Herodotus38

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   by Herodotus38 10y ago

   Washington uses 100% paper mail in ballots, not online voting.
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   by Herodotus38 10y ago

   To clarify, I think I want to find a place where people discuss the pros/cons of implementing features, hopefully in an objective way. Here are some ideas I'm sure others have had before, but which I think would be interesting: C
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   by Herodotus38 10y ago

   Every once in a while I like to think about the evolution of sites like forums, slashdot, digg, Reddit, HN, etc... And what could be done to improve them, mainly from a technical rather than social aspect (such as the way voting works, how
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   by Herodotus38 10y ago

   It could be, however I would bet against it as both the US and Russia have plans. The US is looking at the commercial market to deal with LEO while NASA focuses on larger things. I believe that Russia has plans as well but I haven't
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   by Herodotus38 10y ago

   I googled it because I was very skeptical. This is not the paper but the press release to what I think the above commenter was referring to: http://news.berkeley.edu/2015/09/15/bovine-leukemia-virus-br... A P
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   by Herodotus38 10y ago

   Robert Weinberg's The Biology of Cancer has a great chapter on the early history of cancer research and its connection with virology and a chance occurrence leading to discovery. There was a chicken breeder who noticed that some of his
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   by Herodotus38 10y ago

   Am I the only one who thought that this article was going to be about the Ukranian (formerly Soviet) rocket named Zenit? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zenit_(rocket_family)
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   by Herodotus38 10y ago

   For those interested, there is an ISRO subreddit at www.reddit.com/r/ISRO which is well updated.
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   by Herodotus38 10y ago

   I am in the medical field and can relate an anecdote, I'm sure which happens regularly across the US. Patient visiting from India comes in with sepsis from urinary tract infection, and she has a history of multiple ones. ER doctor cal
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    by Herodotus38 10y ago

    I agree with your response to the poster above, but I'm glad he/she made that post because it is an important point that I didn't see anybody else make. I have no reason to doubt the OP's assertion of corruption in the R
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    by Herodotus38 10y ago

    I stopped reading after the grammar of the first two sentences. I cannot parse the second sentence, although I think I get what they are trying to say. Fair or not, I interpret this as a public service announcement against nootropics.
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    by Herodotus38 10y ago

    Apologies if this has already been answered but I couldn't find it in the comments below: does anyone know the date of this interview? EDIT: Figured it out. Probably June or July as he mentions OpenAI was 6 months old and it was found
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    by Herodotus38 10y ago

    When you say no cancer prevention whatsoever I think you are referring to just lung cancer. I do not know much about their national lung cancer recommendations but I do know that Japan has actually had a very robust GI cancer screening his
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    by Herodotus38 10y ago

    For those interested in learning about the many parties involved in the launch market this gives a pretty good general overview. I thought this article did a good job of going over not only Paul Allen's foray, but also the other well k
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    Paul Allen's giant plane takes shape in the desert, but its market is unclear(seattletimes.com)

    2 points by Herodotus38 10y ago|1 comments
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    by Herodotus38 10y ago

    Sort of a minor point but I wonder though if the quote meant prison rather than jail. Anecdotally I've heard that it is hard to get drugs in jail, but very easy in prison. This makes sense because people in jail are there for short sti
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    by Herodotus38 10y ago

    One could grab an asteroid primarily composed of water ice, obtain oxygen via hydrolysis and then use either earth mined iron or iron from a different asteroid type. Like I said though the idea is ridiculous. I'm also not sure how much
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    by Herodotus38 10y ago

    One ridiculous idea would be asteroid mining, although I'm not sure what the background radiation would in an asteroid. Plus, the whole cost issue.
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    by Herodotus38 10y ago

    A really good source for both lay public and health care providers is the CDC (perhaps not a surprise). They do a good job of explaining what we know and importantly what we don't know. See for example: http://www.cdc.gov&#x
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    by Herodotus38 11y ago

    For sure, everything he says should be taken with a grain of salt. I was just giving an example of a specific Greek who had some of the ideas the OP was requesting.
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    by Herodotus38 11y ago

    At least in the specific case of Herodotus, in his Histories, he has several theories about Greek customs borrowed from other cultures. He also has a relatively open mind about different cultures having customs that are better. For example,
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    by Herodotus38 11y ago

    They are planning on building more sites, see: https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/page/ligo-india
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    by Herodotus38 11y ago

    I totally agree with you about English being a horrible language to try and teach. Not to mention things like 'th' or 'sh' or heaven help us, "ph" sounds. My hope is that if he can read independently, he can so
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    by Herodotus38 11y ago

    Thank you for posting this. I have been looking for a detailed personal account of teaching a toddler to read for a while. My son is two and a half and like this author, I have been trying to find out how to teach him to read. A couple week
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    by Herodotus38 11y ago

    I was thinking of philosophers like the Greeks (Socrates, Plato, etc...), Jewish (Maimonides, Goan, etc...), Chinese (Confucius, Sun Tzu), Europeans (Descartes, Hume), American (Autobio of Benj Franklin, other autodidacts like Hamilton, Jef
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    by Herodotus38 11y ago

    I didn't check every link but I find it interesting that under "improving intelligence", there is no mention of the generations of work previous thinkers have put in to the question about how to be wiser/intelligent, or
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    by Herodotus38 11y ago

    Here is the actual paper: http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2015/151014/ncomms9581/full/nco... Coming from medicine I think the title of "medical breakthrough" is too generous. It's a grea
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    by Herodotus38 11y ago

    I went to the same medical school as her and she gave an amazing speech to us a little before she died. Not to belittle her accomplishments, but she did a biopsy on herself (not really surgery) and gave herself chemotherapy.
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    by Herodotus38 11y ago

    Could you give a source for that? From what I've read Mordechai was her uncle.
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    by Herodotus38 11y ago

    I just finished a Biography on Alexander the Great (Titled: Alexander the Great, The Hunt for a New Past. by Paul Cartledge), which I found to be very good because the author delves into the various sources of information on Alexander, whic