tankerslay

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by tankerslay 8y ago
can I ask what make/model you settled on?
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by tankerslay 8y ago
"Scandal" should be avoided because it "degrades the trust of the public in the profession." An age-old saw trotted out to justify the cover-up of diverse kinds of negligence and malfeasance in all manner of professions
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by tankerslay 8y ago
>And yet some of them got the surgeries and some didn’t, so it’s unclear if the control was adequate. It is what it is. The documented evidence suggests that the medical histories of the two groups diverged strongly at the moment of sur
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by tankerslay 8y ago
>The treatment cures (in around 97% of cases) tonsilitis. I feel like this is a kind of doublespeak and a rather misleading way of phrasing things. It of course stands to reason that excising an organ in toto will be very effective at
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Long-term health risks after having adenoids or tonsils removed in childhood(jamanetwork.com)
291 points by tankerslay 8y ago|206 comments
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by tankerslay 8y ago
>TVs have gone up massively, mostly because flatscreens make ridiculous TVs possible. Your assertions about price movements sound rather curious as they appear nearly the opposite of what is obtained by people whose job it is to measure
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by tankerslay 8y ago
A very limited number of features have improved (e.g. if you have HepC). At the same time there has been massive price inflation for things that are marketed as "improvements" without convincing evidence of actually being better (
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by tankerslay 8y ago
Our system is such a disaster, even "preventative care" can be a wolf in sheep's clothing. There's basically nothing to disincentivize doctors or pharma from aggressively selling drugs and procedures that give no benefit
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by tankerslay 8y ago
Health care has leeched a huge amount of wage growth from the economy, in businesses large and small. https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-09-28/health-ca...
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by tankerslay 8y ago
>these days it seems to be mostly about generating clickbait. Yes it's a bastardization of their profession, but everyone needs to eat. Who knows if we'll ever get back to the quality of journalism in the Woodward/Bernstei
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by tankerslay 8y ago
How is the marshmallow test (or "The Boy Who Ate the Marshmallow") different from "The Boy Who Cried Wolf"? Both teach a lesson with a nugget of wisdom, the former about the perils of self-indulgence, the latter about t
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by tankerslay 8y ago
Is this field even about "science" per se? It seems more oriented towards fashioning just-so-stories that lend a scientific veneer to some piece of folk wisdom in order to generate a buzz. My own "experimentation" sugges
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by tankerslay 8y ago
Paper records, human memory.... Comparing growth in data storage versus energy usage per capita is interesting. Even if you look back to the founding of the U.S., the change in energy use per person is actually only a few fold, definitely l
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by tankerslay 8y ago
>The traditional routes and social contract are broken. There is definitely some truth here. Can you find a partner and/or community of people who share your understanding of the traditional social expectations? PUA is a community o
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by tankerslay 8y ago
Doesn't this already violate a bunch of laws? (undisclosed advertising, wire fraud or something like it, etc) Just enforce them. Can't do much about overseas people but you can penalize the businesses that purchase fraudulent m
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by tankerslay 8y ago
>My god, the author of this story made all the wrong choices. Did he? He kept his job, didn't get drunk or hooked on pain pills, bailed out what sounded like a very uncooperative ex-wife, and all through it kept his house clean and
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by tankerslay 8y ago
If it's about a public figure (even a limited-purpose public figure), there's no problem because that speech is already highly protected against libel claims. If it's basically just non-newsworthy information about private ci
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by tankerslay 8y ago
Just eliminate the various liability shields that have been enacted for third-party content. In certain areas (e.g. the personals website crackdown) we are moving in this direction already. If you make a search engine vulnerable to a libel
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by tankerslay 9y ago
>how someone like me who only has a BS in Physics and Electrical Engineering manages to make 1.5x-4.0x what they make my first job out of college, then there is something seriously wrong with the system. This is largely what I would expe
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by tankerslay 9y ago
I actually disagree with the idea that academia doesn't teach you much about "how the world works." In my life, my time in academia was probably the most "real world" experience of my career. I find many people who
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by tankerslay 9y ago
I'm not sympathetic to the gripe that there's no "proper career guidance" in grad school. If you want a ready-made career track, you should not be in a PhD program. Yes, academia is competitive, and unforgiving, and harb