mrestko

In the article, he explicitly compares American doctors with Irish doctors. They both go to school, but the Americans go for about three additional years. There is apparently no real difference in medical outcomes.

No, that is not what I meant to imply. My point is that increasing living space will obviously require more income, and it seems arbitrary to assume that 2-bedroom is the point of comparison when you're only looking at one-person incomes. I know a lot of single people without families who are perfectly content to live in a one bedroom or studio (myself included). If you simply assume that everyone must live in a 2 bedroom, then of course you can tell dire stories about how unaffordable housing is.

I don't want to diminish the very real struggle some families have with finding adequate housing. But I do think that the linked article has no real clear thesis other than that they wish housing was cheaper. I'd venture that everyone wants that to be true, always, and forever.

The article doesn't address why the hourly wage for 2-bedroom is relevant in relation to say, a 1-bedroom, studio, or mansion. Looking briefly at the BLS data, it seems that there are about equal numbers of single- and double-earner households. It's not clear to me that a single-earner household should expect to be able to rent a two bedroom apartment.

Is pretty damn perfect for a chemical process. Each replication of the genome introduces only one error on average and given that the majority of the genome is junk DNA (not just non-coding, but actual junk), the single error is roughly analogous to a speck in the margin of a photocopied page.

I think one scale is enough...

Latex paint can usually be disposed of in normal garbage. Just open the cans and let the paint dry out first.

Life imitates art: https://youtu.be/CmayBDhHD54?t=8s

Proteins are digested to no larger than tripeptides prior to absorption in the intestine. Once absorbed, these oligopeptides are hydrolyzed to single amino acids before moving into circulation. Whether you eat raw milk or milk with denatured proteins makes no difference, you only absorb small protein fragments.

Can you not scroll?

This reminds me of a FACS machine (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_cytometry#Fluorescence-act...)

Anecdotal evidence, but I saw a man violently detox from Kratom after a spinal surgery. He required full sedation/ventilation for about a week before he could be woken up without thrashing around.

Well that was an insane thing for him to do.

Why couldn't you use a turbine to generate electricity that is then fed to electric motors controlling the blades? Is there actually a requirement for large, efficient batteries?

You're usually taught to yell for help as you start CPR. There's not really a way to tell if a person has a had a heart attack without an EKG or labs. You can assess for cardiac arrest (that's the whole reason for CPR), and any time the heart is stopped, the best chance for the patient is immediate, high quality CPR.

The only exception to this rule is if you are in an area where no one will find you unless you call for help yourself. For example, if you are home alone with someone and you start CPR, you will probably need to stop out of exhaustion before someone will hear you cries for help. In this case, you need to call 911 first. If you're in a mall or something, then leave the emergency call to someone else and get started on chest compression.

I don't have the math to understand this. If I wanted to, what should I seek out on Coursera or similar?

The problem is that the way family relationships are different from all other relationships (namely that they are lifelong) is the exact way in which a business is unlike a family.

Why would they get a letter from Google?

Tipping is a quirk of the culture but it doesn't mean that anyone is getting off the hook paying the employees. That money is still going from the consumer to the waiter, just not via the employer. If it was factored into the bill, it would still be moving from the consumer to the employer, just stopping off in the business checking account first.

If this were truly a concern, the trivial solution is to have tiered pricing which steps up the price of water after the "essential" quantity has been dispensed. This could be implemented as a yearly rebate.

For basal-bolus therapy, you do want to have a long-acting, "peakless" dose which is then augmented by "spikes" of insulin when needed. So this pill is more likely to replace the long-acting insulins like Lantus/Levemir.

I think any forward progress in oral insulin is worth a close look.

I believe you're talking about "hidden variables" and the argument against it is Bell's Theorem http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell%27s_theorem

I'm not a physicist and I don't really understand it fully, but I believe this is what you're talking about.

For what it's worth, I have a B.S. in biochemistry which I would expect indicates some level of intelligence to potential employers. However, I have had a lot of difficulty even getting to the interview stage when I apply for programming positions. I've spent a lot of time learning on my own and studying the CS side of programming (i.e. algorithms/data structures) which expect is neglected by many late converts and even when I say this in my cover letters I rarely more any further in the interviewing process.

A math PhD may have better luck but my experience has been negative so far.

I cannot believe that the Mini shows Twitter updates on the speedometer. That is terrifying.

Just out of curiosity, would you be willing to say what your hourly wage is?