aganders3

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by aganders3 12y ago
At the very least, earlier diagnosis will help the ongoing research into the disease. Even if it doesn't directly benefit this generation of patients, their study may lead to new treatments for the next generation.
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by aganders3 12y ago
I agree, but peds who never ride bikes don't realize this and I don't think you can expect them to. They're used to interacting with cars, where there's not enough room for both (a car and a ped) in an intersection, so t
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by aganders3 12y ago
I'm a pedestrian, cyclist, and driver (not necessarily in that order). I totally understand this, but I also think it's a general misunderstanding. Many (most?) pedestrians have extensive experience driving or at least riding in m
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by aganders3 12y ago
Industrial parks are popular for criterium races ("crits") and practice races, which is probably what you're seeing there. Here's one I've raced in a few times. Looks like it's not quite as popular, though! ht
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by aganders3 12y ago
To me, informed consent has a specific meaning. From Wikipedia: > An informed consent can be said to have been given based upon a clear appreciation and understanding of the facts, implications, and future consequences of an action. Of
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by aganders3 12y ago
Well, all of the egg donors are adults with (presumably) the ability to make rational decisions. They should of course give proper informed consent and potentially be given due compensation, but in that case I don't think it's fai
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by aganders3 12y ago
It doesn't really solve the problem of similar colors, but clicking on the legend entries highlights the data on the graph.
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by aganders3 13y ago
Here's a direct link to the journal article PDF. You probably need institutional access for the link to work: http://brain.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2014/04/07/bra...
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by aganders3 13y ago
No, there are no thought police. There are, however, consequences among your social peers and professional colleagues for public statements. There is no reasonable free speech protection you can put in place to change this. Throughout histo
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by aganders3 13y ago
The beautiful thing is that you are free to boycott or speak against OKCupid for this all you want. You could even write your own browser that puts up a nag screen if you go to OKCupid. Whether or not OKCupid did the right thing here (they
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by aganders3 13y ago
Sure, but equal access to those privileges is a civil right.
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by aganders3 13y ago
Sorry, I honestly didn't intend to judge or even imply you were advocating that. What I meant is that I agree marriage is a preference, but only if there are no additional benefits or rights bestowed (by the government) upon those ente
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by aganders3 13y ago
I'm fine with this position if you're advocating to remove government recognition of all marriages and "civil unions" entirely.
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by aganders3 13y ago
Well, if the difference is a semantic issue between us, then I'm not sure I can explain it. I believe sexual orientation is inherent in the the same way height, sex, or skin color is - e.g. I cannot simply choose to be black or live a
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by aganders3 13y ago
> If you want to argue that gays are a special subset who (unlike all the other subsets) deserve not to have regulations go against their preferences, do it. You don't get to state this as fact just because it helps your argument.
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by aganders3 13y ago
They just announced the new pricing [0]. It's much cheaper, but still about 2x the price of the WorkSpaces. The only difference I can see is the local storage: 4 GB SSD on EC2 vs. 50 GB on WorkSpaces. I have to assume WorkSpaces is usi
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by aganders3 13y ago
Maybe the impending EC2 price drop (predicted by many in light of the new Google cloud pricing) will bring it in line.
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by aganders3 13y ago
Function to me implies something with known characteristics. I suppose this is true when performing analytic FTs, but I think signal makes more sense when dealing with unknown inputs and numerical solutions. Regardless the relationship (or
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by aganders3 13y ago
I think part of this comes down to the vast improvements in documentation over the last ~10 years. The Arch Wiki is an incredible living document for installation and configuration of all Linux flavors. The Debian Wiki isn't as clean o
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by aganders3 13y ago
> Areas where the tech industry is more "meat space" than "net space" seem to have more PhDs per capita among the engineers. Can you explain this a little more? I'm genuinely interested.
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by aganders3 13y ago
Because it should present the whole story.
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by aganders3 13y ago
There are all kinds of considerations that this doesn't take into account. A huge part of presenting involves knowing your audience. For just one example, having text on the slides is very important when you have an audience of mixed l
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by aganders3 13y ago
For what it's worth, the app is free if you are a PlexPass subscriber.
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by aganders3 13y ago
Probably not many, but it's worth noting as many people listen to TAL with younger children (e.g. in the car).
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by aganders3 13y ago
One thing they could have done that would have saved A TON of load is not require users to sign up before giving them a list of available plans. ... My guess is millions of people just wanted to check prices and eliminating the database lo
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by aganders3 13y ago
But then the last slide has this: > Critical mass of targets use Tor. Scaring them away from Tor might be counterproductive.
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by aganders3 13y ago
> Sometimes I also think if it would be different if I was born several decades earlier. sigh I cringe whenever I hear this in any context. If you find yourself feeling this way, you should strive to do the things the next generation w
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by aganders3 15y ago
I don't think you should ever let the "possible 'follower' perception" hold you back, especially if you have a legitimate claim to the idea and think you can execute well. Don't let yourself trip over the starting line!
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by aganders3 15y ago
Thanks, I enjoyed this post. I don't resonate with everything he says, but it was worth reading. The more philosophical points of his post were an interesting contrast to this piece I read yesterday: http://youarenotsosmart.com/2011/08/21/