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by sxg 6y ago
I agree with you, which is why I commented. I believe in the value of startups and their role in disrupting business to provide old services in a better way or to provide entirely new services. However, I also want startups to facilitate vi
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by sxg 6y ago
I did not assume the up charge would go away. I assumed I would get free delivery as advertised, but there are additional caveats to free delivery that were not advertised.
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by sxg 6y ago
As a customer, DoorDash is just consistently a terrible experience. I have the DashPass, which was advertised as free delivery for many restaurants. Turns out it only works if you spend $12, and even then sometimes it doesn’t apply. If you
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by sxg 6y ago
1680x1050 was available on the 2010 15" MacBook Pro, but I think 1440x900 was the default option.
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by sxg 6y ago
On the other hand, without Apple pushing this innovation there was next to no chance we’d ever see anything like the M1 come from another company. Think of the standard laptop display from 10 years ago. They nearly all came with extremely l
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by sxg 6y ago
That's not quite the right takeaway. That 6x reduction is dependent on the p-value, which in turn is dependent on the sample size. The larger the sample, the smaller the p-value, and that 6x reduction will likely shrink as well. It&#x2
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by sxg 6y ago
They absolutely could do that, which is the point. UBI gives you the freedom to make the best decision regarding how to use your time. If UBI is enough to cover you, then spending time at home raising kids and taking care of your family may
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by sxg 6y ago
Had the ribbon interface been the original UI and the traditional menu-based interface the new UI, it sounds like you and your colleagues would have still faced the same frustrations. To me, it sounds like your issue is with change rather t
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by sxg 6y ago
In medicine, people are regularly paying even more than that. Med school tuition is in the $60–70k/year range for four years. A top undergrad institution is around $50–60k/year for four years. Since med school admissions are so co
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by sxg 7y ago
The first one is the one I've read and recommend. I haven't seen the second one before.
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by sxg 7y ago
I highly, highly recommend "The Code Book" by Simon Singh if you're interested in cryptography. It has a chapter on Bletchley Park and tells the stories of several of its cryptographers, including Alan Turing and the Enigma c
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by sxg 7y ago
Oh no! DarkSky.net was my first open source Swift project (back when it was called ForecastIO)! I'm sad to see that the API seems to be going away next year. https://github.com/sxg/forecastio
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by sxg 7y ago
Seriously? Your argument is that we should get rid of things that aren’t essential to life? And you include gyms in that list? I wonder how you view human well-being, leisure activities, hobbies, and activities that may have secondary benef
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by sxg 7y ago
I'm not suggesting that this financial crisis doesn't count or is overblown. It is real, and it is happening. I agree that airlines and movie theaters are worth less today than they were a few weeks ago. What I'm saying is th
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by sxg 7y ago
None of those are primary events. Covid-19 is responsible for causing all of those changes. Compare that to 2008 where the sub prime mortgage crisis was the primary event.
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by sxg 7y ago
As an MD, I can tell you that your view is extremely skewed. There absolutely is an annoying hierarchy. Endless departmental rules that get in the way of your practice, constant messages from the billing department asking you to edit old no
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by sxg 7y ago
I'm a current medical resident, and I have absolutely used YouTube to fill in the gaps. Just a few days ago during lunch, I watched a 3 minute video on how to remove a PICC line before taking one out of a patient. I have taken PICC lin
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by sxg 7y ago
That sounds like a great way to develop several kinds of vitamin deficiencies (look up Wernicke’s encephalopathy—vitamin B1 deficiency and vitamin B9 and B12 deficiency). Do you supplement any kinds of vitamins with your detox?
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by sxg 7y ago
Regarding insulin, we’ve made huge progress in so many ways, and there is still room for improvement. We have different forms of insulin with different lifespans that we can use to create insulin regimens for different kinds of diabetics. F
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by sxg 7y ago
There are some other limitations as well. Radiation therapy can cause scarring in different tissue types. The scarring can sometimes be problematic depending on the location and extent. Second, the radiation itself can lead to the developme
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by sxg 7y ago
It's not stupid, and we already do this. There are many different forms of radiation therapy ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation_therapy ), and they're commonly used in breast and brain cancers.
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by sxg 7y ago
The health and performance indicators of your servers are reliable and (relatively) accurate. Analogous indicators for the human body are much less so. False positive and false negative rates for many different kinds of tests/exams are
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by sxg 8y ago
Also on iOS 12.1.2. I have never encountered this. I usually play audio in my car with either Pocket Casts or Spotify, and iOS reliably picks up on my last used app. I also have the Apple Music app deleted—maybe that plays into it?
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by sxg 8y ago
That seems like an oversimplified and overly polarized view. What about reductions in global shipping costs and opportunity for smaller businesses to serve a much larger market? Both of those provide benefits for those in the middle and bot
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by sxg 8y ago
I believe she can, and that is technically an option. The problem is that this could destabilize the country. Citizens voted and asked for a Brexit to happen. The government is trying to honor that request as it is a democratic country. If
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by sxg 8y ago
The XS is 5 mm taller, 3 mm wider, and 0.4 mm thicker. Does that kind of difference really matter?
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by sxg 8y ago
I meant outpatient visit. My PCP is in the main campus of the hospital, and I wasn’t being rigorous with the terminology. I’m using the CPT codes within the site I linked to. 99211–99215 are the codes that correlate to acuity, with 99215 be
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by sxg 8y ago
It absolutely 100% is at least the doctor’s job to know this. If you come back with depression again, the doctor needs to know what medications were used last time to treat you this time. They need to know if you had allergic reactions, no
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by sxg 8y ago
Many departments do standardize their note formats. The problem is that the note is directly connected to billing, and the billing requirements are absurd. I'm a medical student, and I recently visited my PCP for a medication refill. I

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