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by lliiffee 17y ago
The good guys pay me money for insurance, I promise to release my team of ruthless lawyers on anyone that sue them, the patent trolls see my scary lawyers and don't sue. Doesn't that work?
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by lliiffee 17y ago
But "the placebo" is not a static thing. If we designed experiments differently, the placebo effect might be able to be reduced (say to 3%), in which case drug A would now beat it.
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by lliiffee 17y ago
Well... But since placebos can't be used therapeutically, and Drug A can, doesn't that make it better than nothing?
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by lliiffee 17y ago
Woah there tiger-- where do you get that I am suggesting using the placebo as a therapeutic invention!? (If it makes any difference, I meant to type "due to" rather than "do to"). I am suggesting that the following situation might exist:
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by lliiffee 17y ago
You could certainly buy one and use it with a non-contract pay as you go kind of plan. To use voice, of course, you would need some sim card. Or do you want to just use it with wifi, like an iPod touch?
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by lliiffee 17y ago
It is really so ridiculous to think that there is some drug such that: * The drug provides a modest health improvement. * That health improvement happens to be smaller than the health improvement do to the placebo effect? I don't know wha
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by lliiffee 17y ago
Bourbaki is a name used by a group of french mathematicians to publish lots of important but dry, abstract and very very rigorous math. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Bourbaki Bourbaki's style is not appealing to a lot of people,
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by lliiffee 17y ago
I wonder how much it does. Seems to me the greatest risk is global thermonuclear war. If we are determined enough to nuke ourselves our of existence here, couldn't we pretty easily send a bunch of bombs mars' way, too?
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by lliiffee 17y ago
Did you go?
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by lliiffee 17y ago
In case this wasn't clear, he didn't just "fail to test the code". He consciously put $1, where it was promised to be free. That is, he chose to not deliver what was promised. Not a "bug". Not a "mistake".
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by lliiffee 17y ago
You seriously believe he "accidentally" told techcrunch there was a free promo, despite not actually taking any action to make that happen?
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by lliiffee 17y ago
You can't really it a "bug" so much as "you not bothering to implement what you promised". The issue was entirely predicable, and a workaround would be trivial. When you told techcrunch about the promo, you obviously knew it didn't exist.
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by lliiffee 17y ago
My experience: * Used "techncrunch" promo code when signing up. * Supposed free pro account actually costs $1 per year, even using the promo. * Impossible to switch to "free" account. * Leave.
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by lliiffee 17y ago
I don't buy it. The assumptions seem to be that A) annoying ads work in the short term and B) annoying ads cause people to use ad blockers. Sure, it follows that it is in the ad industry's long-term interest to avoid destroying themselves
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by lliiffee 17y ago
You can sort of increase supply by building taller buildings.
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by lliiffee 17y ago
Can you elaborate? I have no idea why IT rank-and-file, specifically, would be scared of SarbOx.
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by lliiffee 17y ago
Another solution for firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2351
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by lliiffee 17y ago
If you really have no idea about anything in finance, a good place to start would be "A Random Walk Down Wall-Street". Edit: Sorry-- I forgot to say this is a book! It's by Burton Malkiel. (It's not particularly US-centric.)
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by lliiffee 17y ago
Yes. For example, the NIH requires research to be published in open-access journals, many of which also now require data to be made public. These requirements look like they will be everywhere sooner or later. (Don't know of any restrict
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by lliiffee 17y ago
Your fundamental game mechanic seems fine (though maybe a little derivative, as I'm sure you're aware). I think the major problem is that the app doesn't feel as smooth as drop7, etc. The winning games have a tremendous sense of style
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by lliiffee 17y ago
You can usually get away with storing the log-factorials, and then just taking the exponent at the end. (If you don't have an arbitrary precision library handy, or computational speed is an issue.)
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by lliiffee 17y ago
Extended Cookie Manager does this. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1243 Beware, it apparently doesn't work well (or at all) on windows.
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by lliiffee 17y ago
Finding doctors is a huge problem. When you move to a new city, you are given a list of 2000 PCPs and told to pick one (after calling around to see if they are accepting new patients). When you need to see a specialist, you are given a re
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by lliiffee 17y ago
> Every professor in our math department drove an older subcompact except the department head who drove a Chevy Impala. Imagine, work your whole life, get to the top of your field, and drive an Impala! Might this be cultural? Most of m
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by lliiffee 17y ago
> it allows people to trade effort for discounts. It doesn't really do that. Instead of going through the hassle (and it is a hassle) of price matching at store A, I can just buy the item at store B at the advertised price. The stor
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by lliiffee 17y ago
I think the bargain hunter will just buy the product at the cheaper place to avoid the hassle of price matching. (Ever actually tried that? Employees have attitude.) I still think price-matching guarantees are disinformation aimed to giv
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by lliiffee 17y ago
I think he is wrong about price matching. You can very often find items at stores with price-match guarantees at prices higher than elsewhere. If you are willing to price-match and spend a relatively large amount of time, then you can g
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by lliiffee 17y ago
Installing sage ( http://www.sagemath.org/ ) addresses the installation effort pretty well. You get a giant binary of everything bundled together and working. It addresses the programming environment to some degres (it gives you a "noteb
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by lliiffee 17y ago
Sure, you can specify it. Specifying is no problem!
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by lliiffee 17y ago
One difficulty with Python for teaching is that it is rather complex to get students set up and running with python+ipython+numpy+scipy+a compiler+... There are so many combinations, every student has a different version of a different ope

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