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by anthony_romeo 11y ago
It's a good thing that science can change. This is what distinguishes science from dogma. The problem is not these supposed 'reversals', but rather how this information is being reported. Pop-science media reports modest stud
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It also helps that even if you don't know the shorthand that, say, !py3 does a search of the python3 documentation, almost always you can type out the full name to do the search, e.g. !python3.
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I feel like there's often an odd tendency for people to arrive at the ultimate logical conclusion when it comes to health. If too much saturated fat is bad for you, avoid all saturated fat. If high sodium diets are bad for you, minim
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One thing to note is that crime in pretty much all of the all of the wealthier countries have decreased in the last few decades, and this this is not a specifically American phenomenon: http://www.economist.com/news/bri
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Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that I am against social programs. On the contrary, I'm a supporter of universal health care in the US. This is the sort of thing I was alluding to when I said "created with the 1930's and 1
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I visited China for the first time last year. I went to Guangzhou with a friend of mine. My friend from there left to study in the US in 2010, and he could barely recognize his own city with all the new districts and buildings. I ultimately
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> Given only x-rays images, spine specialists completely fail to identify the individuals who report back pain. I'm not surprised. X-rays are not the most reliable in identifying all spinal issues. X-rays are more for finding proble
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I remembered Lycos just recently after I discovered their headquarters driving home one evening. I used Lycos quite a bit back in the day. I poked around their website. They apparently own HotBot as well, which actually still exists. They s
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Well, I lost about 100 pounds. I'm pretty sure I looked at this website at some point while I was doing this. What I can say anecdotally is that there are two main issues at play for those who are obese: 1. Food is too damn good. We&#x
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I'm inclined to agree. I'm seeing fuzzy words like "several" and "many", but no actual numbers to quantify or estimate how many U.S. workers were replaced with immigrants. It also doesn't begin to discuss
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I'm just curious why Google is implementing this now, given that the basis of the EU antitrust case was due to its relationship with online retailers.
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Oh, I completely agree. It's important to be critical. This is why there are several branches of economics. It's just that if someone unfamiliar with the field wanted to know about economics in general, I wouldn't have them f
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MIT's opencourseware would be a good start. They often have links to free textbooks. Their course on Principals of Microeconomics ( http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/economics/14-01sc-principles-of-m... ) has a free t
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Just a bit of caution. The Ludwig von Mises Institute is a group devoted to specifically advocating one branch of economics, Austrian Economics. Part of this branch is staunch Libertarianism, but they don't believe in several aspects w
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I love this. I'll be signing up. Just one thing, browsing by topic doesn't seem to have any sort of rhyme or reason in its ordering aside from some vague first-letter ordering. For example, there are numerous "I" categor
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I don't know specifics about this particular typeface (and I haven't been "into fonts" for a while), but Roboto is pretty much another typeface with some Grotesk (e.g. Helvetica) lineage. What can typically said about th
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I've always felt that (with respect to desktop work specifically), the reason we're in the web-app world we are today was in part due to the stagnation of window management in the 90's - 00's Windows era. Tabbed browsing
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If governments cannot crack down on Uber for this issue, then presumably they could start going after the individual contractors who don't comply with the regulations? I can't imagine this going well for Uber either way without so
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Interesting. When I visited China last year, Samsung was the brand of phone I saw most often (which was apparently true given the data in this article). Yet when your competitors offer phones nearly as reliable and feature-full at half the
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Actually, Xiaomi is on that list at #2, behind apple. There are several other local brands though.
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I should write a script where any link to an article whose headline contains the words "you", "your", or "you're" is changed to a link to a random book on Project Gutenberg.
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The truth is, there is very little McDonald's can do to reshape their image in the short run. They've been racing to the bottom for years now, but their food is not inexpensive enough to warrant ever going there. It might take a g
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Is.... this just a Little Caesars advertisement?
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At the same time, after these courts have started legalizing gay marriage, public support for gay marriage has followed. I always suspect it's a chicken-or-egg type of situation. Sometimes there is genuine public support for a given is
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But if one provides amnesty, then these individuals would likely have to pay payroll taxes and be paid a normal wage, instead of hiding from the system and getting paid under the table. Anyway, it's employers hiring illegally that&#x27