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Not to be an apologist for crappy pharma behavior, but some of the accusations don't seem that egregious."An internal slide presented to the company's drug pricing advisory board showed that the ...
show context + On: Congressional investigation shows Celgene, Teva plotted to k
show context + On: Congressional investigation shows Celgene, Teva plotted to k
Lots of conversation on the cost of US healthcare seems hyper-focused on prescription drug prices. A report released last week seems to contradict the notion that prescription drug prices are the culp...
show context + On: Congressional investigation shows Celgene, Teva plotted to k
show context + On: Congressional investigation shows Celgene, Teva plotted to k
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This is an interesting theory to play around with. If you look at the regional revenues listed on Bayer's site[0] North America accounts for €15.1 billion of revenue, while Europe/Middle East/Africa a...
show context + On: Congressional investigation shows Celgene, Teva plotted to k
show context + On: Congressional investigation shows Celgene, Teva plotted to k
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How is that supply restricted? Medical schools are pretty much full, but many schools are going to great lengths to expand available spaces. Med school enrollments are up about 30% since the early 00'...
show context + On: Congressional investigation shows Celgene, Teva plotted to k
show context + On: Congressional investigation shows Celgene, Teva plotted to k
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/timeline-president-donald-trump...Feb 26: "And again, when you have 15 people, and the 15 within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero, that's a prett...
show context + On: Mortality Rates from Covid-19 Are Lower in Unionized Nursing
show context + On: Mortality Rates from Covid-19 Are Lower in Unionized Nursing
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Due to its legacy Fortran (similar to COBOL) is still being heavily used inside its niche application i.e. numerical computation. The irony is that some of the languages touted be Fortran replacement,...
show context + On: The Rise and Fall of High Performance Fortran (2011)
show context + On: The Rise and Fall of High Performance Fortran (2011)
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Short answer: Yes, highly-focused skills-centric but narrow education has a long history.Longer answer:It's useful to keep in mind the (usually) unstated goals of educational systems:- Produce a tech...
show context + On: Google's Plan to Disrupt the College Degree Is Absolute Geni
show context + On: Google's Plan to Disrupt the College Degree Is Absolute Geni
The durability of the infrastructure should be informed by how long the camps tend to exist. My first result is a world bank[1] blog that says it's about 17 years. So a more automated system like plum...
show context + On: Designing a standard sewage network for refugee camps
show context + On: Designing a standard sewage network for refugee camps
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6137697/ : meditation probably contributes to mental states that arent unlike DMT induced ones.we are chemical soups sloshing around within our meat sacs.i...
show context + On: DMT drug study investigates the 'entities' people meet while
show context + On: DMT drug study investigates the 'entities' people meet while
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A lot of the things that "everyone knows" are wrong. The point of science is to have a systematic way to tell the difference between things that seem intuitively true and things that are act...
show context + On: Laypeople can predict which social-science studies will repl
show context + On: Laypeople can predict which social-science studies will repl
But you seem to be suggesting that we ignore skin color as a relevant factor, despite the data, out of a belief that any correlations drawn from that data must be distorted to further a political agen...
show context + On: Pulse oximeters give biased results for people with darker s
show context + On: Pulse oximeters give biased results for people with darker s
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Also not the study, but the results would be in line with another study I know about from the book "The Righteous Mind":"... we tested how well liberals and conservatives could understa...
show context + On: Journalists' Twitter use shows them talking within smaller b
show context + On: Journalists' Twitter use shows them talking within smaller b
It's increasingly looking like there are deep biological reasons for expressions like "gut instinct". There are a lot of neurons in the digestive system. A recent paper[2] appeared to show t...
show context + On: A man who can read letters but not numbers exposes roots of
show context + On: A man who can read letters but not numbers exposes roots of
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The OECD Better Life Index is exactly that:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OECD_Better_Life_IndexIt's an alternative to macro-economic indicators such as GDP that measures quality of life across 11 dime...
show context + On: Goodhart's Law and how systems are shaped by the metrics you
show context + On: Goodhart's Law and how systems are shaped by the metrics you
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Here's the "report card" (PDF) on the app's data-gathering and privacy features, prepared by the Irish Council for Civil Liberties: https://www.iccl.ie/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/ICCL-DRI-HS...
show context + On: Ireland's Health Service Open Sources Official Covid-19 Trac
show context + On: Ireland's Health Service Open Sources Official Covid-19 Trac
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Timely reminder for everyone that there is as of yet no evidence that Apple/Google/DP3T/ExposureFramework based apps deployed in the wild actually work effectively. They've been deployed in a number o...
show context + On: Ireland's Health Service Open Sources Official Covid-19 Trac
show context + On: Ireland's Health Service Open Sources Official Covid-19 Trac
Interesting about EB1A, didn't know.I agree that we need reform in this area. For one, a bidding system for H1-B type visas could prevent much of the abuse. Like you, I'm not a Trump supporter, but I ...
show context + On: H-1B: Government issues first-ever official estimate of visa
show context + On: H-1B: Government issues first-ever official estimate of visa
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There are some convincing studies that suggest otherwise. Combined with the fact that tech CEOs speak openly that salaries are too high, and conspire with each other to lower them, it seems fairly lik...
show context + On: H-1B: Government issues first-ever official estimate of visa
show context + On: H-1B: Government issues first-ever official estimate of visa
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You can't mention spurious linear regression without predicting the S&P500 with Leinweiber's price of butter in Bangladesh indicator.https://nerdsonwallstreet.typepad.com/my_weblog/files/datami......
show context + On: Abusing linear regression to make a point
show context + On: Abusing linear regression to make a point
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I'd really need to see actual numbers for this, especially as this is kind of contrary to the yearly report Ster released two weeks ago. In this they stated that while the first couple months of 2020 ...
show context + On: Dutch national broadcaster saw ad revenue rise when it stopp
show context + On: Dutch national broadcaster saw ad revenue rise when it stopp
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