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by Calavar 4y ago
This was a common plot device in 1940s and 1950s space SciFi. In the 60s, there was some preliminary work at NASA on jetpack propulsion with the goal of testing out the concept on Gemini spacewalks (didn't actually happen until much, m
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by Calavar 4y ago
I don't think you understood my comment. It's not about how evil you or I think Putin is. It's about drawing false equivalencies. Let's say for the sake of argument that Euromaidan was 100% manufactured by Obama. (I stro
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by Calavar 4y ago
Facebook also tracks the activity of people who have never registered an account while they browse on third party websites.
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by Calavar 4y ago
Sometimes it is just bad guys versus bad guys. I don't think that's the case here, but let's humor that argument. Good and bad isn't a simple binary - it's a scale. And I have yet to see an anti-Western narrative on
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by Calavar 4y ago
As always, it depends on what your goal is. An unambiguous parser is easier to write tests for. It leads to fewer subtle "gotchas" where something syntax checks and compiles but is interpreted by the compiler as something very dif
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by Calavar 4y ago
The one commonality I've seen across virtually all these anti-Western narratives on the Ukraine conflict is that they completely ignore the agency of Ukraine as an independent nation state. It's never that Ukrainians took to the s
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by Calavar 4y ago
Probably that it doesn't have ambiguities
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If you are accepting stock or stock options as compensation, that's generally coming in lieu of cash. Maybe you had an offer somewhere else with $30k more in salary, but you took this offer instead because the projected value of the st
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by Calavar 4y ago
When I rotated through surgical oncology as a 3rd year medical student, a lot of the cases were robotic. For a 5 hour surgery, the fellow got to drive the robot for about 90 minutes. He spent the rest of the time watching. The resident made
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by Calavar 4y ago
Heart attack (myocardial infarction) leads to cardiac arrest all the time. That's how people die from heart attacks. If someone has a myocardial infarction and then goes into cardiac arrest with a shockable rhythm, shocking is absolute
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by Calavar 4y ago
I am an internist in the US. It's the same here. I would never call the surgeon without an image. They would (rightly) refuse to operate without visual confirmation of gallbladder inflammation and/or a stone. Usually I wouldn&#x27
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by Calavar 4y ago
This is all around a terrible and nonconstructive attitude. > The post is unnecessarily hostile. Created by a new anonymous account, with the goal of attacking V and "not recommending to use it". What about it was hostile? It w
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by Calavar 4y ago
That's a strange dichotomy to make. How is accent elimination different from an accent change from a nonstandard accent to a standard accent?
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by Calavar 4y ago
I am well aware that pharmacists can and do refuse to fill opioid prescriptions. The difference is that they refuse to fill opioid prescriptions based on fill patterns that are suspicious for criminal activity: If one person came in with an
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by Calavar 4y ago
You mean a JIT? Or are you talking about something else, like some sort of hybrid interpreter/AOT compilation?
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They were talking about being scrutinized as a criminal. You seem to be talking about being tried as a criminal under the law, which is a very different thing. People with miscarriages are already scrutinized as potential criminals. Some ex
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by Calavar 4y ago
Just my personal observations: Plain HTML/CSS is still relevant today. Not everything needs to be an SPA. I also don't understand how one would write SPAs with React/Vue/whatever other framework without first having at l
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by Calavar 4y ago
> That doesn’t mean it’s a requirement to be affective at the level above. Not necessarily, but it did have a material effect in the original example. A web developer drug in a complex, unnecessary framework because she didn't rea
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by Calavar 4y ago
The pie chart on the left double counts everything. The total is represented as a slice in the pie chart.
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by Calavar 4y ago
That's horrendous. I am surprised that a university would advise their students to do that. What exactly do they think is the intellectual value of rearranging words and substituting synonyms? Calling that synthesis and summation is li
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by Calavar 4y ago
Agreed. I suspect that this is an arbitrage game on the part of the SEO spammers. Each search is cheaper for them than it is for a competitor who's using a major search engine with more extensive anti-spammer protections, and that diff
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by Calavar 4y ago
> It's not unreasonable to accept the theory that he might've even dismissed his bodyguard, and ignored the assassination plot rumors, in hopes of the glorious suicide-by-assassination exit he received. He was clever enough to
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by Calavar 4y ago
Stony Brook isn't a community college. It is a 4 year university. I do agree though that there are many great universities where you can get an education for a fraction of the $200k bill that top private colleges have.
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by Calavar 5y ago
> on the strategic level, the expansion of NATO (which we have not dealt with here); This is an Orwellian distortion of language. Expansion can be interpreted in a literal sense or a metaphorical one. Organizations expand in a metaphoric
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by Calavar 5y ago
A 100% competitive free market is the analogue to a frictionless vacuum in physics. It's a convenient model for academic purposes, but it's not something that really exists.
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by Calavar 5y ago
Their goal was bever to extinguish Linux. Free and open Linux is critical to their business model because it is the infrastructure behind the third party sites where they sell ads and insert their trackers. Their goal was to extinguish the
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by Calavar 5y ago
> The energy was already generated. Imagine you're a power company. You gotta sell your energy. You do realize that power stations can increase and decrease production to scale with demand? > Who do you sell it to? Locally? To th
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by Calavar 5y ago
> The concept of physical vs psychological dependence is kind of outdated, see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EaiP31qWf0 You are conflating two terms here. Addiction (which is what the video is talking about here) is
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by Calavar 5y ago
This is far from a solved problem in medicine. Higher salaries aren't enough to attract the number of doctors are needed, and there are also other issues that actively drive away doctors. (For example, fewer doctors to split the call p
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by Calavar 5y ago
That press release links to a journal article in Nature. I can't read the Nature article because it's paywalled, but the same group published an article in Brain in 2014 where they said "We propose that the functional state o

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