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by mtdewcmu 10y ago
The crackdown on OxyContin certainly seems to have made things worse. The OxyContin users were driven to switch to black market heroin. Black market heroin is much more dangerous than OxyContin.
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by mtdewcmu 10y ago
Why not use SHA-1 recursively, e.g., append SHA1(text), then SHA1(everything)? Of course, it would probably make more sense just to use one of the recommended replacements in the first place, e.g. SHA-256.
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by mtdewcmu 10y ago
>> Presumably the same mechanism which makes the immune response more effective against cancers makes autoimmune diseases more common. That seems like a reasonable hypothesis.
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by mtdewcmu 10y ago
Here are a couple of other facts: 1. Autoimmune diseases are more common in women 2. The immune system kills tumor cells
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by mtdewcmu 10y ago
I think you could sum up Linus's message as something like "don't try to coast on your smarts; they only count for so much."
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by mtdewcmu 10y ago
I'm pretty sure that the "work" Linus is referring to is work on the project, not work educating yourself and building up your abilities ahead of time.
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by mtdewcmu 10y ago
I also think there's a phenomenon in which artists can be classified into innovators and refiners. The refiners aren't as innovative as the innovators, but the innovators aren't as refined as the refiners. Some people are abl
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by mtdewcmu 10y ago
Good old-fashioned government subsidies. I guess you can't overlook the US-automaker bailout under Obama as being part of this process.
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by mtdewcmu 10y ago
What I think is interesting is that cars are technically complex, yet there are a lot of car companies, each making cars their own way. Usually, products that are highly technically complex are only made by a small number of companies, sinc
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by mtdewcmu 10y ago
It seems like you'd have to pick up your laptop gingerly, no?
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by mtdewcmu 10y ago
I didn't think that CRTs were a memory technology, but apparently they have been: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Williams_tube
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by mtdewcmu 10y ago
"It used magnetic-core memory (instead of cathode ray tubes) according to Bellotti" I didn't think magnetic-core memory and CRTs were interchangeable...
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by mtdewcmu 10y ago
An even more direct way for the government to push discovery of new antibiotics would be for the government to do the R&D itself. Of course, that would offend certain ideologues.
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by mtdewcmu 10y ago
I didn't get the sense that the article was opposed to ending the drug war. It's like if you're laying out the problems facing public health in Africa: it's much bigger than just AIDS, but that doesn't mean solving
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by mtdewcmu 10y ago
I'm not clear on what assumption you are claiming I made. My point was about quality of evidence (see, e.g., [1]). Observational studies are considered lower-quality evidence than randomized trials. [1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.
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by mtdewcmu 10y ago
We need better-quality studies to draw conclusions about causality. A correlation is just a correlation. I didn't read the original study, so I don't know if it drew unwarranted conclusions about causality, but the Science Bulleti
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by mtdewcmu 10y ago
Given two possibilities: 1. Sick people would rather sit. 2. Sitting makes people sick. #1 sounds much more reasonable to me than #2.
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by mtdewcmu 10y ago
The data always turn out the same way. Healthier people exercise more. Sicker people exercise less. One person sees sick people sitting and concludes that they are sitting because they're sick. Another person concludes that they'r
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by mtdewcmu 10y ago
>> elderly women who sit for more than 10 hours a day with low physical activity have cells that are biologically older by eight years compared to women who are less sedentary. It's always interesting to consider whether the dire
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by mtdewcmu 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ready-to-assemble_furniture
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by mtdewcmu 10y ago
Can anyone figure out why it's so expensive? Here's a fancier-looking 26" bicycle on walmart.com for $79.97 - $249.00. [1] [1] https://www.walmart.com/ip/26-Roadmaster-Granite-Peak-Men-s-...
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by mtdewcmu 10y ago
Architecturally fascinating. This is an example of Louis Sullivan's "form follows function," except without formal minimalism. It's complex without being arbitrary.
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by mtdewcmu 10y ago
I agree. The definition of death metal is a real hodgepodge. It's sort of like classifying animals as 1. dog 2. cat 3. horse 4. other
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by mtdewcmu 10y ago
It's not my opinion... the description of Black Metal made it sound like crap.
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by mtdewcmu 10y ago
It would have made sense to divide up Death Metal into subgenres. Doom metal/stoner metal is the most interesting thing I've come across in recent years.[1] [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pcfW9pP8XQ&t=10m
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by mtdewcmu 10y ago
My interpretation: Death Metal sounds really hard; Black Metal sounds like crap
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by mtdewcmu 10y ago
Drugs are illegal, so they are sold by criminals.
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by mtdewcmu 10y ago
The primary purpose of the WoD is to provide jobs to drug cops. The DEA is aware that if drugs become legal, there will no longer be a need for a Drug Enforcement Agency.
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by mtdewcmu 10y ago
The success of the drug war is measured by body count, not achieving mission objectives; same as in the Vietnam War. Success for the drug warrior is arresting and prosecuting people and seizing assets, not decreasing the supply of drugs, wh
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by mtdewcmu 10y ago
You would think that it would be helpful to leave Backpage alone, because the cops could use it to figure out who the child sex traffickers are.

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