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   by dumbmatter 11y ago

   Also the mechanism by which it works (eliminating certain protein aggregates in the brain) might not actually be related to the cause of Alzheimer's. Many other drugs targeting these aggregates have failed. It could be that it's l
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   by dumbmatter 11y ago

   I guess my years of complaining about Safari's IndexedDB support might finally be close to paying off...
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   by dumbmatter 11y ago

   There's probably many reasons, but one is that native controls don't support everything in CSS.
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   by dumbmatter 11y ago

   I still don't see why "Adding 10 percent more road capacity leads to 3-6 percent more vehicle miles in the near term and 6-10 percent more over many years" is being interpreted as "ending up with the same amount of conge
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   by dumbmatter 11y ago

   Adding 10 percent more road capacity leads to 3-6 percent more vehicle miles in the near term and 6-10 percent more over many years. So... sounds like less traffic. Wonder why the title says "more traffic". Some of the cars on
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   by dumbmatter 11y ago

   PLOS ONE is only one of many PLOS journals. The others do also review for importance. This is probably why PLOS ONE is cheaper than their other journals: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/s/publication-fees So Eise
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   by dumbmatter 11y ago

   I eagerly await reading the next headline in 10 years: "Even larger analysis finds that low-fat diets have low impact" And then in 20 years: "Large analysis finds that low-salt diets have low impact" But I think I'l
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   by dumbmatter 11y ago

   So why do open access online-only publishers like PLoS charge $3k/article? Is that just pure profit?
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   by dumbmatter 11y ago

   Where the money goes to? Ask PLoS, they charge $3k/article for open access publications. How much cheaper do you think Elsevier can be than PLoS?
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    by dumbmatter 11y ago

    Really? I've published a bunch of papers and only ever got one hard copy - and that was one copy of the journal, no additional copies to share.
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    by dumbmatter 11y ago

    Tuition pricing should be based on demonstrated need and real merit, not just the desire of a college to steal a few smart students from a competitor down the street. What does "real merit" mean? I can't think of any defini