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easyfrag
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Comment #30151719
Wouldn't there be an implied consent to routine data collection during a physician visit? A clinician may also make notes on patient appearance or mannerisms that they feel may be …
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Comment #28481253
I've moved to a work from home arrangement so I can have my own office.
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Comment #23241388
To that point, wasn't it Ballmer who really pushed for MS to spend $40B on Yahoo?
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Comment #22990031
Being part of an org that uses O365, searching for such a product is the first thing I did after seeing this.
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Comment #19482524
"Deadlines are always arbitrary. Deadlines are a tool used by managers to control costs. That is their only purpose. Often, managers try to justify deadlines by citing other depend…
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Comment #18480716
Adam Corolla tells a story of an old Nissan pickup he had when he was younger and poorer. It was so easy to steal he wired in a hidden switch to power the fuel pump, truck was stol…
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Comment #17659016
Lots of great ideas here and this is a long shot but you could try to engage the placebo effect. Go get some bullshit homeopathic “medicine” as a pseudo-treatment for your fear. Th…
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Comment #17289353
Since Germany/Deutschland has an ‘e’ shouldn't it be “whiskey”?
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Comment #16002308
I was pleasantly surprised he was 47 when he did this, not that he wasn't qualified or capable, just assumed there would be a bias towards a younger astronaut.
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Comment #14342322
What I'd like to know is how Bezos convinced investors & shareholders to accept those razor thin margins and profits for all those years. I get the growth argument, but we're into …
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Comment #14126814
I wonder if YouTube Live and other similar services could scale up to serve in a time of true crises. Back in 2001 the web's bandwidth limitations were laid bare on 9/11 and that w…
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Comment #13806418
I've heard Drew Pinsky rail against physicians for their role in the epidemic. But he also mentions an assist from the legal community in that they've taught patients they are enti…
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Comment #12744396
I have 2 kids and have consciously tried to avoid the helicopter-parent mindset and let them play on their own. But now as they approach adolescence I find myself more interested i…
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Comment #11768629
I agree but I look at it as palate cleaner after the prequels, that being said in episode 8 Finn better not end up in carbonite.
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Comment #10194717
probably not, this is a good dry run for car financing though
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Comment #10027413
Are there applications of this technology in other areas of radiology as an automated second opinion? Would the culture of Radiology welcome such checks or would it be seen as a th…
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Comment #9618834
Anyone aware of evidence on comprehension & retention of audiobooks? Obviously that medium is not ideal for all subject matter but I've been recently listening to a mix of fiction …
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Comment #8275464
Way back before the mp3 era Garth Brooks' passion was stamping out the sale of used CDs http://www.deseretnews.com/article/304702/GARTH-BROOKS-HASNT...
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Comment #8271556
This is worse. The complaint about Standard Markdown was that it appeared to be hijacking the existing "brand" in order to present itself as the definitive version. One definition …
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Comment #8089622
Yep, summer 2001 was the "Summer of the Shark Attacks" because of a couple of high-profile incidences. The news media played it up as some sort of epidemic although there was no si…
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Comment #7620607
Well in the case of lead wouldn't the prediction be: a jurisdiction that removes lead from its petroleum products will experience a significant decrease in crime rates about 20 yea…
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Comment #7444373
But are they IBM subsidiarities rather than IBM USA?
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Comment #7400140
My favourite aggregator Feedbin had its 1st birthday a few days ago. http://blog.feedbin.com/2014/03/11/feedbins-first-year/
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Comment #7334862
I think there's 2 reasons: Often times the services are contracted out and those contracts are often subject to "lowest bid wins" rules. It is very difficult to judge a quality lik…
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Comment #7334787
I don't think Americans get how distrustful other nations are of American-based cloud providers. It is not a matter of Google's or any other providers' behaviour but of the US Gove…