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by rscho 4y ago
Scheme guarantees TCO, but not Lisp in general I think. I seem to remember that Common Lisp does not guarantee TCO either.
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by rscho 4y ago
Funnily, on the other side of the pond we would find the same title about a private school more surprising.
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by rscho 4y ago
Did. Officially, some still do. But it's now become a very much fake elitism, with a major push for inclusion and the mixing of ages and backgrounds in the same classrooms. The average level is in freefall too.
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by rscho 4y ago
Try APL for 6 months and tell me Julia is not too verbose for a calculator...
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by rscho 4y ago
Doing something, anything is very much the american school of thought. In Europe, people are often very happy if they can just do nothing. Incidentally, that's also the real reason why US healthcare is so much more expensive.
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by rscho 4y ago
If doctors did science on each patient (which would open up a huge can of legal liability worms), you'd pay ten times as much for healthcare.
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by rscho 4y ago
So multiple doses of CT scan-level radiation are not a risk of harm. Got it. Planning screening strategies is a very specialized job. There are good reasons to that.
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by rscho 4y ago
Musashi by Eiji Yoshikawa. Great for entertainment as well as enlightenment.
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by rscho 4y ago
You use many MD analogies. Let me assure you that patient _do_ resent knowledge about their disease. Also, your assumption about MD academia is unrealistic. Universities are driven by research citations and funding, and this is also true of
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by rscho 4y ago
> I want to be able to encode more of my memory and context to my notes with a minimum of fuss, and therefore want to embed images (gasp!), tables, hyperlinks, and even file or sound embeds in my documents. On my scale of highly upvoted
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by rscho 4y ago
> Babies feeling pain is something that should be self-evident, shouldn't it? Culturally speaking, this is a very narrow-minded interpretation.
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by rscho 4y ago
Common layman prejudice aside, it's more likely experience from people placing iv lines regularly. Black skin is more difficult for many reasons, and I can easily believe that many get the impression of thicker skin because of other as
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by rscho 4y ago
Jewels?
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by rscho 4y ago
If you want something hands on: "coding the matrix"
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by rscho 4y ago
That, and good English writing.
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by rscho 4y ago
Socialized medicine makes the best healthcare systems in the world. Talk about being rational.
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by rscho 4y ago
> I assume the general silent belief would be that your guy with the spectacular failure is some kind of "take the tough cases" dude? No, the silent belief is that he's the worst surgeon we have. > they shut down the pr
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by rscho 4y ago
Sure, but not long ago medical care was essentially useless even for rich people. If now, poor people see rich people get cured while they die or suffer major consequences from common illnesses, I don't think that's gonna go well.
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by rscho 4y ago
What you describe exists. And does not work.
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by rscho 4y ago
With private healthcare as you describe, poor people are left with subpar care, and you've got a revolution on your hands. At least I would be very prone to violent action in such a system.
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by rscho 4y ago
From everyday work experience, I strongly believe people to be totally unable to fairly assess a surgeon in an everyday clinical context. Looks, manners and personal sympathies are the main drivers for that kind of judgment. I know a surgeo
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by rscho 4y ago
We do try. But what we've got is not nearly good enough. You underestimate the messiness and overestimate the information retrieval capabilities of healthcare systems.
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by rscho 4y ago
Yes thanks, autocorrect :-)
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by rscho 4y ago
Am also MD and anesthesiologist. This is partly true. The true part is because anesthesiologists are more able to appreciate medical abilities than the layman is. The false part is that people, including colleagues, tend to judge on what th
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by rscho 4y ago
Insurance, precisely. Insurance companies are pushing for performance assessment to put pressure on prices. All well and good until you understand that you can't force hospitals/practitioners to all get a random sample of patients
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by rscho 4y ago
Medical errors are not all diagnostic errors, far from it. All kinds of healthcare workers are involved.
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by rscho 4y ago
I gather you are not a healthcare professional, hence the artificial dichotomy stemming from your perception as an outsider. Medical competency is very difficult to assess objectively. You're good/bad because people say so. There
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by rscho 4y ago
See Racklog in racket, that predates Flix by a long time.
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by rscho 4y ago
Basically any problem involving a complex search of a solution space is a strong candidate for the above statement. There are specialized tools for doing that in other languages, but a) they specialize on a single optimization/search t
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by rscho 4y ago
I see you've not met my advisors. Please no. Old scientists sometimes contribute to push the younger generation forward. In my experience though, most of the time they're a liability, due to their incredibly overdeveloped ego and

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