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limeblack··on How Did Our Medical Notes Become So Useless?
I disagree on this stance. If you were diagnosed with depression when 13 but no longer depressed its nobody not the doctor, the nurse, the IT staff jobs to know this unless you choose.

You have everything from Psychology/Psychiatry notes to overdose records that many health staff can pull up from almost any computer.

EDIT: Remember many jobs disqualify you from the job if you have any past psychiatric treatment. Even if you are in your 40s Psych drugs at 13 are a disqualifier. "Paying cash" is what some doctors have resorted to. http://www.idealmedicalcare.org/75-med-students-antidepressa...

limeblack··on How Did Our Medical Notes Become So Useless?
Same experience. Try requesting through a Psychologist or case worker I have had success with that.
limeblack··on How Did Our Medical Notes Become So Useless?
Yes at least with paper they were typically tied to one hospital. Now with Epic they are basically automatically pulled over.
limeblack··on Apple Priced Itself Out of Shrinking Chinese Smartphone Market
There is still an app gap for me. Amazon's owned Pillpack still does not have an Android app.
limeblack··on Elementary OS, perhaps the Linux world’s best hope for the mainstream
Assuming Linux support[0] for Chrome OS gets out of beta that is basically already is or will become the best hope for mainstream. This is just based on usage percent and consumer availability opinion.

[0]: https://support.google.com/chromebook/answer/9145439?hl=en

limeblack··on Hospital prices are about to go public in the U.S.
Not really at this scale. I work for a health care non profit. Medicare has set prices they will pay and the consumer can get estimates for some general procedures but nothing like this. We are going from price estimates for many procedures to a twenty thousand CSV list published online.
limeblack··on I need to copy 2000+ DVDs in 3 days. What are my options?
When I was a kid I used screen capture software to do what handbrake does today. Considering how much lower quality DVD quality is, it should be fine. This is incredibly time consuming though.
limeblack··on 4,400 year old Egyptian tomb discovered in the Saqqara pyramid complex
In college and high school I was taught they used radar years ago to find what was thought to be all of the remaining tombs. Anyone know why this one hadn't been found yet?
limeblack··on Google transferred ownership of Duck.com to DuckDuckGo
> No. Google has the monopoly on search (outside of China).

No. Russia has yandex.

[1]: http://gs.statcounter.com/search-engine-market-share/all/rus...

limeblack··on Global, U.S. Growth in Smartphone Growth Starts to Decline
If you don't mind replacing batteries yourself or know someone sure. My experience is the batteries especially from eBay have major issues.
limeblack··on Insomnia: 'No link' between sleepless nights and early death
So night shifts cause cancer[1] but sleepless nights not an early death? Seems very unlikely.

[1] https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/320554.php

limeblack··on 25 years ago today, NCSA Mosaic 1.0 was released
You can still run it on Debian[0].

[0] https://github.com/alandipert/ncsa-mosaic

limeblack··on Ask HN: What are some recs for a high school student interested in programming?
You can actually sign up to take the AP Computer Science exam despite it not being offered at your school.

I took it in High School based on self study and some online classes.

limeblack··on New in Chrome 70
Mac has supported beginner friendly ways of sshing into let's say a Raspberry Pi over Bluetooth[0]. I would love to see a progressive really any app for Windows like this.

[0]: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/02/headless-raspberry-pi-conf...

limeblack··on Ask HN: Where to go for the cheapest EE degree in the U.S.? In the World?
The national guard requires less intense long term commitment and let's you pick your school. It may not cover everything(you still qualify for parts of the GI bill)[0] but a couple weekends a month is generally much easier for most to agree with.

[0]: http://www.militaryspot.com/national-guard/pay-for-school

limeblack··on Ask HN: Where to go for the cheapest EE degree in the U.S.? In the World?
In regards to the U.S. I would argue the absolute cheapest option would involve going to a fairly large community college first then transferring to the cheapest in state University.

