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by luddaite 7y ago
Testing should be reserved for situations where the outcome of the test will change management. One such situation is whether or not the patient should be quarantined. Another situation is whether or not medical management will be affected
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by luddaite 7y ago
Will ER rooms need to be re-designed to accommodate bedside MRI? The ER at the hospital I work at already has special rooms for Gyn and Ophtho complaints so it wouldn't be that far fetched for there to be a room designed for Stroke cod
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by luddaite 7y ago
I think the recommendation from USPSTF is every 3 years. If a provider is forcing yearly examinations on you without a good reason (i.e. suspicious findings on the path report) then I would consider talking to your provider or finding a new
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by luddaite 8y ago
Isn't this approach that merchants such as Massdrop are taking? They have a small number of product categories that are heavily curated by the staff and the users.
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by luddaite 8y ago
I would be all over any search engine subscription that guaranteed that none of my information would ever be stored in any way. Just give me the option to pay!
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by luddaite 8y ago
I remember reading that SpaceX employees work crazy long hours and that the burnout rate is high. Is the same true for the people who work the venues or go on the road with bands?
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by luddaite 8y ago
I ordered new electric toothbrush heads from Amazon about a year ago and ended up receiving a very obvious knockoff product. It might be my fault for not reading the listing carefully but this definitely would not have happened in a brick a
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by luddaite 8y ago
Aren't tech leaders such as Musk and Jobs different from rock stars though? Both groups might exhibit poor personal behavior but only tech leaders have the ability to make thousands of employees work in miserable conditions. I agree th
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by luddaite 8y ago
I've recently started doing the opposite. I'll search Amazon to see what products are recommended and see if I can find those (or something similar) in local stores. This is particularly true when I am buying something that I don&
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by luddaite 8y ago
On the flipside, I really appreciate a short but sweet single player campaign. Titanfall 2 had some truly awesome levels (time travel!) and ended when it had said what it wanted to say. I really dislike games that feel drawn out like too li
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by luddaite 8y ago
If we assume that the premise here is correct (there is some amount of exodus of technical talent from SV), isn't it still a good thing? My impression is that the result of having all the major tech companies located in one region is t
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by luddaite 8y ago
I am just entering the job market and I would like to try and make this my career as well. I'd like to go from early stage company to early stage company and help the founders build something cool. Any tips or advice?
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by luddaite 8y ago
Certainly the lack of jobs is partially due to all the businesses that Amazon puts out of business by leveraging all of their AWS money to out compete companies in unrelated markets?
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by luddaite 8y ago
The company I work at manufactures these instruments. There are a bunch of videos on Youtube explaining how these systems work if you search for "flow sorting". I can also answer questions if you have them.
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by luddaite 8y ago
> Aren't FPGA's used mostly to test/design a circuit that you would then go on to actually fabricate/build? We use FPGAs in cell sorting because we need to make decisions off of high dimensional data with low latency.
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by luddaite 8y ago
We don't know the full story and likely never will. What if the doctors were correct in their assessment that the patient was unfit to make medical decisions and that she was being coerced by parents to act against her own best interes
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by luddaite 8y ago
I agree that the monetary incentives are definitely incorrectly aligned in the current healthcare system as is. That said, I don't think that monetary incentives are the only incentives present here. Most physicians don't go into
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by luddaite 8y ago
Ethics councils are often hybrid in nature, including members of the local community that do not stand to benefit financially from patient care. I agree that informing patients about the presence of these governing bodies is a difficult pro
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by luddaite 8y ago
I have definitely seen anecdotal stories of this occurring. Do you have any evidence to back up your claim that this type of behavior is widespread?
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by luddaite 8y ago
It's easy to attribute this whole situation to greed and/or malice but I think that fails Hanlon's razor. I can easily see this whole situation occurring because of poor communication and the culture of paternalism in medicin
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by luddaite 8y ago
It seems pretty unfair to malign the entire field of medicine due to a single bad actor. I went to medical school prior to becoming an engineer and my impression was that most if not all of my classmates were genuine in their desire to help
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by luddaite 8y ago
This is giving me flashbacks to the whole STAP cells fiasco of a few years ago where a research group in Japan published a "simple" way to generate pluripotent stem cells. Everyone and their mother tried to replicate the result an
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by luddaite 8y ago
If we give Stripe's management the benefit of the doubt then I think you are correct. If they are acting rationally then they would seek out technologies that threaten their business model and try to incorporate them to mitigate that r
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by luddaite 8y ago
Over the last few months, I decided to try and reduce my Amazon.com shopping as much as possible. As a result, I have been doing my item finding on Amazon and then going out and buying the item at a brick and mortar. I find it to be an inte
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by luddaite 8y ago
How about we all agree that people shouldn't have to work in inhumane conditions?
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by luddaite 8y ago
If the fingerprint frequencies are in the audible range, wouldn't you hear a brief humming when the fingerprint signal is being broadcast?
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by luddaite 8y ago
I wonder if you could solder a low pass filter into the electronics that drive the speakers in a TV in order to disable this sort of tracking. It might be even easier if you have an external receiver.
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by luddaite 8y ago
I don't think replacing politicians with scientists and engineers is really the solution here. We will always need the interpersonal skills that politicians bring to the table. However, these politicians should really employ more scien
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by luddaite 8y ago
With regard to firing grad students: I think it is quite rare to see grad students fired. Typically there are two strategies to get rid of a graduate student: 1) Just graduate them (either with a masters or with a undeserved PhD) 2) Make th
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by luddaite 8y ago
I did my graduate school in engineering and saw many of the same problems. Projects were often done simply because the matched the "brand" of the lab, meaning that they used some technology that had been developed in the lab. The

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