fisherjeff

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by fisherjeff 11y ago
Thank you both for inciting a fascinating combination of uncontrollable laughter and existential dread
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Protopiper: Physically Sketching Room-Sized Objects at Actual Scale(hpi.de)
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Argentina May Have Figured Out How to Get GMOs Right(wired.com)
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by fisherjeff 11y ago
> I found out later their recruiter had given me and many other candidates the wrong time.
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by fisherjeff 11y ago
I'm not so sure I agree that's overly ethically gray - it's EM radiation detection just like using any other camera or eyeballs, only at different wavelengths. X-ray imaging, on the other hand, seems FAR more ethically gray t
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by fisherjeff 11y ago
True. My point was more that their budget would look very different if not for federal guarantees on those (relatively risky) loans.
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by fisherjeff 11y ago
Well the majority of tuition funding is on loan from the federal government and I'm sure a big chunk of that grant money comes from DARPA, NSF, NIH, etc. That's not necessarily to say their work should be in the public domain but
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by fisherjeff 11y ago
This article makes it hard to stomach drug manufacturers' claims that drug prices are so high due to regulatory burden. J&J spent a lot of time and a ton of money to bring a new drug to market, sure, but the only apparent improveme
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by fisherjeff 11y ago
After reading part 2 of the article, I was surprised by just how blatantly the financial relationship is predicated on the doctor's professional judgement: "The government investigation of Risperdal sales later unearthed one email
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America Still Has a Problem with Unexploded Civil War Bombs(warisboring.com)
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The Luxury of Silence(theatlantic.com)
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American Apparel Files for Bankruptcy(nytimes.com)
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by fisherjeff 11y ago
Sure sounds like most big corporations. Should be interesting to see what, if any, difference the Alphabet restructuring makes.
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Native Americans aren't genetically more susceptible to alcoholism(theverge.com)
45 points by fisherjeff 11y ago|46 comments
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by fisherjeff 11y ago
I think I see what you're trying to get at, but regardless of its basis in fact, the ad hominem tangent in the third to last paragraph really derails and cheapens the argument.
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Study: people who eat and exercise the same as people 20 years ago are fatter(theatlantic.com)
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Study: people who eat and exercise the same as people 20 years ago are fatter(theatlantic.com)
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On Bullshit (1986) [pdf](csudh.edu)
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Oregon’s Legal Sale of Marijuana Comes with Reprieve(nytimes.com)
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Oregon’s Legal Sale of Marijuana Comes with Reprieve(nytimes.com)
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As Volkswagen Pushed to Be No. 1, Ambitions Fueled a Scandal(nytimes.com)
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Show HN: XML-To-C Binary Protocol and Documentation Generator(github.com)
1 points by fisherjeff 12y ago|0 comments