This is a ranking vs cost issue somewhat. Ga tech is a good school in the top 5 but not as cheap as the Wyoming state schools for cost[0].

[0]: https://www.cnbc.com/2017/01/04/10-states-with-the-cheapest-...

limeblack··on Ask HN: iPhone serial number highjacked for a fraudulent AppleCare replacement?
If the device was brought and damaged enough there is no place to read the numbers off of. They are not printed anywhere on the outside of the device anymore. In fact they are printed on the SIM card tray I believe which is rather easy to replace.
limeblack··on Ask HN: How long does it take to learn a new keyboard layout?
Dvorak is preinstalled on every modern computer. For that reason I agree it only takes a minute to enable.
limeblack··on Ask HN: How long does it take to learn a new keyboard layout?
There are some shortcuts like ctrl+O and ctrl+P that are easier with one hand on Dvorak. I personally have ctrl c, z and v in two places on my Dvorak keyboard. The Dvorak locations and qwerty locations. It's not particularly difficult to make a keyboard like this in Microsoft keyboard creator or Mac Ukulele.

Alternatively many people use Dvorak with QWERTY keyboard shortcut locations.

limeblack··on Ask HN: What process do you use to find mental healthcare?
Nightmare is an understatement in my opinion. Unless you are completely dedicated and have lots of support it can take a bunch of tries to find the right person.

In my experience finding a good psychologist that then recommends a Psychiatrist that they have worked with has worked the best for me. The primary care physician doesn't have the time in my experience to figure everything out.

limeblack··on What It’s Like Living As a Diagnosed Psychopath
The book "The Psychopath Test" goes into how common some attributes are in society and being cautious giving out such labels with out thoroughly understanding the person. It gives a specific example about Tony being held in a mental hospital for years against his own will.
limeblack··on Lenovo Launches Ultra-Thin ThinkPad P1: X1 Carbon Meets Workstation
No. Lenovo actually sells basically a matte touchscreen thinkpad known as anti glare(much better then the consumer glossy displays). They are fairly uncommon but do exist in the Thinkpad line. I have used one.
limeblack··on Ask HN: Who is using Common Lisp?
I use clisp mainly with quicklisp. Lisp isn't rather unique and simple so I have used it for an occasionally algorithm that is annoying any other way. Not for the entire system typically.
limeblack··on To Remember, the Brain Must Actively Forget
Haldol often can cause complete memory loss in a portion of the population. I have actually worked with drug. Has a bunch of other side effects long term so I don't reccomend it.
limeblack··on The Ambien Diaries
No the doctor didn't give the long term consequences. I am not encouraging this. This is way more common then people think[1].

[1] https://nationalpost.com/health/seroquel-for-insomnia

limeblack··on The Ambien Diaries
I really like sleep and I have been on Ambien and Seroquel(off label) for sleep. At first it helped but if you really really like sleep I say the withdrawal is not worth the benefit of the extra sleep. Coming off them I didn't sleep for several days and my sleep schedule became really screwed up. I am still on something for sleep for this reason. Some studies show you go insane after 3-4 days of no sleep. I can confirm it definitely feels like that. If you plan to take it for life I guess but withdrawals can be miserable.
limeblack··on Harvard University is fighting to keep its admissions process under wraps
No they are representing the university of those that work there and past alumni. I wouldn't approve my university randomly admitting students.
limeblack··on Harvard University is fighting to keep its admissions process under wraps
> Z% of seats by pure lottery.

I wouldn't elect any political official or moderator by pure lottery.

limeblack··on Ask HN: Why is hackernews so old-fashioned?
I actually like the site a lot it displays well in lynx. I did wish there was a way to up vote posts on lynx though.
limeblack··on What's the best keyboard and mouse you owned?
I own one of the traditional(think t420) thinkpad keyboards that are wired. My favorite keyboard to use by fare, but they don't really make them anymore. You can still buy them off of ebay.
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