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by codex 13y ago
Isn't most of the cost in clinical trials in manufacturing the drugs, finding and paying investigators, paying for legal services, recruitment of patients, getting informed consent, etc? Does Comprehend help with that stuff?
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by codex 13y ago
Mediocre CEOs have only three levers to pull: "acquire," "layoff," and "reorg." Eventually Ballmer will pull all three levers in every order.
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by codex 13y ago
From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.
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by codex 13y ago
The peasants still don't get to decide: if they're not accredited investors, they cannot invest. This to prevent exploitation of unsophisticated investors. During the Great Depression, many small time investors, including many b
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by codex 13y ago
Given the secrecy surrounding PRISM, is there any way to know whether a company has been recently forced to comply with a PRISM-like program? Snowden's data is already stale, and only covered the largest companies.
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by codex 13y ago
Given that human wants are infinite, why would someone with no job but a basic income not commit crimes to increase their income? They have plenty of time on their hands, and their social status would be a function of how much wealth they
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by codex 13y ago
Switching to C++ solved his problem; if tools don't exist to solve problems, what, indeed, are they for?
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by codex 13y ago
Not true. Europe and Japan are even worse off, and the average standard of living for a Chinese worker is pitiful.
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by codex 13y ago
Threaded servers are not necessarily slower than asynchronous architectures, though they can be. In fact, threaded models are coming back into fashion these days, and can (sometimes) be faster than asynchronous models when each thread is a
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by codex 13y ago
I wonder if Russia is setting up Snowden for eviction. If Russia knows that newspapers will soon publish more Snowden leaks, it can publically demand that Snowden stop leaking and then kick him out when the leaks inevitably appear--even th
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by codex 13y ago
It sounds like Russian intelligence services have finished rifling Snowden for classified information. They don't want Snowden leaking to anyone else what they've rightfully pilfered.
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by codex 13y ago
If all of humanity thought this way we'd still living in log cabins, hewn by hand, or worse
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by codex 13y ago
Agreed. But when you have "John Smith" coming in over VPN from a foreign IP to a domestic email account, how can you tell if they are an expat citizen or a masquerade? Presumably this is why the NSA monitors whenever at least on
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by codex 13y ago
You also have to presume that terrorists will attempt to look like U.S. citizens (e.g. "John Smith" connecting from a U.S. IP via tunnel) to avoid surveillance.
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Under Snowden Screen Name, 2009 Post Berated Leaks(nytimes.com)
3 points by codex 13y ago|0 comments
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by codex 13y ago
True, but it would likely be impractical to use couriers to communicate between Al Qaeda H.Q. to any Al Qaeda cells in the U.S., or even in an adjacent country.
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by codex 13y ago
It's the bikeshed principle: nobody here feels qualified to comment on the nuclear reactor design.
528.
by codex 13y ago
Unfortunate but consistent with the the theme of the article: if terrorists are adjusting due to leaks, the last thing an intelligence operative would do is leak details which would cause further adjustments.
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Russia spies may be chatting with 'tasty morsel' Snowden(reuters.com)
3 points by codex 13y ago|0 comments
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by codex 13y ago
Stripe is nothing--just a faster horse. PayPal and Square (and Google and Apple) ultimately aim to replace the credit card itself. That's the prize. Square is attacking from the B&M merchant POS side and consumer to consumer ema
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by codex 13y ago
IIRC, Square already does around 10% of PayPal's transaction volume, which is impressive. Of course, Square is mostly offline and PayPal is mostly online--and here we see the beginnings of the inevitable conflict. At last, they begin
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The 'Snowden Effect': U.S. spies say militants change tactics(news.yahoo.com)
2 points by codex 13y ago|0 comments
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by codex 13y ago
"Rio de Janeiro has been rated “Critical” for crime by the State Department for the past 25 years. Crimes statistics for 2012 reflect continued critically high and rising levels of crimes in both the state and city of Rio de Janeiro in
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by codex 13y ago
Do people who drive like grandmas spend bread on a 200 hp Mercedes coupe? According to this article [1], Hastings describes himself as a "a recovering drunk/addict/screw-up." In another True/Slant piece, he says, &
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by codex 13y ago
Not really. :-) A society needs an objective process ("trial") to determine whether someone's acts were good or bad. It also needs need an objective process to determine whether that trial will be fair. That process, w
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by codex 13y ago
38% of Americans think that Snowden shouldn't be prosecuted. While not 50%, it's reasonably high. That, combined with jury selection and sequestration, ought to do the trick--but if OJ Simpson can get away with murder, anythin
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by codex 13y ago
What's so fascinating about this, to me, is that Snowden is in the airport without a Russian visa. So is he in Russia, or not? Do the laws of Russia apply within the airport, or not? Whose laws do apply? What happens if you commit
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by codex 13y ago
Agreed--there needs to be some sort of decision making process (or "trial") to objectively determine whether what somebody did was OK or not.
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by codex 13y ago
The planets have three suns? Only three more suns to Nightfall!
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by codex 13y ago
So Google has indexed 200TB? My cat pictures alone are 1TB!

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