Ntrails

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by Ntrails 8y ago
I think advertising clinical trials to the public is actively prevented due to the tremendous uncertainty around both patient suitability and treatment risk/efficacy. This needs to be something that is managed by an expert in the midd
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by Ntrails 8y ago
Ok, here's the thing. I like playing video games. I get a sense of enjoyment and fulfillment from an evening spent crushing my enemies on the field of battle via a surprise contingent of minotaurs. That's fine. It's good!
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by Ntrails 8y ago
Buy US policing standards I'd call that a resounding success story
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by Ntrails 8y ago
As the owner of a very basic 2003 car, I can assure you that the mental arithmetic remains. I know that each 8th of my tank on the gauge is worth ~50 miles, entirely dependent on how efficiently I'm driving.
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by Ntrails 8y ago
> that the lifespans predicted (on solid evidence) for these children keep being invalidated and extended. My understanding is that they are also cautious in generating such estimates, excluding any non-concrete factors (improvements in
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by Ntrails 8y ago
> This is just an example of a corporation buying out a local government. I gotta question whether it's realistic to say that Starbucks bought out local government with it's infinite resources but McDonalds couldn't afford
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by Ntrails 8y ago
> clearly my interview would be better if I came up with the perfectly optimized solution, or gave a lecture on the options rather than trying to discuss options. Right. And a competency based interview goes better if you have a perfect
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by Ntrails 8y ago
This isn't the "UK media", this is a university trying to sell itself as doing some cool research / coming up with ideas (which, incidentally, is their job). If you really want to rant about the media spinning brexit lie
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by Ntrails 8y ago
>That Thing Everyone Will Need To Worry About Eventually (in USA #1) I never have, and do not ever expect to have to, worry about it, because Euro
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by Ntrails 8y ago
My phone (unlike my PC, or a TV) is smart, and thus dynamically alters brightness based on ambient light. It's pretty cool and certainly mitigaets the above somewhat
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by Ntrails 8y ago
> I had no idea that revving my loud ass motorbike on a residential street at 1AM was annoying people I was on a train going into London earlier this week and the guy sat behind me insisted on playing music loudly on his phone speaker.
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by Ntrails 8y ago
Completely agree, the article makes a nice coherent argument for why it's actually created a horrific situation for those near the poverty line.
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by Ntrails 8y ago
The problem with a fine for failure to appear is that you have to find the person to make them pay. The assumption being that if you're skipping out on a court case you're probably doing so with the intention of never attending,
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by Ntrails 8y ago
Depends entirely where you live. If there are people commuting to work by car every day in Central London, they're too senior for me to have encountered them.
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by Ntrails 8y ago
> Chronological is just one ordering. Why are you so attached to it? Because one is essentially a feed of data, and the other is obviously/openly being manipulated based on things that I did not choose . The fact remains that remo
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by Ntrails 8y ago
It's just doing the standard low effort scarestory stats trick. Here are some really big numbers picked entirely for visual impact, not because relevant.
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by Ntrails 8y ago
That depends entirely on your definition of slavery. I don't believe that the average person considers a murderer making postbags for 25 cents a day is a "slave". Nor do I think it helps the argument for a focus on rehabili
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by Ntrails 8y ago
I'm not sure that's true? I can see the bots being utterly terrifying with meepo in a teamfight - but would need supports stacking, proper farm prioritisation (much more use of jungling and ancients), etc etc. I genuinely believ
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by Ntrails 8y ago
That's actually a beautiful solution
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by Ntrails 8y ago
Everyone is fine with you being privacy conscious to some degree. It's when you start telling them that they should be too that it tends to get a negative response. I'd argue that this is why the GP succeeds in their B/C t
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by Ntrails 8y ago
The goal is to make as much profit as possible. It's the only goal that they're aiming for, and it's consistent. Everything else is just about how to get there
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by Ntrails 8y ago
Minecraft isn't (wasn't) online only when I first played - has that changed?
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by Ntrails 8y ago
> There has been a similar thread on HN where someone with a bunch of degrees said: "I haven't used anything from my studies in my work". But this person might be blind to the fact how the education shaped her mind. I trie
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by Ntrails 8y ago
When i was at uni they described the intention as: 40% for book learning (memorisation) 30% for variations on things you've seen before 30% for applying concepts in new ways, requiring "deeper" understanding
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by Ntrails 8y ago
There were iPods before there were smartphones, and that completely revolutionised my listening habits. I don't stream music or listen to podcasts so that need was already a solved problem for me. Except. Now I only carry one device.
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by Ntrails 8y ago
> The benefit of a company cafeteria is mostly that you don't lose half an hour walking to a restaurant, waiting in line, ordering etc. Instead you can spend that time being both grateful and productive
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by Ntrails 8y ago
> If we could just get 5 countries to agree to contribute 1% for 2-3 years we could establish a permanent moon base and do a hardcore Mars human-exploration mission. Or we could spend that 1% on improving social security, healthcare, red
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by Ntrails 8y ago
I'd argue she's no worse than the legion of alternative therapy purveyors all of whom are simply profiting from the placebo effect. Which, for the record, I'm fine with. If people spend money on a thing which works because
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by Ntrails 8y ago
> why schools start so early Because they need to fit in around the schedules of working parents. I'm loathe to accept that this is a source of problems given the likely issue is actually the time students go to sleep, how long the
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by Ntrails 8y ago
I'm in London, there's no parking on through roads anyway :p

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