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by dbbolton 11y ago
I think it already undermined itself by using Jobs as the example of a genius. Da Vinci and Goethe were geniuses. Jobs was charismatic, had good business sense, and understood his markets, like virtually all successful CEOs, but I think &
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by dbbolton 11y ago
>He failed to disclose exculpatory evidence His failure notwithstanding, is there some reason why the defense didn't call the son to testify as a witness in court? Not trying to defend Anderson, but genuinely curious. Also, I think
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by dbbolton 11y ago
It shouldn't be baffling if you looked at the examples or study I posted, because the point definitely wasn't "torture doesn't get people to talk".
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by dbbolton 11y ago
>How true is this though ? Which part? Honestly, I don't know how effective monitoring affect is per se but as a wild guess I'd say it's at least as accurate as a polygraph/coin flip. However, I think there is more we
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by dbbolton 11y ago
This method sort of reminds me of one of the opening scenes from Das Leben der Anderen (which is a great movie): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkRxvEjprBM
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by dbbolton 11y ago
>While it's easy to attribute something like this to malice, it's saner to attribute it to staggering incompetence and lack of introspection. I.e. Hanlon's razor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%2
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by dbbolton 11y ago
I agree completely. In my experience I'd say roughly 50% of patients we see in primary care have essentially no clue when it comes to nutrition, then maybe 40% or so have a decent understanding of the macros and percentages on US food
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by dbbolton 11y ago
The fact that high antioxidant levels could interrupt the ROS-p53 axis and prevent apoptosis (i.e. prevent cancer cells from dying) has been known for awhile. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acetylcysteine#Adverse_effects
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by dbbolton 11y ago
R, Numpy, and Pandas are all FOSS. Probably not much of a practical concern, but it might be preferable in some cases. I don't know anything about Minitab/JMP scripting myself, but my understanding is that R is generally the most
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by dbbolton 11y ago
It's come a long way in the last three years: https://uberpython.wordpress.com/2012/03/17/ah-the-old-reddi...
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by dbbolton 11y ago
Here's a med student's two cents: I doubt it simply because you can't realistically prevent deceleration injury to the internal organs. With an egg drop, you pretty much just have to worry about the integrity of the shell, bu
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by dbbolton 11y ago
This is an accurate description of the legal US grading system as of March 2, 2015 (under 7 U.S.C. 1621-1627). For anyone interested, here's a link to the official USDA guidelines (grading is §52.5962 on page no. 2, which is actually p
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by dbbolton 11y ago
SCOTUS struck down patents on naturally occurring gene sequences themselves and decided that the "mere isolation" thereof cannot be patented: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ass%27n_for_Molecular_Patholog... Ho
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by dbbolton 11y ago
I went up to the parent dir of the URL and found this link: http://kelvinxu.github.io/projects/capgen.html
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by dbbolton 11y ago
Apologies for the off-topic comment, but I feel compelled to say that a #6D6D6D anchor color with a #444444 body text color on a white background is a terrible UX choice. I guess they expect me to hover over the entire paragraph to see if i
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by dbbolton 11y ago
What you described sounds an awful lot like the Michael Scott Paper Company, which, ironically, was quite a success (all things considered).
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by dbbolton 11y ago
>3. Capitalize the subject line >4. Do not end the subject line with a period >5. Use the imperative mood in the subject line I can't help but feel that these three "rules" should be removed and placed in a separate
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by dbbolton 11y ago
Devil's advocate: relative to C (which vim is written in), Python 2 is considerably slower, especially with CPython as its interpreter. Optimization is also tougher. Personally, I admit I'm not sure that the difference is signific
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by dbbolton 11y ago
>decent key management What about Hashicorp's Vault?
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by dbbolton 11y ago
I think Wiktionary is a great and underutilized resource. Fairly good coverage, free, and easily amendable. There is in fact an entry for lumia : https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/lumia#Spanish It's actually the b
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by dbbolton 11y ago
He doesn't have a problem with git per se, at least not overtly. I think the confusion is that Emacs went with Bazaar over Git in 2008 essentially because it was a GNU project (and Arch had faded into obscurity by that point): >We s
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by dbbolton 11y ago
I'd love to see a GTK-style version, i.e. a hue wheel with a S/L triangle like this: http://i.imgur.com/yscI9Iy.png
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by dbbolton 11y ago
I'm well aware that ideas are a dime a dozen and that there is no realistic way that I could have brought that idea to life. I wasn't trying to make a "I had that idea first! I could have made millions!" type of comment.
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by dbbolton 11y ago
Six or so years ago, a friend of mine and I were talking about how the US had destroyed poppy fields in Afghanistan on a large scale (I think to block Taliban funding or something) despite the WHO listing morphine as a critical drug in shor
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by dbbolton 11y ago
Since you are a classical music student, I'd like to ask: did you think the sample piece on the page was truly classical? I'm no expert, but to my ear it sounded more like a later Baroque period piece, or very early Classical at m
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by dbbolton 11y ago
Piggybacking to mention that the download links on their landing page are all hosted on SourceForge, but their releases page on GH has the same version (1.5) for all three platforms: https://github.com/dalboris/vpaint&#
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by dbbolton 11y ago
What makes Sumatra safer than other FOSS PDF viewers like evince, okular, epdf, etc.?
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by dbbolton 11y ago
It can be with Firejail: https://l3net.wordpress.com/projects/firejail/
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by dbbolton 11y ago
Tangent- I just saw this AMA with Zachary Neal and Randy Olson (starts at 1pm EST) and thought it might be of interest here: https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/3fzs8v/science_ama...
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by dbbolton 11y ago
Is that first screenshot showing QT and the last one GTK, or is it just QtCurve or some other theme-trickery?

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