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by alphaoverlord 16y ago
this article simply poses the question, and does not answer it. waste of 5 minutes. for that, I will not upvote it.
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by alphaoverlord 16y ago
Ayn Rand would like her pulpit back. jk In the examples you cite, the benefits of progress in technology confound the changes you attribute to developments in policy and government. If we look to only the recent example of India, it's decre
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by alphaoverlord 16y ago
What does one do if there is an entrenched competitor? Theoretically there is room for more than one right? I haven't heard of stickk.com. It'd be interesting to see what OP does with this.
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by alphaoverlord 16y ago
I can think of some pretty ironic goal/charities: Lose 10 pounds or donate 10$ to heart disease research.
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by alphaoverlord 16y ago
Meat shield
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by alphaoverlord 16y ago
I never know what to think of CEOs, founders, and large institutional shareholders selling a proportion of their stock. Everyone seeks to cite a benign reason for selling, they wouldn't want to hurt their investment, but inherently isn't se
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by alphaoverlord 16y ago
Shouldn't there be some sort of parity? A user is a user is a user. Unless google users are that much more likely to buy something after clicking my ad, why would you pay more per individual view? Sure the absolute numbers should go up with
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Mozilla Open Data Competition Winners(blog.mozilla.com)
3 points by alphaoverlord 16y ago|0 comments
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The Rise and Fall of Universities(alphaoverlord.wordpress.com)
2 points by alphaoverlord 16y ago|0 comments
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by alphaoverlord 16y ago
How are these statistics obtained?
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by alphaoverlord 16y ago
I dont know. Every time I stream grooveshark, I wonder how much less energy I would be using if I just had the same 10 songs locally.
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by alphaoverlord 16y ago
Are you writing a synopsis of what happened or a romance novel? So far it seems there are multiple thoughts, and the part about the pretty girl is pretty tangential.
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by alphaoverlord 16y ago
There was an interesting statistics/modelling competition on Kaggle for different approaches to chess ranking. http://kaggle.com/chess
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by alphaoverlord 16y ago
Yea. We are working on UI for next iteration!
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by alphaoverlord 16y ago
Retroviruses incorporate into the host genome and is important for gene therapy. This allows for a long lasting effect and is essential depending on cell type. Different cell types have different turn-around rates. If the gene of interest i
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by alphaoverlord 16y ago
1. The notion that a cure must be widely applicable is the foundation of clinical medicine, even with personalized medicine. You simply can't run clinical trials with a sample size of 1. Just because an individual treatment is tailored to t
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by alphaoverlord 16y ago
it looks like half of a list. Pretty uniform distribution for zipcodes from 00000-50000, very few 50000+?
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by alphaoverlord 16y ago
The substantive arguments I am trying to make are: 1. Despite diminishing returns, medicine/health is a social/individual priority and significant resources are dedicated to this field. 2. Health is a core necessity similar to food and shel
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by alphaoverlord 16y ago
I am a medical student, so inevitably my perspective will be biased. I am a first year, so perhaps my perspective is naïve, but I want to share my two cents. The broad view: First, life is precious. Our time here on earth is extremely limit
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by alphaoverlord 16y ago
Just to be clear, and this might be tangential, but she is not a physician - I think she is a dietitian. I think its a fallacy to assume that only physicians publish in medical journals and there is a negligible link between over-the-top pr
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by alphaoverlord 16y ago
Sniff sniff. Whats that smell? O right, Onion worthy.
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by alphaoverlord 16y ago
They are including everything from diabetes to arthritis. If you look at statistics for disability, the numbers are a lot lower. I would also bet my lunch that the numbers are heavily skewed towards older demographics. This argument is a st
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by alphaoverlord 16y ago
They need to make a Taiwanese news animation of this drama. Better than daytime TV.
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by alphaoverlord 16y ago
I'm OK with paying a drill sergeant more than someone who sits around the teacher's lounge eating donuts all day. I'm not saying this approach is a panacea to all of education's problems, I'm just saying this is a step in the right directio
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by alphaoverlord 16y ago
If a graduate degree is mandatory, why is there a bonus? Can't they raise the base?
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by alphaoverlord 16y ago
This might sound trite, but I think the solution would be to couple standardized testing with performance based pay. Unlike code, it's hard to aim for solely short-term gains. As long as teachers aren't cheating, I can't imagine many ways t
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The makings of a good medical student(thelancet.com)
8 points by alphaoverlord 16y ago|0 comments
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by alphaoverlord 16y ago
Somehow I think thats probably what happened. My guess is the plaintiff in question made a scene, "What? I'm just playing chess." and then a summons was written. Then, I don't think its a coincidence that this is on the news. He probably ke
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by alphaoverlord 16y ago
I think it would be interesting to repeat the study with people of the same ethnicity but different developmental backgrounds. IE. East Asians that in east Asia and Asian-Americans. Presumably, there is a large developmental component. Anec
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by alphaoverlord 16y ago
Hi! A quick synopsis of my impression: At first glance, I am not sure what your target audience is. Is the idea to blog about all new ideas related to medicine? I see descriptions of everything ranging from toothbrushes to new imaging modal

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