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What about cases where death doesn't occur during a shift?

For example, if my patient is suffering from sepsis and I withhold treatment, the patient will die sometime over the next few days, not the next 8 hours.

Do you measure the correlation? This would have a weaker correlation and would be very difficult to catch.

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How do you rationalize celebrating Jesus' birth during the winter solstice, when according to biblical events it occured during the Spring equinox?

Further, how do you rationalize that the biggest holiday you have was moved to the same date as astrological events, that ultimately were the basis of pagan beliefs that predate christianity by 1000s of years?

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It's kind of like a GUID (globally unique identifier) in computers.

There's technically a chance that you will generate two GUIDs that are identical.

However, the odds of that are so astronomically small that it is statistically fine to assume you'll never have a collision.

The more data that you collect and apply to your analysis, the less likely a coincidence occurs until the likelihood of that collision approaches zero.

For instance, a GUIDs number space is large enough to provide a unique ID for each atom in the universe. In fact it's actually large enough, if each atom in the universe was in of itself a complete copy of our universe, and each atom in that universe required a unique ID.

This analogous to error rates in traditional measurements.

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People can be worthless. It just has nothing to do with race, gender or sexual orientation.

What males somebody wortgful, or worthless is their actions, and to some extent veliefs as actions are motivated by beliefs

So yes, if youre an asshole racist, you are of less worth.

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Anyone remember D2 keys? Lol