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by sveiss 4y ago
Yup, I'm wrong in the specifics here. I think I'm conflating the stats for negative appendectomy and the willingness to go to surgery without positive imaging in that setting with the ~30% of cholecystectomy cases that don't
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by sveiss 4y ago
The argument isn't “Daily Harvest's product caused gallstones”, it's “Daily Harvest's product caused liver damage with symptoms strongly resembling gallstones, and as a result plaintiffs received irreversible surgery wit
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by sveiss 4y ago
Medical diagnosis isn't a perfectly exact process, and is strongly driven by prior probabilities. If you present to the ER with pain in the upper right abdomen, with blood test results showing raised liver enzymes, meeting some or most
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by sveiss 4y ago
Section 2.2 and 2.3 of RFC 5890 [1] has a good overview of the pre-IDN state of things, with reference to where these were originally specified. In particular, the definition of 'LDH label' describes a single component of a tradit
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by sveiss 4y ago
Domain names are limited to a small subset of ASCII; the DNS protocol doesn’t support UTF-8. To work around this, the international domain name standard defines an encoding called Punycode which maps Unicode to the limited character set DNS
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by sveiss 5y ago
I think you’re missing the wider context here. Problems at these hospitals’ maternity departments have been under investigation for years at this point, and the scope of the inquiry has been widened several times in the process. The link is
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by sveiss 5y ago
That's because this tool has nothing to do with "spying on users". It's a set of tools and a specification for instrumenting applications and collecting logs/metrics/traces from them. It's used to ask ques
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by sveiss 5y ago
A pharmacist’s professional role is as an expert on medication, and their scope of practice includes refusing to fill therapeutically inappropriate prescriptions. Normally this serves to catch dosing errors or drug interactions, but it’s al
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by sveiss 5y ago
The precise mechanics vary on a state-by-state basis, but in a lot of cases a MD will write a blanket “prescription” that covers a class of patients, and that’s what fulfils the legal requirement for a prescription to dispense/administ
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by sveiss 5y ago
Quoting the FDA letter you linked: > On August 23, 2021, FDA approved the biologics license application (BLA) submitted by BioNTech Manufacturing GmbH for COMIRNATY (COVID-19 Vaccine, mRNA) for active immunization to prevent COVID-19 cau
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by sveiss 5y ago
Definitely a bug. The Unix equivalent would be a package update silently making /etc/shadow world readable, exposing the hashed passwords of local users. Not a big deal for a single user machine — there’s nothing you can do with t
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by sveiss 5y ago
> You can't get EUA for the vaccines if there's a working treatment. Veklury (remdesivir) was approved by the FDA for the treatment of Covid-19 in hospitalized individuals on October 22, 2020. This was a full approval, not an e
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by sveiss 6y ago
I'll state upfront that I'm not a biologist, but here's my attempt at the explanation. The ELI5 version: Think of the cell as a factory for proteins. The blueprints for all of the different kinds of proteins it can produce ar
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by sveiss 6y ago
It's not a requirement, and different systems in the past have made different choices. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cache_inclusion_policy
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by sveiss 6y ago
I moved to the US from the UK, where yield ("give way") signs were the standard and stop signs an attention-getting rarity. I've often wondered how much harm to health has been done by the increased emissions at excess of sto
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by sveiss 7y ago
A LNK/PIF doesn't give a coherent view of the whole "app" from the user's point of view, though. If you delete the LNK, you don't uninstall the app -- you just can't access it easily any more. If you creat
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by sveiss 7y ago
It's closer to a macOS bundle than a single script with '#!'. It's at a higher level of abstraction than linking a single script file to an executable. It would let you build, say, a Ruby interpreter which declares itsel
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by sveiss 7y ago
> I'm pretty sharp with US employment, tax and passport forms, yet that's the first time that I've heard somebody being banned for an I-9 mistake. Accidental false claims to citizenship are a "whoops, game over"
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by sveiss 7y ago
You can immigrate to the US without ever filling out an I-9, if you never work as an employee while in the US. On the other hand, a US citizen who never leaves the country might fill out dozens over the course of a career, depending on how
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by sveiss 8y ago
That segment of the A38 has a 30MPH limit, with the right fork increasing to 50MPH. The dynamics of any crash would be very difficult.
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by sveiss 9y ago
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by sveiss 9y ago
In this case, 'hash' doesn't necessarily mean 'a cryptographic hash of the raw file contents'. There are perceptual hash techniques which still match after changes to the file, and are tuned in a similar manner to l
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by sveiss 9y ago
This is already happening. People visiting the US and entering through airports have had their fingerprints and facial biometrics captured since 2004, and it's been progressively expanded since then. All visa applications have the same
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by sveiss 9y ago
Yup, and it did: http://techreport.com/review/13741/phenom-tlb-patch-benchmar...
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by sveiss 9y ago
It's a per-card setting. Issuers here in the UK default to PIN for both credit and debit, but both are available with signature for those who need it.
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by sveiss 9y ago
Here (UK) it's taken care of by the provider for most people. If you were to pay £80 into a personal pension (similar to an IRA), about a month later an additional £20 would be added. That's tax relief at the 20% basic rate. (High
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by sveiss 9y ago
You're making a false comparison. The majority of UK residents don't need to file a tax return. The correct tax/national insurance/student loan deductions are withheld from their paycheques, and in case of problems, a ph
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by sveiss 9y ago
It's a single phone call to cancel self-assessment for income tax and national insurance. Probably a second to cancel a VAT registration, but I've never had to do that.
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by sveiss 10y ago
The choice of countries actually dates back to a 2015 Act of Congress restricting access to the Visa Waiver Program to nationals or prior recent visitors of certain countries. These people will have had to apply for a visa instead, and pres
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by sveiss 10y ago
The wording of the ruling looks like it applies nationally to me: "WHEREFORE, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the respondents, their officers, agents, servants, employees, attorneys, and all members and persons acting in concert or participa

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