Apfel

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by Apfel 7y ago
Having lived in China for several years, it's very important to stress that the average English level of those "English speakers" is lower than that of your average American toddler.
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by Apfel 7y ago
I must take issue with the "$2.6 billion to create a new drug" statement. This is an extremely controversial figure within the pharmacoeconomic literature. It comes from a publication by the Tufts centre for drug development, who
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by Apfel 7y ago
The answer to basically any spaced repetition question is always going to end up being Anki. https://apps.ankiweb.net/
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by Apfel 8y ago
Agreed. The only thing that really jumped out at me as "translated from chinese" was the "As you all know" (I assumed translated directly from 众所周知)
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by Apfel 8y ago
You're assuming that anyone with these sorts of documents: 1) wants to leak them (most of the Chinese people who I've met in China, especially those who work in a government or military capacity, will bend over backwards to defend
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by Apfel 8y ago
I'm not saying that you're wrong, as it does feel like an incredibly safe country, but most statistics published by the Chinese government range from questionable to outright fabrications.
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by Apfel 8y ago
I see your point, but most overdoses are likely due to imperfect dosage information (excluding suicide, obviously). I think there may be some argument for legalisation but with medically-supervised consumption in pharmacies or specialised c
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by Apfel 8y ago
As I've said in another thread, anyone who's used Baidu for any length of time should laugh out loud at the suggestion that it's anywhere close to Google in quality.
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by Apfel 8y ago
https://www.greenwave.org/ There's some really cool stuff happening in this field. IIRC some farming designs have been open sourced, too. All you really need is a few hundred metres of rope and some seed spools.
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by Apfel 8y ago
If they had leaks of Google's algorithm, they'd likely have a much more usable product...
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by Apfel 8y ago
My immediate reaction was "how can the CCP possibly cripple Google so much that Baidu can compete?". Anyone who's lived in China will have passionate views on how terrible Baidu's product is. If there is any eastward lea
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by Apfel 8y ago
Regarding point 1: From the site linked in the article, it appears to be basically classic keto + heavy supervision and dietary advice.
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by Apfel 9y ago
PhD student in health economics
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by Apfel 9y ago
For the record, the 2 billion dollars figure is from the notorious tufts centre for the study of drug development, which is heavily pharma-backed. It's a very, VERY controversial figure in the pharmacoeconomic literature, but has been
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by Apfel 9y ago
I speak Chinese and I was with my Chinese wife. Thanks for the patronising attitude though :P
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by Apfel 9y ago
I've said this in another comment, but here goes again: Actually, the laptops I tried out were almost all Dell + Lenovo (I wanted a thinkpad or XPS). I think, as another commenter said, they were probably Linux + FreeDOS systems origin
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by Apfel 9y ago
For the record, I also checked my local 大润发 and 国美电器, where they did the same shit.
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by Apfel 9y ago
Actually, the laptops I tried out were almost all Dell + Lenovo (I wanted a thinkpad or XPS). I think, as another commenter said, they were probably Linux + FreeDOS systems originally. What the store owners would do is use Norton Ghost to
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by Apfel 9y ago
I'm not saying my experience is more correct or better than yours. I have no idea where you were/are in China, but it was impossible to buy a genuine copy of Windows or a computer with it installed when I was in Guangzhou.
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by Apfel 9y ago
I'm not sure how we can successfully argue about this when it's based on experience... For the record, I was visiting Gangding in Guangzhou (the computer District) several times between 2012-14. Every vendor I found was baffled by
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by Apfel 9y ago
I don't think it's really fair to suggest that average Chinese people have a choice in the matter. I lived in China (Guangzhou) for several years, and it was literally impossible to buy a computer with a legal copy of windows inst
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by Apfel 9y ago
I'm a 28 year old British man who is still regularly id'd. It's not all that relaxed in my experience...
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by Apfel 10y ago
The cancer drugs fund is an absolute travesty, and a direct transfer of wealth from the UK taxpayer to the pharmaceutical industry. The lobbyist who devised the value proposition to Cameron's government must be very proud of him/h
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by Apfel 10y ago
Just for the record, although the acronym does technically spell out NIHCE since they changed the name, they've stuck with the "NICE" branding. It allows for all sorts of pun titles for academic papers like the following: [i]
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by Apfel 10y ago
If anyone's interested, England's system of health technology assessment (HTA) for the NHS is extremely transparent and world-leading. It's one of the things that we Brits should be extremely proud of (although pharma-sponsor
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by Apfel 10y ago
Down for me, but the main springboard page is up.
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by Apfel 10y ago
I actually did look through the github, in hope of not posting a stupid comment. It's useful, but still not really substantial in terms of what generally-applicable knowledge gains he made from specific languages.
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by Apfel 10y ago
I think this article would be more useful/interesting if it was extended to include language-specific things you found interesting, and specific pieces of expertise you gained in your usual working languages by exploring new ones rathe
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by Apfel 10y ago
I am an S-W, 100%. This article basically describes exactly how I act. I know what I am and I hate it and desperately want to change. He's absolutely bang on that when a bullshitter hits a performance-based situation they're screw
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by Apfel 10y ago
Just bought the GTD book. That's the planning brain part accomplished, right? Here's hoping I can actually find the motivation to read it and then apply the lessons!

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