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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…

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 us…

18 microRogans.

For what it’s worth, I didn’t mean it as an insult.

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.…

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...

> 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 th…

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 …

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 ag…

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, …

I mean... your example is /true/, but I’m hard pressed to think of a second one. One example isn’t a trend.

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 migratio…

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 i…

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 Egy…

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…

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 wo…

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 s…

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 …

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…

> 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 most healthcare workers, it is unknown to them. N95 is the standard. And P100s were sold out early into this adventure.

No. Last time I worked shifts in a pulm/sleep medicine clinic was about 18 months 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 the…

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…