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by nhstanley 12y ago
Well, in the article the make clear that there is case law that this is illegal and considered "misappropriation" insider trading.[1] Even if we decide it isn't insider trading, Capital One is on the hook for what it's e
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by nhstanley 12y ago
While there may not be any private beach under CA law, Kholsa actually tried to use a sneaky legal argument to get around that[1]. Essentially, he argued that federal land patent on the property from the 1800s superseded the California Coas
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by nhstanley 12y ago
I think the two desk idea is great, though I can see it being an issue when space is limited.
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by nhstanley 12y ago
Naive follow up question: Can doing something like routing through a VPN help with this? I assume not, since a forced cookie on your browser will make you always identifiable to the person on the other end, correct?
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by nhstanley 12y ago
> It really is no wonder that the softer sciences have a reproducibility problem. Even Further, I think it's also indicative of medicine being full of people that have a fatalistic, passive attitude towards their patients and medica
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by nhstanley 12y ago
> Basically, calorie restriction works, and nothing else does We don't even know that for sure. There were two big studies in rhesus monkeys which disagreed on that.[1] Evidence from mice, where this idea originated, is dubious at b
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by nhstanley 12y ago
This has been a problem for years that they refuse to fix. The legacy password thing (Strike one) is bullshit, they could just force everyone to update their passwords when they implement a properly designed system. I would be even more dis
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by nhstanley 12y ago
While it's certainly very true that there are people who just want to ruin everyone else's fun out of spite, this situation is more complicated because there really are problems with uncontrolled administration of drugs, even ones
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by nhstanley 12y ago
Perhaps they just meant, "Compared to the other ones you're probably using"? Because I know iTunes is legitimately starting to give me problems, despite my Mac only being a few years old. Naturally, Apple is trying to cram a
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by nhstanley 12y ago
It looks like we have some trolls in here. Not very good ones.
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by nhstanley 12y ago
Yea, I know it's a really tired subject, but twitter really needs a major overhaul from a usability perspective. I think they should keep the 140 characters as a limit for what is shown in peoples feeds, but the character limit should
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by nhstanley 12y ago
It's also important to point out that Type I only makes up about 5% of diabetes cases. Though a cure for either would drastically improve a lot of peoples lives.
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by nhstanley 12y ago
> ...non-addictive... I agree with your general point, but SR was being used for all kinds of things including selling Cocaine and Heroin (and also for not selling drugs but services). Those are very addictive drugs by almost any definit
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by nhstanley 12y ago
It would be interesting to know how many people are injured. It's unfortunate that "killed" is the threshold (in at least part since it is easy cutoff to define), when in reality we should be just as worried about permanent o
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by nhstanley 12y ago
It seems clear that quantum computing would help with QM calculations (which I think you were mainly talking about), but it is less clear to me if it would help with things like MD (and perhaps it wouldn't matter if QM could be sped up
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by nhstanley 12y ago
Yea, unsealed or released would be better words (depending on the situation).
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by nhstanley 12y ago
I think that would be a great step. Science would be greatly advanced if there was more focus on whether a good question was asked and whether the experiments were well chosen, than whether the experiments gave positive/negative result
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by nhstanley 12y ago
Thanks for explaining. I know HN is traditionally programmer/programming focused, but some of us come from other areas and only have limited experience with such topics. It's very common for me to enter a thread about a security v
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by nhstanley 12y ago
Here is a critique of this system by an expert: http://omicsomics.blogspot.com.es/2014/09/reanalysis-lays-ba... It's a great achievement and I'm hopeful, but the accuracy needs to go up before it compete
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Google’s Calico inks first deal with 2M for neurodegeneration(calicolabs.com)
1 points by nhstanley 12y ago|0 comments
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by nhstanley 12y ago
In the event that the permalink page isn't loading properly (his blog has been having problems lately), it looks like you can click to the main blog page and read it: http://pipeline.corante.com/
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Google's Calico Moves into Reality(pipeline.corante.com)
4 points by nhstanley 12y ago|1 comments
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by nhstanley 12y ago
Wait, how long has it been like this? Haven't lived in NY for a few years but they used to give you a nice round number bonus. This is the crappy kind of thing businesses do that governments should specifically not do nor need to do (t
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by nhstanley 12y ago
An important point to note is that, if banks want/care, they can put other safeguards that solve this problem, too. In Europe it is common for banks to text you a 6 number pin to confirm an online transaction, for example. There is no
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by nhstanley 12y ago
Yup. In a truly free market, murder is totally fine. Kill your competition, literally! There's a reason we don't live in Randian fantasy worlds.
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by nhstanley 12y ago
> but come on they save lives. I'm going to say something controversial here, but please bear with me. Your statement sort of encompasses several parts of this problem. Some doctors are miracle workers (see [1] below), but most doct
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by nhstanley 12y ago
Rent seeking. This is one of the things that in my businesses I try to avoid because it is basically should be a last ditch, hail-mary pass. Which is what this DRM probably is for Keurig. Ideally, you should always focus on being better tha
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by nhstanley 12y ago
For those not old enough to remember, (I believe) this is the Google-Yahoo deal referenced: http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2066171/Yahoo-Partners-...
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by nhstanley 12y ago
Fifty pages filled out means it is now someone else's job to read those pages and implement. His hands are clean.
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by nhstanley 12y ago
Do you know they were stolen from by the TSA, or by baggage handlers? Getting rid of the TSA wouldn't solve the latter problem.

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