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by xmddmx 2y ago
DSM 5 already has this, called "Delusional Disorder": A. Nonbizarre delusions (i.e., involving situations that occur in real life, such as being followed, poisoned, infected, loved at a distance, or deceived by spouse or lover, or
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by xmddmx 2y ago
The person who got infected in Canada came very close to dying. They were on ECMO for a while. https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2415890
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by xmddmx 2y ago
Exactly. I think they are confusing the employee portion with the overall cost? As an example, I currently pay about $200/ month but my employer is paying $1800, so total cost is $24000/year.
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by xmddmx 2y ago
Is this essentially Quartz Composer, but in the browser? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quartz_Composer I was always amazed at how sophisticated QC was, and also saddened when it was abandoned by Apple...
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Philips Hue bulbs are randomly turning brightness to 100%(appleinsider.com)
20 points by xmddmx 2y ago|26 comments
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by xmddmx 2y ago
The theory is that a recent Hue firmware update is causing devices using the Matter protocol to experience a connection disconnect, which is interpreted as a power loss, which triggers the "on power restore" behavior. A firmware
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by xmddmx 2y ago
Is anyone confused by "lower-ranked names"? To me this means A, B, C, but the article says "Wang said students whose surnames start with A, B, C, D or E received a 0.3-point higher grade out of 100 possible points than compa
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by xmddmx 3y ago
Was happy with Ting mobile for years, spending about $30/month total for 2 lines. Had to leave Ting as they don't support eSIMs and recently moved to Consumer Cellular, which I'm quite happy with - about 4GB of data for 2 ph
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by xmddmx 3y ago
On the 17 item HAM-D here are the typical score ranges [1] Not depressed: 0–7 Mild (subthreshold): 8–13 Moderate (mild): 14–18 Severe (moderate): 19–22 Very severe (severe): >23 So, a 4 point difference vs placebo is what I would conside
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by xmddmx 3y ago
Are you Italian? I was shocked, about 15 years ago when some Italian friends (who were very drug familiar) said how much they liked that they could buy Benadryl (diphenhydramine) w/o a prescription here in the USA. I was like " ?
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by xmddmx 3y ago
> CA's population has tripled in 60 years and so has the tax base and # of teachers. This is a non-issue. Society scales. > and high school graduation rates have risen signifigantly (which is of course good). Not necessarily :
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by xmddmx 3y ago
"social democrat" - are you sure? the point remains: some services are social goods and should be treated as such, so that "nobody lacks for inability to pay". That's not literally "free" but has the same
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by xmddmx 3y ago
I'm an educator, and a social democrat (approximately) so "yes"? What saddens me is that grand (and simple) plan "free education for all" gets watered down and chipped away to "free education for those who have
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by xmddmx 3y ago
The question to ask is "how many kids graduate high school vs. how many should ". Turns out the answer is interesting - about 50 years ago, the graduation rate for high school was around 50%. These days it's much higher (90
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by xmddmx 3y ago
This idea is not really new - the California Master Plan for Education essentially promised a free higher education to everyone in California. In 1960. [1] As these things go, the plan was eroded over time, with the (in)famous Propositio
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by xmddmx 3y ago
Tenure is to Academia as Venture Capital is to Entreprenureship. You give resources (money, which buys time, office space, equipment, support staff...) to a bunch of promising individuals, hoping that some of them will do amazing things, b
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by xmddmx 3y ago
Regarding Arq backup: if you are worried about using a proprietary (enrypted) and closed-source backup format in case the company were to go under, they have an open source command-line restore tool: https://github.com/arqb
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by xmddmx 4y ago
I wonder, does the law have any whistleblower provisions? Seems like a programmer who had been coerced to fudge the data, and kept receipts, could be in a good position...
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by xmddmx 4y ago
I love this part: "5. Why did the backup procedure fail silently? - Notifications were sent upon failure, but because of the Emails being rejected there was no indication of failure. The sender was an automated process with no other me
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by xmddmx 4y ago
Background: the California Master Plan for Higher Eduction (1960) essentially set up a system of free college education to all residents. It was slowly chipped away until "free" became "not free". https://en.
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by xmddmx 4y ago
An important point: the high school dropout rate has been declining for many years. In the past, students who weren’t making it would simply stop attending. Now they are mostly still in school, and probably not doing a whole lot better, whi
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Business software: what's a price which doesn't need approval?
1 points by xmddmx 4y ago|0 comments
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by xmddmx 4y ago
This one shows reservoirs + snowpack (which I think is ultimately what matters most): https://engaging-data.com/california-reservoirs-and-snowpack...
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by xmddmx 4y ago
The SAT is one of the mostly highly researched tests. I'm curious of your claim: Please, name one, and cite a source.
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by xmddmx 4y ago
"I never heard of anyone suggesting only SAT. " There are many comment in this thread suggesting exactly that (or suggesting a standardized test "better" than the SAT") You point out that many Univ's have stop
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by xmddmx 4y ago
I was specifically trying to rebut a claim that is often made that special help for minorities is bad, because we live in a meritocracy and "let those people compete on the same metric as us". The point here is that 75% of 40% (=
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by xmddmx 4y ago
I was replying to another comment which suggested using only standardized testing. It's true, when you combine SAT with GPA, it's better, but that was not the point I was rebutting. Even so, with GPA+SAT, if r = .61 then r^^2 =
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by xmddmx 4y ago
This is one of those complex topics which on HN, seesm to lead to "it's simple, do X" types of analyses, which tend to be simple, confident, and wrong. Some facts to consider: At Harvard, over 40% of non-minority students rec
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by xmddmx 4y ago
It's the False Positive Paradox: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_rate_fallacy#False_positi...
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by xmddmx 4y ago
In the USA, there is one non-DFS 5GHz channel which is somewhat unique: Channel 165. It's limited to 20MHz bandwidth, and if you google it you will see warnings against using it. On the other hand, since nobody uses it, it's gene

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