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by erkkie 11y ago
Only if you fundamentally believe there's something "magical" going on in the brain; scientifically there's no reason to believe that (given current understanding). We understand individual neurons and how they can lead
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by erkkie 11y ago
And naturally you've based your understanding of such things on studies and have references to share?
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by erkkie 11y ago
It's worth to note this is one of a couple of promising vaccines, one of them is already approved in a couple of countries, as of December 2015: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dengue_vaccine#CYD . Not "100% ef
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by erkkie 11y ago
Netflix "gets it" very well, they have to tiptoe between satisfying their content providers with plausible-enough looking action and at the same time trying to not alienate their end-users. They probably know the exact numbers of
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by erkkie 11y ago
This as an argument is completely crazy and similarly absolutist. Having access to proper crypto at all, as an option, does not mean everything will inevitably be encrypted and not controlled for. Companies will still have the power to se
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by erkkie 11y ago
I believe the premise is that those rich people will pay much more in taxes than their cut of the UBI pool. I guess if you mean rich people who don't work / pay taxes, but I don't think that's an actual issue (since the
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by erkkie 11y ago
My main usage of "Ok Google" is to add reminders/calendar events while driving, often after phone-calls.
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by erkkie 11y ago
The threat of a scorched earth policy needs to be strong enough for governments to either not consider these types of actions or suffer the consequences. I can understand it not being practical for the people involved though, and I sympathi
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by erkkie 11y ago
I believe most of these diets promote low carb, high fat, moderate protein. In general consuming more protein than needed for cellular maintenance does little good and gets converted to energy through additional steps; since it's easie
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by erkkie 11y ago
I'll just put this out here https://www.quora.com/How-does-nuclear-energy-compare-to-oth... (per kwh nuclear kills less than coal)
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by erkkie 11y ago
Most of the financial reasons are political. NIMBYism makes nuclear in general very expensive, even though coal blatantly kills more than even existing nuclear tech, not to mention potential next gen reactors. In case of breeders, the 2nd a
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by erkkie 11y ago
That's because you're burying usable fuel, breeder reactors eliminate the waste problem for all practical purposes, the reason they're not being built has been entirely political. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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by erkkie 11y ago
Even in case of recurrent infections, re-treatments have good long term success levels.
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by erkkie 11y ago
And root canals can be fixed, and re-fixed, and re-re-fixed multiple times if things happen to go wrong. None of the alternatives we have so far come close to a natural tooth, even if it's just a crowned dead root stump. The reason imp
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by erkkie 11y ago
I'll bite, do you have any sources? (no, Mercola doesn't apply).
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by erkkie 11y ago
Anything specifically missing on android side except the PR? Seriously asking if I'm missing something. The nexus series has comparable crypto hw and similar options for encryption + wiping.
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by erkkie 11y ago
How can you ask a question like this? Define "so strong" in this context? It's similar to asking "do you need so free speech". We're not talking about anything special here beyond a standard expectation of reas
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by erkkie 11y ago
Explain? My locked + encrypted android (nexus 5) did initiate a self-erase after too many failed unlock attempts.
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by erkkie 11y ago
Fully agree with your comment about the discussion going full on hyperbole but at the same time agree that it's not Apple's job to intentionally weaken the security parameters of their firmware. Asking for encryption back doors is
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by erkkie 11y ago
Yeah, this is because there's a sealing tape that's supposed to go to the frame after opening. Original frames usually have it attached to the frame, aftermarket ones don't. Some tape or glue needed to close the original one
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by erkkie 11y ago
Melatonin as well
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by erkkie 11y ago
Good point, you're right, not surgery, more like an (significantly invasive) procedure. Still good to differentiate from "giving a drug".
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by erkkie 11y ago
This is also why a combination of engineered T-cells and immune checkpoint inhibitors is a really winning combo. http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/jun/01/paradigm-shif...
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by erkkie 11y ago
Surgery is an option, namely bone-marrow transplants. The reason blood cancers are first with these techniques boils down to having better known antigen targets to target compared to solid tumors where known antigens have more cross react
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by erkkie 11y ago
Depends on your use-cases, I for example can't wait to get decent speed external disk space, something that only thunderbolt 3 in usb-c on the new macs delivers. Why? Travel and video editing for example. Backups. Virtual machines. The
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by erkkie 11y ago
The sibling comment about websites was spot on. Another good example is the real-estate rental market. Many places lack furnishing and lose lots of business over similar competitors, and I mean the types of basics a months rent would cover.
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by erkkie 11y ago
Yes, exactly, same applies for many local businesses (shops, restaurants, service providers) not just Alibaba. Hell, a decent sized private hospital here has a nonfunctional website (like not just bad but actually returning 404's).
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by erkkie 11y ago
I would guess language and general cultural barriers, spending much time in SEAsia, many of the (sometimes trivial) things western people expect from services are really hard for locals to "get" without outside (read western) guid
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by erkkie 11y ago
"Current research" there is not necessarily strong nor convincing either way, from the linked wikipedia article: Reinagel also suggests that link between skipping breakfast and increased weight may be mostly behavioral – compensat
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by erkkie 11y ago
While still (probably) probabilistic to a large extent, specially concerning environmental exposure, there's more acceptance recently into cancer having a metabolic component, many cancer and metabolic related pathways cross (eg fastin

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