Nice work doctor I'm sending you 1.02 BTC.
Thanks Davinci, was wondering who that random donation was  Been a bit swamped on my end taking care of 2 sick babies at home. Will get back to the PMs when I get a chance. |
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.15/kwh in maine. It cost me less with southern california edison when I lived there! The only advantage here is unlike SCE the rape stick doesn't come out once you go above a certain # of kwh. One would think due to the proximity to Quebec's hydro power we'd share in on some of those sweet .05-.06 rates, but unfortunately no such luck.
The only way to get $0.15 for Southern California Edison is to stay in Tier 1 (Tier 2 is $0.19/KWH). To stay in tier 1 you can't have a refrigerator. When my wife lived alone in an apartment in 2006 she was in Tier 2 and she was home only to sleep and shower pretty much (maybe 1 or 2 hours of a compact florescent a day - she's pretty cheap). Spend just 300 KWH and you're already in Tier 4. I wonder how much businesses get nailed by SCE  |
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ahh I see what your saying hehe I bet your a lot younger than me, I can tell by your style of doing things in windows I come from the days when you needed batch files just to boot your computer,,, so I guess I look at things in a different way  I got into computers because I wanted to play Comanche on my dads 486 DX2 and I needed to create a boot disk in order to make it work. Sometimes I miss those simple days Simple? Meh I remember having to mess around for hours configuring XMS and EMS just right to get Civ to play on my 386 SX. Or how about running cable everywhere and having to terminate ends to set up networks just to play Doom multiplayer. Oh the exhiliration of hitting the turbo button and hearing the computer's pitch turn higher as you went from 8MHz to 16MHz  Is the failover in GUIMiner using pocblm adequate? I never got that to work right? I may just have to follow gigavps's advice and switch to cgminer. Man, I got so used to command prompt with DOS (was still using command prompts to move files in XP until a few years ago). Finally retrain my brain for all GUI and now I need to learn Linux. *#&^$^%@#&%$  |
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DrG, I'll be your consulting radiologist. I'm currently in training in southeast MN. DrGoss (hopefully not too confusing!) 1GCDzqmX2Cf513E8NeThNHxiYEivU1Chhe PS - please direct all questions to DrG...Radiologists are docs for docs Whoa cool! Another doc! With Medicare slashing reimbursement and private insurance following suit I'm looking at Bitcoins to save my financial butt |
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Hehe, getting some crazy questions here PMs replied to  |
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I have doubts any service you can provide over the internet is much better than google. Maybe my background in biomed is making me overestimate the ability of people to interpret what they find though.
What if we test you first? People find the symptoms of some non-obscure medical issue online (or from memory, or some free trials), add in some history, then ask you for an advice/diagnosis.
Methinks you underestimate the benefits of medical school. This sounds like a great idea. Lol . Thanks for the backup eroxors - I hope I didn't waste 1/4 million dollars and 12 years of my life to loose to LMGTFY. I wasn't number one in my class but I can say with confidence google is useless for the majority of people as far as self diagnosis. For information on disease states it's great - but it's not a clinician. It's not like you can google "loud thump car turning" and know what's going on with your car. The human body is 100x more complex than car - you're in biomed and you should know that. Google is a great tool and I use it everyday, but it's only a tool. If you gave a Digital Multimeter to a chef they would be like WTF. Now google would be able to spit out more info than I ever could about any 1 topic, but google wasn't forced to rectals on every admission while on call during it's intern year (or at least I hope not). |
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OK, here goes.
I'm now around 25. When I was younger I used to do lots of sports (boxing, judo, ...). Around 20, when I was wrestling, my arm got overextended and there was a loud 'crunch' sound. The guy doing it with me immediately stopped because he heard the noise. It was really loud krrrrnch sound. I didn't feel anything (adrenaline) so kept at it for the rest of the session.
After the session, there was immediately intense pain. I went straight to emergency and saw a nurse. She told me my arm was sprained. Looking back now, I know that was stupid (I know what a sprain feels like) but I didn't protest it and said whatever (assuming that it would go away eventually). During that week my arm could not be used. It eventually stopped aching.
From then on, I stopped exercising because whenever I would put pressure on that arm, I would get a dull ache.
Anyway fast forward to 1 year ago in Amsterdam. I was at some hotel and banged my elbow. the edge of the door frame hit the soft spot in between my elbow joint and there was a sudden shooting pain. Ever since then my arm was aching and sometimes I get tingling in my fingers.
I went to see a doctor when I was in Poland at the ER (4 months ago). He said it is a soft tissue damage and I need to rest my arm (I don't do anything anyway). I asked him what the best position is, and he said to keep it at a 90 deg angle (bent) rather than straight. If it didn't heal I should see another doctor in 2 weeks time. He told me it likely won't heal quickly (soft tissue damage takes a long time to heal) or maybe not at all, and there isn't much they can do about it.
