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by busyant 8y ago
> The shear number of typos Your being facetious, right?
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by busyant 8y ago
> blindly hammering away on the wrong problem is a failure mode for many intelligent people. The key is not just sticking to things, but also having enough taste to know when to drop a problem. Agreed. In my original comment, I was tryin
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by busyant 8y ago
I think this article is saying: - 1st order thinkers primarily see causes and *direct* effects. - 2nd order thinkers frequently see causes and their *indirect* effects. I guess that seems like a reasonable idea. For what it's
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by busyant 8y ago
I don't know why, but this conversation reminds me of a guy I used to work with. The guy had studied animal husbandry and he told my co-workers and me that if you inserted a foreign object (about the size of a quarter) up into the repr
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by busyant 8y ago
> If they prove, say, that vitamin C stops Alzheimer's then they can patent it for that usage. Here is an article discussing this approach: http://stm.sciencemag.org/content/6/248/248fs30 I call them
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by busyant 8y ago
He also has a remarkably helpful and detailed description on how to shoot light trails on that site. http://otierney.net/tutorials/2014/4/24/long-exposure-light-...
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by busyant 8y ago
> Imagine a similar situation but where people died: Who's corporately responsible for that decision? No idea. Thankfully, all patients stopped the drug and the toxicity went away. I remember having a company-wide meeting where they
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by busyant 8y ago
Agreed. That company was unusual in that there always seemed to be a tension between the board and the company (distrust). And both sides (CEO and board) seemed to have a short-term view of everything (we were going to "flip" the
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by busyant 8y ago
I am not the parent, but I worked at a few biotech startups. My impression is that you are _mostly_ correct (a lot of animal models for disease don't accurately reflect the analogous state in humans). However, I was privy to a situatio
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by busyant 8y ago
This seems like a long-term recipe for disaster for Amazon. Why do it? Or am I being naive? Or is it too difficult to clamp down on fakes?
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by busyant 8y ago
> "Writing is nature's way of letting you know how sloppy your thinking is." Indeed! Every so often, I have a coding question and I have an urge to ask that question on StackExchange. Before I actually post the question, I
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by busyant 8y ago
Kasparov did not say Carlsen improves w shorter time formats. He said that the degredation of his play at faster times was smaller than everyone else. This is still impressive, but definitely not an improvement.
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by busyant 8y ago
> I'm exhausted of this consumer society that quashes all appreciation for the dynamic, the non-linear, the relationships of the micro to the macro, of the individual to the mass, of ecologies. I used to work as a microbiologist &#x
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by busyant 8y ago
You've threatened someone's wife and children because of an alleged crime commited by their husband/father?
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by busyant 8y ago
> very often slandered and misunderstood. You mean the guy who wrote this? Clearly, he's a diamond in the rough /s. 'Then a letter from Mr. Shkreli came to his home, addressed to his wife. “Your husband has stolen $1.6 mil
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by busyant 8y ago
If you follow the link, that's not quite where the error lies. The article was actually published in "The Lancet Infectious Diseases", which is a sub-specialty journal affiliated w/ The Lancet. Just in case that's n
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by busyant 8y ago
I can't edit my post, but I should have phrased it more pithily: Mochizuki and your pet dog both claim to have proven the ABC conjecture. The ABC conjecture has been proven when you can tell the difference between the two proofs.
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by busyant 8y ago
> It's sufficient for Mochizuki. Everyone else can decide for themselves This sounds like a variant of the Turing test. Mochizuki and your pet dog both claim to have proven the ABC conjecture. The ABC conjecture has been proven when
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by busyant 8y ago
I guess my experience has been different than yours. I wrote an undergrad thesis and I felt like my advisor and two readers cared about what I was saying and how I said it. Same is true for my Ph.D. My committee members seemed to care deepl
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by busyant 8y ago
> anyone editing my work wanted more verbiage I _never_ got that feedback. My mentors all emphasized economy of language and nobody cared how "thick" my thesis was. This is a pretty amusing story about verbiage. Back in the old
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by busyant 8y ago
You adapt. Take valid CC info and charge cancellation fee.
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by busyant 9y ago
I should have done this. Honestly, it never even crossed my mind to ask for a chargeback. The number of times that I've had issues over the years is pretty small. For example, I think I've had two issues w/ Amazon over the ye
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by busyant 9y ago
Well, since you're here... In mid-November, I bought a Christmas gift for my son (a drone) on-line through Wal-mart. The text on the Wal-mart web-page urged me to purchase now (to guarantee on-time delivery). The shipment of the drone
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by busyant 9y ago
This would send me back to the traditional grocery store.
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by busyant 9y ago
> what the user wants rather than what they requested. Amusing anecdote regarding this issue. - I teach an introductory online chemistry class. - If the students are determined enough, they can/do cheat on their quizzes. -
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by busyant 9y ago
Doesn't YC have a max age for founders? I imagine there is similar logic for their cutoff. Not saying it's valid, but last I checked (long ago) they had a max age. Disclosure: I am a bootstrapping old fart.
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University could lose millions from “unethical” research backed by Peter Thiel(arstechnica.com)
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by busyant 9y ago
> They weren’t blamed for the elections Trump has taken some shots at Amazon (primarily b/c Bezos owns WaPo), so they have been "in the mix" w/ respect to the current political climate. > That being said, my praise
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by busyant 9y ago
“What is true for E. coli is also true for the elephant.” ― Jacques Monod
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by busyant 9y ago
I call this road-rage diplomacy. Both sides can give each other the finger in crowded traffic. But eventually somebody just might pull out a gun. Or crash (errant missile). As much as I can appreciate the diplomatic brinkmanship of sending

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