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by huxley 10y ago
Most people won't know what you're referencing. https://www.channel4.com/news/drugs-life-breast-cancer-nice-... https://www.nice.org.uk/news/article/kadcyla-too-expensive-f... NICE
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On a dangerous curve on the road to my home village in Nova Scotia (Canada), an evangelical church posted a sign that said "Prepare to Meet Thy Maker" which I thought --even as a kid-- was apt though little morbid.
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The Internet provides: http://www.victorianweb.org/previctorian/swift/chron.html http://jonathanswiftarchive.org.uk/chronology.html https://www.timetoast.com/timelines/johnath
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I've got some bad news for you, there's a bill being debated in Canada about giving US officials the discretion to hold or detain travellers at pre-clearance centres: http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/pre-c
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It may be a bit dated nowadays, but from travelling through Central America back in the 80s, I made it a habit to never ever use the phrase "fellow traveler" around US border officials: https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
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And completely misinterpret it: http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100526/full/465412a.html "Yet a growing number of researchers are dubious — not just about the projects themselves, but about the scie
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Actually Elon isn't an engineer, he has Bachelor of Science degrees in Physics and Economics (Wharton) as well as 2 days worth of a PhD in Applied Physics and Materials Science (Stanford). What I didn't know was that Jeff Bezos ac
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If he'd lost, he would have remained "William the Bastard" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_the_Conqueror#cite_not...
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Note: 5 issues including advisories since 2008
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If you enjoyed that approach, it's worth checking out the Nouvelle Vague/New Wave films. Channel Criswell did a decent short intro: https://youtu.be/0R7R0JHvvgo
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It might have been Hofstadter and Dennett's "The Mind's I" which includes both "Is God a Taoist?" and "An Unfortunate Dualist"
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A political party that dragged the US into two wars with minor countries with insignificant military resources, both of which could be totally dominated with an air war. And the US still had terrible trouble trying to keeping those wars &qu
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I'm pretty sure that was the Daily Telegraph (oops desas beat me to it)
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Musk is like an incarnation of Delos D. Harriman [1], if environmentalism gets him to Mars then he will be an environmentalist. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Sold_the_Moon
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by huxley 10y ago
There's industry-wide confusion related to the USB-C plug USB-C != USB 3.1 https://www.extremetech.com/computing/197145-reversible-usb-... USB-C != Thunderbolt 3 http://blog.fosketts.net/2016/
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by huxley 10y ago
I am both the child of an immigrant (my mom is from Honduras) and (on my dad's side) have family going back to the late-1600s in Canada.
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No, you've misunderstood the phrasing, it says "which runs on currently shipping iOS devices", in other words, it is compatible with.
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Tornado watches tend to cover large areas of potential hazard and not everyone within an area will receive advanced warning. I've driven by two (small) tornados while travelling long distances over the last 15 or so years.
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I get a bit antsy when I see big unexpected flips in numbers like that and think Johann Hari oversimplifies the case. That was the initial study, a followup with 943 Vietnam vets by the original researcher Lee Robins found that: "In th
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No need to imagine. It's not just during disasters like the Pixar case. Creative collaborative ventures like films and animation are filled with months of effort being deleted with a few quick keystrokes. Back when I was still in the f
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Not really, Brexit is the proximate cause for the change in pricing in the UK (since Apple has concerns about currency instability) but that doesn't mean other countries aren't also going to see pricing changes that are unrelated
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A little off topic, but anyone interested in picking up "The Design of Everyday Things" be aware it was previously published as "The Psychology of Everyday Things". There was an expanded and updated edition in 2013 so yo
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Thanks for sharing that Facebook post, it makes the case far better than I did. The professor makes it clear that the conclusions of the study are totally ignored by the NYTimes author and the figures are not only cherrypicked but misquoted
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Hahaha ... people pay for groceries with dollars not percentages, the math I did is simple and plain enough that you may be overdoing the generosity in describing it as gymnastics. On the contrary, I feel it is the use of percentages that o
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I have a few issues with this article. One is that basing "they could buy x amount at so and so store" is meaningless because when you are poor you don't tend to arbitrage for lower prices, you buy when you're out. Not t
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I know people believe this but the UK does have a constitution, it's the sum of laws, treaties, conventions and the Common Law as interpreted by the judiciary over hundreds of years. It is no less real than the American Constitution. W
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> film has a logarithmic response to light meaning that it can handle a wider dynamic range than digital. Not sure if that situation still exists in DV but for digital photography that stopped being true a long time ago (the balance sta
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Really? LG has 5K monitors at the Apple Store with 5120x2880 res, the same that's been available for a couple of years on the 27" iMac
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As someone living in an area with shitty road conditions, if they can conquer those that is the point at which I start becoming a believer.
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Iraq had a lot of money back then and like in much of the developing world, mega-projects were sought after (and not just by despots). The Mosul Dam was not built cheaply, it was rushed to completion to meet some idiotic deadline. The other

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