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Because it’s bad to be stupid. People are ashamed to be stupid because it’s a shortcoming. There is no world in which we can value a trait (intelligence) and not feel proportionate…

“Do no evil” is idealism. “Don’t undermine our marketing to grab data assets that don’t align with our business model” is cold self-interest. I have much more faith in a company st…

Yes. As a physician, I wish more folks appreciated that “disability” is a property of the relationship between a person and their environment, and can emerge (or disappear) based o…

As an aside, for future potential markets: powerlifters have the same sort of needs/problems around chalking for grip.

Same question. I’m a lifelong NYer, and a metro card has never failed in me in use or in structural integrity. I tend to replace them every five years or so for eventually /losing/…

In my advanced cardiac life support training, an EMT once put it this way (addressing some nerves at being responsible for a critical life or death event): Their heart is stopped -…

I was briefly interested, until I found that full access as a physician requires using a Facebook account to prove identity. Thanks, no thanks.

Any bank at which you are a customer will notarize documents for you for free.

> A problem with modern psychology is the diagnostic criteria aren't very much based on underlying causes as on being able to reliably diagnose patients based on symptoms regardles…

I don’t really know why this prompted straight up downvotes. These are the exact concerns voiced in multiple Nature articles over the past decade or so.

They comprise a large percentage of the caloric intake of a lot of bird species, which are already fragile due to ecosystem fracturing. This could result in a hit to bird populatio…

Neuronal glucose uptake is via transporter GLUT1, which is insulin independent. Insulin-dependent glucose uptake is primarily GLUT4. Even in insulin absence, the brain gets its sug…

Serotonin syndrome is due to an excess of serotonin almost exclusively due to serotonin agonists. Seizure is pretty rare - it produces stuff that looks like seizure (myoclonus, tre…

Do you have any sort of citation for this? I’m not trying to be snarky, I’d really like to read more. My understanding of the med lit is that bipolar and epilepsy aren’t particular…

> T his reads out exactly how a manic or hypomanic person would experience things and rationalize past events and feelings. The idea that it has to be something complex and in a se…

Does anyone remember that Reddit post where a guy thought his landlord was sneaking into his apartment and leaving him notes? He insisted the handwriting was completely different. …

They went on to describe the forearm experiment which showed a much higher rate of awareness. I don’t see why you’ve chosen to omit that. You seem to casually discard the idea that…

How do folks contribute to the list of game types? I went in looking for a blades in the dark campaign, and found it wasn’t a valid search term. I know it’s not as mainstream as d&…

Are machines immune to entropy? If not, I suspect that a few thousand years of transit time still pose an obstacle, even for a machine civilization.

My main complaint about Firefox mobile is the menu locations - three dots on the upper right, hamburger on lower right, page select on bottom. With the issue being that there's not…

The problem, from my perspective, is that we're fighting the battle on two fronts: I need to get all my data from my old EMR into my new EMR, and I need my new EMR to slot in where…

I made my comment two weeks ago, describing a fall in mortality that began three weeks prior. The z-score of mortality for Israel peaked as I described in my last post, and has con…

Since HLX has become increasingly required, I've seen that the lock-in doesn't mean diddly squat. Now we're not "locked in", but for my new vendor to drop-in means I have to pay an…

What’s the business model? Free app without updated privacy details raises a flag for me.