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by jknz 9y ago
From the article, it seems that there are 2 opposite "evidence based medicine": (a) do research, publish papers, test thoroughly new treatments in well defined trials and slowly build up a biological theory as well as official gui
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Ok, lies are unacceptable. To play devil's advocate here: the press and the public do not want to hear that tech companies pay 7 digits of monthly salary to attract some talent. Nor do they want to hear that Universities have to offer
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Companies can have both a diversity policy and a policy to make sure the top talents don't go elsewhere. University too, can have a diversity policy as well as a merit policy. To compete and attract the best students, University must e
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by jknz 9y ago
iOS 13 and Android 11 future killer feature: When the user leaves work, turn off all email notifications as well as any notification from a non-family contact (including the addictive red "1" in the corner of app icons on the home
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The asymmetry of FATCA is unbelievable. The US is bullying the banks of European countries by forcing them to report to US agencies the bank accounts of US citizens or US residents. Either the foreign banks comply, or they ask the US person
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I would love to see a European Union where other EU countries have a say in the main election of each country. Say, all EU countries can vote for the chancellor election in Germany and these votes weight 5% of the final results, while the G
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by jknz 9y ago
This criticism also applies to unemployment benefits in western European countries. If a large chunk of the population suddenly becomes unemployed, then the gov has less tax revenue but more employment benefits to cover. Unemployment benefi
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The salaries of US Professors at public universities is public. For instance, the database of salaries at UC universities can be queried here [1]. This data will be updated and more precise than glassdoor. This does not include salaries at
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by jknz 9y ago
A big challenge is to get references working correctly. LaTeXML is quite good at converting latex documents to html [1], including references such as Theorem 2.1, equation (8.1) etc. For instance, the paper [2] appears to be quite readable
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Is this service available to personal developers? Do they prevent perverts/psychopath/criminals from using the service? If a malicious stranger on a dating site sends you some link where he gets your IP addres. Using that service,
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It seems strange to me that the European Union is allowing this. The fact that a foreign company has a backdoor in every computer running in European countries is so concerning on so many levels. Defense ministers from European countries sh
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If the referendum unlawful, then some people will not go to vote, simply because they usually avoid breaking the law. The result would be valid (from a probabilistic point of view) if "going to vote" was independent of "votin
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My mistake. Actually it is Spanish and French that use different colors for the middle light -- not English. The middle light is "amarillo" (yellow) in spanish, while it's "orange" in French.
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Traffic lights are green/yellow/red in the US. They are rouge/orange/rouge in French (translation: green/orange/red). Some languages perceive the middle color as yellow, some as orange. Because this is deeply
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by jknz 9y ago
Typing "sch<tab>" in the chrome address bar used to search on Google scholar directly. It went broken yesterday on my browser.
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Getting off facebook will not suit everyone, mostly because a lot of users will use messenger or need facebook to beventa in the loop of some social events. There is way to empty one's Facebook feed and remove all notifications that ar
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It could be worse than "post now, edit later". The author could propose a list of a few possible headlines, say 10, each more or less urging/click-baity/informative. Then let an algorithm choose the most click-baity head
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1B startup idea: equip every primary/secondary/high schools with walls that block every cellular signals.
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Bitcoin seems quite straightforward and easy to understand, compared to our current banking system. A lot of comments mention the difficulty of explaining what is bitcoin and how it works, and that mainstream people cannot get enough unders
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A senior academic professor write papers with graduate students and postdocs. Because the senior professor wants his/her students to be successful in their next job search, he/she will continue to submit papers in high impact not
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pi^2=10 so pi^6=1000? This is within 5% of the real answer, but does not not involve music!
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I am wondering if the future of multi-cloud lies in a third party entity managing real-time auctions for cloud services. 1. The developer sets up some requirements: number of instances, X amount of CPU power, Y amount of memory, Z amount of
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by jknz 10y ago
I solve the quality issues of my facebook feed by "unfollowing" all of my friends. There is a section in facebook settings where you can do this all at once. The resulting feed has no post and displays "no more posts to show&
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The logic behind this seems off? Signal and whastapp have different behaviors regarding this. (Signal does not have the issue of re-sending messages as was previously reported here). This letter signed by a lot of very serious security cryp
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A sane and simple solution seems to be that any email sent after 8pm is delayed by the company smtp server, and will actually be sent at 6am. You can still check your emails and get stuff done. But stuff will not accumulate after 8pm, you w
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From my experience most PhD students haven't published anything before grad school. To check whether this the case for your situation, you can browse websites of current Stanford students if your target discipline and check whether the
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I am wondering if the difference is related to the underlying economical forces. The world of guns is somewhat driven by money (selling guns, gun training centers, gun magazines etc). The world of privacy advocates is not money driven. Mayb
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If the blob of knowledge consists of the weights of some neural network and if this blob is public... Then an attacker could easily perform imperceptible perturbation to the input in order to make the network believe that the yogurt is an E
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Once BigBrand will have realized that billboards and flyers are not effective anymore, BigBrand will redirect its money towards the new channels: I guess it will be a big win for google and facebook. I am not so sure it will be a win for co
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The stable marriage problem has two natural algorithms that produce a stable matching: one algorithm give priority to women's choices and one gives priority to men's choices. If the algorithm used by yc to produce the matching for

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