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by earl 16y ago
And Thalidomide wasn't approved in the US whereas it was approved in Europe and Canada. So... your point is stupid.
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by earl 16y ago
No. Read the article -- in the example used, the alternative is weeks on a ventilator. Which we know works. Until these drugs are known to be efficacious with tolerable side effects, they are still a second best treatment.
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by earl 16y ago
Well, until it has been tested, it is neither tried nor proven. And here is but a single reason http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalidomide for such testing requirements. Edit: to be clear, I was attempting to respond to the parent's parent
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by earl 16y ago
I have a 18 month old macbook pro with only 4gb of ram and a 2.4 Ghz intel core 2 duo running snow leopard. I believe you because that is exactly my experience.
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by earl 16y ago
Mike's an adobe employee. Obviously. Here's the problem for Adobe -- it's not just apple / apple employees / apple devs that despise flash. The performance sucks ass, no matter what deluded blog posts they publish. I know this because f
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by earl 16y ago
I have to say, I do love the fact that everyone here is whining about people making $355 a week. Before taxes. I'd love to see the people here attempt to live an adult life on (52*$355) $18,460 before taxes.
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by earl 16y ago
Whoa whoa -- next you'll be telling me that the claims of strapping young bucks buying t-bone steaks at the supermarket with food stamps were, um, a lie.
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by earl 16y ago
It would be nice to see Patrick / patio11's thoughts on this...
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by earl 16y ago
Um, google was already indexing all documents on scribd. And while it's possible this will result in better SEO, I think it's more likely that all the html necessary to build documents with layout will confuse google's crawler/parser rathe
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by earl 16y ago
Holy shit that's awesome. I've longed for the day that latex2html dies a well deserved death and there aren't ugly little rasterized images where every mathematical symbol goes.
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by earl 16y ago
Looks gorgeous. I'd make the tool tray fall down a bit faster, but it's awesome. And I love the subtle blue lights across the bottom.
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by earl 16y ago
This is a pet peeve of mine. I don't blanket email my resume places. If I send it to your company, I've done at least a couple hours of research on your company (home page, crunchbase, glassdoor, first page of G results, etc) and written a
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by earl 16y ago
You're seriously so pissy about scribd that you're currently objecting to their using standard html instead of images? Get a life.
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by earl 16y ago
Seriously? You're whining about the CTO calling investing 6 months of three quarters of their dev team into a risky project betting the company? While it isn't literally a 100 percent make-or-break project, Scribd does have competitors wh
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by earl 16y ago
If by generally regarded, you mean literally blows chunks... ffs, VLC is open source and it performs better on my macbook pro. Adobe is too incompetent even to copy freely available code.
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by earl 16y ago
Well, two of many reasons are adobe is run by morons incapable of making a secure or performant product. Unless you missed the wave of acrobat exploits? 'Cause my gf's laptop sure didn't :( Removing yet another plugin from your browser sh
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by earl 16y ago
html >> images
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156 http://www.quantcast.com/scribd.com
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by earl 16y ago
Something similar happened to me, but it didn't have a happy ending. My last year in college I had to stay for fall semester because of scheduling issues with a required class, so I needed a job for a summer. A local firm -- and let's name
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by earl 16y ago
So, I find this article very strange. The author seems quite intelligent, yet he has avoided learning much of anything about macroeconomic history. Is he really so naive to think that economists haven't noticed and thought about this phen
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by earl 17y ago
Actually, 0.97 testicle, 1.0 breast. http://www.indexmundi.com/united_states/sex_ratio.html
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by earl 17y ago
Well, there are two ways to deal with employee churn. The first is to create such an awesome work environment (via wages, stock options / golden handcuffs, learning opportunities, career growth, flexibility, etc etc -- whatever it is that
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by earl 17y ago
The reason Mark is an asshole is that he's trying to create / exploit cultural norms to prevent employees acting in their own self interest. Of course it would be optimal (for the employer) to have employees that never leave, but the vast
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by earl 17y ago
Maybe it was watching US soldiers gleefully murder civilians, or gloat over the children they shot?
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by earl 17y ago
The US does have a higher per-capita gdp (probably; the numbers are subject to a lot of interpretation) but that is in no small part due to the fact that the rest of the industrialized word was mostly leveled in WWII. As of recently, I bel
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by earl 17y ago
The fact that you got lucky and timed the market doesn't mean other people should attempt to do the same, or that they will have any success doing so.
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by earl 17y ago
Then you're placing bets on inflation vs home price appreciation that are, at best, difficult to predict.
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by earl 17y ago
For the record, my apartment is not rent controlled and as far as I know, most apartments in SF are not. The landlord is constrained by market rents.
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by earl 17y ago
My experience may be useful only for sf, but I live in the city in a nice (by my definition of nice: 100+ years old, solid wood floors, plaster walls, detailed woodwork, thick aged wooden doors, handmade ironwork) apartment. My landlord wo
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by earl 17y ago
Ding! We have a winner! If you are so blind as to think that looking around and seeing nobody like you for values of you in minority groups in a position doesn't discourage qualified people, well, then you're not only ignorant of the last

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