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by HillRat 12y ago
Yep, if Iran had an indigenous production capability worth a damn they wouldn't have been desperate to refit all those old Iraqi Su-22s. More generally, if they had the technical capability to run production-scale assembly of their ind
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by HillRat 12y ago
It's really quite ridiculous for the linked report to use a capital:user ratio as a meaningful metric -- it's a bit like building an auto factory, building the first car, then arguing that the car cost $100m to build. Having said
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by HillRat 13y ago
Out of curiosity, which HL7 CDAs (and which levels) do you support, and how much lift is it to set up import/export for a new provider or institution? I'm pessimistic that we'll be able to achieve true level 3 interoperabilit
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by HillRat 13y ago
This has come up on HN before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7531858 Brazil's Article 71 eventually led to TRIPS Article 27 § 2 and § 3(a), which affirm the rights of WTO member nations to exclude medical patent
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by HillRat 13y ago
Yeah, good luck with that; regulatory capture has effectively killed any attempt at citizen influence of state and federal agencies. And, in addition to the revolving door at the FCC -- which is uniquely shameless even by iron triangle stan
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by HillRat 13y ago
Generally, it's best not to say anything more than the minimal amount necessary; if you want to get a particular angle on the story out, you float it through friendly media, of which SiV has a preponderance. ("Sources close to t
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by HillRat 13y ago
As I understand it (and I may not understand it at all!), the most significant difference is that dataflow programming is deterministic and compositional , whereas actors are nondeterministic and discrete . Intuitively, I tend to comp
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by HillRat 13y ago
Oh, god, yes. I've worked with multiple enterprise-oriented software companies whose founders hustled to make early sales at any cost, and then ended up creating massive long-term costs that far outweighed the value of the initial sale
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by HillRat 13y ago
This ( http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2011/9/122797-the-most-expensi... ) should work.
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by HillRat 13y ago
This isn't the UK; it is not a violation of US law to publish classified information; the violation is when a person with legitimate access to classified information disseminates it to an unauthorized person (see, e.g., 18 USC § 79
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by HillRat 13y ago
The standard treatment protocol is monthly injections on an indefinite schedule; given the prevalence of age-related macular degeneration, it's easy to see how a clinic in a high-retirement area could profitably optimize to do hundreds
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by HillRat 13y ago
Roughly 5,000, as I recall (JDE was only tangentially related to my world). I think about 1,500 of those map to specific system objects. There's also various naming conventions for other objects; user-defined value lists have terse nam
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by HillRat 13y ago
Also I am quite sure that there is some overlap going on between "these" hacker communities and the hacker news community. Not significantly, I think. The old-school hacker communities arose as a reaction to the large-scale cent
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by HillRat 13y ago
JDE has a consistent, logical, and totally infuriating table and column naming convention that's a holdover from its System/34 days, so that you're always having to select GLAA from F0911 and so on. Worse yet, the system does
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by HillRat 13y ago
Basically; it held the Cat OS and software in ROM, so it could boot immediately and run without disk access. If you recall, the Mac had most of its key OS functions held in ROM for the same reason, although it couldn't fit its entire s
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by HillRat 13y ago
Egypt wouldn't be my first choice for medical tourism, even for cheap pharms. The primary source of Egypt's incredibly high HCV infection rate was through medical treatment -- inadequate sterilization of glass syringes and inadequ
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by HillRat 13y ago
Solvadi/sofosbuvir was discovered by Pharmasset, Schinazi and Liotta's lab, which Gilead picked up for a cool $11 billion a few years ago. I believe sofosbuvir was Pharmasset's main IP (I think they had some HIV treatments -
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by HillRat 13y ago
Or King's C Programming: A Modern Approach , which lacks the conciseness (and affordability) of K&R but is probably the best single text out there, and unlike K&R is updated through C99.
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by HillRat 13y ago
There's two sides to that -- the first is that, yes, he absolutely has the right to hold any opinion he wants to, no matter how noxious I or others may find them. To paraphrase Hall on Voltaire, I'll defend to the death their
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by HillRat 13y ago
Agreed! Thankfully, the FDA backed off requiring IND applications for FMTs last year, so the clinical burden is much less than was originally anticipated. The µBiome stuff is really quite cool, but we don't really have the clinical dat
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by HillRat 13y ago
While I'm a huge proponent of patient autonomy and knowledge, it's really, really, really a bad idea to perform fecal microbiota transplantations at home, without medical equipment or training, and with an unvetted donor. I do h
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by HillRat 13y ago
Well, if you want to get ridiculously technical, we shouldn't use "coding" for anything higher-level than assembling bytecodes at the machine level. The term was in common currency at least as early as Wheeler's "Th
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by HillRat 13y ago
Following the rulings in Tate and Bearden , the state cannot imprison a defendant who has been convicted of a crime that has a sentence of a fine and is legitimately unable to pay. To do otherwise would allow the conversion of a sentence
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by HillRat 13y ago
It happens more often than most of us, privileged as we are, think. The legality of an action isn't determined by law (black letter or case), but by law plus petition. The poorest and weakest members of society generally don't hav
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by HillRat 13y ago
Parenthetically, but recently it seems that academics have formed some kind of collective Stockholm Syndrome regarding their careers, where a tenure-seeking goonswarm piles on anyone who points out how toxic academia has become. Not that th
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by HillRat 13y ago
Oh my God, yes. It is ridiculously hard to find good data analysts, because companies have recently come to realize just how much data they have, and how much can be done with it. And professional statisticians aren't always the right
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by HillRat 13y ago
Back in the 70s, my father ran a state government agency staffed primarily by economists, statisticians and modelers. One economist was a woman who was very highly credentialed -- multiple Ivy Leagues, quant-heavy background, extremely know
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by HillRat 13y ago
We're still waiting for double-blind, vs placebo, clinical trials to show how efficacious they really are. They submitted one. It was two dozen blank sheets of paper that "remembered" the data showing homeopathy works.
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Oculus founder's reddit comments on the FB buyout(reddit.com)
2 points by HillRat 13y ago|0 comments
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by HillRat 13y ago
Here, take all my upvotes. :) The only thing I would amend is that most poor managers aren't the "slaver" types (if you end up reporting to one, it'll be obvious and you'll know to run as far and as fast as possible

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