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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 situ…

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…

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) the…

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.

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!

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?

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 carefu…

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 thousand…

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 partic…

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…

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 …

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 buil…

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 market…

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 q…

> 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 hi…

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…

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 incen…

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 abo…

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?

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 communicat…

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 n…

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…

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 busine…

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 bu…

How about we all agree that people shouldn't have to work in inhumane conditions?