senortumnus

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by senortumnus 5y ago
#1 is a big thing - delete your links to FB, reddit, whatever it may be. Diminish your portals to the engineered attention sucks out there. I aspire to a separate personal phone vs work phone. Have a lightphone but have not set up separat
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by senortumnus 5y ago
HN represents a wellspring of deeper reading than is generally afforded by the current entertainment cruft portals of the web - reddit, FB, insta, USA today, financial times, etc etc down to the SEO hellholes of recipe sites, youtube produc
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by senortumnus 5y ago
Second this! Go see these Vermeers and then decide if you should follow it up with a trip to the 2023 show!
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by senortumnus 5y ago
This reminds me of the spark plug ceramic demos. Little ceramic tip on a spark plug (isolated from the rest of the plug) make an effective car window smashing projectile. No idea if it would work from inside the car / if you could ge
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by senortumnus 5y ago
“…the American Medical Association says 96% of its practicing physicians have been fully vaccinated…”
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by senortumnus 5y ago
Hear hear! So thorough.
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by senortumnus 5y ago
I do think there is truth in hospital systems slowly eroding the profession of nurse and physician to further cement their control over the future of health care. See traveler nurses and NP/PAs in hospital systems.
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by senortumnus 5y ago
Surgeon here, always try to treat nurses with respect and work with them as a team member to accomplish the best care for the patient. Maybe it’s a midwest thing.
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by senortumnus 5y ago
Hot take and I honestly hope I'm wrong but there is a whiff of burn pit / AO benefits program mindset in this... ( https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/08/us/politics/havana-syndro... )
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by senortumnus 5y ago
Yes and relatively quickly too
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by senortumnus 5y ago
Agreed - very sophisticated treatment.
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by senortumnus 5y ago
On one hand, the retirement of the prior generation of nuclear power plants opens the door for deployment of next-generation reactor designs. On the other, we are at real risk of losing the on-the-ground technical expertise required to run
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by senortumnus 5y ago
for sure. It’s used in oil drilling, it must be safe right? :)
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by senortumnus 5y ago
> Cue roof washing drone industry saw it here first, folks edit: depends on enviro toxicity of barium? Only use I know of it is gastro contrast studies. Probably other industrial uses I’m ignorant of.. edit2: You have now subscribed to
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by senortumnus 5y ago
Brb looking up kugelblitz edit: :O
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by senortumnus 5y ago
Agreed - it’s intuitive to humans, the primary users of tech Plug and socket: less intuitive
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by senortumnus 5y ago
Puritanism is back, baby!
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by senortumnus 5y ago
Look up the share of health care spending that goes to doctors. It’s maybe 6-10% of overall costs. (Often reported as share that goes to “doctors and clinics” ~20% which includes salaries of nurses & other workers, etc) Biggest share
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by senortumnus 5y ago
I'm curious to know if you have read "Seeing Like A State" by James Scott. There's a fair bit of discourse on the idea of the territory and the map edit: I learned about the book on HN and so wondering how pervasive it
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by senortumnus 5y ago
Agreed. The article addresses that by suggesting that purchasing trains from Japan or Euro producers would meet both enviro and labor standards.
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by senortumnus 5y ago
Agreed, excellent writing. Really made me think about my life priorities.
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by senortumnus 5y ago
I've been pondering these reports as well, and my hunch is that the US is recognizing an increasing occurrence of drone or otherwise long distance, stealth aircraft that are regularly penetrating US airspace... and they want to know mo
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by senortumnus 6y ago
Ethics is great and all but makes it hard to do much original research. This sounds crass but try getting a very routine IRB proposal passed, and you'll see what I mean. Self experimentation remains relatively out of reach of the ethi
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by senortumnus 6y ago
I place enormous value on my undergrad training in chemistry before going on to med school. Impossible to prove but I do think the deeper your foundation in life sciences the better your ability to adapt to new medicines, procedures, &
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by senortumnus 7y ago
>2000 day culture... impressive
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by senortumnus 7y ago
Physicians - always on the go, need access to calendar, reference apps, communication (messages, email)... to me, having a fast phone with a big screen is a no-brainer.
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by senortumnus 7y ago
Know that in this study the virus was targeted to infect cells expressing ICAM-1, which is expressed on bladder cancer cells.