highly efficient system
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by robbiep 8y ago
Solar installations are generally rated for a 30 year life, so ¾ of nuclear isn’t bad, especially when you add in decommissioning costs which are going to be a lot lower for solar
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by robbiep 8y ago
In Australia a treatment order is enforced by 3 monthly depo injections, usually of respiradone
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by robbiep 8y ago
Australia measures GDP in AUD not USD, you’re talking about PPP
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by robbiep 8y ago
I haven't listened to a lot of Joe Rogan but from what I have listened (maybe last 6-7 episodes) and wearing my Dr hat I feel he fluctuates. He seems to walk a pretty level line but then occasionally drops things that are demonstrably
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by robbiep 8y ago
2 other low hanging fruit that make me pause re credibility: The article butchers the role of intracellular adenosine increases. It would be fairly easy to describe the full mechanism but instead says that Adenosine is made whilst awake and
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by robbiep 8y ago
An interesting approach to the criminal lack of healthcare to vulnerable populations in the US (and potentially other places with third world health systems)
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by robbiep 8y ago
Wouldn’t it make more sense that LSD is a filter, and it sticks for the duration? Or at least, different lenses? This idea of ‘that’s a more real’ reality doesn’t make sense, the visualisations can be different next trip (in the situation y
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by robbiep 8y ago
For those that come after, the link is to the discussion of the news article, whereas this thread is the paper and actually a pretty interesting read
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by robbiep 8y ago
That’s really interesting - I’ve never heard that. I only work ED these days and only a few shifts a month, but I love the interview. And I also hate the interview. When I have worked 60 hrs a week it’s easy to develop compassion fatigue: i
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by robbiep 8y ago
I don’t recommend anything but I’m not heavily focused on nutrition or any of these metrics in my general life... my personal belief is that a too heavy focus on metrics and numbers is detrimental to just the general enjoyment of life. None
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by robbiep 8y ago
You’re not committing to a purchase though, there is some inherent risk in a kickstarter that they won’t deliver. And there is very little mechanism to chase them (usually they have either done a runner or gone belly up) So this is an inter
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by robbiep 8y ago
I studied medicine at the university that created and trademarked he glycaemic Index (GI). Prof Brand-Miller gave us lectures in physiology and nutrition. Even as she was giving them there was an understanding in the cohort that GI was flaw
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by robbiep 8y ago
if we didn't develop a system of exchange (which reduces to a single unit, 'money' in any sophisticated civilisation), we wouldn't be a civilisation
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by robbiep 8y ago
I’m aware that they’re low cost, they’re everywhere in sydney. I guess I just am trying to look at the unit economics and reverse engineer the business fundamentals. The bikes came before the users, and i guess even with a couple thousand (
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by robbiep 8y ago
It looks like there is only a couple million $$ of paid up share capital in the paper trail. How did they finance purchase of so many oBikes?
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by robbiep 8y ago
That is radically dangerous advice, do you have any qualifications in this matter or are you just trying to kill someone?
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by robbiep 8y ago
Civ 2 for me Game manuals are a lost art :(
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by robbiep 8y ago
It would change things a lot - really spread the city that direction (and hopefully reverse some of the social problems that occur on the coast from having a lack of young professionals). I think it would also need a light rail connecting g
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by robbiep 8y ago
There’s some enormous developments happening in gosford at the moment. Talk of building a medical research hub over the station (sort of like how the shopping centre is over Chatswood). Now if only there was a half hour train to the CBD y

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