Malarkey73

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by Malarkey73 11y ago
Lets not forget too that Martin Shkreli took no risk inventing this drug. He bought a monopoly - a necessary lifesaving drug with no alternative - and jacked up the price by thousands. Either a free market fundamentalist (ie no explotative
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The Incredible Shrinking Incomes of Young Americans(theatlantic.com)
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by Malarkey73 11y ago
Yes the "digital evolution index" does sound a nebulous rag-tag list of stuff that the sponsors MasterCard and DataCash would like govermnets to implement or remove for them. A complex issue no doubt - but I can't stand opini
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by Malarkey73 11y ago
Book review and Comparison of The Wright Brothers by David McCullough with Elon Musk: How the Billionaire CEO of SpaceX and Tesla Is Shaping Our Future by Ashlee Vance
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Lets All Go to Mars by John Lanchester(lrb.co.uk)
1 points by Malarkey73 11y ago|1 comments
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by Malarkey73 12y ago
Vince Buffalo is author of the best book on bioinformatics: Bioinformatics Data Skills (O'Reilly). It's worth a read for learning unix/bash style data science of any flavour. Or even if you think you know unix/bash and d
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by Malarkey73 12y ago
I don't think it is inane at all. Lots of games since Monopoly, Elite and running through Civilisation and SimCity have model economics, free trade, and free thinking ideas in-built into the game mechanics. And a lot of economics and f
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by Malarkey73 12y ago
[Objectively] in countries where a minimum wage has been introduced at a higher rate than the US and is reviewed each year it has pushed up wages but had little effect on employment. e.g. see for instance this discussion http://w
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by Malarkey73 12y ago
Sorry is anyone who offers the contrary opinion - no matter how politely- that space tourism is frivolous, going to be voted down just because its an unpopular view about here?
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by Malarkey73 12y ago
Yes and No. Yes ecologists take more time to collect data. However ecology is much cheaper than mol. biology. Essentially its ecology = manpower vs mol. biology = manpower + expensive technology + expensive chemistry. Also ecology has been
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by Malarkey73 12y ago
Agreed. That's way off base. SNP voters won't make up half of the YES vote. Its unpredictable as it's all down to how the Labour and previous non-voters fall.
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by Malarkey73 12y ago
Its a very common phenomenon in science that a finding is published in a glamour journal e.g. Nature/Science and then if not immediately controversial e.g. acid bath stem cells, it becomes very difficult to publish something contradict
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by Malarkey73 12y ago
The idea that you get a lot of just marginal significant results due to "P hacking" , i.e. minor fiddling with excluding outliers or picking a certain hypothesis test over another is probably true. Then there is positive publicati
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by Malarkey73 12y ago
I don't think for psychiatric research we should start with the presumption the end goal is necessarily "drugs on the shelf". it might or might not be a good goal for some conditions.
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Comcast Rep won't let a customer leave(boingboing.net)
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by Malarkey73 12y ago
They are exceptionally poorly paid and insecure. Here in the UK most of them are on benefits. Effectively my taxes are subsidising their profits.
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by Malarkey73 12y ago
Essentially any profit made by Amazon in Europe is faux booked to a Luxembourg office where it is then off-shored to another tax-haven. It then just sits there till Amazon can buy Congress to let them bring it back to US shareholders. That
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by Malarkey73 12y ago
“It’s great to be around people who understand. I don’t get how the left won’t just admit that income tax is theft. Who cares if it’s for a good cause?" Said the guy who drove to the festival on the trillion dollar road network.
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by Malarkey73 12y ago
I like Dillinger which is online. It has preview pane and links/saves with your Dropbox/Github/GoogleDrive or a local folder. http://dillinger.io
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by Malarkey73 12y ago
well I was trying to be funny.. but blood alcohol does indeed have a physical model that relates consumption to levels in the blood. And atmospheric temperature has a simple physical model that relates it to C02 levels. And I use the term &
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by Malarkey73 12y ago
Lets say we have my blood alcohol level measured in the last 5 mins. It's 0.2g/dL. Whats my blood alcohol level throughout my lifetime though - i reckon it goes up and down quite a bit? How do i know I'm drunk or that it was
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by Malarkey73 12y ago
Theres no conundrum for me. I won't go there. 1. They make rubbish coffee. 2. They pay no tax in my country. When they pay no tax, they have an unfair anticompetitive advantage against businesses that do. Other taxpayers have to make u
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by Malarkey73 12y ago
Here in the UK I played a game on the CBeebies website with my daughter (age 7). It wanted her to sign up for an account with an email address and details so that she could save her progress. She just plays from the beginning restarting eac
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by Malarkey73 12y ago
That's great - don't punish users - but I still have no idea from their actual website landing page (kivo.com) what kivo is... Something for uploading and making annotations on slides? Why do I want to do that? So however easy or
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by Malarkey73 12y ago
Perhaps if companies and web-marketers could capture how disinclined I am to buy stuff from companies that spam me - then this would stop. I guess they can't AB test that type of unseen negative. But you would think they might speculat
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by Malarkey73 12y ago
"I’m Adam Wiggins, hacker and serial entrepreneur. You might know me as cofounder and former CTO of Heroku." Read it in the voice of Troy McClure?
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by Malarkey73 12y ago
There is a 10 page rebuttal .. but if you insist I précis the killer points for you then: The first of two substantive changes the FT notes that greatly changes Pikettys European wealth trend would be the wealth estimate for Britain. The FT
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by Malarkey73 12y ago
And they only picked that method for recent years so inequality is declining in Britain? Through Thatcher and Blair years??? Right.
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by Malarkey73 12y ago
The FT is actually a pretty balanced high quality paper - but their alternative analysis of the Piketty data is shoddy. I can't imagine any good comeback from them to Pikettys comeback.
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by Malarkey73 12y ago
I take you're point and those other well made points about line continuations below -- but you're over egging it here as cut -d, -f1 2010.csv | grep ILLINOIS works just fine for this data. I emphasise again - I take your overall p

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