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by jebus989 13y ago
For sure, that's why hospitals are jam-packed with hand anti-bacterial (fungal etc.) stations. They don't try to sterilise the doctor.
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by jebus989 13y ago
Huh, why would that be good? Why is the sterility of a doctor's eye-wear a concern? Tabloid scare-stories of "X species of bacteria found living on Y" just feed on the public's ignorance of microbiology; i.e. "wow t
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by jebus989 13y ago
I doubt the latter idea would be compatible with the arcane terms of being a "public service broadcaster".
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by jebus989 13y ago
Oh I thought that was an abstract clock design
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by jebus989 13y ago
Looks like they did a pretty good job: https://twitter.com/flightradar24/status/442145510615289856 After hours of misinformation re: "2 hours into flight", the airline apparently agreed with the flightra
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by jebus989 13y ago
That's not really how we use probability, how about we start by considering the most likely scenario and, if needed, progress to the "non-zero" probability events.
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by jebus989 13y ago
It makes it less pertinent, I didn't comment on its correctness. Reading the post it starts off as standard HN bitcoin fodder and then takes a surprising turn into, what I found to be, a personal and touching story. Hence my knee-jerk
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by jebus989 13y ago
Did you miss the poignant and moving story of the onset of a terminal illness, christ.
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by jebus989 13y ago
This is kinda like comparing coke with "carbonated orange drinks". The fact that the latter outsell the former seems obvious but unimpressive, as a fairer comparison (Coke vs. Fanta / product line vs. product line rather than
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by jebus989 13y ago
Not _most_ of the money, a tiny fraction more on average, and they give no confidence intervals or measure of variability so I'd bet it's just noise (if you pick ten random numbers, one of them has to be the highest).
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by jebus989 13y ago
Only 50% of people can say that
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by jebus989 13y ago
I agree. Honestly I'd say no (off-hand), obviously high-tier institutions are competitive but PhDs are cheap labour for senior academics and cheap to fund from a research council perspective.
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by jebus989 13y ago
Undergrad for free == interesting and not all that common (though does happen elsewhere in EU, e.g. Austria) PhD for free != interesting, I'm paid a tax-free stipend (UK) which also covers tuition fees (same for MSc). There are "s
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by jebus989 13y ago
Transparently marketing fear. Apparently this phone is for you if you ever [0]: > speak personally with a partner > worry about your kids Shameful. [0] https://www.blackphone.ch/individuals/
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by jebus989 13y ago
Is there any evidence LinkedIn reports all members email contacts as LinkedIn users? The g+ post just displays OP's confusion at "connect" really meaning "invite" in instances where contacts don't have a Linked
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by jebus989 13y ago
It's like tech-news outlining that the yellow hits atop a google search are paid for. Why this is on the front page of HN I have no idea.
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by jebus989 13y ago
Well, the vast majority of active community members didn't even get to opine on the matter so it's hard to say. Also I'm not sure the encyclopaedia can be called an organisation, and the WMF weren't involved, save JW ope
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by jebus989 13y ago
So the press has picked up Wikipedia didn't get involved but what actually happened was: * Jimmy Wales posted on his talk page inviting discussion on the issue [0] * There was support for having articles on the main page all be related
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by jebus989 13y ago
You know how the nomination process works right? It won't be officially confirmed until 50 years has passed. See http://www.nobelprize.org/nomination/peace/
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by jebus989 13y ago
Given they're holding conferences etc. I imagine companies would be willing to make a decent donation to the IA if they used their branded cushions? At the very least I'm sure people like Mozilla and the Wikimedia Foundation would
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by jebus989 13y ago
When you invent a story like this you can use it to "prove" anything you want. Alternative ending: the smartest kids rally around those failing and hold after-school sessions to bring their grades up. In fact these group discussio
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by jebus989 13y ago
Same as they gave Google?
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by jebus989 13y ago
> Next time (which is definitely a 'when' rather than an 'if', I'm afriad) [sic] Do you really mean to imply vast swathes of the WMF's tiny staff (most of which don't edit, let alone write good articles
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by jebus989 13y ago
Neither does the Wikipedia community on the whole [0]; the problem is when it's undisclosed. If the editor makes clear their conflict-of-interest, the edits should receive extra scrutiny for neutrality and due weight and the end result
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by jebus989 13y ago
Per the comments on the article I'd also advise "<-" for assignment rather than "=", reasons (in no particular order): 1) Google says so: http://google-styleguide.googlecode.com/svn/trunk&#x2
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by jebus989 13y ago
In fairness the OP seems to share your opinion, in a previous posting he said "I know that my apps are not that good"[0]. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6864667
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by jebus989 13y ago
It's worth noting that this isn't a cool github account someone's turned up of a surprisingly young programmer, it's a serial publicist [0-2] using primarily a game creation engine (which he doesn't acknowledge upfr
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by jebus989 13y ago
Predatory publishing does exist, but its damage is mitigated by the fact that papers are judged primarily on the reputation of the journal or publication they're in. That is, an academic in a given field will know all the highest-tier
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by jebus989 13y ago
A mind-numbingly tedious point, even for HN. Unsurprisingly English language courses also require study of written texts [0] but that's irrelevant for the purposes of the analogy. [0] http://www.aqa.org.uk/subjects&#x2F
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by jebus989 13y ago
Yeah and in so-called "English language" why are they teaching kids how to use semi-colons and paragraphs instead of etymology and James Joyce.

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