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by bshanks 11y ago
Yes, but often the government research money doesn't pay for the goverment-mandated clinial trials. See my comment at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10754886 for details. So the parent's proposal to have the
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by bshanks 11y ago
More than half of the costs of biomedical research ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_research#Privately_.28... ), and ~75% of clinical trials ( http://undsci.berkeley.edu/article/who_pays )
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by bshanks 11y ago
There's also lzip, which apparently uses a similar compression algorithm as xz but is apparently built with partial recovery of corrupted archives in mind (so more useful for long-term archival or backup storage). It's made by the
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Q-Carbon Is Harder (and Brighter) Than Diamond(smithsonianmag.com)
3 points by bshanks 11y ago|3 comments
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Conversion of carbon into diamond at ambient pressures and temperatures(scitation.aip.org)
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by bshanks 11y ago
looks like someone already did: http://wayback.archive.org/web/20151117024445/https://www.la...
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by bshanks 11y ago
Paying prisons based on gamed recidivism rates would probably still be better than not.
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by bshanks 11y ago
How about having half of the jury be randomly chosen individuals (as in the current system), and the other half be randomly chosen experts?
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by bshanks 11y ago
See also http://www.stroustrup.com/SELLrationale.pdf "A rationale for semantically enhanced library languages" by Bjarne Stroustrup: "A Semantically Enhanced Library Language (a SEL language or a SELL) is a d
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by bshanks 11y ago
I propose one simple reform. The grant-giving institutions are currently (in the aggregate) spending $X of money per year to pay the salary of various people. Some of these people are employed as tenured professors, some as non-yet-tenured
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by bshanks 11y ago
Imo at least the following important subjects would be too unprofitable for industrial research labs: philosophy, pure mathematics, particle physics, astrophysics, religious studies, philology, history, anthropology.
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by bshanks 11y ago
To rephrase your observation, the human utility function might have a maximum. Imagine the best day of your life; now imagine every day of your future life was this good, even a bit better, and that you live a rather long life. If you'
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Christopher Poole Reveals Why He Walked Away from 4Chan(rollingstone.com)
128 points by bshanks 11y ago|133 comments
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by bshanks 11y ago
another one is http://meetingwords.com/
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by bshanks 11y ago
* transmission of qubits * technology-mediated telepathy * darknets * internet-of-things * space internet * network communication to support pervasive augmented reality * various new forms of symbolic communication supporting collaborative
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by bshanks 11y ago
Here's a proposal: 1) At the beginning of the case, each party proposes how much money they would like to be spent on their side of the case. 2) The Spending Limit is set to the greater proposal. They then must pay the other party the
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by bshanks 11y ago
via jmduke ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9895111 )
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Revisit the early Internet with real online conversations (1980-94)(twitter.com)
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by bshanks 11y ago
One potential fix is to insert a countervailing bias into political procedures to make it harder for restrictions on freedom to get passed. For example, one could say that a simple majority (>50%) is enough to repeal rules, increase indi
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by bshanks 11y ago
As noted in the article, a summary of this document (about one-third the length) from the same authors is available at http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~pes20/cerberus/notes51-2015-06-21-s...
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by bshanks 11y ago
Which language(s) do you think do a particularly good job of documentation syntax and extension API?
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by bshanks 11y ago
I'm comparing Doxygen and Sphinx for a new project; what things do you like about Doxygen over Sphinx? (also, does anyone know why OpenCV switched?)
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by bshanks 11y ago
I found this thanks to https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=crashoverdrive via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9654556
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Principles of Microservices (slides)(slideshare.net)
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Accounting for Computer Scientists(martin.kleppmann.com)
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by bshanks 11y ago
i use viper mode but with different keybindings (the most commonly used movement keys are under or near the home row, layed out geometrically): https://github.com/bshanks/viperre
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by bshanks 11y ago
"they were in the process of finalizing the paperwork for the funding round when Musk noticed a problem. VantagePoint Capital Partners had signed all of the paperwork except for one crucial page...Musk believed that Salzman’s tactics w
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by bshanks 11y ago
Hypothetically, assume a company whose valuation increases roughly geometrically at first, but then levels off at an asymptote, and assume that during the geometric phase the valuation fluctuates by 50% around its trend. Assume that no one
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by bshanks 12y ago
Andrew isn't comfortable posting Detour's threshold, and i respect that, but for anyone actually thinking about using this in another company, a threshold must be chosen -- so what are other people's thoughts on what a good t
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The Wealthfront Equity Plan(blog.wealthfront.com)
1 points by bshanks 12y ago|0 comments

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