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Why Self-Driving Cars Must Be Programmed to Kill(technologyreview.com)
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If your thesis was correct, it would be evident to the author who is actually time-sharing (taking advantage of all the things you say). But what he describes in his essay is how even he is of a different mindset...this essay is more about
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Pharmacist at center of Valeant scandal accuses drugmaker of 'massive fraud'(latimes.com)
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by 001sky 11y ago
costs and revenues don't happen in a vaccuum, thats what your missing. they are relative prices, and only make sense in the context of a menu of choice (or:none). a stone wheel is brilliant technology, just like the bronze or iron age
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Plans to give UK police the power to view web browsing history(telegraph.co.uk)
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but its not good enough, then thats like saying a stone wheel would be good enough if we didn't have pneumatic/michelin tires anything is good enough when its the only option
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by 001sky 11y ago
Privacy is a resonably coherent subject, especially in the context of telco/internet regs. It's also a coherent area of constitutional law (bill of rights). The "tech world" just seems like a straw man and easily falls d
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by 001sky 11y ago
"Tom Sanders, professor emeritus of nutrition and dietetics at King’s College London, said the study needed to be viewed “with some scepticism” because it was uncontrolled. It did not compare the children with a similar group who cont
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Holographic acoustic elements for manipulation of levitated objects(nature.com)
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ya, the one where placebo (sugar pill) is documented to work in many times in lieu of actual narcotics.
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by 001sky 11y ago
This is almost surely placebo effect Given the amount of time wasted on diet/nutrition fads I'm starting to thing the US government should actually do some science on these issues.
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this is a banal truism. it doesn't rebut the strong ties that the obama admin has in the nyt. google the word 'obama' on site: nyt. then ask who is kissing all that ass to get those leaks/scoops/etc.
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Job applications to conceal the candidate's name: Cameron announces plans for UK(dailymail.co.uk)
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Jack Dorsey Gives One-Third of Twitter Stake to Employees(bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
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by 001sky 11y ago
This comment is overly reductionist -- 'disabled' is a code word for long-term un-employable. Just eyball the proportion of working adults in the 50 to 60 year range. It is only ~5x the number of disabled. In other words, that is
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by 001sky 11y ago
Thanks for this clarifying comment. Open issue IMHO is if CIA's "actual process" is subject to levels of scrutiny/protection beyond the statuatory minimum(s). This being an exec appointment w/ senate confirmation et
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see the last sentence of my comment
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Most formal document policies cover drafts and works-in-process (ie, so they don't become less classified because they are incomplete or penultimate in version control.)
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Isn't the problem with publish sf86 more complicated...? This is basically the security clearance application for the CIA director...Aren't these things classified? Why on earth is this in any unsecure e-mail correspondence, if th
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Why I won't reenlist as a Yale alumni interviewer(latimes.com)
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CS is 214 of an estimated 3500 female student body. That still seems exceptionally low. Posted this upthread but in 2010 20% of the student body was in Biology (once topical sub-specialties were aggregated). 20% of ~3500 would be closer to
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by 001sky 11y ago
In all fairness, this is likely a structural data anomaly. ie, it is driven by the number of majors at the school, and their level of abstraction. Here are some historical data points. Notice the arbitary abstraction of, eg Bio Sciences Hum
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by 001sky 11y ago
There are alot of dangerous polutants out there, and around the home, but run-of-the-mill motor oil is not really one of them. http://www.bloomberg.com/bw/stories/1991-04-28/old-motor-oil...
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Wrong article--The food pyramid pushed corn based sweetener and other plant-basey carnohydrates grains and gluten based products at the expense of animal protein and (saturated) fat.
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by 001sky 11y ago
A (trivially) true but empty statement without a appropriate context for relevance.
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Gallup gives up the horse race(politico.com)
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by 001sky 11y ago
Obviously real estate and food prices are correlated at the county and/or zip code level and that is a bit of a data challenge in reviewing this linked data. My point above is that its a hard thing to mandate people eat food X when it
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by 001sky 11y ago
The last time the feds tried to influence the nations diet, it was a disaster. That disaster involved pushing macro-nutrient consumption away from meat/dairy (fat, protein) and into vegan/vegetarian (carbohydrate) sources. That sh
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yes, walmart is one of the largest us grocers. the issue is that walmart is not in many areas despite being in a much larger footprint than TJs. traders joes, on the other hand, is only in ABC1 demos in the US which means its an upper/
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by 001sky 11y ago
Isn't the issue that poor people cannot afford fresh food? The calorie/dollar of veg+fruit is not a good value because in places like NYC or SF the markets are completely gentrified and the prices are astronomical. The other consi

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