prostheticvamp

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by prostheticvamp 6y ago
https://github.com/landakram/kiwi I don’t know when it was last updated, but as far as I can tell, it’s feature-complete for my needs (with zero lock-in). I actually just tried out OP’s Obsidian and ... it’s nice. In m
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by prostheticvamp 6y ago
Counteroffer: I use Kiwi to create a personal wiki on my phone. It sits in a Dropbox folder I always have open as a project in Sublime. It’s also the folder that my NotePlan app uses - so my todo list, calendar, and wiki are all the same se
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by prostheticvamp 6y ago
18 microRogans.
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Even in the 1700s, Book Clubs Were About Drinking and Socializing(atlasobscura.com)
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by prostheticvamp 6y ago
For what it’s worth, I didn’t mean it as an insult.
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by prostheticvamp 6y ago
I have the strong suspicion this person doesn’t participate in book clubs. Or much in the way of social events. Mistaking “book club” for “book class” isn’t a small category error.
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by prostheticvamp 6y ago
But a big part of how it’s doing that is using technologies to unbundle functions, that used to be bundled for practical reasons, to create new efficiencies and value. So...
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by prostheticvamp 6y ago
> On the other Hand people like Dr. Erickson get censored, because they simply dare to question the lock down Erickson, among other things, makes provably false statements about the prevalence and mortality of covid19. You’re allowed to
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by prostheticvamp 6y ago
I read the linked article and it was terrible. It kept playing a sleight-of-Hans between him being an example of what monopolies empower (which he is), and he as somehow the cause of monopolization (which it doesn’t support at all, it just
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by prostheticvamp 6y ago
Sorry, I was unclear. I meant that aside from the conflict over PPE - which has happened more than once - I am not aware of instances of the state and federal government working against one another.
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by prostheticvamp 6y ago
CMS, as a regulatory agency, does have a high priority in making sure it’s got the legal right to make regulations pertaining to a thing. Because otherwise those regs are illegal, which causes lawsuits and chaos. You make it sound like they
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by prostheticvamp 6y ago
I mean... your example is /true/, but I’m hard pressed to think of a second one. One example isn’t a trend.
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by prostheticvamp 6y ago
As someone who was involved in the evolution of HL7 from the policy/medical side, I can tell you: EMR systems lock us (healthcare systems) into proprietary formats to make migration to new clients difficult; likewise, we don’t (didn’t)
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by prostheticvamp 6y ago
That’s one of the dumbest platitudes ever deployed to deflect criticism, and I wish people would use it correctly. “This thing has absolutely no evidence of reliability or safety in a critical environment” is not criticizing it for being le
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by prostheticvamp 6y ago
If you mean airport screenings, one presumes the usual pre-gate screenings. If you mean visas and the like, also yes; to go from Egypt to Israel requires both an exit visa from Egypt and a tourist visa from Israel.
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by prostheticvamp 6y ago
I’m generally skeptical of content marketing that is mostly comprised of vague self-praise. I don’t know why this is on the HN front page. Though I guess arguably that’s a point in favor of their marketing competence.
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by prostheticvamp 6y ago
Speaking as a mental health specialist: No that is not. We treat disease. Pretending we can fine-tune personality traits is quackery, and no respectable mental health specialist would lay claim to that. But don’t worry - quacks abound, and
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by prostheticvamp 6y ago
I couldn’t tolerate this writing long enough to get through more than half the article. There’s the “history is cyclical” trope, the “I have learned how to read history” repeated self-aggrandizement without any specifics, despite going on l
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by prostheticvamp 6y ago
Yes, if you focus on that imagery, sure. Human tears also have antibacterial properties that have been explored for antibiotic purposes. The tears of grieving parents used to save future children from death! Or, you know, it’s just a protei
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by prostheticvamp 6y ago
I spent hours on the phone today with labcorp trying to acquire these for our healthcare center staff. Not a single employee knew how to sell them, or that they were even something labcorp offered.
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by prostheticvamp 6y ago
> Instead, the government could institute price controls and distribute directly to those in need or allow all private purchases to go throug Every country in the world is hunting for N95s right now. For the US to institute price control
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by prostheticvamp 6y ago
For most healthcare workers, it is unknown to them. N95 is the standard. And P100s were sold out early into this adventure.
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by prostheticvamp 6y ago
No. Last time I worked shifts in a pulm/sleep medicine clinic was about 18 months ago.
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by prostheticvamp 6y ago
Hahahahah. Oh man. The vast majority of patients take months or longer to get acclimated to the machine. Most will say they feel /worse/, because the machine gets in the way of their sleep at first. I look forward to hearing more
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by prostheticvamp 6y ago
Because (a) there are problems that are not sleep apnea that should not be missed, and (b) the cpap pressure needs to be titrated to your need, it’s not a binary device. Admittedly, (b) is now less of an issue since there are a handful of a
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by prostheticvamp 6y ago
No, THAT’s untrue. Look at your own link. You can sterilize the mask to preserve its filtration ability, but no one has shown it maintains fit. A poorly fit N95 is no protection at all, which is why hc workers get formally fit tested when s
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by prostheticvamp 6y ago
Because best data to date is that sterilization procedures damage the mask in ways that render it unsafe. When someone comes up with data finding a safe way to do so, the masks won’t go in the trash. In the meantime, I’d you have the masks
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by prostheticvamp 6y ago
Hospitals don’t generally buy line items. Tiny healthcare centers do. Hospitals get tied into group purchasing organizations (GPOs), which control the supply pipeline to hospitals in exchange for buying at scale. But that’s beside the point
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by prostheticvamp 6y ago
Just gotta like my nose in, as a medical professional involved in procuring PPE for my small health chain: We run into fraud and scammers trying to take advantage of our desperation on a daily basis. Probably about 20% of our supply leads.
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by prostheticvamp 6y ago
These articles always omit the most interesting part: > Montell and lead author Nicole Leung, who recently completed her predoctoral studies at UC Santa Barbara, suspected opsin molecules might be at work in detecting subtle chemical sig

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