xsor

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   by xsor 5mo ago

   Not sure if that’s true. Looking at the history of modern medicine, the cure rate of diseases was not exponential, it was gradual over the course of hundreds of years. Sure there were a few big jumps- water sanitation and antibiotics come t
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   by xsor 4y ago

   One reason behind why doctors can’t simply do tests then not follow up is simply medical malpractice suits. Often times, once you do the test you’re locked into figuring out everything even to the detriment of the patient for fear of getti
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   by xsor 5y ago

   Unfortunately not, this was a famous problem taught by Feynman in his physics lectures. Essentially the Brownian motion of the ratchet and pawl mechanism (used in your watch) will eventually prevent the mechanism from harvesting energy [0].