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by geomark 11y ago
Those poo transplants have saved a lot of people suffering from Clostridium difficile colitis, a very serious and potentially fatal condition.
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by geomark 11y ago
The story of Jasper Lawrence is pretty interesting. He suffered from severe allergies that incapacitated him much of the time. He got so deperate that he went to Cameroon and walked around in poop in open latrines to infect himself with hoo
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by geomark 11y ago
I seriously wonder if people who advocate paying more taxes have thought carefully about what they are really advocating, given what those taxes are used for. Is it that people are just mad that big companies can avoid taxes in ways that in
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by geomark 11y ago
I think he did give his definition. He said "It means the variation between different quantiles' wealth or income." Last line of the first paragraph of point 2.
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by geomark 11y ago
I just started looking at her top listed data source, the GDELT Project[1]. Kind of mind blowing. [1] http://www.gdeltproject.org/
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by geomark 11y ago
One of my undergrad math teachers once held a job as a computer. She liked to tell the story of how she once spent about a week solving a complex integral. The answer turned out to be 1. She said she felt both elated and kind of disappointe
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by geomark 11y ago
"our modern world makes money by distracting us" I'm not getting involved in the overall discussion, just wanted to highlight this gem. This is so true. In a conversation about Netflix's announcement of worldwide availab
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by geomark 11y ago
You missed my use case, freelancers who receive international payments and want to minimize 3rd party risk. As someone who has been robbed by PayPal I find bitcoin to be quite useful.
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by geomark 11y ago
Cigarettes have all those properties, just somewhat imperfectly. Cartons are divisble to packs which are divisible to individual cigarettes. Cigarettes are pretty durable - if you don't get them wet and avoid breaking them they have a
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by geomark 11y ago
I had a tutor I met once a week for 3 months. We studied one page, a page that listed all the letters in their tone groups plus the diacritic marks. She would give me homework of vocabulary words that I had to look up in a Thai-English dict
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by geomark 11y ago
I found writing Thai to be not so difficult to learn. It uses an alphabet, although it does have more letters than English and some tone marks. But it is very regular and pronunciation is consistent. I haven't studied Vietnamese but at
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by geomark 11y ago
Pretty handy for someone like me who wastes a lot of time trying to get the Latex right in my R markdown docs.
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Ask HN: How are forensic DNA tests reported?
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by geomark 11y ago
Agree. I see civil discussions like this one more often on HN than anywhere else. And yet we have big shot VC's bashing HN as "Hater News" if the conversation doesn't support their narrative. When I see a HN thread turn
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by geomark 11y ago
From the article, "Other Nevada solar companies with higher cost structures than SolarCity are expected to collectively lay off thousands of additional Nevadans in the coming months." That's probably where he is getting the t
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by geomark 11y ago
I like your thought process but I think you follow an incorrect path of reasoning because of the implicit assumption that if an act is considered violent it is to be avoided. The world is full of violent people who are only kept at bay by t
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by geomark 11y ago
Not arguing for or against anything. Armed men taking property and prisoners is violence regardless if it is sanctioned by the state or not. Civilized society wants that sort of violence if it is applied to violent crime. The same society m
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by geomark 11y ago
Patents themselves aren't violent. Patents allow one to invoke violence by the state by having armed men (US marshalls in this case) confiscate property and in some cases arrest people.
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by geomark 11y ago
That profit margin seems really low, unless the contract they have is a cost-plus type where they are guaranteed to have their costs paid plus 3.5% profit. Otherwise the risk seems too high to settle for a profit margin that low.
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by geomark 11y ago
This drives me crazy. I walk in and want to pay cash, but they won't treat me because I have to show proof of insurance because they have no idea what they will charge when the bill is generated.
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by geomark 11y ago
Can you summarize the healthcare system in Hong Kong? I'm particularly interested in options for non-citizens. Can you just walk into a private hospital and get treatment for cash? Or is it like so many places in the US where they don&
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by geomark 11y ago
Thailand. It's not for everybody. But you can get world class medical care at a fraction of the price here.
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by geomark 11y ago
"The only question is, will I be able to accumulate enough to retire to Thailand or somewhere before I get hit with a serious medical condition?" I was fortunate enough to do just that. Never had to be hospitalized in the US. Reti
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by geomark 11y ago
That makes sense, the variation by jurisdiction. It's kind of strange that a local person would find it simpler to go abroad than navigate the complicated workings of the local care system. Although it is pretty simple when you go to a
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by geomark 11y ago
I'm genuinely curious about this, particularly the "easy to see a doctor" part, because I know that quite a few Canadians travel to Thailand for non-emergency medical care mostly due to long wait times. That's according
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by geomark 11y ago
This is one of several reasons I have written off moving back to the US. A unexpected bonus of being an expat is I have no Obamacare requirement. I don't have to buy US insurance (since I couldn't use it anyway) and I don't f
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by geomark 11y ago
I worked as a test technician on B6800 systems when Burroughs had a manufacturing plant in Mission Viejo, CA. It was cool. All MSI components on PCBs plugged into a wirewrapped backplane, big squirrel cage fans for cooling, a power rack wit
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by geomark 11y ago
There are a few R packages for deep learning, although I wouldn't say that they compare with Theano yet. There's darch (package for deep architectures and Restricted-Bolzmann-Machines) [1], deepnet [2] which is incorporated into c
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by geomark 11y ago
It's not relevant. I should have marked it off topic. I've just been noticing trends in Japan that are leading to a steady population decline, the suicide rate yet another. But maybe this blue light effect will mitigate it.
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by geomark 11y ago
You mention the elderly; can't find the link now but I read a very sad story about a man who cleans up houses in Japan after a person has died in them. Many suicides and many more elderly who just died alone out of neglect. Also, on th

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