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Digital Xrays save time, pain and radiation

Electronic health records

Cordless instruments save pain for the hygienist / dentist and angst of moving around a cord

Cavitrons reduce hygiene pain and do a better job of removing calculus

Invisiline gives a significant part of the population an option of not having metal mouth

Then there's better techniques, materials and various other things. Dental offices have changed quite a bit in the last 25 years.

They're doing that in Minnesota too. But that's it. Just removing the emergency declaration. No other solutions to what to do are being proposed, just removing the declaration.

I do a lot of hiring of fresh out of university people. The amount of 2-3 page resumes with their 9th grade achievements astonishes me.

The key phrase is "my team would interpret it."

Everyone interprets HIPAA differently and based on a statement like: "Continuing to use Windows XP after 4/8/14 (or other unsupported operating systems) becomes a HIPAA violation if it’s not addressed in your security risk analysis[0]." You can run XP indefinitely as long as your IT says it's OK and they've "secured it properly." However, if they do get hacked or whatnot, they can get a fine if their security analysis wasn't good enough.

I don't recommend it. I actually despise it and try my hardest to get people to drop it. But in the end, I've had to deal with a lot of XP running IE8 systems that need connections to the software I'm in charge of. There's nothing I can do unless I get rid of those users and most of the time I can't because I have to "support modern browsers" as noted in the contract and the contract is with the state, not the individual users. Yes, the contracts will get updated to be more specific, but most of the contracts are on 5 year cycles.

State .gov contract work is amazing. /s

[0] https://pimsyehr.com/resources/compliance/hippa-compliance/2...

I can think of a couple of things at least in the prehospitalmedial field. Bluetooth ekg machines are used to do documentation and needed to have their data sent to the hospital as fast as possible. Also Bluetooth scanners are used to scan drivers licenses and triage tags.

The less manual input a provider has to do, the better. Then they can spend their time making sure the patient is being taken care of.

Most ems documentation is done on web applications instead of desktop apps so it can work on anything from an iPad to a surface to a tough book.

You don't want to know how these things are hooked up today.

The car actually did hit a bus while in autonomous mode. To me, it was an odd situation though. The lane the car was in was for parked cars as well as traffic and it was ending at a turn lane or something. http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-video-google-car...

I'm 6'3 as well with a long body and don't fit in 80ish % of cars and I fit wonderfully in a Model S even with the sun roof. Heck, I could even pull off sitting in back if a 'normal' sized person was driving.

I am very pessimistic I will fit into a Model 3 though, especially with a car seat in back. My hope is to find a used S in a couple years.

When I was laid off in 2009, I got 2 weeks 'severance' even though I had 10 PTO days accrued. (They basically just paid out my paid leave). This was for a software consultancy business.

I would like to live in your 'normal'.

For the shadier dentists (and they exist), sealants don't bring in as much money as a root canal.

For everyone else, it doesn't help with cavities between the teeth where a lot of people get cavities. The sealants just sit on the upper side of the tooth.

According to the planet money episode, Coke never actually implemented it. They just discussed the merits of it and if it would actually work.

That's exactly the position I'm in, at least eventually.

My son was born in early July and my wife and I are trying to see if we should wait until he's a full 5 and be a year older than everyone or go when he's basically 4.

The extra year in a job to me isn't trivial. It's a 50k + extra year of experience decision. I left high school a year early and even though I'm the same age as a lot of people around me, I have 20k extra in my 401(k), I'm in a management position and I have graduate school finished.

The start advantage is fading as I get older though.

It probably still depends on the child. Some can probably handle it better than others. Personally, I'll have to wait and see to see what the little guy is like and what he can handle.

"Quick Checkups" are less profitable. However, Scaling and root planing (periodontal treatment) is super profitable which is just a more time intensive version of a checkup. I do know of some dentists that tell their hygienists to not do a good job so they can get the periodontal treatment and charge $400 a quarter instead of $150 every 6 months.

Source: Wife was a hygienist before she burned out from contortionist body pain and having to make commission.

Because doctors don't wear masks to protect themselves. They wear them to protect the patients and avoid spreading diseases.

If you want one that's just rolling out, Sibley country in Minnesota is doing ftth even on farm sites.

They just started the rollout and iirc it should be done at least in the towns by next summer.

Rsfiber.com is the site to check out

Death Magnetic isn't too bad. Not Puppets good. But I listen to it every once in a while, where St. Anger was the most disappointing thing I ever experienced musically.

You have to remember St. Anger was a full 6 years after they put out anything original. They were trying to rekindle the old stuff, but it's hard to remember how it was to be hungry after being on top for so long.

If you ever saw the making of St. Anger documentary, you knew there was no way it was going to be good. James went into rehab 1/2 way through production out of nowhere. Everyone was angry with each other. Krik just wanted to play and then hang out with his horses on his ranch. Lars forgot how to drum. It was really bad.

Then all of a sudden they finally adjusted to being sober and hey, look at that. Something pretty good.

Here's a different take on that: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/03/we-know-where-you...

