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by SeanDav 10y ago
Depends on what you mean by "Sensible doctors". Clearly, doctors are influenced by marketing, otherwise pharmaceutical companies would not have spent and continue to spend, multiple millions of dollars targeting doctors.
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Microsoft removes store-blocking from Windows 10 Pro(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by SeanDav 10y ago|0 comments
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by SeanDav 10y ago
It is a recommendation based on lock-in. Of course it is not an absolute, but also of course it is highly likely that if there is vendor lock-in, it will greatly impact decisions of first time buyers. To put it another way, if everyone you
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by SeanDav 10y ago
First time buyers generally base their choices on the opinions and views of more experienced people, often within their circle of friends, family and acquaintances. It is quite conceivable that a first time buyer is making their choice beca
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by SeanDav 10y ago
The nett result of this will be US business will be less and less trusted by the rest of the world and bypassed wherever possible.
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by SeanDav 10y ago
You can answer your own question and mark your own answer as the correct answer, which does benefit your SO score.
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by SeanDav 10y ago
Still very jerky for me - I am using Firefox under Windows 7
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by SeanDav 10y ago
Google really won't care about any comments here, they are all about the data. So simply stop using Google maps. Tell your family to stop using Google maps. Tell all your friends to stop using Google maps. Blog about not using Google M
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by SeanDav 10y ago
How does one know one has an optimal solution for the travelling salesman problem? Any experts out there that can explain this, or point to some accessible literature on this?
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by SeanDav 10y ago
In the UK, there have been several examples of a woman getting drunk, having apparently consensual sex and then deciding the next day that she was raped. The male now has to prove that sex was consensual. The woman gets lifetime anonymity a
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by SeanDav 10y ago
Pick a language, any language, announce you are going to learn this language to accomplish X task. Guaranteed you will find a huge number of dissenting and confusing opinions as to why your language sucks for task X and you really should us
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by SeanDav 10y ago
Chris got lucky - he is lucky he is not under criminal investigation for hacking or even spying. It is a sad fact that all too often the people who bring attention to data breaches and security issues, get targeted and accused of hacking. T
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by SeanDav 10y ago
Intuition can be simulated with algorithms and massive computing power.
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by SeanDav 10y ago
There is a part of me that loves these stories about serendipitous discoveries. Of course the trick is to recognize what you have found and to use that information. Some technology/inventions discovered by accident: penicillin, x-rays,
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by SeanDav 11y ago
I used to be an enthusiastic bicycle racing spectator. I would watch hours of the Tour De France everyday if I had the chance and pay close attention to other races. No longer. I have long since stopped watching, or caring what happens in b
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by SeanDav 11y ago
They could publish online for much lower cost, under a CC licence. Current profits are extortionate, to say nothing about the bullying tactics employed by Elsevier, who abuse a monopoly and force libraries and other institutions to take a l
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by SeanDav 11y ago
OT: Interesting UI - What is being used?
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by SeanDav 11y ago
> "The counter argument to this is you pay to use national parks even though you already pay for it." You would have a case if the publishers did not make huge profits from the research and contribute nothing back to the rese
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Host deletes websites in clean-up error(bbc.com)
3 points by SeanDav 11y ago|0 comments
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by SeanDav 11y ago
Origin was bought out by EA for 10's of millions of dollars - so hardly destroyed. Both Robert and Richard left several years later to work together again in a new company they both formed - Destination Games. Richard made enough money
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by SeanDav 11y ago
It depends on the density of the information doesn't it? I would certainly agree that many, if not, most podcasts could be listened to at double speed or higher and still be understood. However if the podcast is about a detailed analys
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by SeanDav 11y ago
What is the point of speed reading a novel? If you can't be bothered to read what the author wrote, word for word (or nearly so) then you might as well go online and read a summary of the novel - job done. When an author writes a book,
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by SeanDav 11y ago
Nope, Dell U2415, although I would check if this permanent powersave "feature" is on any new Dell monitor, because if it goes wrong, like it did in my case - very frustrating.
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by SeanDav 11y ago
I am in favour of software that tries to make your life easier, but hate, with a passion, developers that are so in love with their helpful feature X, that they ram it down your throat (You WILL use this feature and LIKE it!) and give you n
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by SeanDav 11y ago
I must be an exception (or a lousy programmer) because I do not particularly enjoy games that require programming to play, I write programs for fun (and programming for me is fun) and I play games for fun but have not found a game that appe
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by SeanDav 11y ago
Not sure how accurate this, alternatively it might need different assumptions - What about: NYTimes, WSJ, GitHub, BBC, ArsTechnica, Medium etc?
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From MUD to MMOG: The Making of RuneScape(arstechnica.com)
2 points by SeanDav 11y ago|0 comments
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by SeanDav 11y ago
All I can say is George Orwell was a clairvoyant genius. Right now it looks like his only mistake was he did not go far enough.
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Cinema chain set to allow texting(bbc.com)
3 points by SeanDav 11y ago|1 comments
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EU watchdogs demand revisions to Safe Harbour replacement(bbc.com)
1 points by SeanDav 11y ago|0 comments

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