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Comment · 7 years ago
If everyone had the same capacity for achieving greatness, why are there so few geniuses? Do you think everyone is capable of the same level of greatness?
Comment · 7 years ago
Stack Overflow is the new Yahoo Answers

Lots of "can you google this for me" and copy/pasted content from other original sources without context or attribution

Comment · 7 years ago
I want the most talented and skilled people performing their best at what they are most talented and skilled at. That's how you make progress. I fail to see how that harms anyone, and certainly not everyone.
Comment · 7 years ago
Or you could incentivize building up? That'd be a lot easier and wouldn't create more hideous sprawl.
Comment · 7 years ago
The multitasking functions are very confusing, as are the new multi-finger gestures for performing undo/copy/paste etc. Nothing is obviously discoverable either, it all feels accidental at best, though that's been the case since they removed depth from the UI.

Wasn't the promise of iPad that it was much easier than a Mac or PC? I don't find that to be the case.

Anyway, I use mine as a couch browser. I still can't find a heavier use case for it.

Comment · 7 years ago
Did you have a specific event that caused your injury, that led you to do your own research in that direction?

And are you hypothesizing that your injury may be related to prior fluoroquinolone use?

Proper diagnosis is hard, and most doctors are generalists rather than specialists. A common medical aphorism is "When you hear hooves, think of horses not zebras".

Comment · 7 years ago
Health and time are the two biggest things people take for granted, particularly when they're young
Comment · 7 years ago
Humans are squandering arguably one of the most important medical advancements in history, and ultimately it will be human health that pays for it when they stop working for us entirely.
Comment · 7 years ago
That's because opioids remain the single most effective pain treatment that humans have available. People have been using them for 4000+ years, they have a long track record of efficacy (and safety).

Managing pain with opioids is not much different than managing diabetes with insulin. I realize the media mania and moral panic doesn't convey that because it doesn't fit the hype narrative, but there is a huge difference between medical patients and drug abusers.

Comment · 7 years ago
Is AR this generations VR? Full of promises and fantasy, but all of which is far from being usable or practical at any mainstream level.
Comment · 7 years ago
To lose weight, eat fewer calories than you expend.

To gain weight, eat more calories than you expend.

It's that simple. This is basic physics, weight gain and loss is not complicated.

Comment · 7 years ago
Antibiotic resistant is a huge problem that is only going to keep growing. Unfortunately very few new drugs are in the pipeline because they aren't particularly profitable to develop.

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