Mbioguy

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by Mbioguy 3y ago
History may not repeat but it does rhyme. Harappan civ thought to have declined due to less water. Petra once thrived due to a system of dams, cisterns, and water conduits, but never-repaired damage after an earthquake and increasing aridit
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by Mbioguy 7y ago
Note: if you want a meaningful discussion about physician salaries, you need to be discussing lifetime income after tax and after debt repayment, and compare this metric to other professions. Comparing the yearly salary of a vascular surgeo
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by Mbioguy 7y ago
Wow, lots to unpack here. First off, MAs are not remotely comparable to PAs or physicians. MAs typically earn a certificate, and salary is 20-30k. They are typically office or clerical workers with a medical support role. They are not diagn
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by Mbioguy 7y ago
Azores, Canary Islands, Madeira
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by Mbioguy 7y ago
You've got it backwards. This has nothing to do with mandatory reporting laws. You are assuming something is said about person B during person A's confessional. That isn't what is being described. A student confesses to their
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by Mbioguy 7y ago
You're being disingenuous and attempting to deflect from real issues. It's not only the text of the honor code that matters, but also the social context and how it is applied. If you attend BYU as an LDS member, you need to mainta
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by Mbioguy 7y ago
This article falls prey to a myopic view of capitalist vs communist 'econ'. The reality is that the 19th and early 20th centuries were abuzz with economic tinkering and innovation. Rather than a simple left/right dichotomy, t
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by Mbioguy 8y ago
Boy are you in for a surprise. Medical school lectures are mostly optional these days and are entirely skipped by a significant proportion of med students in favor of resources like Strong Medicine (literally a YouTube channel), gigantic An
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by Mbioguy 8y ago
Nothing in evolution is inevitable. Granted some things are more likely (oxygen-binding hemoglobin has independently evolved several times from its related non-binding globin family). Brains, nervous systems, even multicellularity are not i
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by Mbioguy 8y ago
This. I'm gonna cut to the chase: that line is probably the most fascist thing I'm going to read all day, and excepting you, Hacker News has failed to call it out. This idea that war can somehow mythically rejuvenate the ethos or
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by Mbioguy 8y ago
Utilities are natural monopolies. Not exactly the best fit for a market solution, especially when, as in this case, they are negative externalities borne by the public that the company is trying to avoid paying for.
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by Mbioguy 8y ago
Yes, it's impossible to convince a large number of people to switch, which perfectly explains why Maine is still using FPtP despite the large push for RCV a few years ago. /s Proof by contradiction, mate. It's not impossible,
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by Mbioguy 8y ago
I like Approval voting for single positions that are supposed to represent a community rather than a faction: mayor, governor, county commissioner, etc. Mixed member for legislative bodies and Ranked Choice for anything else.
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by Mbioguy 8y ago
"They thoughtlessly order tests and thoughtlessly obey the results." Hacker News, come on. You're better than this. Taking it from the top: The obvious take is that the new tools this is referring to is EMR and things like Wa
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by Mbioguy 8y ago
Counterpoint I posted in r/askscience last year: https://old.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/7kq5r4/what_det...
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by Mbioguy 8y ago
For those of us who want to switch to alternate electoral methods like RCV, approval voting, multimember districting, etc, using machine counting is a big deal. If you are paper only, the increased labor to do repeated tabulations (as is do
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by Mbioguy 8y ago
Infectious etiology is not the same as being contagious. We know HPV causes increased cancer risk, but we don't treat folks with those cancers as contagious. They're not. But their malignancies do have an infectious cause - infect
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by Mbioguy 8y ago
Paper ballots are not the obstacle. (I like paper ballots with optical scanning, as in my main post.) The obstacle is that there are some who want there to be no machine involvement in tabulation of results. Media is hyping the fear of &#x2
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by Mbioguy 8y ago
I was part of a now-tabled push for RCV in a red state a few years back. While it offered a solution to several issues and had some multiparty support, the big problem arose when the state legislators realized that the current machines used
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by Mbioguy 8y ago
Doesn't going paper-only make it difficult to switch to alternative voting systems like RCV (as Maine is) or multiple-member districting at anything beyond a local level? FPTP is fairly simple to count by hand and other methods can be
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by Mbioguy 8y ago
A deeply red/Republican and relatively low-density state might seem like a strange place to find a functional public transit system. Utah is an interesting place. The geography of the Wasatch Front lends itself to public transit in way
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by Mbioguy 8y ago
Few people have tried Anki (a free alternative to SuperMemo). Even fewer have tried its add-ons, which is where it truly shines! Vanilla Anki is mostly good for text flashcarding, with the phone app helpful for making use of those little bi
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by Mbioguy 8y ago
Snowplow parenting too.
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by Mbioguy 8y ago
10% is a very big deal. We talk about trying to 'eat healthy', but what happens when all your food is becoming less healthy? This is a tragedy of a worldwide commons. Because it's not just rice, extrapolating from it, this
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by Mbioguy 8y ago
1. In addition to using public data, they sampled mitochondrial DNA and Y chromosomes from individuals in diverse geographical locations around the world (456 individuals). This had been done before for mtDNA but not Y chromosomes at anywhe
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by Mbioguy 8y ago
There's an interesting cognitive bias where people who are intelligent and informed about one domain, try to interpret information outside that domain. This stereotypically affects doctors or engineers making pronouncements of things a
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by Mbioguy 8y ago
It's not about blaming the 9.9%. It's about convincing the 9.9% that they are part of the problem. The way the author writes, he is in that group, speaking to them. "We." Compare to slavery. Obviously Southern slaveowner
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by Mbioguy 8y ago
Season 1 did have notable audio issues. I found myself having to rewind to understand what was said, and even then it felt like guesswork. I love the show, but do agree with this criticism. Thankfully they straightened it out in later seaso
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by Mbioguy 8y ago
Canids are pretty much a superspecies anyways. Consider brown bears and polar bears. We consider them 2 species yet they can successfully interbreed. The main reason they don't is that their ranges haven't historically overlapped.
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by Mbioguy 9y ago
Sounds like 2 things are getting confused. Think of Ethereum as a very slow decentralized computer. People make mistakes building applications all the time, but this doesn't necessarily mean the underlying language, or for a better com

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