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by arkades 2y ago
> the possession of such devices will generally be prohibited by March next year. The police are currently conducting a free collection campaign, urging individuals to turn in coilguns at their nearest police station."
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by arkades 2y ago
It wasn’t a simple texture swap. They added 40 new levels.
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by arkades 2y ago
https://electronics.sony.com/imaging/compact-cameras/all-vlo... “ ZEISS® Vario-Sonnar® T* 24–600 mm F2.4–4 large-aperture high resolution high speed zoom lens”
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by arkades 2y ago
I have a hard time picturing the radiologist whose reputation and malpractice rely on catching small anomalies being comfortable using a machine predicated on inferring the image contents.
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by arkades 2y ago
The SEC only found wrongdoing in eleven trades, whose profit netted approx $272K. They did not penalize him for trades not found in violation of the law. Clearly, too long, didn’t read.
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by arkades 3y ago
We have known about sleep deprivation causing a remission in suicidal ideation for a while - we have inferred a depression benefit as well, but it’s nice to have it quantified. However, we also know resumption of sleep pretty quickly ends t
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by arkades 3y ago
Physician here, and I cannot emphasize this enough. To the point where I actively avoid most medical/healthcare threads - it’s oppressive to contribute.
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by arkades 3y ago
This is incorrect. Phase I is “is it immediately dangerous?” Phase II is assessing side effects at various dosages, to dial in possible dose ranges. There is some measurement of clinical effect here, to assist in dialing in dosages. Phase I
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by arkades 3y ago
In short: A common adverse effect from oral polio vaccine, occurring at a far lower rate in the new vaccine than in the one it replaced. Headline link makes it sound like -bad- news.
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by arkades 4y ago
> “I thought using these Fitbit-like devices on the neck collar was a creative way to understand resting, flying, or foraging behaviors. And when Ryan was doing all this physical work to figure out what this accelerometry data would tell
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by arkades 4y ago
Stephen King’s tweet on that topic, to summarize: “ $20 a month to keep my blue check? Fuck that, they should pay me. If that gets instituted, I’m gone like Enron.” https://twitter.com/stephenking/status/1587042605
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by arkades 4y ago
You’re more literate than most patients. You’re right, it should list all of the above. I think your post reads (and per other poster, I’m not alone) that you had a $1300 normal outpatient visit, so I read that as you misreading your bill.
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by arkades 4y ago
When working for a hospital, it’s an admin somewhere. When in private practice, the insurer generally has geographic monopoly, so I sign off on whatever they shove in my face if I intend to accept their patients. The only time I have a real
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by arkades 4y ago
That’s not what the doc gets paid. That’s the pretend amount that the insurer and doc have agreed upon, before their agreed upon discount. Source: doctor.
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by arkades 4y ago
My issue with my wife is not having 45 mins a day with her. If I had that, the note would be supernumerary.
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by arkades 4y ago
They’re addressing a real pain point that real people actually have and regularly fork out money for. The fact that they didn’t do it out of altruism means diddly squat.
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by arkades 4y ago
Scihub seems to have stopped updating. I haven’t gotten a recent article out of them in a while.
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by arkades 4y ago
Any chance whatsoever they’re going to actually reimburse doctors for their massive school loans, while forcing them (“no network restrictions”) to work for this insurance plan? Especially if it’s anything like Medicaid, and reimburses phys
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by arkades 4y ago
Obsidian needs to acquire you guys asap
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by arkades 4y ago
> Many WGU students HATE these types of articles, because they undermine the legitimacy of WGU. > Their model is competency-based, so you must demonstrate you posses knowledge in any given domain. The guy took courses at college, onli
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by arkades 4y ago
My understanding is that anker got started with standard white labed alibaba type goods, but differentiated themselves with good curation, meaning you actually got something decent at a low price
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by arkades 4y ago
I had precisely the same thought. It follows the outline it set forth at the top, but vaguely and without actually communicating any real content. It’s all pseudo-profound Rorschach blot writing.
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by arkades 4y ago
This precise link is being submitted for the third time by the same user. When does it just become spam?
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by arkades 4y ago
Todoist PocketCast Purify Yoink 1Password Authy
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by arkades 4y ago
You take a very extreme, all or nothing stance. The rest of us make trade offs.
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by arkades 4y ago
Tl;dr don’t work on the weekends, do something that makes you happy I have no idea how such shallow faff got on the front page.
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by arkades 4y ago
Pseudoephedrine is still available -behind the counter-. You literally just have to ask the pharmacist for it. Let’s not turn grad students having a laugh into an actual statement on public policy.
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by arkades 5y ago
I keep hearing this, but there is no mechanism I am aware of for a doctor to see a cent related to prescription of outpatient medication. What’s the purported mechanism by which docs were making money on this?
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by arkades 5y ago
No, if the evidence for the area points to X, the folks claiming a deviation from the general evidenced trend need to provide evidence for that.
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by arkades 5y ago
In worms. A neuron was identified as playing a role in turning and, by eliminating that neuron, a worm was prevented from turning. The headline and intro to the article gives the intentionally misleading impression that this is a human find

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