Ars 'creeped' out a couple of people by getting the license location data and doing look ups on people's plates. So yes, they may not be able to track everyone every where, but if someone wanted to know where 'you' were going it would be trivial to figure out. I'm not as worried about police and the .gov having the data. I'm more worried about when 'bad' people get access to that data and use it for nefarious purposes.

See the Federal security clearance hack for an example.

Manual manufacturing capacity maybe. The reason 'poorer' countries have a lot of manufacturing is directly related to human cost. 'Richer' countries produce tons of stuff. The production in the richer countries generates high technology products that are built with automated systems. This would lead to the production of the machines to be more reliable, have better materials and be more precise.

Having one person generate a better algorithm is an interesting. Having fewer, older, less reliable machines with a 90% "kill" rate go against higher end machines with a 60% "kill" rate. Who would 'win' in that one? I would have no idea.

What's stopping something like those warlords/cartels now from making drones to make sure everyone is obeying them? There are some of drones flying around, but they are nothing compared to what the United States throws over the middle east. We are already having machines fight wars for us. They are just remote controlled instead of being totally autonomous.

I'll be blunt. Your code is crap. Everyone's code is crap. Code I did 2 years ago was crap. Code I did 10 years ago: shudder.

Don't worry so much about what you "should" be doing and just have fun with it. I ended up making an Android app 3 years ago to help out my wife do "party sales". It ended up with 15k downloads. If I would have actually tried to turn that into a business, it might have actually worked. Was it good code? No. Is it on github. No. Do I say I had 15k downloads on an Android App at every meet up / interviews? Hell yes.

Here's a rant I did when my company was in interview mode: http://www.davepagel.com/?p=58. That will get you to where I'm coming from.

When I'm hiring people for my company (especially new people), I look at things beyond the Binary Tree stuff. People straight out of school can regurgitate that stuff all day but they don't know how to put themselves in a clients position on why it matters when a site is slow and actually make software that helps someone. Obviously, if you have been doing some project management, you are way ahead of those people.

Just build something. Don't worry about the details an how many O's it is. Find a tutorial on codecademy and have some fun with it. Figure out something _you_ could use in your day to day life and build an app/website/facebook thing.

This is just my experience in a SMB software company.

I wouldn't say link bait. It was just a different use of the music pun. "Worlds Largest" would most likely mean heavy ships and lots of metal, not necessarily having to do with environmental concerns.

My favorite to know when to do something binary like this is to flip a coin with choice #1 equal to heads and choice #2 equal to tails.

When the coin is in the air, you will naturally hope for one side to come up. Choose that one.

I made some pretty good beer money running one of those FTP sites by making people download Bonzai buddy for a password. I feel a bit bad for advancing that purple ape, but at least I could increase my sysadmin skills on something that didn't matter.

If you want a more 'fun' take on it, look at the Futurama episode A Clockwork Origin. The professor litterally 'seeds' a planet and it evolves following the basic evolutionary process of earth.

Compartmentalizing for this really only needs to happen if you are in the group where the Bible/whatever is word for word acurate. If you think it's a guide book and 7 days really isn't seven Earth days but some description of time passing, God "guiding" evolution still makes sense.

I'm going to say sure, great players can make their teams better. Much more so in fact. However it takes more than just one person to be able to win games.

Look at Favre. Great in Green Bay, dismal on the Jets, pretty darn good in Minnesota. Differences were the teams/line/wr's were better in Green Bay and Minnesota. If you are getting sacked every third play, you aren't going to be able to carry your team like in other sports.

Also Adrian Peterson (before all the legal issues) was amazing before last year. All of a sudden parts of the offensive line of MN starts imploding and he goes from best in the league to 'just' really good. If it only takes 2 players on a team to bring a player from almost breaking one of the greatest records in football to average, there is something to be said there.

Note I'm a vikings fan, hence my MN examples.

It actually reminds me of those cable folding doors (http://www.bifold.com/note.php) which have been around for a while. They aren't usually used on garage doors though, more for airplane hangers and pole sheds.

I guess I'm not seeing the benefits for the extra complexity.

My product's client base is 9% IE7 and 60% IE8. Mainly hospitals and .gov agencies use our system. It's getting really hard to even test with those browsers let alone find frameworks that will work for our client base and we can't even force them off, because "IT says we can't install anything because it's insecure." AH!

It's pretty bad. We once got a ticket to make sure our app works with "ALL BROWSERS" because it was broken in IE6. That ticket was 6 months ago. The users are out there.

Safety is the only reason I ever get from anyone. "I have nothing to hide and if it finds terrorists, then I'm all for it" is an actual quote. I don't agree with that statement, but it's obviously out there.

The range anxiety is based on not being able to fill up anywhere (electrically) even through there is plenty of alternative energy (gas) at every exit. There aren't any jet fuel stations in the sky, so planes already have this problem.

I don't think we'll see electric planes anytime soon since I see the future being a mix of all types of energy, but range anxiety isn't the problem.

Funny story. Some armed forces surgeons get "practice" by putting in breast implants. At least that's what my wife who worked at the VA said.