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New comment by easyfrag in "‘Don’t Weigh Me’ Cards Are Game-Changing for Doctors Appointments"

easyfrag — Mon, 31 Jan 2022 18:16:12 +0000

Wouldn't there be an implied consent to routine data collection during a physician visit? A clinician may also make notes on patient appearance or mannerisms that they feel may be relevant to the diagnostic process, not to mention non-invasive tests based on touch.

New comment by easyfrag in "We still believe in private offices (2015)"

easyfrag — Fri, 10 Sep 2021 13:30:10 +0000

I've moved to a work from home arrangement so I can have my own office.

New comment by easyfrag in "Microsoft announces Lists, a new Airtable-like app"

easyfrag — Tue, 19 May 2020 23:08:10 +0000

To that point, wasn't it Ballmer who really pushed for MS to spend $40B on Yahoo?

New comment by easyfrag in "Show HN: Kanmail – An email client that functions like a kanban board"

easyfrag — Sun, 26 Apr 2020 20:35:15 +0000

Being part of an org that uses O365, searching for such a product is the first thing I did after seeing this.

New comment by easyfrag in "M-16: A Bureaucratic Horror Story (1981)"

easyfrag — Mon, 25 Mar 2019 14:15:07 +0000

"Deadlines are always arbitrary. Deadlines are a tool used by managers to control costs. That is their only purpose. Often, managers try to justify deadlines by citing other dependent deadlines, but those deadlines are always just as arbitrary." - Alan Cooper

New comment by easyfrag in "What Car Thieves Think of the Club (2010)"

easyfrag — Sun, 18 Nov 2018 15:20:33 +0000

Adam Corolla tells a story of an old Nissan pickup he had when he was younger and poorer. It was so easy to steal he wired in a hidden switch to power the fuel pump, truck was stolen a couple of times and he would just walk a couple of blocks to where it was abandoned. I believe he also painted the stereo brown to as a deterrence to thieves looking for stereos to sell.

New comment by easyfrag in "Ask HN: How to overcome fear of flying?"

easyfrag — Wed, 01 Aug 2018 01:52:11 +0000

Lots of great ideas here and this is a long shot but you could try to engage the placebo effect. Go get some bullshit homeopathic “medicine” as a pseudo-treatment for your fear. The great thing about the placebo effect is that it works even when you’re aware you’re being treated by a placebo.

New comment by easyfrag in "Whisky from a German Glen? The E.U. Won’t Drink to That"

easyfrag — Mon, 11 Jun 2018 22:58:38 +0000

Since Germany/Deutschland has an ‘e’ shouldn't it be “whiskey”?

New comment by easyfrag in "Bruce McCandless, First Astronaut to Fly Untethered in Space, Has Died"

easyfrag — Mon, 25 Dec 2017 02:31:26 +0000

I was pleasantly surprised he was 47 when he did this, not that he wasn't qualified or capable, just assumed there would be a bias towards a younger astronaut.

New comment by easyfrag in "Why Amazon is eating the world"

easyfrag — Mon, 15 May 2017 15:29:48 +0000

What I'd like to know is how Bezos convinced investors & shareholders to accept those razor thin margins and profits for all those years. I get the growth argument, but we're into 20 years since its IPO and it's only lately that we're seeing profits.

New comment by easyfrag in "TV May Die Soon"

easyfrag — Sun, 16 Apr 2017 18:30:49 +0000

I wonder if YouTube Live and other similar services could scale up to serve in a time of true crises. Back in 2001 the web's bandwidth limitations were laid bare on 9/11 and that was with static text & pictures. CNN had to go to a "bare bones" text site and even that had trouble.

Things have improved dramatically since then of course but delivering live video to billions of users simultaneously?

New comment by easyfrag in "America’s opioid epidemic is worsening"

easyfrag — Mon, 06 Mar 2017 21:58:13 +0000

I've heard Drew Pinsky rail against physicians for their role in the epidemic. But he also mentions an assist from the legal community in that they've taught patients they are entitled to lengthy doses of opioids.

Despite the evidence showing only short term benefits to opioid treatment physicians fear being sued by patients for refusing to continue prescriptions. I believe the argument is "Pain is the fifth vital sign."

New comment by easyfrag in "The Anti-Helicopter Parent’s Plea: Let Kids Play"

easyfrag — Wed, 19 Oct 2016 15:02:50 +0000

I have 2 kids and have consciously tried to avoid the helicopter-parent mindset and let them play on their own. But now as they approach adolescence I find myself more interested in how they spend their free time. Not so much hovering but making sure they are busy, gentle encouraging team sports & activities as an alternative to just "hanging out."

I believe the audience here skews younger but for those of you that have raised kids to adulthood, any advice? And for you more recent adolescents, how did you experience parenting at that age? When I look back it seems to me that the smartphone has changed everything.

New comment by easyfrag in "Disney stops making video games in house – insiders reveal what went wrong"

easyfrag — Wed, 25 May 2016 09:36:23 +0000

I agree but I look at it as palate cleaner after the prequels, that being said in episode 8 Finn better not end up in carbonite.

New comment by easyfrag in "Apple Introduces the iPhone 6S and iPhone 6S Plus"

easyfrag — Wed, 09 Sep 2015 21:24:22 +0000

probably not, this is a good dry run for car financing though

New comment by easyfrag in "IBM Adds Medical Images to Watson, Buying Merge Healthcare for $1B"

easyfrag — Sat, 08 Aug 2015 15:06:29 +0000

Are there applications of this technology in other areas of radiology as an automated second opinion? Would the culture of Radiology welcome such checks or would it be seen as a threat?

New comment by easyfrag in "Being a Better Online Reader"

easyfrag — Thu, 28 May 2015 15:33:06 +0000

Anyone aware of evidence on comprehension & retention of audiobooks? Obviously that medium is not ideal for all subject matter but I've been recently listening to a mix of fiction & non-fiction and found I'm immersing myself much more than on paper or screen.

New comment by easyfrag in "Garth Brooks unveils iTunes alternative: GhostTunes"

easyfrag — Fri, 05 Sep 2014 18:27:42 +0000

Way back before the mp3 era Garth Brooks' passion was stamping out the sale of used CDs

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/304702/GARTH-BROOKS-HASNT...

New comment by easyfrag in "Standard Markdown Is Now Common Markdown"

easyfrag — Fri, 05 Sep 2014 00:18:54 +0000

This is worse.

The complaint about Standard Markdown was that it appeared to be hijacking the existing "brand" in order to present itself as the definitive version.

One definition of "Common" means prevalent and it seems to me that this word was picked not to solve the above problem but to get around it by making Gruber look like a dick for objecting again to the same problem.

Ironically, a second definition of "common" is "showing a lack of taste."

New comment by easyfrag in "How odd is a cluster of plane accidents?"

easyfrag — Sat, 26 Jul 2014 13:00:12 +0000

Yep, summer 2001 was the "Summer of the Shark Attacks" because of a couple of high-profile incidences. The news media played it up as some sort of epidemic although there was no significant difference in the numbers. This went on until September when a bigger story came long.