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   by defenestration 11y ago

   Great article, it gives me some new ideas like the excel bankaccount with monthly interest. I value the curiosity that our son has. He likes to ask about how we make money with our own company, what taxes are and why you have to pay them. H
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   by defenestration 12y ago

   I agree, let's take a look at the numbers. You need to: > screen 1410 men > then take a biopt from 340 of them > then diagnose 82 men with prostate cancer > to save 1 man from dying from prostate cancer Source (Dutch Gen
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   by defenestration 12y ago

   You can become old with localized prostate cancer. You have to make the choice if you want to live with some uncertainty (the cancer could progress into metastases) or to get treatment now. The downside of treatments, like surgery and radia
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   by defenestration 12y ago

   Yeah, I know that feeling. For me medium.com is art. It's crafted so beautifully, that it makes me smile. They care about the smallest details, for example crafting link underlines: https://medium.com/designing-medium&#
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   by defenestration 12y ago

   Sure, you're welcome. If you would like to grasp where you can go with test driven development and continuous integration, check out this article: 'How Etsy Deploys More Than 50 Times a Day": http://www.infoq.com&#
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   Why Do Hawking, Gates and Musk See Danger in AI + IoT?(theguardian.com)

   2 points by defenestration 12y ago|0 comments
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   by defenestration 12y ago

   Wow, what did you do with the background on your homepage? The flashs are hurting the eyes.
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   by defenestration 12y ago

   I can give you some pointers. 1) A good discussion about Unit Testing on Hacker News. Is most unit testing a waste or not? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7353767 2) A story about unit testing at Airbnb: http:/&#
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   by defenestration 12y ago

   There is a great difference between the incidence of prostate cancer and the death rate from it. Prostate cancer is currently diagnosed in 15 to 20% of men during their lifetime, but the lifetime risk of death from prostate cancer is only 3
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    by defenestration 12y ago

    I have learned that little things in a start of a relationship will multiply over time. If somebody is just a bit dishonest early on, the relationship might explode in a couple of years due to lack of trust. With the people who have the sam
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    Global land deals: where foreign companies are investing in the developing world(theguardian.com)

    1 points by defenestration 12y ago|0 comments
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    by defenestration 12y ago

    Thanks for putting TPP in an international perspective. One question, why would an Asian partner accept those strict copyright rules if it puts a big part of their population at risk? What's in it for them?
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    The things most likely to kill you in one infographic(uk.businessinsider.com)

    1 points by defenestration 12y ago|0 comments
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    by defenestration 12y ago

    I agree. More corporates should give these insights and don't care for a bit of bashing when they do.
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    by defenestration 12y ago

    I couldn't agree more with: 'This article seems to be the product of lax peer review and pressure to over-interpret data to boost public interest. Both of these provide short-term gain to those involved but in the long run corrupt
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    by defenestration 12y ago

    I found this generator in the repo: https://github.com/Dobiasd/articles/blob/master/programming_...
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    by defenestration 12y ago

    The reasons for the studless beams were a design flaw in the original studded beams and that studless beams allowed more realistic designs. More on this: http://bricks.stackexchange.com/questions/1912/why-does-lego
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    by defenestration 12y ago

    I recently bought some Meccano. I also noticed that the build quality is not so good anymore. The beams bent easily. The Capsula introduced by the topic starter look fun. And they teach an important principle of object oriented programming:
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    by defenestration 12y ago

    His Lego domino row building machine is pretty neat too. It does its job pretty well, with only a few Lego blocks used. http://woodgears.ca/domino/index.html
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    by defenestration 12y ago

    Quote from article: "But these lists don’t really measure something even more important: the quality of their employees’ lives." But the article isn't showing that the quality of life at lower ranked companies is better. In t