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by 3am 13y ago
Yes it is an ethical issue, for the doctors and the patients. I just feel like you're giving a free pass to patients that lack expertise demanding particular treatments from experts. I think they are more culpable than the doctors.
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by 3am 13y ago
No worries, I meant the comments on writing style constructively and not as an attack. I'm happy you took it in that spirit. Interesting thoughts. I would look a lot more into the changes in the 1960s, though. Personally I see a lot
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by 3am 13y ago
Okay, on that point, I think it's fine to attack debate opponents as long as your are attacking them 1) on the merits of their points or 2) personal traits that are germane to the discussion. The autism/vaccine link has been studi
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Doctors are overwhelmingly not the reason that this happens. Some are being risk averse (heading off unlikely 2ary bacterial infections to prevent lawsuites) and some are taking the path of least resistance with patients (who will doctor sh
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by 3am 13y ago
People throw around "attacking a straw man" far too much, but it would be completely appropriate in the grandparent post.
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by 3am 13y ago
Your writing style is kind of grandiose and off-putting, and detracts from the point you are trying to make. And your point is also a bit historically melodramatic. The French and American revolutions were both much more socially disrupti
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by 3am 13y ago
Google Fairfax and Prem Watsa. He is sort of like Canada's Warren Buffett and a large existing BBRY shareholder. Not saying he won't monetize their IP portfolio, but it's not a front for a patent troll.
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by 3am 13y ago
It should be noted Fairfax holds 10% of BBRY shares ( http://finance.yahoo.com/q/mh?s=BBRY ), which means this to be taken a little more seriously than a 3rd party unsolicited bid.
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by 3am 13y ago
Disgusting. Disgusting and disgraceful.
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by 3am 13y ago
"It has public safety flight approvals from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to fly in some parts of Colorado." <- from the article. That is hardly the same as the FAA being okay with them patrolling the area FEMA was
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by 3am 13y ago
Because they're afraid that a uav will collide with a helicoptor or light aircraft and kill people, is my guess. It seems like a reasonable fear. They wouldn't be permitted to do the same thing near other high-traffic air corrid
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by 3am 13y ago
"As it stands 9/11 is actually a worse terrorist attack than can ever be achieved with the use of airplanes again, see Flight 93." I think this point is highly debatable, though I hope we don't find out in our respectiv
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by 3am 13y ago
Because at the core of the point is a comparison between a very large data set (auto fatalities) and a very small data set (large scale terrorist attacks). Since - thank god - there is a very limited data set available in the second case i
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by 3am 13y ago
This is a morbid point, but I dislike the figure of ~3K people killed in the 9/11 attacks. If either of the towers had fallen sooner or had fallen sideways instead of collapsing almost completely vertically, then it could have been muc
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by 3am 13y ago
As a non-Indian, I'm somewhat offended by the technical deficiency of the photoshop (they couldn't even be bothered to take care of the reflecting pool?) and the (imho) subpar analysis in the article itself.
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by 3am 13y ago
You are misinterpreting. As others have noted, this is DNA in the nuclei of nerve cells, not gametes. It is not heritable.
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by 3am 13y ago
Sounds like the smartest way to do it. Good luck! I hope you can carve out a decent niche for highly specialized varietals (something that an independent roaster might not feel like he can clear 60kg of). If you do it right, you and roas
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by 3am 13y ago
Sorry, maybe I missed it, but will you be doing the roasting or will the supplier? Why not work with small roasters instead of direct?
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by 3am 13y ago
It doesn't seem to be a overly large round of funding. Look at comparable rounds at Puppet Labs & Opscode (so you'd probably want to look at Bs since the market is more validated now). Similar business models, and they shoul
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by 3am 13y ago
A few hundred dollars could get you a full 3' x 5' 250W panel plus a microinverter.
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by 3am 13y ago
Your eagerness for schadenfreude seems poorly thought out, since this is not GMO, it's cell cloning. Maybe people will object because lab-grown meat is 'gross'. Maybe they will object because it removes such substantial barri
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by 3am 13y ago
I'm not making fun of gold investors. Why do you feel that I am? Nor did I make any statement about the place of gold in an individual's investment strategy. I'm observing a behavior in a small subset of gold investors, and c
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by 3am 13y ago
To the point of your edit, you see identical behavior on Gold investor boards in the typical sites (Motley Food, Seeking Alpha, et al). Everything is good news for gold. If "A" is good for gold, so is "!A". This money
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by 3am 13y ago
Marijuana. Seriously? WSJ desperately trying to suggest multiple causes to sidestep blaming the obesity epidemic. Reading between the lines that sounds a lot more correlated with the trend than what I would assume is pretty consistent pot
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by 3am 13y ago
Thanks for the reply! I think you have the makings of a good point. I really don't think the NSA is interested in this data. Now employers, insurance companies, or universities might find it very interesting. I think you had your hea
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by 3am 13y ago
I back to point A. The NSA doesn't want my stinking DNA. There's no actionable intelligence from it, which is the "all" referred to in that silly WP link. It's completely lunacy. The other two are moot points as
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by 3am 13y ago
Hah! Thank you. I pray to the FSM for this PRISM-induced group psychosis to end. I agree the NSA overstepped their authority. But the idea that A) they would want this information B) they wouldn't have trivially easy ways of otherwise
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by 3am 13y ago
Could you elaborate on the problems with distribution at Lulu?
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by 3am 13y ago
After you fork, you know you can just pull from the original project? That's why they call it the upstream. Perhaps you're saying that you can't take the community with you? That doesn't seem like a reasonable expectat
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This struck me as cynical and lazy. I agree narrowly with not "glorifying" hard work. There's no need to make a spectacle. But I believe in what I do, and I believe in its importance. When I automate something, I use the ti

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