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by dm319 9y ago
Ok I get your point, and I agree. The vote is for everyone, and everyone is able to assess how happy they are with what is going on. I'm not sure Brexit or Trump are going to do any good for the poorly educated and poor, however. Bot
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by dm319 9y ago
It's seen as fairly basic/text-book knowledge, and finding a paper on it is pretty difficult. It was probably shown in the 19th century and isn't easily found on google scholar! I did find one reference [1] from more recent
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by dm319 9y ago
I totally agree. It's a surrogate marker for something that is much harder to measure.
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by dm319 9y ago
Fair point. However, being well-informed is seen to be important in being able to make a decision in other areas of life (legal system, medical treatment). I agree though that there are cultural differences of opinion on this.
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by dm319 9y ago
I hear this argument a lot. Just because something is inflammatory, doesn't mean it isn't true [1]. It also doesn't mean discussing it will cause it to happen again. It also doesn't mean that we can't also look i
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by dm319 9y ago
No we don't. But if the public do not care for experts, then there is no political incentive to appoint, or listen to, experts.
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by dm319 9y ago
> The very idea that better educated people make better decisions in politics is simply wrong as far as I can see. "Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government" --Thomas Jefferson But al
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Brexit reveals Britain’s enduring flaws(ft.com)
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by dm319 9y ago
I would say a technical education is an education, but I agree, pure academia isn't for everyone - though the article doesn't distinguish this. In fact, Switzerland does very well by the OECD metric [1]. Why is education importan
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by dm319 9y ago
The term 'Alzheimer's' has been politicised. Making a diagnosis requires a brain biopsy, usually done as part of an autopsy. I don't believe a PET scan is capable of making the diagnosis, despite what the article says.
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by dm319 9y ago
I find this comment particularly interesting. I have a suspicion that believing in good and bad people is a product of fairytales and religion. I've never quite understood why authoritarianism, religion and the right seem to go toget
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by dm319 9y ago
Wow, thank you for sharing your experience.
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by dm319 9y ago
You know this argument might well work for Theresa May.
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by dm319 9y ago
There is too much complacency and faith in our democracy in the UK. No one really believes a despot will get into power, despite it happening in recent history to similar european countries.
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by dm319 9y ago
I think GP's point is the warrant isn't needed. I guess whether it is relevant to your comment depends on whether your point is that a warrant is required despite their authority, or that you are simply pointing out that those in
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by dm319 9y ago
Even maths![1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_Pi_Bill
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by dm319 9y ago
I feel like the people who understand encryption and privacy advocates (myself included) are not engaging enough (or maybe effectively enough) with the public in communicating the concerns around trying to 'backdoor' encryption or
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by dm319 9y ago
> Becoming a parent changes you, or at least it changed me. I can no longer imagine harm to a child---as conjured in a written article, on a television show, or in a discussion---in an abstract way as I once could. Same here. As a resul
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by dm319 9y ago
It doesn't sound like they set out to deceive - rather they had a vision which a lot of people, including themselves, bought into, promising far more than they could deliver. Even if they got to the stage of having a fully-working pro
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by dm319 9y ago
Thanks - my memory is a poor witness!
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by dm319 9y ago
Just an anecdote, but back in my Windows XP days, I tried out firefox and found it pretty slow, seemed even worse than IE (in 2004ish?), whereas chrome was lightning quick. Fast forward several years and using gnome 2 on linux, and I found
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by dm319 9y ago
Yes, has anyone looked at the quality of the DAC in the 'dongle'?
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by dm319 9y ago
Yes, I think this piece is dangerous in some ways. The article makes out that there has been controversy about the degree of genetic cause of schizophrenia, citing tiny effects of specific genes - but that misses the point (as the article m
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by dm319 9y ago
Also, the situation of abundant food in certain parts of the world, has only been present very recently in evolutionary history - maybe 60 years / 200'000 years of homo sapiens. With the efficiency of food production threatened b
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by dm319 9y ago
Thinkpad P50?
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by dm319 9y ago
ubuntu-mate has a nice software boutique, which I think is a great idea for people new to the world of FOSS. It's a nice curated list of great FOSS software sorted by category.
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by dm319 9y ago
Thank you for telling me that - much appreciated :)
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by dm319 9y ago
Thanks for that - I'll have to have a look at that when I get back on my network. As you say, there are many reasons why cancer isn't self - neo-antigens are just a facet of that. Are cancer associated antigens the same thing as
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by dm319 9y ago
That would be a sort-of holy grail of cancer therapy. The problem is that the best equipment to develop a high-affinity antibody, or find the correct T cell receptor to the mutation is the patient's immune system - and they've a
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by dm319 9y ago
No, those are excellent questions. Our immune system is a force to be reckoned with for any cancers - we don't have figures on how many cancers our immune system clears before it meets one it cannot clear. So for cancer to survive, it

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