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by daedalus_f 5y ago
I think trust in Amazon is beginning to decline, at least in my limited circle. I've recently have had several packages from Amazon UK go missing followed by difficulties sorting it out, alongside other issues. I'm no longer sure
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by daedalus_f 5y ago
That is not how randomised controlled trials in conditions like cancer work. They are almost always a riff on new drug + current best treatment regime vs current best regime. Sometimes a drug within a regime is swapped with the new agent an
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by daedalus_f 5y ago
A lot less than there was 40 minutes ago ;)
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by daedalus_f 5y ago
Thats changed then - several years ago they gave me a right dance involving phone calls and emails. Lost me as a customer for good.
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by daedalus_f 5y ago
I’m an amateur programmer and Nim was the first compiled language I properly tried after first learning to program with R and python. Love the language and found Manning’s Nim in Action a great starting point. Happy this popped up on HN a
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by daedalus_f 5y ago
Most people don’t and won’t change if change requires effort. In contrast by making a password manager functionality the default on Mac/iOS, Apple carries the average user into better security.
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by daedalus_f 5y ago
A DMCA notice would require YouTube to take the video down or be potentially on the hook for the copyright infringement. A DMCA counter-notice from the creator of the video would allow YouTube to put it back up without being liable. After a
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by daedalus_f 5y ago
There are plenty of issues with inexperienced people walking up Ben Nevis even from the visitors centre. Mostly tourists who don’t realise that it’s quite a hike and set off unprepared. The main path at the base is well trodden and easy to
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by daedalus_f 5y ago
I have not worked in software development but I do work in healthcare. At least in my country, management of hospitals has largely been taken away from healthcare professionals and given to career managers whose background is usually admini
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by daedalus_f 5y ago
Unless I’ve misunderstood something, no DMCA notice or counter-notice has been sent. Instead the copyright claim is purely via YouTube’s content ID system that detected the supposedly infringing audio before the video was even published, as
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by daedalus_f 5y ago
"Wikka Moonlight" seems to be the name of the audio the copyright claim is originating from rather than the organisation claiming the copyright. [1] The audio contains a recording of Moonlight Sonata with a load of added reverb. T
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by daedalus_f 6y ago
Yes, but the hooliganism of the 70s and 80s has largely gone away. It was conducted by gangs of thugs who were mostly associated with a small number of first division teams, and generally roundly denounced. I don’t think it’s fair to imply
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by daedalus_f 6y ago
This is also roughly my experience (though I haven’t tried 1.6 yet) and it really a shame - I much prefer Julia’s syntax to R’s (my primary language) and would love to switch for statistics work. The problem is perhaps that I largely do fai
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by daedalus_f 6y ago
As for Julia, I mean I like the matlab like syntax for data science use, and I’m sure its great for prototyping computation heavy algorithms where run time dwarfs the JIT lag, but its surely not suitable for a text editor, at least at prese
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How the oil industry made us doubt climate change(bbc.co.uk)
53 points by daedalus_f 6y ago|29 comments
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by daedalus_f 6y ago
Pretty much the entirety of human history stands in contradiction to the idea that if we were each left alone to make up our own rules we would all just be nice to each other, even if you go back to Rousseau’s state of nature [1]. You say I
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by daedalus_f 6y ago
And this is why anarchy can’t and dosen’t work. 10 minutes later it will be replaced by a new feudalism led by people trying to make themselves king to protect their own best interests. (Edited to a more general statement.)
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by daedalus_f 6y ago
There have been large problems with fMRI studies for a long time, even leaving aside the potentially sketchy coupling between the BOLD signal and actual neural activity and the difficulties accounting for movement artifact. This paper publi
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by daedalus_f 7y ago
Ahh, didn’t think about it from that angle, apologies.
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by daedalus_f 7y ago
I doubt the lack of test availability is directly increasing mortality. The UK like many other countries the UK is advising self isolation for those with symptoms, and I imagine those who ignore this would not isolate even if they did test
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by daedalus_f 7y ago
I’m not sure why your getting down voted. It is irresponsible. This sort of thing is relatively easy to do for someone with the right background, but hard to do well. Aside from wasting reagents that could be potentially used by an actual d
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by daedalus_f 7y ago
I think Firefox market share peaked in 2010 at around 30% before slowly declining as chrome rose in popularity. At least according to StatCounter: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers#...
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by daedalus_f 7y ago
Human beings are very bad at diagnosing failures in complex systems when under intense pressure. Perception and cognition can be significantly affected and even normally highly competent and trained individuals can make poor decisions at ti
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by daedalus_f 7y ago
They may be, but are they prioritizing the safety of their customers above those of other road users? Saftey for the occupants at the expense of other can be used as a marketing factor - get a Tesla truck to reduce your risk of getting kill
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by daedalus_f 7y ago
The United States has a traffic related mortality of 12.4 per 100,000 pop compared to the UKs 3.1 and well behind the rest of western Europe [1] Its almost as if there's something wrong with America's road regulations. [1] https:
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by daedalus_f 7y ago
Preferably not with large soft tissue wounds due to sharp edges in addition to the blunt force trauma.
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by daedalus_f 7y ago
I gave up on Julia at 0.6 for these reasons a couple of years ago, before giving it another try at 1.1 Unfortunately, while the startup time has improved, I still find the JIT compiler overhead makes it unsuitable for most shorter scripts -
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by daedalus_f 7y ago
While I don't think it’s a cure all, Portugal seems to have had significant improvements in drug related health problems (at least in the short term), crime and anti-social behavior after radical decriminalization in 2001. But sounding
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by daedalus_f 7y ago
I don't think direct heroin-assisted treatment has been commonplace in the UK for a long time. You need an individual license from the Home Office for diamorphine prescription [1], whereas the opiate replacement drugs can be prescribed
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by daedalus_f 7y ago
This is promising data but it’s very early. The authors are not really sure what the test is measuring on a cellular level, though they speculate a lot in the discussion, and we can’t yet truly infer a causal link between what’s causing the

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