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by dbbolton 3y ago
Unless you have access to coca leaves, your recipe is likely to taste like generic cola. Coca-Cola has special privileges to import raw coca leaves. They extract the cocaine (which is then sold for pharmaceutical use). The mostly-cocaine fr
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by dbbolton 4y ago
I'm a physician- although I don't disagree with the spirit of the article the headline is exceptionally misleading. Phenylephrine is useless as an oral decongestant . It is still quite useful for other indications, including as a
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by dbbolton 5y ago
Makes me nostalgic for pentadactyl (the IMHO superior fork of Vimperator- both of which are discontinued) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentadactyl
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by dbbolton 8y ago
I am a physician in the US. I think the article has valid points (esp. inpatient glucose control) but it also oversimplifies and glosses over some of medicine's more arcane aspects. To give a tangible example I'll start with the u
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by dbbolton 8y ago
Perspective from a US physician: Pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (or PGD, what you described as 'selective IVF') is not cheap. It costs upwards of US$100,000 and no commercial or government insurance will cover it. Genetic scre
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by dbbolton 8y ago
Here are some links to the CDC's statistics and maps on Lyme disease for those interested: https://www.cdc.gov/lyme/stats/graphs.html https://www.cdc.gov/lyme/stats/maps.html https
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The 35-year World Record: Solving Atari 2600 Dragster(reddit.com)
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by dbbolton 9y ago
Don't forget to install the plugin that actually allows you to run a web browser inside your web browser-based editor: https://atom.io/packages/browser-plus
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by dbbolton 10y ago
Seems to have been patent-encumbered and largely abandoned in the commercial world, but there is a FOSS library called fiasco (.wfa files) that is included with netpbm, available on most *NIX systems. http://manpages.ubuntu.com&#
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by dbbolton 10y ago
You would probably have to ask a pharmacist, but from the clinical side I can tell you most prepared health information that we can give to patients has to be very bare bones and comprehensible to essentially everyone at or above an 8th g
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by dbbolton 10y ago
>"Oh, is he on <some blood pressure medication I forget the name of>?" I'll bet the farm it was lisinopril, or another ACE inhibitor. The ACEI cough is notorious enough that any 1st year medical student probably shou
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by dbbolton 10y ago
>ALWAYS READ EVERYTHING YOU CAN ABOUT DRUGS YOU ARE PRESCRIBED! I'm not trying to undermine your point entirely, but there is a flip side. I can't tell you how many times I have seen a patient start a medication, then come back
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by dbbolton 10y ago
Preface: I'm not trying to nitpick you to death. I wouldn't expect anyone outside the medical field to remember any of these terms. Yes, a HR of 230 BPM is not normal. The terminology is confusing because tachycardia can be both
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by dbbolton 10y ago
Tachycardia is technically any heart rate greater than 100 BPM. It doesn't necessarily mean that the heart is not pumping enough. What can happen with an elevated heart rate is that the heart doesn't have enough time between bea
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by dbbolton 10y ago
The paper states that depressed mood and exhaustion are a risk predictor for all-cause cardiovascular mortality comparable to hypercholesterolemia and obesity. Essentially this means that a person with clinical depression is about as likely
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by dbbolton 10y ago
> In May 2015, Snowden's lawyer Ben Wizner said that Snowden's main source of income was speaking fees, which sometimes exceeded $10,000 per appearance.[308] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Snowden#201
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by dbbolton 10y ago
First off, my shell is not broken. Secondly, my post was highly simplified because obviously I'm not going to include the entirety of every single config file my shell uses. All it takes to avoid this "problem" is a single if
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by dbbolton 10y ago
I've had similar experiences with Bing, which I used inside IE on a fresh Windows install to search for a few programs/drivers (was just to lazy to type in my own search engine). IIRC when I searched for FF or Chrome, the top 4-5
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by dbbolton 10y ago
From the documentation page: >A package directory is the root of a tree containing the installation image for a particular package. Each package directory must reside in a stow directory — e.g., the package directory /usr/local
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by dbbolton 10y ago
One of the best zsh tweaks I've done was setting ZDOTDIR="${XDG_CONFIG_HOME}/zsh" in `/etc/zshrc`, then moving all miscellaneous files to the same place: # ~/.config/zsh/.zshenv
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by dbbolton 10y ago
Just wanted to add my perspective as a US medical student-- First I would like to say that I'm sorry for your loss, and please don't take my comment as defending or justifying our current research system. But the explanation as t
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by dbbolton 11y ago
Another thing that kind of irked me was this section: >This conspiracy among prime numbers seems, at first glance, to violate a longstanding assumption in number theory: that prime numbers behave much like random numbers... I was under t
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by dbbolton 11y ago
>AI, biotech, and energy The problems you described with these fields are known as "barriers to entry". They are bad for competition and foster lower-order market structures and/or price distortion in virtually any industr
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by dbbolton 11y ago
Not me personally. I actually feel that unambiguous, clear monospace fonts (DejaVu, Fantasque) are easier to read in general, but I can't speak for others.
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by dbbolton 11y ago
I've seen a handful of psychiatrists and psychologists who were mostly interested in figuring out if I had true ADHD, a true reading disability, some combination of the two, etc. I was told that there is no diagnostic test for dyslexia
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by dbbolton 11y ago
In short, yes, what you said is right. The picture is just a decent approximation. My vision is fine, so the text I do "see" is perfectly clear. But it's almost like I'm not able to visually follow and parse the text int
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by dbbolton 11y ago
I am dyslexic, and just for some background info I have uncorrected 20/20 vision but my symptoms are exacerbated by comorbid ADHD. I'm sure everyone experiences it differently, but the image on the left is a pretty close approxima
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by dbbolton 11y ago
It sounds like you are describing elements of both piracy/theft (in which the offender fails to obtain or adhere to a license) and a compulsory license (in which there is a predetermined usage fee but no consent is required). With a co
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by dbbolton 11y ago
Medical student here- I completely agree. Auscultation is an important component of physical examination, and most of this article's arguments against it just seem silly. Ignoring the obvious etymological fallacy, it's just not
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by dbbolton 11y ago
Your definition doesn't really fit in the context of the article though, since it applies equally to Ballmer. The author was clearly trying to foil Ballmer (in the literary sense) by painting Jobs as a much more classical type of geniu

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