Shinkei

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by Shinkei 12y ago
Glenn Beck's article reeks of a promotional piece and I am somewhat skeptical of the reporting of his medical symptoms. It's like 'telephone' where a lot is lost in transmitting the information, because it doesn't s
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by Shinkei 12y ago
I appreciate the replies. I learned a lot just reading some of these sources posted. I think I misused heritability regarding eye color and my numbers are probably dated.
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by Shinkei 12y ago
The problem with any consumption tax is that wealthier people spend a smaller percentage of their income on needs compared to lower classes. If you make it progressive, they will just buy their most expensive items overseas and never (or hi
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by Shinkei 12y ago
Among twin-twin studies of the effects of nature/nuture, I recall mathematical ability as being the most highly heritable at something like 50%. Even eye color is not that high, and so it seems to be true that intelligence (at least in
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by Shinkei 12y ago
I agree that they are companies with promise, and certainly will be strong in their domestic markets... but I remain skeptical of their success in the West. I personally would not directly support Chinese businesses if I have an equivalent
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by Shinkei 12y ago
Yet another example of the ridiculous arms race between payers and providers with patients caught in the middle.
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by Shinkei 12y ago
Can somebody ELI5 why Square wouldn't develop infrastructure to 'cut-out' Mastercard/Visa from this transaction? I mean, it seems like they could issue a credit card to begin competing with existing brands. I guess I jus
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by Shinkei 12y ago
I am glad you sent me this video, but again the important part is that the test conditions are not the same as the original article. As much is mentioned in the video notes and comments... I do agree though that my source article is not exa
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by Shinkei 12y ago
I think it's worth mentioning that extreme absence of sound is not a condition that humans can tolerate. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2124581/The-w...
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by Shinkei 12y ago
It takes a lot of courage to stand your ground in these situations. Sounds like the classic South Park "Respect my Authoritah" sums up the cause of this confrontation.
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by Shinkei 12y ago
The issue I have is regarding how this technology will be applied to a population. If this is for screening, then it has to be incredibly safe and cheap. If this is for follow-up of known cancer, then you aren't going for 'early d
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by Shinkei 12y ago
Good lord, would people please stop taking the weakest part of my statement? Let's discuss the substance of this law.
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by Shinkei 12y ago
I agree the parallel isn't exact, but it still represents the state limiting the dissemination of information. I would rather hear your opinion about the substance of the law rather than the weakest part of my statement.
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by Shinkei 12y ago
I really have to rant about the idiocy of this law. For full disclosure, I am American. They call it a "right to be forgotten," but guess what, I have a right to information (speech, press, etc.) that I think supercedes this suppo
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by Shinkei 12y ago
"It is the job of a business to make money, the most money possible, at all costs. That is its single purpose existing." I don't know if you are terribly inexperienced or trolling, but this is provably false. Besides the obvi
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by Shinkei 12y ago
I can't say I would complain if thousands of dollars was given to my address, but you are right... it would represent a difficult problem for enforcement and creative people would come up with clever workarounds.
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by Shinkei 12y ago
Bitcoin is only pseudoanonymous. At some point, the 'bad actor' has to access 'legitimate' banking institutions to exchange the Bitcoins to fiat and that is the weakest link. It requires reporting to relevant tax or othe
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by Shinkei 12y ago
Were you a fan of C&H? I think that the lens of nostalgia strengthens our pleasant memories of the books and can't really ever compare to these new strips. You need character development, plot... most of his stories would extend ac
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by Shinkei 12y ago
It's a great point about their leaders choosing their mission and their risking their lives for country--I agree completely. However, there are situations where even a soldier must use their conscience. I mean I hate to pull the "
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by Shinkei 12y ago
We really don't know what specific missions someone was involved in during their time in a special forces unit, but I tend to think negatively of Israel's kidnappings after this eggregious example. http://en.wikipedia.o
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by Shinkei 12y ago
I think this issue can be made a bit simpler by considering the superficial nature of our 'first' encounter in the dating world. I mean, except in some extraordinary circumstance... the first time you meet someone, you are judging
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by Shinkei 12y ago
>There are no exceptions. Wow, well I guess the issue is closed. I wish they had contacted you from the start, otherwise this multinational, multi-billion dollar corporation could've avoided the entire market. /s I mean are you
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by Shinkei 12y ago
Yeah, but which drugs? There is no laxity for meth, crack or pain killers, which I would assume account for these deaths--not marijuana.
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by Shinkei 12y ago
This is old news in the Bitcoin community... but it's far from definitive proof.
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by Shinkei 12y ago
I don't believe you. I am a physician too and you are repeating a lot of the falsehoods that are perpetuated among those that don't understand the billing process or aren't actually physicians. AMA is an insurance and loan ag
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by Shinkei 12y ago
It sounds so simple to have a flat tax, but actually it hurts lower earners disproprotionately because they are using a higher percentage of their income for living expenses rather than luxury. In other words, 50% of 50,000 per year is more
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Fatal Familial Insomnia – A rare, inherited prion disease.(en.wikipedia.org)
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by Shinkei 13y ago
I wish I did. It's by no means an area of expertise for me, but I would guess that this technique is extremely expensive and will remain limited--at least for the short term--to use in cases of genetic females that require replacement
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by Shinkei 13y ago
Physician here. I read this paper when it was posted on Reddit a few days ago and it was very impressive. I'll link to the discussion because the top comment was comprehensive and summarizes the published article: http://www
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by Shinkei 13y ago
This reminds me of my excitement in the early 2000's about Holographic disc techonology: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_Versatile_Disc It seems like it's never coming. It is a technology before its

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