GabrielF00

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Corn Wars(newrepublic.com)
96 points by GabrielF00 11y ago|128 comments
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by GabrielF00 11y ago
Joe Blitzstein's Probability course at Harvard (Stat110) is very well regarded. http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/stat110/home
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by GabrielF00 11y ago
I don't think so, or at least I don't think that's the primary reason. I think the idea is to have people develop a breadth of experience working on different types of problems and in different countries. If you're a spe
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by GabrielF00 11y ago
While we're on the subject, does anyone know why books don't usually start at page one? Even in the case of a novel, where there's no preface in roman numerals, the book will often start on page three or four.
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by GabrielF00 11y ago
Unfortunately, it looks like Hacker News deletes periods at the end of links, so this link won't work. If you want to read the article, you can just add a period to the end of the URL.
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No, Polygamy Isn’t the Next Gay Marriage(politico.com)
2 points by GabrielF00 11y ago|0 comments
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Common medications sway moral judgment(news.sciencemag.org)
4 points by GabrielF00 11y ago|1 comments
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by GabrielF00 11y ago
>The fact that the CIA and NSA were prepared to reveal an ongoing surveillance operation to the Chancellery underlines the importance they attached to the leaks, say sources in Washington. The NSA, the sources say, were aware that the Ge
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by GabrielF00 11y ago
Most of what we saw in the Snowden leaks was about methodology. We saw very little about what the NSA actually produces. Here we're actually seeing examples of what the NSA provides to policymakers. It's a useful perspective.
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by GabrielF00 11y ago
FWIW, I recently had to get the records of a medical test that was performed when I was a teenager. All I had to do was fax the hospital a form with my date of birth, approximate year the test was done, and a signature, and they sent the re
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by GabrielF00 11y ago
One is an idea, the other is reality.
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by GabrielF00 11y ago
It's probably not a good idea to post the name and title of the person you spoke with when it's a small company.
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by GabrielF00 11y ago
The parchment was also extremely expensive. The labor for someone to hand-copy the manuscript cost 36 shillings, but the parchment cost 6 shillings 9 pence (6.75 shillings).
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by GabrielF00 11y ago
This Wikipedia article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diploma_mills_in_the_United_St... gives a number of examples of US authorities shutting down diploma mills.
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by GabrielF00 11y ago
Maybe the SEALs wouldn't have been able to restrain themselves, but in my experience, when people know that very high-up people in their chain of command are watching their actions carefully, they generally make sure that it looks like
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by GabrielF00 11y ago
A few parts of the story seem to be reasonable. There was widespread speculation that the ISI knew Bin Laden's location, even right after Bin Laden was killed. The story about the Pakistani general defecting seems to have been reported
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by GabrielF00 11y ago
It's worth reading Hersh's interview with Slate. Hersh comes across as a complete nut job. http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/foreigners/2...
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by GabrielF00 11y ago
He was at the gym alone, the article says he was on vacation with friends and family.
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by GabrielF00 11y ago
Hopefully not at age 47.
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by GabrielF00 11y ago
It's not just the billing codes that are insane, it's also the differences in prices. I recently filled a prescription at CVS. CVS billed my insurance company nearly $200 for 90 days. I found out that you can get the same prescrip
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Freddie Gray’s life a study in the sad effects of lead paint on poor blacks(washingtonpost.com)
4 points by GabrielF00 11y ago|0 comments
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by GabrielF00 11y ago
Apple used to position itself as a brand for rebels and bohemians. Remember the "Here's to the crazy ones" manifesto? An $18,000 gold watch is pretty far from that image. Of course, the rebel image worked because Apple had a
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by GabrielF00 11y ago
If you choose to stop taking an anti-depressant, please be careful and consult a physician. If you don't taper off the drugs, you can feel some really nasty effects. This seems to be particularly problematic with Cymbalta. https:&#x2F
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by GabrielF00 11y ago
This is a terrific idea. Out of curiosity, are you a company, a non-profit, a group of people doing a project for fun, or what?
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by GabrielF00 11y ago
Yes. I'm not suggesting that it was right for me to look at them. I am arguing that it was not morally neutral, as the poster I responded to suggested, for Wikileaks to publish and advertise them. It's possible that I could have o
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by GabrielF00 11y ago
They are absolutely complicit in a gross violation of privacy. I've spent some time looking through the emails. There's information about people's health (I found an email where one person informs colleagues that he was recen
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by GabrielF00 11y ago
The Tin Drum is an amazing book and it influenced a lot of fiction - from Midnight's Children to A Prayer for Owen Meany. Some of his shorter books are a little more accessible (Cat and Mouse or Crabwalk, for instance). I found Grass&#
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by GabrielF00 11y ago
I don't fully understand this comment. The current system provides a mechanism for someone else to raise the child (CPS can take the child away). In Rothbard's world, who intervenes in the case of parental neglect? The text implie
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by GabrielF00 12y ago
Is the world envisioned in the second paragraph really one that people want to live in?
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by GabrielF00 12y ago
This Yale Law Journal article outlines the arguments made by 19th century state courts on both sides of the common law marriage issue: [ http://www.jstor.org/stable/797340 ]

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