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How the Irish Teach Us to Die(lithub.com)
96 points by skadamou 9y ago|48 comments
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by skadamou 9y ago
> "3) when provided by a doctor whose track record is demonstrably non-inferior to that of other practitioners" This is interesting. I think there will always be a somewhat normal distribution of medical skill among doctors so
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by skadamou 9y ago
I thought this excerpt from the article you posted was interesting "The researchers caution that most medical errors aren't due to inherently bad doctors, and that reporting these errors shouldn't be addressed by punishment o
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Better than Will Power(theatlantic.com)
4 points by skadamou 9y ago|0 comments
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Hospitals start their own drug company(nytimes.com)
4 points by skadamou 9y ago|1 comments
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The BMW Addiction That Destroyed This Man's Life(jalopnik.com)
1 points by skadamou 9y ago|0 comments
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by skadamou 9y ago
By far the most memorable book I read this years was "When Breath becomes Air" by Paul Kalanithi. It's a quick read an immensely impactful. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25899336-when-breath-be
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by skadamou 9y ago
Somewhat related, I thought Atul Gawande's take on why C. Sections are so common now was fascinating. It's all in his book "Better: A Surgeon's notes on performance" but I've linked to a summary of the obstetri
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by skadamou 9y ago
This link might help answer your questions. Also, half-life in this context is just referring to how long it takes the number phosphodiesterase linkages (bonds holding the DNA backbone together) to decrease by 1/2. Half-life can refer
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Counting Feet: On Running and Poetic Meter(lithub.com)
1 points by skadamou 9y ago|0 comments
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by skadamou 9y ago
Hmm, that's an interesting take I had not considered before. I can totally see where our modern sense of sexuality/morality could get in the way of some of Homer's subtler themes.
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by skadamou 9y ago
I have to respectfully disagree. I thought the author offered a thoughtful take on how sexuality and privilege is presented in the Odyssey. I can see where you could possibly criticize her for interpreting these themes through a modern&#x2F
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by skadamou 9y ago
If you thought this was interesting, you might also like Margret Atwood's "The Penelopiad" https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17645.The_Penelopiad
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What Happened to the American Boomtown?(nytimes.com)
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by skadamou 9y ago
This is so true. One of the benefits I found most surprising about volunteering is how much easier it is to make quality connections with people while working on a volunteer project. I suppose the simple act of signing up to volunteer proba
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by skadamou 9y ago
The whole business of red light cameras is pretty dubious to begin with. It seems more like a tool local municipalities use to tax through traffic rather than a means of protecting public safety. https://www.npr.org/sections
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by skadamou 9y ago
I’ve been mulling over a similar idea in my head for a couple of weeks now and would love to get someone else’s opinion. Without placing any kind of a moral judgement on the lifestyle choices of others, sometimes I feel like a lot of the so
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by skadamou 9y ago
What exactly is the butterfly generation? I have never heard this term before. Are you referring to the book "The Butterfly Generation" by Palash Krishna Mehrotra and if so does this term have a distinctly Indian meaning or does
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by skadamou 9y ago
Sometimes I think that the Hacker News crowd overlooks how terribly fussy tech can be. For those with technical literacy, spare time, and a genuine interest in electronics, figuring out how to get their <insert smart device here> work
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The Soviet Military Secretly Mapped the Entire World(citylab.com)
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by skadamou 9y ago
Is a chess coach like Lev Alburt worth the money to someone who does play chess at a professional level? Does a world class coach make a big difference when we're talking about amateur chess players? Obviously, there are other reasons
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Why Men Fight (2016)(qz.com)
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by skadamou 9y ago
I think you make a good point. You shouldn't write off the whole Detroit area because of a few articles about specific neighborhoods. But Detroit/Warren/Dearborn essentially have the same GDP as San Jose/Sunnyvale/S
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Silicon Valley's Politics: Liberal with One Big Exception(nytimes.com)
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Boy there is a lot in Feser’s work to unpack. I haven’t gotten through all of the links you posted yet, but the crux of his argument (and evidently the argument Thomists make) is that humans are different because we are capable of abstract
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by skadamou 9y ago
As a new seasons girl myself, I worry about what kind of long term impact Amazon might have in this market place. I’ve always considered WF and New Seasons to be direct competitors. I would hate to see New Seasons swallowed up or driven out
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The Internal Combustion Engine Is Not Dead Yet(nytimes.com)
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On Living and Thinking in Two Languages at Once(lithub.com)
125 points by skadamou 9y ago|66 comments
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by skadamou 9y ago
A couple of things really surprised me about this article. First, I'm sure that there is other evidence the FDA is using to determine whether or not to grant this drug FDA approval but a 63 person drug trial seems like an exceedingly s
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by skadamou 9y ago
Sort of unrelated, but for a long time I have been curious why uracil in RNA is replaced by thymine in DNA. I was inspired by this post to do a little digging and here is what I found in case anyone else is interested. http://www

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