September 2011
34 posts
Kotsko on Attacking Hypocrisy →
Hence liberals instinctively gravitate toward accusations of hypocrisy. “They say they care about the deficit, yet they passed unfunded tax cuts.” “They say they want to reduce the number of abortions, but they oppose birth control.” “They say they’re pro-life, yet they embrace the death penalty.” “They say they want the government off people’s back, until it’s a matter of regulating sexual...
What I want in a Note-Taking App
Syncing options: Bonjour, Dropbox, iCloud.
Native iOS, native Mac OS, and web versions.
All versions have the full feature set.
Real-time Markdown preview.
Customizable font, color, margins, and line-height.
Preferences from #5 sync across platforms.
On the Mac version, a quick-entry mode triggered by a global hot key.
No “distraction free” mode, because that’s stupid.
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Frédéric Filioux: Consumer Data Analytics May Lead... →
Excessive tracking will inevitably backfire. Internet-boosted profiling will directly impact users’ daily lives in a broad way. Take insurance or banking. Zillions trackers have determined with a great deal of accuracy that Mr. Smith, living in Kalamazoo, Michigan is: (a) slightly overweight; he tried numerous diets and pills, bought home training equipment, and visits weight-loss forums —...
Compassion is Out of Fashion →
Paul Krugman for the NYTimes:
Now, however, compassion is out of fashion — indeed, lack of compassion has become a matter of principle, at least among the G.O.P.’s base.
And what this means is that modern conservatism is actually a deeply radical movement, one that is hostile to the kind of society we’ve had for the past three generations — that is, a society that, acting through the...
Actual Diagnostic Codes from the Recently-Updated... →
They thought of everything:
Bitten by turtle, initial encounter
Bitten by turtle, subsequent encounter
Bitten by turtle, sequela
Struck by turtle, initial encounter
Struck by turtle, subsequent encounter
Struck by turtle, sequela,
Other contact with turtle, initial encounter
Other contact with turtle, subsequent encounter
Other contact with turtle, sequela
No, really. Everything:
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“Now, over the course of my Dwimmermount campaign, the players have occasionally...”
– From “Skills I Can Live With,” by James Maliszewski, from the website Grognardia: Musings and Memories From a Lifetime of Roleplaying.
How EMRs are Failing Nurses
I posted this last November, but it’s still just as relevant today as it was last year.
Among the litany of complaints about the (un)usability of EMRs, it’s easy to lose sight of the big picture. More than the poor design choices and overall ugliness of existing software, by far the single biggest failure of HIT companies is that none of them has yet to produce an EMR that nurses actually...
Counterproductive: Endlessly-Increasing Nursing... →
The Nerdy Nurse on nursing documentation:
If we are going to chart by exception, then it truly needs to be by exception. Unless otherwise noted, then yes, we met all your standards. Thank you [insert name of various medical chart watching agency here] we did all the things you asked, educated the patient on the pertinent information, and followed all the standards and rules set form by you....
“If it weren’t for the social aspect of being hospitalized, hospital units should...”
– HIStalk’s anonymous author. Original.
Technology in the Classroom Fails to Improve... →
From the “duh” department: NYT reports on the push for technology in the public grade school classroom:
In a nutshell: schools are spending billions on technology, even as they cut budgets and lay off teachers, with little proof that this approach is improving basic learning.
You can’t just fill classrooms with e-Whiteboards and MacBooks and PowerPoint and expect to see a...
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“King’s response to our crisis can be put in one word: revolution. A revolution...”
– Cornell West
Knights of Faith →
Krugman waxes Kierkegaardian:
But economists also don’t know this stuff. We’re living in a dark age of macroeconomics, in which much of the profession has turned its back on past knowledge. There’s also a contingent of economists who have read Hicks, or at least claim to have read him, but seem to have come out of the experience with nothing more than misleading catchphrases and the strange...