It doesn't hurt. It just aches or sometimes I get a bit of tingling (which is worrying). I've put off seeing the doctor because I'm under a huge amount of stress for time (which is affecting my health, but OK I am having fun). It seems to be getting better, but I could be wrong since it alternates between periods of being fine, to periods of aching.
Using the arm in a funny way (weird twisted angle) or putting pressure on it (lifting heavy things) are not good, so I avoid those activities. It's a dull/slow ongoing ache.
Well you didn't need to post it publicly (but doesn't sound like anything any of us couldn't have). I myself have broken many bones from playing sports and taking Judo and have hardware still in me. It sounds to me like you have 2 separate things going on. First - the injury when you were wrestling is probably a ligament tear, possibly rotator cuff (this is comprised of 4 ligaments to control arm motion). That's why you felt the intense pain. Since it wasn't looked at right away you probably have some scar tissue. Nothing can be done now except for possibly having surgery (I'm not a big fan of this unless an orthopod sees scar tissue in the joint that should be removed) and doing exercises to gain mobility and strength back. If you can afford it - goes see an orthopedist for this. They need to do a physical exam and check for muscle/tendon weakness. Usually a good physical exam and they can tell what's going on without Xrays or fancy tests. If they seem to eager to operate then run. A MRI may be warranted depending on what the orthopod thinks. If you don't figure out what's going on now you'll pay for it later since your body mechanics have changed and you'll probably develop osteoarthritis in that should very early on (crippling joint damage that's permanent). Second - the bumped elbow sound like you compressed some nerves (we call it hitting your funny bone here). With all the wrestling and other activities you may also have some nerve compression in your cervical region. When you bumped the elbow the localized swelling further compressed the nerves traveling from you neck to your fingers. Nerve pain is usually sharp stabbing pain in nature but can sometimes be a dull ache as you describe. I have carpal tunnel which only popped up after I went overboard with a wet vacuum cleaning my house and since then I have tingling in my right hand and it won't go away. Hardcore gaming sessions result in dull achy pain sometimes. The location of the ache would give a clue as to where the nerve is pinched and what nerve levels are compressed. For this you would need to see a neurologist. What they did in my case was do nerve conduction studies and confirm I did have nerve damage. The damage is reversible - but the problem is the cause is not reversible usually. So in my case I have to just learn to live with the compression and avoid putting pressure on my wrist to avoid swelling which further compresses the nerve. Once you know where the compression is you can sometimes do exercises that help reduce the compression. In some cases surgery is required - to be honest I'm not fond of surgery for compression unless it gets really life altering since surgery fails about 1/2 the time. I'm not big on seeing docs (physicians often make the worst patients since we think we can diagnose ourselves) but when my hand got so bad I couldn't use a mouse I knew I had to get it looked at. In your case since you're young and these are not trivial problems I would shell out the time and money to see a ortho/neuro. At least you should have a diagnosis which would allow you to hopefully prevent further damage. Hopefully that answers your q. |
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So I was looking to get some rep in the trading community and realized I didn't feel like doing loans. I have pretty good Heatware but wanted to build up a rep with the Bitcoin community. I guess I'll just have to use my professional skills... so since I am a licensed and practicing medical physician in the state of California I decided I could help with medical questions. I'll do a trial where all the proceeds would go to my medical missions which I do once or twice a year. I am currently practicing only with inpatient medicine so if you got a detailed dermatology question about a rash or itch down there I probably won't be able to help too much (please don't send me pics lol). I did 1 year of urgent care so I can answer most basic outpatient stuff (sprains, headaches, flu vs bacterial illness, heartburn, etc) and I can answer pretty much any internal medicine related question. So I thought of asking tips from 0.1 BTC to 5 BTC depending on what you think is the complexity of the problem - the link is in my sig. If you're not sure how complicated it is, just send a small amount and you can always tip more afterwards if I give you a good answer. For legal purposes obviously without a physical exam my answers are not the same as seeing a physician in office so my advice is just that - advice. You will need to confirm with your doc if your doc if you're going to be doing something that requires prescription medication or changes in lifestyle. So just send me a PM with your question and let me know your address so I know if you donated. If you happen to live in the SoCal area and would like to help out on a medical mission let me know. I've been to mundane places like India and exotic lands like Miami, FL with my medical missions |
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This past month I unfortunately hit Tier 5 with Southern California Edison because I was setting a couple of rigs at home and testing for stability. Tier 5 costs me $0.39/KWH  Normally I only mine on one main PC at home with a 6950 which puts me into Tier 4 (more than 340KWH) which costs $0.30 (this is with the winter discount pricing). Obviously I'm losing money mining at home, but my main rig would be on anyways pulling 100 watts as a file server part of the time. I don't think anybody can mine in CA without having free electricity Wow, power in CA is expensive. Where do you get free/cheap power from for your not-at-home rigs? Wife has an office she's paying $4k a month for rent and utilities. She also put $200K of upgrades into the office - so I'm just trying to get a little more out of it lol. I just hope I don't burn the place down with my open air rigs - some sitting on cardboard boxes I will have to shut down some rigs in the summer since AC is only on during business hours and it gets up to 105F sometimes here in the summer. |
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This past month I unfortunately hit Tier 5 with Southern California Edison because I was setting a couple of rigs at home and testing for stability. Tier 5 costs me $0.39/KWH Normally I only mine on one main PC at home with a 6950 which puts me into Tier 4 (more than 340KWH) which costs $0.30 (this is with the winter discount pricing). Obviously I'm losing money mining at home, but my main rig would be on anyways pulling 100 watts as a file server part of the time. I don't think anybody can mine in CA without having free electricity |
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Was wondering what was up with his pic plastered everywhere 19xpqPCGPtfWLLXnuxQMQwgFnDmAzq32eR |
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3 Months I kept my cash sitting in Gox waiting for this. 3 fricking months. I pulled it out last Friday. Now I gotta move it back. How does it know!?!
