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I think you're right on both counts. After getting the hang of it, flexbox is pretty straightforward to use, IMO less confusing and touchy than floats, especially for responsive layouts. Most browsers are OK these days, but IE/Ed
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The article shows no difference between average and gifted children in emotional and social behaviors. But we must not be deceived by such results because obviously enough no one is "average" in all or even any particular respect
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A living organism is of course a noble endeavor standing against the tide of entropy. But it can do so only with significant influx of energy extracted from its external environment. The cost of constructing such an elaborate order of mat
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Having experience in both worlds, I can assure you medicine isn't what you seem to think it is. Social status, and income aren't so grand these days, and working conditions are bad for a lot of practitioners. And "debugging
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The FDA accepts reports of "adverse events" for as long as a medication is on the market. That info is incorporated into the stats of drug-associated AEs. AFAIK aftermarket AE stats aren't diagnosis correlated, so would inclu
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This is a subject I know well, not only as a multi-decade prescriber of antidepressants, and many other classes of medications for health/behavioral problems. I've also been prescribed such medications for my own conditions, so y
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That's correct assuming you are referring to distinctions among "classical liberalism"[0], the more recent "social liberalism"[1], and related branches of liberalism. In fact the tenets of classic liberal principles
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Your comment prompted me to look at the contents of the online PDFs. They are scanned-in documents, but I didn't find the text too hard to read. To my surprise there were active links to sections of the book from the TOC. Certainly
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That's interesting an idea in Fossil that I've always assumed was borrowed from database ideology. When data is committed to a database and other data depends on it, deleting data risks damaging data integrity, let alone issues o
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A good article that makes valid points about the difficulties of keeping up in rapidly-changing fields. Since I'm "old", and have a foot in the worlds of medicine and programming, it's apparent to me there's not th
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Growing tomatoes one time under cover had a huge problem with white fly, not an unusual infestation, but a very stubborn one. While using the natural kinds may be better, pesticides are often a necessity in that situation. Your comment wa
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Macro lenses were more useful with a longer focal length, in 35mm terms, 80-100mm or more longer was desirable to give more working distance to the subject at high ratio, like 1:1. For example, for my MFT system, the macro is 60mm equiv to
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With the wide assortment of imaging sensor sizes, the "normal" focal length varies accordingly. Probably better to think of it as "angle of view", typically ~45-50 degrees for a normal lens. That's usually the eas
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Probably photos published on "enthusiast" sites where camera/lens info is readily available, as opposed to stock photo agencies or major commercial publishers. The number of photos taken using phones would no doubt dwarf the
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I like Fossil too, and use it for many small projects. To some extent projects can be converted to/from git, but I haven't done much at all with that and I'm sure there are limits. Nonetheless, Fossil is an option with good
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Yup, in fact there are 99W and 99E more or less straddling I-5 and running in generally north-south alignment in the Portland metro area. In recent years I-5 has become increasingly congested, not just in "rush hour". Consequent
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AFAIK, the old US Highways were numbered opposite to the Interstate system, at least for round-numbered routes. US-10, 20, 30, etc., more or less proceeded north to south, Interstates are increasing south to north. The middle numbers lik
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Road direction can be ambiguous. Fairly obvious with a loop like I-270 around Columbus, Ohio. I've thought they should have designated the direction as clockwise and counterclockwise, going around the loop for a significant portion g
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Sure, OSS can have bugs and I understand authors don't owe me anything. It would be nice if the program can be improved, but I'm certainly not going to demand it. Depending on the software and problem sometimes I can fix it, and
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AIPAC is a lobbying organization with ~100K members, which may include non-Jews therefore supported by <5% of American Jews. AIPAC is hardly a "Jewish authority" in the same sense the Pope is for Catholics. Facebook's int
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IMO this comment exemplifies a fairly common logical/factual error, and is therefore misleading. While the enterprises named were founded or headed by individuals with Jewish ancestry, there is not much else of significance being said.
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My observation is that it's not HN/YC per se who do the bashing, rather it's a subset of readers who seem to hold anti-Israel biases, thus the "Israel is automatically wrong" type of comments that frequently appea
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> When a doctor approaches their practice as a for-profit transactional business I believe they should be treated as any other similar business. What is a "for-profit" business in this domain? In the classic fee-for-service mo
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The practice of medicine has always been an art, notwithstanding availability of advanced diagnostic and treatment technologies. Of course it's an art based in science. However, in truth, the science is not fully developed in many i
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That's the same link provided in the Tcl wiki. I haven't actually used the ISAAC generator since the urandom is considered reliable. However, urandom is only available on Linux/BSD systems, on Windows alternatives are neces
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FWIW in Tcl it's fairly easy to generate random numbers from /dev/urandom on Unix-like systems[0]. It involves opening /dev/urandom, reading 8 bytes from the device, binary scan of the returned value, converting fro
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Unfortunately I'm not familiar with Hacking's piece, and I'll be very interested in reading it. On a first run-through many of the expressed doubts and concerns have been aired extensively in the 19 years between publishing D
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Having quite a bit of experience with the DSM since DSM-II, the article gives a fairly coherent history of the document, and is correct that the advent of DSM-III signaled a radical departure from the earlier, and much less useful versions.
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A subject I understand more than I can put into words. It's a duty I have had. A 17 year girl died of an overdose. It was my responsibility to tell the mother, father, pastor, brothers, sister. They were there all night in the tiny
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Applies to both bees, and ants. (And related species, wasps, hornets, et. al.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hymenoptera

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