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by DaniFong 17y ago
As an aside, the USA doesn't have anything like free market healthcare. Tax laws have given such an upper hand to health insurance companies, patent laws have given a huge upper hand to big pharma (particularly 'use patents', e.g. patenting
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Heh. The human body is a 'flow system far from equilibrium.' So while it's true that if you dunk the feet of a healthy person in hot water and wait, the temperature of their forehead may not increase by that much, it does not imply that the
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No, but in light of that knowledge you'd be a fool not to look more skeptically upon his claims.
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"The best thing I can do for many of my patients is to make absolutely sure they have bipolar disorder (and have a need for one of these medications). The recent rate of growth of the diagnosis is concerning for over-diagnosis." Indeed. It
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While I agree that certain alternative therapy based funding agencies aren't exactly an optimized system (funding energy waves? ESP? etc.) Big Pharma has its own brand of brokenness. I read this book, and found it quite eye opening. I haven
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"Even though we’ve invested $2.5 billion tax payer dollars and 10+ years of time on studying complementary and alternative medicines – we have discovered NO single breakthrough in medical treatment as a result." What about the use of Neti p
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A necklace, a lamp, a dress, the 'inventor's almanac' book 'They Made America,' and several socks, the limiting factor for startups.
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An automatic, voice based translator: talk in one language on one end (to an iPhone or something) out comes another language and subtitles in another :-) One thing that's interesting about this is that it's not too far off. We have speech r
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Interesting. One thing that strikes me is that CO2 is a better asphyxiating agent than nitrogen: it is inert to combustion and it is 47.3% denser than N2, so it will stay put if you can keep it under 147.3% of ambient temperature. And peopl
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Kudos for bringing this up. Saul Griffith also weighs in quite reasonably on this issue: http://www.boingboing.net/2009/12/01/energy-literacy-4-ho.ht...
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New Device Desirable, Old Device Undesirable(flickr.com)
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LightSail Energy is hiring an office manager/executive assistant/sanity provider
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Huge numbers of Young Albertan men who would otherwise be applying to college are now going straight to work in the oil sands. It is dangerous, but high paying work. Few women go there at all. Actually it is attracting a huge number of men
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Whoa, great idea guys! I've been looking for something like this! :-)
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Btw there are so many cool things one could do if, say, the iPhone could turn off its IR filter as in a shutter :-)
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Consider Cambridge physicist David MacKay's Without Hot Air, especially the section "Every Big Helps." http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/withouthotair/c19/page_11... On a related note, I suggest the everyone run Wattzon.org to see where
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On the other hand, while there are fewer WebOS devices out there, there's a massive shortage of Palm apps. You could make an extremely sound business porting successful iPhone apps to the Pre. You'd have huge mindshare if you launched there
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Consider applying here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Wills_Neuroscience_Instit... They'll understand that the market is trouble, and Jeff Hawkens (and presumably many of his employees) have had one foot in both doors for a while.
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My vote goes to Mathematica, which is probably both the best and worst technology I've used this year. Oy! A more one-sided review goes to Evernote :-)
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It's probably because there weren't any black coworkers around to test on. Otherwise they would have noticed it. See? As if we didn't already have it, here's proof that diversity = better software :-)
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While I think this can be great advice in the internet space, there's a pretty big difference between having a consumer product pre-vc funding which you can bootstrap to a release, and a biotech or cleantech based startup post-funding with
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"Finally I reject the notion that there doesn't seem to be any other way. I have much more faith in human innovation than that. I firmly believe that there is a market for green technologies, that, when fully developed, will create jobs, bo
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It's a pretty clear link. Take a look at about 8:58 in Hans Rosling's TED Talk http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_reveals_new_insights_o... Practically every country has gotten out of poverty at the cost of carbon emissions. The link i
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At present, it depends on the strategy taken, ad of course it will depend on the technologies developed. There are actually many many technologies which, at present, will save you money in the long run (and the run doesn't even need to be t
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While I'd love to see the working out of a rigorous methodology for studying this, that particular article and study is shot through with politics. I would really like to be able to better answer the question: how much am I contributing? Bu
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As I wrote two years ago, people do not fit Gaussian distributions as neatly as many imagine ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=65408 ): "The thing is that intelligence isn't some kind of nice, statistically normed quantity. There's more
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Disappointing but not terribly surprising. The programming expertise just isn't there for consumer applications, yet, whereas for HPC many problems come close to being embarrassingly parallel. Oh well. Another time, perhaps.
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I am convinced that the climate does warrant it. I just don't think the science is a closed book. There are other reasons to stop the burning of coal, for example: respiratory illness.
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It's perfectly acceptable for me to see fewer women or men or people of a particular socioeconomic or religious background in one field or another. That alone doesn't bother me, except insofar as it can be a signal to another problem. One t
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Thanks, I appreciate this article, despite my being essentially convinced that it's important to do something significant to reduce carbon emissions. The fact of the matter is that the climate science isn't settled. It's a shame that the nu

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