arkades

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by arkades 7y ago
> On Slashdot, "anonymous coward" was the default username for anyone posting without being logged in. Gotcha. That makes sense. Slashdot was never my thing. Thanks for clarifying; I had read it as bafflingly unjustified aggres
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by arkades 7y ago
Why did your choice of words include “anonymous coward”?
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by arkades 7y ago
Is there a reason to believe SF would be wildly anomalous in its propensity for reporting and documenting property crime? If not, that nitpick is valid but pointless.
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by arkades 7y ago
In fairness, 5-cent coke came about because of an unwise contract in which Coke promised syrup to a bottling company for <5 cents, under the impression that bottled drinks would never take off. The ad campaign followed, from coke (not th
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by arkades 7y ago
> What happens if I buy a $100 bottle of wine and the rest is small priced cheeses and vegetables for a party? It becomes useless. Do you find this an everyday event?
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by arkades 7y ago
I found these rebuttals well argued, well supported, and convincing. Thank you for digging them up.
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by arkades 7y ago
Context from his previous post on the topic: dropped out from a CS degree previously, after about a half dozen courses. Goal for the speed run is to prove it can be effective and sustainable to learn at that pace.
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by arkades 7y ago
tl;dr Male trees were planted disproportionate to female trees in urban settings because they didn't shed messy seeds. The preponderance of male trees increases the amount of pollen exposure. Author asserts this leads to an epidemic of
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by arkades 7y ago
Today must be an even-numbered day at the NYTimes. On odd-numbered days we scold the FDA for demanding too much data and investigation, and so taking too long to let products onto the market.
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by arkades 7y ago
NYC taxis are incomparably better to most European city taxis. It’s not in NYC that I came to appreciate Uber.
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by arkades 8y ago
Content marketing.
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by arkades 8y ago
> Does a doctor practice medicine outside of his hours? Again, some work at free clinics, but generally no. Constantly. Besides being on formal call, there are informal consults texted or called in constantly, plus emergencies, plus frie
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by arkades 8y ago
I actually assumed the account was compromised. The account managed to not really post anything in the preceding five years, and then went on an astroturfing spree in a single twenty four hour period. You’re probably right, though.
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by arkades 8y ago
1) this is a lot more uncommon than people seem to suggest. Note from this article, they found -288- docs. In a country with a little over 1,000,000 physicians. 2) the real problem is the legislation congress pushed through barring Medicare
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by arkades 8y ago
So, this is the second front page post by the same user this morning. One takes a direct shot at vanguard (“tax dialysis”), and the next an indirect shot (“they don’t use your votes right - but we do! Invest with us!”). The user only has fo
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by arkades 8y ago
So, this is the second front page post by the same user this morning. One takes a direct shot at vanguard (“tax dialysis”), and the next an indirect shot (“they don’t use your votes right - but we do! Invest with us!”). The user only has fo
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by arkades 8y ago
The big issue that AB/hyperTau studies seem to studiously ignore: studies in human brains have found an inverse correlation between the sites of the brain with excess plaque formation and the sites of the brain with the most significan
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by arkades 8y ago
As we've heard from other Tesla drivers on HN in the past: Tesla continues to deliver OTA updates, which occasionally causes people to think that previous issues have been fixed, especially if they haven't popped up again recently
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by arkades 8y ago
> Where's the evidence that doctors see a 80/20 split in real life? Cause they definitely don’t. Even in a select subpopulation - say, people going to a derm for screening - you’d expect one melanoma per 620 persons screened (a
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by arkades 8y ago
> One thing I find fascinating, and have not seen discussed, is what will happen to all this data in, say, a couple hundred years. That's odd. I see it brought up on HN quite frequently. And, frankly, I feel like the implicit tone
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by arkades 8y ago
We do. https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/suicide/resources.htm...
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by arkades 8y ago
Oh, it's a major thing. And it's delicious. You can pick it up in any Russian grocery on the east coast.
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by arkades 8y ago
Two day doesn’t get to me in two days half the time.
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Amazon plans to make Prime shipping one day by default(arstechnica.com)
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by arkades 8y ago
No, that's not at all what I was referring to. Please see my response for some examples.
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by arkades 8y ago
Oh, happily. Interleukins are a great example, as a class. They were first discovered as signaling molecules between white blood cells (inter-, -leukins, leuko meaning 'white'). Unsurprisingly, though, just because we found types
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by arkades 8y ago
I find these sorts of arguments to be... odd. “Inflammation” includes so many normal homeostatic processes that it’s essentially a tautology to point to inflammation as being a critical component of disordered homeostasis. The biggest key a
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by arkades 8y ago
To me this seems like a false equivalence. There are many characteristics that, in moderation, are not disease states; there are many characteristics that, in excess, are - whether one refers to excessive iron uptake in hemochromatosis, or
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by arkades 8y ago
> Actually, analyzing and thinking about the way you wrote this comment, it seems you're just bitter that someone found something they really liked, that gave them a sense of purpose, and now you're trying to find some way to d
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by arkades 8y ago
>Can your model ever include enough variables though? Resiliency isn’t invincibility.

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