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My institution's been included in studies primarily for patient access. If we're not included, then good luck getting enough patients, and even then it can take several years to en…

It's generally permitted to share de-identified patient data. As long as you're not sharing patients names, medical record numbers, birthdays, and a couple of other fields, you sho…

Most theories I've seen suggest that it was created by Simone's mom. Whenever Simone mentions her mom, Mrs. Davis responds with "Redirecting..." suggesting that the algorithm has a…

The book had 2 sequels, which show that Colossus was working to keep humanity safe. (It would've really helped if Colossus had told us what it was protecting us from, but even comp…

There are an awful lot of expensive apps with web front ends that only worked with IE6 for years.

It's possible to stop a trial because the new drug is much more effective than the old drug. It's also possible to stop a trial because the new drug's significantly worse than the …

Jeph Jacques of Questionable Content fame had his account suspended for the same thing. https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4911

Tibco does/did middleware. When I used it 20 odd years ago, it provided a robust messaging system for apps across the enterprise. We used it to communicate between a half dozen sys…

There are plenty of parts of the US with really poor cell coverage. Even if everything's working perfectly, there's no guarantee that your car can update. Having a car die because …

That's true to the comics. If anything, they toned down the hair. His sister tells him "You are utterly the stupidest, most self-centered, appallingest excuse for an anthropomorphi…

I found many of the changes to be an improvement. The early comics really hooked into the DC mythos, and while that was cool as a comics nerd to see how all that fit together, it w…

20-odd years ago, my team solved some performance issues in our desktop app by splitting a couple of tasks into their own threads on a computer with a single CPU. Being able to wri…

We had 21" CRTs back in the 90s for full page displays. I remember someone at a client injuring their back moving one. One of my former coworkers broke a desk by putting a CRT on i…

I have a Dell Latitude laptop. It absolutely doesn't have enough video ports for the monitors on my desk. And while it's got enough ports for my USB peripherals (barely), it's cert…

I remember reading about a team (I think in Japan) which had a "brash foreigner." If someone noticed something, they'd mention it to the foreigner, who would bring it up with highe…

Citrix does desktop virtualization. Back when I was involved with using their stuff (20 years ago), it was a lot faster for global users to connect to our Citrix server to run clie…

A lot of doctors don't listen to their patients. Go to almost any forum where they discuss a story like this, and you can get a ton of stories of patients (usually women) who suffe…

1) Google isn't carrying anything. It's your ISP that's actually carrying the bits to your house/work/phone/implants. 2) What google search is providing is literally content that t…