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by mamon 7y ago
Another thing: even if placebo "works" the effect is much smaller than the effect of proper treatment (that is actually the prerequisite for FDA approval for drugs and treatments that clinical trials must prove). So, if by selling
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by mamon 7y ago
They can't drive by themselves, but can be driven in a car by friend or family, who will take them exactly to their final destination. Public transportation requires them to walk significant distance, climb stairs, etc, which is not ne
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by mamon 7y ago
I'm pretty sure that what Pratchett calls "knurd" here, Buddists call "enlightenment".
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Why did Poland make your list? Democracy here is better than ever. And we've been democracy since at least 15th century, with exception of times when Poland was ruled by foreign powers.
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It wouldn't sound that crazy if Nobel Commitee members watched more musicals :)
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by mamon 7y ago
Bitcoin does not need to be killed because it’s dead already: proved to be useless for all practical purposes, now used mostly for money laundering or other criminal activities
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by mamon 7y ago
There's this infamous company from Austin, Texas, which hires programmers for remote work, and they typically give you coding "challenges" that require a week to complete, and are complete (although not very complex) applicat
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by mamon 7y ago
But people who watch such animations are real, and the choice of what to watch tells a lot about them.
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by mamon 7y ago
Judging by the quality of writing on web portals in my country this has already happened (although it is possible that most of those articles are just machine translations of pieces from UK/US websites)
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Company that loses money every quarter cannot fund anything.
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by mamon 7y ago
Tesla is priced as a luxury car, but to really be one they have to do some serious improvements on their interior design. Current Teslas has a really cheap look and feel.
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by mamon 7y ago
Wild guess: someone heard the word "Heisenbug" once and couldn't recall it, so asked StackExchange for help? EDIT: it even is mentioned in the comments.
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by mamon 7y ago
Probably it is just laziness: if the next closest place to go for lunch is few miles away and your office cafeteria goes vegetarian then you simply find few least bad vege options and stick with them.
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by mamon 7y ago
Are his expectation really that high? What I get from it is that RMS does not own a car and wants all places he frequents (city center, supermarket) be reachable on foot or by public transport. Plus he has mild paranoia about electronic dev
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by mamon 7y ago
How many basketball players never make it to NBA? Major leagues are elitte, there are thousands of players at lower levels.
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by mamon 7y ago
My understanding is that the empty box is posted to a different addres, because eBay only issues a refund when they get the confirmation that the parcel was delivered. I assume that the unsuspecting resident of 19 Acacia Avenue, B40 4XJ wil
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by mamon 7y ago
>> You need to build your own ASIC Might be the reason why Intel is putting FPGAs in the latest Xeons: https://www.anandtech.com/show/12773/intel-shows-xeon-scalab...
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by mamon 7y ago
As far as I know sharks solved it: only part of their brain sleeps at time, allowing them to be on the move constantly. I wish human could do that :)
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by mamon 7y ago
If you're not paying for it with your money, then you have to pay with your time: public healthcare systems, like those in Europe are known for the long wait times for patients requiring surgery, or other costly procedures. Also, trave
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A man in his 70s has a routine check up, and then brags to his doctor: "I'm really fit for my age. As a matter of fact, my 25 years old wife is expecting a baby". The doctor then replies with a story: "A man was an avid
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by mamon 7y ago
And to prepare her trip 5 professional sailors needed to take trans-atlantic flights to US, in order to bring her boat back to Europe (boat belongs to Monaco monarchs) - so her "carbon-neutral" trip actually generates 5 times more
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by mamon 7y ago
WLTP range is different measurment that Tesla's EPA range. Conversion rate is approximately 1.12:1 ([1]), so ID.3 EPA range would be 491 km. [1] https://insideevs.com/features/343231/heres-how-to-calculate...
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by mamon 7y ago
7nm process is already in preparation, with the launch scheduled to 2021, and Intel says they are on track, actually very happy with their progress. They worked on both processes in parallel.
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They claim that their 7nm process with EUV litography is on track to launch in 2021.
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Making fine a percentage of profit would be even worse: Amazon, for example has no taxable profit at all, so the GDPR fine for them would be $0 (or $20M, which does not make much difference). And having different fines for different industr
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by mamon 7y ago
I think it's not about "income brackets", it is about profit margins which can vary a lot between industries. 4% of revenue is enough to bankrupt traditional business, like Wallmart with profit margins of 2,48%. Google is a l
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>> Kill it off, and media will shift to a different model The alternative model is to make users pay. Imagine all news sites hiding behind paywalls. Advertising is not only easiest and more profitable, it is also most convenient for t
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...and with Machine Learning scraping and analysing social media posts, police knows the location of the protest ahead of time.
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>> a drone could both carry it and easily kill someone with it Now imagine some terrorist hacking Amazon network and doing that deliberately. I can even imagine a not-so-US-friendly country, like Russia, or North Korea doing that.
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The key takeway is easily lost: "genetics seemed to account for between 8 and 25 percent of the behavior. The rest was presumably a result of environmental or other biological influences. " There is a lot of other research which i

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