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I've handled 2 calls (and missed a few others). 1. Woman asking what color a sweater was, to confirm its color. Was maybe a 30 second call. 2. Teenager with a box of paint supplies…

In the US, asbestos litigation has a special system where lots of companies are named in each suit, then they compete to eliminate themselves as the main contributors to the person…

Lucerna Health | Senior Python engineers | ONSITE | Salt Lake City, UT | https://lucernahealth.com Help us build and scale our healthcare data pipeline and build analytical tooling…

Yes. Napa and other brake manufacturers are called into lots of mesothelioma trials. Brake pad exposure is usually smaller contributors to such cases. That is, the victim often had…

A podcast, think it was Stuff to Blow Your Mind, did a podcast on the Guinea Worm and talked about this at length. The worm is wildly infectious. Every incident requires immediate …

Stuff to Blow Your Mind - nice depth of dive into many topics with some humor, not taking itself too seriously. And the hosts have pleasant voices.

Indeed! This was mentioned in David Brin's book "Earth". It discussed tracking mosquitoes with vision or radar or something and using lasers to zap them. The interesting bit was on…

This type of "low tech" idea seems like the kind of thing Google, Yelp, and all the other big companies should be doing a better job with. I have celiac and presumably Google has f…

Geez, they identified the company I work for as well. It's unsettling.

Same here - my insurance stayed exactly the same going from a 2010 Nissan Altima to a new Tesla Model 3.

I'm American and have mixed feelings on this. National Parks can definitely be massive operations during the summer months so I understand charging a fee. But it also removes this …

My first encounter with a "just 10 more years" projection was while writing a paper on zinc in middle school. My reference book about mining and metallurgy discussed declining rese…

I also think our hands could do more in keyboard position. Lift off slightly and gestures could be recognized by a camera, even things like 2-finger scrolling could be done by lift…

From Chrome (and maybe Firefox) you can export an extension to a local folder and view the source. Also, many are on github that you can check out and play with. Find one that does…

The tricks discussed in CERT classes (which are well worth taking - very interesting material) is to go to back of store because few people think to. Same with concerts and other e…

Have you read "The Rosie Project"? It explored some similar ideas as a fun novel.

That's a good point about long past experience shading future interactions, but I don't feel it exempts from harsh judgment. The ability to consider individuals separately from som…

Most clinical documentation in EHRs is template based with lots of boilerplate into which key words and phrases are dropped. And some template sections are free text, enabling high…

I disagree that version control is inappropriate. I worked for a company whose primary product was tracking government legislation through a database built on Subversion. (acted as…

Possibly "Axiomatic", a short story collection. It has incredible material.

I went to high school with a fellow like Shkreli and with same story: rising fortunes, financial lying, fraud, conviction. Same traits as above, though unlike Shkreli this guy was …

weird! The lockered one at our complex is really slick. A room with an ipad and camera is bizarre.

It's true, TVs don't have the same experience the painting. However, they enable a lot of other abilities that let you experience art in a very different way. With a 4K screen (eve…

That's essentially the idea of what we were building. Ran out of time due to moving and job change, but I had that working great on Chromecast. Chromecast at least then was awfully…

Art software startups are a tough proposition. Google invests heavily in art and offers it on Chromecast as a screensaver. Amazon does the same on Fire Stick. Neither is customizab…