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Physical therapy is evidence-based health practice. This is sort of a "no shit" piece. Doctors want to operate on you - it's what they are trained for, it's how the make money. Hospitals make money off of surgery. Yet physical therapy gets better results.

Lookup washout studies vs knee surgery with results like this [1].

1. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/study-suggests-co...

Is it worrying? I see it as an opportunity to create and use a competing service.

I think a perception problem occurs if less-qualified women get more funding than men. That means that the male scientists who get funded will actually just be better at their jobs, which is going to have the effect of perpetuating the perception that men make better scientists (which I think is obviously untrue, but this has always been a problem with affirmative action policies). I don't really see a way to solve this at the grant funding level.

Yes, google it.

> To my naive understanding of evolution, it has little incentive to fix anything that breaks after reproduction age. So I would not expect evolution to catch on cancer ever.

We have high cancer rates for children as well.

The fact that Roberts actually wrote this without his head exploding is astounding: "Vote dilution in the one-person, one-vote cases refers to the idea that each vote must carry equal weight. That requirement does not extend to political parties; it does not mean that each party must be influential in proportion to the number of its supporters."

How can each vote carry equal weight if 60% of the voters get to select 30% of the elected officials?

The pharmacies aren't the point where price is inflated. It's the pharmaceutical companies, which make the drugs, not the stores that sell them.

That was a great ad for Slack, but I don't think it's true. I've never had any issues with any other chat app. Many people still use Facebook chat and IRC and the functionality is basically identical between each of the new chat apps (well, except you can do way more with IRC).

Or they got offers of money.

Man that is an extremely ugly language. Is this supposed to convince people to use it? Who’s designing this language?

> Money doesn't make a difference in grad school

It makes a very big difference in getting there.

The people at the top like to be seen and heard, feel their own impact, and they don't trust their employees to work if they can't see them.

Obviously that's a broad generalization and untrue of places that do allow remote work. And often middle management is happy with remote work, but execs limit it.

I see responses like "I'd rather have proximity to co-workers so we can easily share ideas in informal ways." I think that's the exception amongst developers. Informal ideas are just as easily shared on slack, or by email, or on Jira. In fact, I find that getting someone to write something down means you have get better ideas coming your way (and less noise).

> "but don't abolish co-location just abolish the meetings."

The issue isn't always formal meetings. It's Bob, John, and Shirley coming by your desk. It's Joe and Jane having a conversation 5 feet away from you. It's the weird guy growing strange creatures in the refrigerator with 20 pairs of shoes piled under his desk that comes to bother you every time he's stuck on something instead of working through it himself.

And the time savings! An extra hour of life per day if I don't have to commute - and I take a train a very short distance or bike it (ok, I like the biking). For some of my coworkers, they may gain two hours per day. How much happier and more productive would they be? So much more.

> So if you look nationally, yes, the coverage is split between several companies, but at the local levels the areas serviced are often carved up such that there are local monopolies.

It's not just that they are monopolies, but that they are anticompetitive monopolies. In some cases, they are even granted by local governments.

> international students have some advantage that domestic students do not.

They often do have more money. And rampant cheating. But regardless, Chinese students can attend any university in China or the US, while an American cannot realistically attend school in China. Obviously that means China is going to have a brighter educational future, as they use our system to advance their own.

Don’t most of them return to their home countries? Seems like freeing up those spots for American students that will stay would be a boon for American science.

> The overwhelming majority of the tourists I encounter fall into the Millennial bracket, and I don't think it is possible for them to be less enthusiastic about visiting the US.

You could say the same about American millenials. We aren't thrilled to be here either - if we all had dual citizenship with another first-world nation, I'd bet 70% of us would have left the country.

I doubt we've ever had an economy that was as strong (or at least, looked so good on paper), while people had such a negative opinion of what the future holds. Trump and the Senate Republicans (and their supporters) are destroying this nation.

Not just download, but write yourself in a short time. And the code could be shared, and I’d guess you can build a decent system to do this in a few hundred lines.

It’s a ridiculous proposition to restrict software access, akin to making it illegal to write on paper.

The title of the article (which is different from the title here, which is merely clickbaity) is misleading, though there is the potential that ad blocking becomes much worse due to the deprecation of the webRequest api mentioned in the article. If that does have a significant impact on ad blocking, I would expect many users (both devs and casual users) to switch to Firefox.

