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by clfougner 7y ago
To anyone else wondering what's meant by "rejected energy": https://energycultures.org/2014/07/rejected-energy-much-ener...
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by clfougner 9y ago
That isn’t the same thing at all. When you fly for a vacation, the flying is a means to an end (transportation), not the goal in itself. This discussion is about driving for fun, in which the driving is the goal in itself, not transporting
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by clfougner 9y ago
Darmyian founders wrote the following in another post[1]: > Roughly 97% sensitivity (3% false negative) and 85% specificity (15% false positive) So with this information, the calcuation of Bayesian probability is as follows: (0.97*
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by clfougner 9y ago
"At Darmiyan we detect Alzheimer’s disease up to 15 years before symptoms" (original post) "At present, there is no definitive evidence to support that any particular measure is effective in preventing AD"[1]. "Now
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by clfougner 9y ago
Subscribers pay 10$ a month, of which 70% goes to the artists/record labels. Spotify itself then has a a revenue of 3$ per user per month, or 36$ per user per year. 60 million subscribers gives an annually recurring revenue of 2.16 bil
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by clfougner 9y ago
Route your page through Cloudflare (or presumably any other CDN) and you can get HTTPS set up on your Github Pages hosted static site quite trivially.
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by clfougner 9y ago
> No ones knows for sure because no one can objectively explain the nature of consciousness and the mind in the first place. True, but I'm still waiting for a single proposal as to where a mental illness would subside other than phy
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by clfougner 9y ago
You're creating the same false equivalence again by stating that an objective post mortem diagnosis not being practically feasible is the same as an objective cause(s) not existing. In my previous post I linked to multiple pages listin
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by clfougner 9y ago
> There are objective tests for all of these pathologies, though those tests are often inconclusive in the face of the symptoms. No, objective tests are in these cases used to exclude other causes to the symptoms, not to diagnose the men
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by clfougner 9y ago
Afraid that's not true. Around 60-80% of diagnoses in primary care settings are made purely on the basis of the patient history (followed by a brief clinical examination which usually aims at eliciting subjective responses)[1]. In prin
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What it would take to reach the stars(nature.com)
2 points by clfougner 10y ago|0 comments
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Behind the scenes at Faraday Future(theverge.com)
2 points by clfougner 10y ago|0 comments
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The U.S.'s Misplaced Admiration for Europe(bloomberg.com)
2 points by clfougner 10y ago|0 comments
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by clfougner 10y ago
Basically, because AT&T is paying more for Time Warner than the market had valued it at. As an example: Company A has 50 billion dollars cash on hand, and their core business is valued by the market at 100 billion, so their market cap i
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by clfougner 10y ago
Thanks for the great video! Between the three you recommended I ended up going with Django, largely because I've been meaning to get a grasp on Python for a while (I do a fair amount of bioinformatics work in R, and Python should be a
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Ask HN: How does a beginner get started with web development in 2016?
11 points by clfougner 10y ago|12 comments
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Show HN: Peacock, a location specific social networking and messaging app(itunes.apple.com)
3 points by clfougner 11y ago|0 comments