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Oh, I see that now. That makes it so much more interesting as a puzzle. I'll have to try again with that in mind. Got up near 20 but couldn't get past that. Played for like 45 minutes. Super fun!


That's a an honestly upsetting statement. My wife is a pediatric critical care physician and there is not an evil bone in her body. She works her tail off, is (in my opinion) underpaid (like most pediatricians), and her job takes huge emotional toll. The same is true for all of her partners. Maybe I'm reading this wrong and you mean administrative or insurance or something else. But at least in my orbit, that statement is not true.


Is she really underpaid? The average pediatric critical care physician in the US makes $262K-$440K a year according to Glassdoor.

This is twice what the same role pays in most European countries. Unless she is well below that range for some reason, she is likely overpaid.

Everybody in healthcare, from the nurses to the hospital CEOs, makes far far more in the US than they would in a country with socialized medicine.


That was really not meant to be the focus of my comment, but that range definitely seems high, from all those that I know in the field. You have to also factor in the significant amount of debt they incur over the 14 years it takes to get through undergrad, medical school, residency training and then subspecialty fellowship training. Adult ICU doctors make twice as much as pediatric ICU doctors, that was really the thought behind the comment on being underpaid. That, and she works difficult hours (long shifts, nights, weekends, holidays, on-call, etc.) and the emotional toll of the work can't be understated.


The statement was in reference to the players in the US healthcare system: payers, ACOs, MCOs, providers, suppliers, SNFs, third parties, etc... It was not in reference to individuals. Most individuals in the healthcare system are decidedly not evil.


This is great news! I worked on the redesign and replatform with last.fm when they were part CBS Interactive. They were a lovely team of engineers and designers who cared about their product, and I appreciated their culture. Fun memories spending time in London with the team. Glad to hear they found a new home!


It's really hard for me to tell from the video what this does exactly. I can infer the premise but it's unclear how this works.

I've used other keyboard locking tools in the past that were free. What I'd really love is a smarter app that detects keyboard mashing or whatever so I don't have to manually lock/unlock when my cats come around.


The App Store description is more helpful: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/cats-lock/id6763495406


Wow, that is incredible. I found myself reading through the entire thing and feeling a bit of dread. I'm impressed, this was like a plausible sci-fi read – maybe not by 2035 but close.


Am I understanding correctly that this Nobel prize is for work that was completed over 20 years ago? I'm not a biologist but it sounds like they discovered regulatory T cells together, which sounds relatively major. Is it typical for a Nobel prize to lag that kind of discovery for decades? Or is it only now that we understand how major the discovery was? Or maybe I'm just misunderstanding the discovery and the timeline.


At least in Physics, on average every year there is more than one discovery that is worth a Nobel prize. So there is an increasing backlog of people who should get a Nobel prize. You can look at the list and check that people in the 1920s got their prize about 15 years after their work [1]. But recently people have been getting it about 30-40 years after.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_in_Phy...


Yes, many Nobel prizes are awarded for work that was completed decades ago in part to ensure that the work passes the test of time.


Highs had a delay of 49 years from paper to prize, though he got the prize the year after his theory was experimentally confirmed.


They got Nobel prize because they made most important discovery than all other living scientists.


I just realized I was listening to news of the 911 attacks in the background for at least 20 minutes. Then heard the sound of static as it changed to a different stream. Super cool, I love this.


Isn't that true for other companies that survived the times? That the bubble created extreme highs before it burst and now the companies have grown more naturally?

For example, Intel: https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/INTC

Honest question. Not my area of focus.


I read that as needing funding. Somebody has to pay for the research. In order to get it funded, you have to show your research has a basis. My interpretation anyway.


Think about it. You walk into a video store, you see 8-Minute Abs sittin' there, there's 7-Minute Abs right beside it. Which one are you gonna pick, man?


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