It looks like that resets with each search, but thanks for the tip.

If I’m doing a google search, you’re probably right. If I’m searching my gmail account, you’re probably wrong. I’ve searched for exact phrases that occur in my email (for both gmail and outlook) and failed to get the matches anywhere in the results (and had to find them by other means). Same with Jira. It’s very frustrating to have to sort through hundreds or thousands of messages for the result you wanted.

- customers expect "personalized" search results; having built up a history of searches centered around particular subjects (say, programming), you'll expect much different results for "string" than the general population gets;

Not always the desired behavior. This should be toggleable. It becomes very difficult to find results outside of what google thinks you want.

Falsehoods Google, Microsoft, JIRA, and others seem to believe about search:

That, when searching for a string, I don't want exact matches to appear in the results.

If your search ever DOESN'T return exact matches (barring common misspelling correction), you're doing something seriously wrong.

My general rule is to skip bars that have bouncers, because it means they regularly get a shitty (and sometimes violent) crowd.

I don’t think you need to learn every cli tool in depth. I don’t know awk, but I recognize its power. However, I’ve got a set of tools I find easier to use, a few that I’ve written, and Ruby or Python at the command line. I’m sure awk could replace many cli tools, but at the cost of learning a new language (and cognitive load with each use) it hasn’t been worth it.

Another perspective on this is as western malfeasance in economic and actual warfare in the east, which we are now starting to pay for as China ignores our IP and denies us the ability to compete in their market.

Or you'll just get harassed more as a black person[1].

Funny enough (actually the opposite of funny), the systems used by law enforcement are designed to create more false positives, which then leaves it up to law enforcement to decide which "leads" to follow up on. This will certainly be used to validate abusive behavior.

Additionally, facial recognition is used in some countries right now to silence political dissidents[2]. If you think that can't or won't happen in the US, I'd suggest you look at how activists have been treated in the past (beaten, arrested, and sometimes killed).

1. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/09/technology/facial-recogni...

2. https://www.eff.org/pages/face-recognition

From my observation, these companies become wealthy and successful first, then develop awful cultures as innovation becomes less important (and more difficult as you get away from your core business), and extracting maximum value from current capabilities (sales) becomes more important. Once you get to making billions of dollars, your organization can afford to be a lot less efficient and less innovative technologically.

This is a meta-analysis of 13 studies. The rate change is certainly real, but remember this wasn't a study targeting that characteristic. I also didn't read the studies mentioned, so I don't know what time frame the change appears over (is it over a patients lifetime? a year? who knows?).

Also, all of the patients were Asian, which could also have some effect, and they were all lean. As far as I'm aware, these aren't characteristics of those who usually receive recommendations for regularly taking aspirin. Meanwhile, heart disease kills nearly a quarter of Americans.

> Results The search identified 13 randomized clinical trials of low-dose aspirin use for primary prevention, enrolling 134 446 patients. Pooling the results from the random-effects model showed that low-dose aspirin, compared with control, was associated with an increased risk of any intracranial bleeding (8 trials; relative risk, 1.37; 95% CI, 1.13-1.66; 2 additional intracranial hemorrhages in 1000 people), with potentially the greatest relative risk increase for subdural or extradural hemorrhage (4 trials; relative risk, 1.53; 95% CI, 1.08-2.18) and less for intracerebral hemorrhage and subarachnoid hemorrhage. Patient baseline features associated with heightened risk of intracerebral hemorrhage with low-dose aspirin, compared with control, were Asian race/ethnicity and low body mass index.

> Conclusions and Relevance Among people without symptomatic cardiovascular disease, use of low-dose aspirin was associated with an overall increased risk of intracranial hemorrhage, and heightened risk of intracerebral hemorrhage for those of Asian race/ethnicity or people with a low body mass index.

Average rates appear to be 12.5 per billion miles, and it appears Tesla Autopilot is at 3 for over a billion miles with the system engaged. That's a quarter of the usual fatality rate, for anyone counting. Saying "there’s no evidence that it is" isn't true; the above statements (and supporting facts) are evidence.

Good. No more 4 hours challenges with unlimited scope.