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can I ask what make/model you settled on?

"Scandal" should be avoided because it "degrades the trust of the public in the profession." An age-old saw trotted out to justify the cover-up of diverse kinds of negligence and m…

>And yet some of them got the surgeries and some didn’t, so it’s unclear if the control was adequate. It is what it is. The documented evidence suggests that the medical histories …

>The treatment cures (in around 97% of cases) tonsilitis. I feel like this is a kind of doublespeak and a rather misleading way of phrasing things. It of course stands to reason th…

>TVs have gone up massively, mostly because flatscreens make ridiculous TVs possible. Your assertions about price movements sound rather curious as they appear nearly the opposite …

A very limited number of features have improved (e.g. if you have HepC). At the same time there has been massive price inflation for things that are marketed as "improvements" with…

Our system is such a disaster, even "preventative care" can be a wolf in sheep's clothing. There's basically nothing to disincentivize doctors or pharma from aggressively selling d…

Health care has leeched a huge amount of wage growth from the economy, in businesses large and small. https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-09-28/health-ca...

>these days it seems to be mostly about generating clickbait. Yes it's a bastardization of their profession, but everyone needs to eat. Who knows if we'll ever get back to the qual…

How is the marshmallow test (or "The Boy Who Ate the Marshmallow") different from "The Boy Who Cried Wolf"? Both teach a lesson with a nugget of wisdom, the former about the perils…

Is this field even about "science" per se? It seems more oriented towards fashioning just-so-stories that lend a scientific veneer to some piece of folk wisdom in order to generate…

Paper records, human memory.... Comparing growth in data storage versus energy usage per capita is interesting. Even if you look back to the founding of the U.S., the change in ene…

>The traditional routes and social contract are broken. There is definitely some truth here. Can you find a partner and/or community of people who share your understanding of the t…

Doesn't this already violate a bunch of laws? (undisclosed advertising, wire fraud or something like it, etc) Just enforce them. Can't do much about overseas people but you can pen…

>My god, the author of this story made all the wrong choices. Did he? He kept his job, didn't get drunk or hooked on pain pills, bailed out what sounded like a very uncooperative e…

If it's about a public figure (even a limited-purpose public figure), there's no problem because that speech is already highly protected against libel claims. If it's basically jus…

Just eliminate the various liability shields that have been enacted for third-party content. In certain areas (e.g. the personals website crackdown) we are moving in this direction…

>how someone like me who only has a BS in Physics and Electrical Engineering manages to make 1.5x-4.0x what they make my first job out of college, then there is something seriously…

I actually disagree with the idea that academia doesn't teach you much about "how the world works." In my life, my time in academia was probably the most "real world" experience of…

I'm not sympathetic to the gripe that there's no "proper career guidance" in grad school. If you want a ready-made career track, you should not be in a PhD program. Yes, academia i…