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by dfsegoat 10y ago
The CIA funded remote viewing at Stanford for 20 years: http://www.irva.org/library/pdfs/puthoff2001cia.pdf
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by dfsegoat 10y ago
Absolutely right on with your points #1 and #2. I remember I lost half my karma with the first childish comment I made on HN. Now I only comment if I feel strongly and can speak intelligently on a subject, or have a question. It is a natura
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by dfsegoat 10y ago
I know. I get that -- I think my point was more to demonstrate that FedEx is an airline first - logistics company 2nd - in terms of air freight.
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by dfsegoat 10y ago
Thanks for your post - I appreciate the constructive criticism - and agree the video isn't much to anyone with an aviation background. I guess what I was trying to say, is that if you are an air-<whatever> business, you ALWAYS ha
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by dfsegoat 10y ago
As a logistics manager - I would constantly switch between the two, depending on who could get me the best rate for our most common small package parcel sizes, etc. They constantly alternate between "the best" and "shitty&quo
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by dfsegoat 10y ago
FedEx is both an established airline AND one of the most trusted logistics companies on the planet. So Amazon can beat them when they can do this on demand: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-qPtWc4heA For brevity: the abo
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by dfsegoat 10y ago
Approval and other decisions in the lifecycle of a drug (it's entire fate basically) are made by committees and panels of physicians primarily. The FDA does it's job well in my opinion and they use a panel system to make sure that
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by dfsegoat 10y ago
Thanks for this summary comment. This is backed in the literature by people who are systems / usability engineers: tldr: Reliable design is HUGELY important. You can't just put these things together haphazardly. "The fact th
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by dfsegoat 10y ago
So, The FDA, because they require drug and device makers to demonstrate efficacy and safety by going through a rigorous clinical trial process, are evil? Really? I also find your comment pretty uninformed considering that the FDA just paved
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by dfsegoat 10y ago
My favorite, FWIW, is the 18th-century battle tweet: '“I shall renew the action and try to distroy the rest if possible”.... Not only does it say, “Look at what I have done” but also, “Look at what I am doing”. This is not a proper bat
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by dfsegoat 10y ago
The CIA did not exist in 1944. It was still OSS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Strategic_Services
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by dfsegoat 10y ago
This is not at all surprising if you know anything about putting a product into retail: Big box retailers have suppliers pretty much literally bent over a barrel (unless you are PG, General Mills, etc). If your product does not sell through
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by dfsegoat 10y ago
That would be quite interesting to know actually.
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by dfsegoat 10y ago
Would be helpful to see some histograms. The patterns of the data seem oddly suspect to me (sinusoidal - with things like Operations in 5 year earning more than ops at 7.4ish year). Maybe I am missing something but am assuming this is just
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by dfsegoat 10y ago
Not sure if it is the case here at all. But sometimes those old Soviet-bloc "original research" documents can be hard to find. An example of this elsewhere is the Levenshtein distance -- everybody knows what this is, but the actua
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by dfsegoat 10y ago
This is fantastic in terms of quality and in terms of being unique as a format for conveying complex technical info. Thanks!
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by dfsegoat 10y ago
Cruz (no matter what you think of him) is from a family that fled an oppressive dictatorship, and he also specialized in constitutional law at Harvard (and argued Heller vs. DC for the 2A), why would he want to "prohibit speech"?
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by dfsegoat 10y ago
Hot hand fallacy
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by dfsegoat 10y ago
Gambler's fallacy.
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by dfsegoat 11y ago
Any relation to the O'Reilly book of the same name? http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920018483.do Otherwise, this is a bit confusing.
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by dfsegoat 11y ago
We should not be surprised. The Kingdom of Saud is rooted in wahhabism - an ultraconservative branch of Islam that also happens to be the primary influence of a little group called Daesh/ISIL.
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by dfsegoat 11y ago
I had not come across you guys yet -- thanks for sharing.
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by dfsegoat 11y ago
No. You learn to use it just like you would a normal linux box - or you use their managed container service which is basically plug and play with docker compose.
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by dfsegoat 11y ago
Nope. It doesn't matter if the results came by courier pigeon: The test has not been validated in controlled trials or even published in peer-reviewed literature -- let alone approved by the FDA. If it were so simple don't you thi
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by dfsegoat 11y ago
Taking your sequence data to a counselor is a solid use of 23&Me data. RE: risk prediction - they need to show efficacy & describe methodology in a clinical trial. Otherwise one is just taking their word for it that your risk is wha
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by dfsegoat 11y ago
The ignorance of, and/or disregard for regulatory standards is the common thread here. Also, How do you know they work? They got slapped for giving people risks of disease using genetic data over the internet -- a method which was not
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by dfsegoat 11y ago
It seems to be endemic to these biotech darlings: 23 & Me pulled the same thing and faced the same consequence. They thought as a tech prima donna that they did not have to adhere to the FDAs medical device regulations (or even publish