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by sxg 8y ago
So the other side of this problem is resident education. The ACGME in conjunction with medical specialty boards govern the requirements for graduating from residency. There are hard requirements on how many and which kinds of procedures you
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by sxg 8y ago
I'm currently in my 4th year of medical school, and I have to clarify your comment on the hours worked. We're held to the same hours limits as residents, which is 80 hrs/week averaged over 4 weeks and an average of 1 day off
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by sxg 8y ago
I don’t believe that’s what the OP is saying. I understood his comment to mean that ADHD can be considered more of a “bad fit” for the person’s environment than an objectively diagnosable disease. Perhaps by changing the environment, ADHD’s
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by sxg 8y ago
Liquid nitrogen is one alternative. Some further work is being done on room temperature superconductors, which obviates the need for any kind of cooling.
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Removing the audio jack helped make the phone waterproof, which could be pretty vital. The decision is complicated because we're comparing the tangible loss of the audio jack against the intangible gain of a lower prevalence of water d
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by sxg 8y ago
Yes, but the problem is that the casual user will view this as planned obsolescence rather than a delicate tradeoff between performance and new features for older devices. Slowing down old iPhones was done to preserve battery life, but user
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Cash is also a liability. It makes you a target for muggings if anyone notices you have a significant wad of cash on you. If you misplace your cash, you have no recourse like if you misplaced a credit card. With cash, it's difficult to
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by sxg 8y ago
Here's an article from a few weeks ago on HN that explains exactly that: https://stratechery.com/2018/the-iphone-franchise/
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The $40 includes all future upgrades.
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by sxg 8y ago
Is a $40 one-time fee sustainable? Newton Mail had a $50 annual subscription fee, and it recently had to shut down. Does anyone know if Postbox monetizes your email data (like Edison mail)? I'm seeing the following in their privacy pol
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by sxg 8y ago
Somm and The Imposter. Somm delves into the lives of a few guys as they study for their sommelier exam. You get to see how intense this niche of the world is. I won’t spoil anything about The Imposter, but definitely check out a trailer. It
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by sxg 8y ago
The iPhone SE is essentially non-existent in the US. Its primary target is developing markets like India where the phone is made. Most people I know aren’t even aware the SE exists. If they see it in stores, they just assume it’s one of the
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by sxg 8y ago
One huge problem is that there’s a lot of competition that provides most of the same core features for free—like Apple Notes, for example. It’s also easy to repurpose apps like MS Word and Google Docs to achieve the same functionality. Obvi
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They announced it (Qwikster, I believe), and then they immediately canceled that plan after massive backlash.
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Really? This is a native macOS app. It would have to be entirely recreated for other platforms, which is a waste of time and resources for an MVP. If this were a multiplatform Electron app, it would be getting criticism for being an Electro
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by sxg 8y ago
There aren't many cases where having an X-ray done a little faster would be massively helpful. Emergency department physicians and trauma surgeons can read an X-ray for acute trauma in a matter of seconds, and doing the X-ray itself do
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by sxg 8y ago
The Cleveland Clinic has the same system. https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/treatments/17242-mobil...
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Traffic and long commute times are another big problem with SF after housing prices.
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by sxg 8y ago
But that's not the case (at least not on iOS). Even if CoolApp has been removed from sale, you can download it on your new phone from your purchase history. The only exceptions to this are technical limitations on the old app that rend
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by sxg 8y ago
> I also do not share your adoration for things that are super instantly accessible. There is much value in learning, and in struggling along the path to learning, that people think they don't want or need. Linguistic training (like
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by sxg 8y ago
Emoticons are severely limited in their range of expressivity. It’s hard to do much more than :) :( and :/. Acronyms are limited in both range of expressivity and audience size. Acronyms require prior agreement on what they mean, so th
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by sxg 9y ago
What's your opinion on the trackpad? The thing I love most about MBPs is the trackpad—the size, responsiveness, gestures, and being clickable everywhere make it feel great to use. My girlfriend has a Lenovo T460, and I've been a l
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by sxg 9y ago
True, but the definition is in the very last line of the whole page. For people unfamiliar with an ROC curve, which seems to be the target audience, it should be defined the first time it's used. Edit: on navigating the site a little m
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by sxg 9y ago
A basic education (assuming grade school level) would only inform you that the world isn't flat. It wouldn't go so far as to rigorously prove the idea. In fact, I honestly couldn't prove to you that the world isn't flat
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The drop out rate for med school is under 5%. Infectious disease is a 3 year fellowship that's done after completing a 3 year internal medicine residency. Oddly, the average salary for infectious disease specialists is lower than that
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by sxg 9y ago
This is an interesting point. It's in every self-driving vehicle company's best interest to gain public trust in the industry as a whole. A high pedestrian injury/fatality rate from Google's self-driving tech reduces con
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by sxg 9y ago
That correlation seems to exist, but that doesn't mean public education can't be good in economically challenged regions. I went to public school from grade 4–12 in West Virginia (ranked 49th out of 50 states by GDP/capita),
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by sxg 9y ago
I agree with your last point. An early detection tool can help find a treatment/cure that works before the disease progresses too far. Again, I see the use for research purposes. While writing my original comment, I specifically had WH
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The article claims this test will promptly be used clinically. Diagnosing Alzheimer’s while there is no cure or treatment available is useless. If used, the test unnecessarily burdens patients sooner. I can see the importance of this test i
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I'm currently a fourth year medical student, and based on my experience you don't need anything from the med school in the first two years. The goal of the first two years of med school is to perform well on the USMLE Step 1 exam.

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