why did you pull it out? Didn't really have to. Just wanted to use that money to buy more video cards (it's easier for me for accounting purposes). But at least I got another 5GH online |
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3 Months I kept my cash sitting in Gox waiting for this. 3 fricking months. I pulled it out last Friday. Now I gotta move it back. How does it know!?!
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So I read several times on the forms that everytime a transaction goes you wallet address changes. I think I also read that the "old addresses" where you had previously sent payment still function for sending payments. Well I wanted to clear out my wallet (had to do a repair on a corrupted blockchain) so I sent about 5 BTC to my old MT Gox address about 2 hours ago. I don't see them showing up in my Gox account. Does it take longer than 2 hours to do 6 confirms (I assume that 6 blocks are needed for it to show up and that takes about an hour). Are my coins forever lost in limbo? Just curious how the addressing thing works.
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Is there a good app that let's me see the SDK version installed? I installed 11.12 drivers on a new build (using hardware that I know hashes higher - ie my 6870s are only getting 270MH even with DiabloMiner) and then uninstalled everything and reinstalled 11.7 drivers but I don't think it cleaned out the 2.6 SDK properly.
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For the one miner I have at home $0.35/KWh - yeah that's not a typo - tier 3 in Southern California Edison - tier 5 is $0.48 plus penalty. Welcome to the Socialist Republik of Kalifornia - the ass backwards state  |
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I must be doing something right with my Windows rigs. My first trial at multiGPU was my 4x6870 on a MSI 890FXA-GD70. Put 2 cards on risers and put the rig in front of a box fan and it's been crunching non-stop without reboot since mid-July - OS is Win 7 X64 (sadly I don't think I put service pack 1 on it).
2nd rig is the same setup but using a copy of XP that was originally installed on a laptop HD. I just swapped in the HD, installed the chipset drivers, ATI drivers - and it's been running 4 6870s non-stop since August.
I did have to reboot a 3rd rig earlier this month since I messed up my remote login updater (stupidly uninstalled it).
I was thinking about trying Linux to free up some hard drives which I could sell since HD prices shot up with the flood but now it seems not worth it to have downtime and lose my remote login. The only breaks the rigs have gotten have been my jumps from BTCGuild to slush to ARS and then to ABC (DDOS respits lol).
Turning off power saving in 7 was easy - i just set it to maximum performance and made sure HD and video didn't power down.
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Figures I've found 3 blocks since I started mining early August and I haven't even earned 100 coins yet  Anyways just wanted to say BT keep up the good work. Definitely making ARS my home! Got about 6.5 GH/s up now and can maybe push it to 8 if I can find out how to space the rigs in my wife's office without pissing her off |
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Why is it that every time my miner goes down, theres a string of short blocks?? This pool must have something against me.
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i know its just my luck..
Your miners must be synced with mine. I was on Slush' pool until yesterday (previously on Deepbit and BTCGuild). I had a couple of troublesome machines. Regardless of the pool the machine would always got down before a string of 1 min blocks (usually when I'm sleeping). I would fix it in the morning only to then get hit with a 10 or 15 million block Eh but such is life - at least I have a nice wife and kids |
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Yeah, I noticed my hasher at home which is on wired FIOS gets 0.3% stales while the ones at work are getting about 4% using a ethernet bridge or wireless adapter. I guess latency has that effect.
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