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by dlss 12y ago
We aren't planning to launch on HN until monday... though I'm guessing this far down the thread we won't get a huge spike in traffic. > Can they please figure out which bacteria are actually important and then I will take
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by dlss 12y ago
The hacking is what let them know which server to have the Icelandic authorities seize.
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by dlss 12y ago
http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=burnout+infertility and http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=stress+infertility Both have very good data in the top 10 results. If you're looking for a pop sci writeu
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by dlss 12y ago
Lecture one starts with Sam saying ``idea * execution * luck == results and the luck term is a random number between 0 and 10,000`` Deterministic recipes don't exist anywhere outside the hard sciences (and even there it's not rea
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by dlss 12y ago
There's a literature on burnout. Burnout is the qualitative word for stress induced sterility -- ie "Things are so bad that having a child right now would be disastrous" (ie people reporting burnout are usually temporarily st
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by dlss 12y ago
Well, it's not like he said "if this was the last year of your life you should be honored to work here" No. He set out looking for people who were crazy in a way he liked, and he hired them. If there's anything ridicul
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by dlss 12y ago
Source re: fatty tissue?
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by dlss 12y ago
I think with practice almost anyone can tell the difference. It's about as subtle as the difference between velvet and silk to your finger -- I can see how you'd confuse them if you weren't thinking about it, but there's
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by dlss 12y ago
I think the issue is that eccentric professors aren't as good at competing for grant money as people who treat academics like any other career. Increasing the funding probably just creates more of the latter, not of the former.
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by dlss 12y ago
My reason is simple: Bitcoin doesn't natively support recurring payments.
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by dlss 12y ago
I agree with this. Two points though: 1. PR value does benefit your bottom line 2. Almost all serious web proxies accept Bitcoin. I believe they do this more for product reasons than PR reasons. Which is to say your answer could be put more
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by dlss 12y ago
> regulations exist because society has decided its interests are better served by making folks play by a certain set of rules than by hitting peak market efficiency or whatever This is technically correct, but is forgetting that society
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by dlss 12y ago
1. ReCAPTCHA does a lot more than Project Euler's captchas... or to put it another way, the "Zero day" you're talking about would be worthless vs ReCAPTCHA: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReCAPTCHA#Sec
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by dlss 12y ago
from their blog: http://blog.tsa.gov/2014/01/tsa-travel-tips-tuesday-travelin... Yep. You can bring two 1.7 oz glass bottles with you to the airport (in case you have a specific shape or kind of glass you'd
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by dlss 12y ago
Smuggling doesn't benefit from more people the way that violence does.
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by dlss 12y ago
1. If the government is guaranteeing it'll pay, why give them a price break? 2. If the reason is passing laws saying you have to give them a price break (as you imply in paragraph 2), how is that not price fixing?
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by dlss 12y ago
> Price signals are based on demand. The same demand is still there in the sense that customers still interact with private health providers. Price signals require both a supply side and a demand side. Government funded healthcare likely
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by dlss 12y ago
Source? I can't find your last quote online, and want to read more about it
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by dlss 12y ago
I went to the website hoping to see the app in action... but it just links back to the appstore. Would you please post a video demo? I think it would increase downloads.
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by dlss 12y ago
Well researched article. If a little out there: > His work with the gut's nervous system has led him to think that in coming years psychiatry will need to expand to treat the second brain in addition to the one atop the shoulders. I
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by dlss 12y ago
So no one has mentioned this yet, but this article is actually the Fortune cover story. And I think very much deserved, not for most of the details mentioned in the article, but because of their pricing page: http://www.theranos.
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by dlss 12y ago
I think the courts are a better solution for that problem. Having a couple "crazy science teachers" with tenure shouldn't even count as a solution IMO - especially if that causes people to be more careful about who they give
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by dlss 12y ago
As a taxpayer, if that's really the problem I'd rather just pay those cops, prosecutors, jail staff etc to sit around. Maybe the extra man power could be funneled toward preventing real crime (murder, rape, fraud, etc), or maybe i
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by dlss 12y ago
It's unfortunate that this requires an LED shone at the camera. I hope something similar can be done using just the variation between frames w/o needing controlled illumination.
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by dlss 12y ago
Can you say more? I have read the article you linked to, but I don't see the contradiction you mention
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by dlss 12y ago
This is true, and it's also true that such quantum processes exist in the brain. Penrose's claim was that those quantum processes are a significant part of the computation that is consciousness. It was discredited by getting bette
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by dlss 12y ago
This has been discredited (along with Penrose's incompleteness theorem based "AI is impossible" conjecture before it) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_mind#Roger_Penrose_and_...
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by dlss 12y ago
Here's a discussion of what was probably said during the AI box experiment: http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/AI-box_experiment
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Help U.S. kickstart fundamental reform(mayone.us)
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by dlss 12y ago
This is very interesting. Having that many people all holding BTC will have a bootstrapping effect around MIT. The three obvious effects are: 1. stores near campus will (probably) start supporting it 2. the black market on campus will (sure

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