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by logjam 15y ago
One minor elephant in the room that only a few seem to be mentioning is the 500+ point selloff on Thursday. On Thursday evening, the economist talking-heads expressed some confusion about what was driving that sell-off on that particular da
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by logjam 15y ago
"In time...six months; five years, perhaps...a change could easily begin to take place. He would become less and less satisfied with a kind of dumb, day-to-day shopwork. His creative intelligence, stifled by too much theory and too many gra
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by logjam 15y ago
H-indices and "impact factors" are easy to game, e.g., cite your own work and those in your department (or in tête-à-tête arrangements with outside colleagues) repeatedly in work you publish.
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by logjam 15y ago
I would have a number of questions about this study, which was apparently run and written up by the "DRACO" patent holder. The results are largely from cell culture so any talk about a "cure for a broad range of viruses" in the press releas
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by logjam 15y ago
Oh really. "Vitriol" in the rose-shaded eye of the beholder aside, methinks absent the WSJ pom-poms we will agree that a much more fundamental reason that people trade is: to make money without having to worry about consequences; and that p
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by logjam 15y ago
The last time I bought something at Radio Shack (probably a battery), they asked me for my phone number, then made an issue out of it when I would not give it. I haven't been back.
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by logjam 15y ago
>... after creating monopolies in the first place If you are really trying to advance the theory that "the market", left to itself, won't generate monopoly after monopoly, perhaps you could point us to actual examples of those golden ti
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by logjam 15y ago
Uh, no. I spoke of positive spiritual and mental effects of things like running and surfing, not their well-documented health benefits.
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by logjam 15y ago
Running long distances and surfing are each a thousand times better than alcohol, addicting, and will change your life for the better instead of for the worse.
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by logjam 15y ago
Their own technology and response to security questions hasn't reassured many of us about their commitment to privacy, as I've stated here in response to several of their press releases.
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by logjam 15y ago
I looked at Google Health. It is insecure. It was not ahead of its time: it failed to satisfy basic tech needs for protected, reliable health information. The forms we have patients fill out in the waiting room are indeed a pain. However, l
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by logjam 15y ago
Pardon my skepticism about this, but your website doesn't show much at all besides a bunch of apparently hastily written buzzwords. Where do you provide (as a demonstration) the ability for a user to upload text, have it summarized, and sho
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by logjam 15y ago
"Mises stressed that the important heritage of sound economic thought is not a collection of empirically tested claims about the behavior of economic variables. Rather, economic theory is an internally coherent framework for interpreting "t
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by logjam 15y ago
Speaking of buzzwords, when did the MBA suits first begin trying to duck responsibility for endless mismanagement and moronic decisions by repeatedly using the word "pivot"?
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by logjam 15y ago
The 11th Rule: Any Greenspun commentary on a sufficiently complicated social issue contains ad hoc, appeal-to-emotion, bug-ridden statements regurgitating half of "Atlas Shrugged".
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by logjam 15y ago
When managers request software estimates from engineers, engineers should frown, look them dead in the eyes, and tell them that making estimates is a managerial/administrative task. Managers should collect, maintain, and have access to subs
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by logjam 15y ago
Can't argue with that. 'Course, geniuses like this particular copyright lawyer would note that laws prohibiting strip mining Yosemite "go against free market capitalism" too. More limits on "free market capitalism" will thankfully continue
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by logjam 15y ago
I appreciate the rest of your comment, and I'm not sure exactly what you mean by "illegal" but if you mean "breaking an actual law" it is not "illegal" for a pilot in command of an aircraft "to read". Having said that, if you're doing somet
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by logjam 15y ago
Just find a place where you will be happy for four years, and work and play hard there...and try not to overanalyze. If I had my education to do over, I wouldn't have worried about name recognition whatsoever (it's just not that importa
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by logjam 15y ago
From "Soul": There’s no such thing as a perfect design. Most experienced computer engineers I talked to agreed that absorbing this simple lesson constitutes the first step in learning how to get machines out the door. Often, they said, it
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by logjam 15y ago
My prior comment posted about another link describing doctors behaving like this remains pertinent: "I'm a doc. I have no idea of the legality of such "contracts", but it doesn't matter - such a practice is completely unethical. "Nor is it
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by logjam 15y ago
Engineers, scientists, and "business" people need more training in the liberal arts, not less. Those 4:00 AM moments are the ones we need more education for....questions of ethics, of weighing values, of being able to see and reason from mu
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by logjam 15y ago
You're completely wrong. "The average physician's net income declined 7 percent from 1995 to 2003, after adjusting for inflation, while incomes of lawyers and other professionals rose by 7 percent during the period." http://www.nytimes.com
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by logjam 15y ago
Schizophrenia is a complex disease, but most hypotheses have centered on hyperactive rather than hypoactive dopaminergic activity: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dopamine_hypothesis_of_schizoph... There is indeed greater nicotine use by t
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by logjam 15y ago
I'm a doc. I have no idea of the legality of such "contracts", but it doesn't matter - such a practice is completely unethical. Nor is it going to help a physician when a patient makes a complaint to your medical licensing board. If you're
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by logjam 15y ago
Thanks for posting this...so moving. The strangers around us, even those we brush against on the web, are all fighting hard battles at some level. Compassion in the midst of our sometimes misguided inclination toward competition can keep us
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by logjam 15y ago
Are you talking about a site that discusses the practice of medicine, or more the business of medicine? I'm not aware of any large sites that discuss either in a format similar to HN.
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by logjam 15y ago
You know, given that you submitted five similar doom-and- gloom links within five minutes today, I was curious about your submission history. These kind of pessimistic news links to common news sources are all you appear to submit. Maybe yo
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by logjam 15y ago
In my experience, capnography is usually an accessory output available on a lot of commercial (and relatively expenseive) pulse oximetry machines. In a resuscitation scenario, the lack of a pulse doesn't necessarily mean the heart isn't wor
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by logjam 15y ago
I flagged your submission. For some reason, you linked to a piece written by a a writer who apparently is not affiliated with the Washington Post, and to a post explicitly labeled "opinion. Then you created a headline here without any info

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