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by nonbel 8y ago
> "A research team led by scientists at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health didn't simply attempt to count dead bodies in the wake of the powerful storm. Instead, they surveyed randomly chosen households and asked the
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by nonbel 8y ago
This is even worse than if it was DOJ leak. We would be dealing with a rumor started by people under investigation for manipulating bitcoin prices...
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by nonbel 8y ago
So it sounds like we are dealing with a rumor here. What reason do we have to believe these four people? I guess it is the reputation of the journalist on the line if the rumors turn out to be false.
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by nonbel 8y ago
>"The Justice Department has opened a criminal probe into whether traders are manipulating the price of Bitcoin and other digital currencies, dramatically ratcheting up U.S. scrutiny of red-hot markets that critics say are rife with
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by nonbel 8y ago
Does this give google all metadata on the calls you get? Do they already have this anyway if you use android?
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by nonbel 8y ago
At least AMD recommends you don't need the patch: >"Based on the difficulty to exploit the vulnerability, AMD and our ecosystem partners currently recommend using the default setting that maintains support for memory disambigua
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by nonbel 8y ago
Yep, that is exactly the reason vaccination is delayed. They originally tried giving them at younger ages but stopped because it wasn't working (I've never seen any report of a health danger).
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by nonbel 8y ago
>"anti-vaxers contacting infants who are too young to receive immunizations" If the infant is too young to receive immunization that means they are protected by maternal antibodies, so there's nothing to worry about. The r
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by nonbel 8y ago
Sorry but I specifically don't give examples using my former research in this light because these problems are very general. I don't want to seem like I place any blame on a specific organization, program, or person (nor contribut
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by nonbel 8y ago
There is nothing complicated about this problem: Discovering that an aspect of human cells/tissue plays a role in any aspect of human health is a waste of time because we already know this is true to begin with. Nothing has been learne
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by nonbel 8y ago
What were the problems in that paper? The good stuff is that they were able to come up with estimates for stem cell divisions and were able to see a correlation with the cancer risk. The bad stuff was the usual misinterpreting correlation c
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by nonbel 8y ago
Well, I didn't study senescence but actually did do something similar. It required training myself in math, programming, history of the topic, and stats in addition to the normal grad school stuff (memorizing stuff for classes, data co
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by nonbel 8y ago
It's a fundamental problem with modern day medical research. Rational people would start from the principle that "every x is correlated somehow to every y" (in this case "every aspect of the human body and environment is
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by nonbel 8y ago
I wonder if this is really a generational thing vs a different type of person winning NOAA grants than in the past. Ie, people more interested in hype, advocacy, networking, etc than science.
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by nonbel 8y ago
>"How can you claim this? GR is derived from first principles only. It also does not need any new physical constant to describe Mercury's apsidal precession." You can derive many theories from first principles but they nee
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by nonbel 8y ago
>"And noone was so far able to create an experiment that managed to falsify that theory (it is a perfectly falsifiable theory), but not for lack of trying." It was falsified by the aberrant rotation curves way back in the 1930s
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by nonbel 8y ago
I really do not understand how people could say something like this (and also things like "GR is one of the most confirmed theories ever"). "Theoretically" 95% of the universe is made of invisible, unexplained stuff...
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by nonbel 8y ago
Actually it looks like smallpox only existed since about the time statistics was invented: "our data clearly show that the VARV lineages eradicated during the 20th century had only been in existence for ∼200 years" https:/
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by nonbel 8y ago
>"It was useful for sailors to be able to divide the day into shifts, so our day is the most divisible number of hours long." Is there a source for specifically "sailors"? Also: 1 x 2 x 3 x 4 x 5 = 120 120 hrs
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by nonbel 8y ago
Not sure what you mean but my post was a sarcastic comment about how people choose an arbitrary level of significance so that the "right number" of "discoveries" can be published each year. If there is a lot of data they
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by nonbel 8y ago
>"the standards for what constitutes progress in a field are set according to what the people working in it can do on average." For example, in physics they require p < 3e-7 for a discovery. While in biology it is p < 0.0
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by nonbel 8y ago
>"The rest of life expectancy gains probably is from gains in sanitation, clean water, nutrition, life/work conditions." Its just cheap energy behind all those factors (ie, burning fossil fuels).
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by nonbel 8y ago
My understanding is the ethereum-based tokens can't scale so a true gamecoin will need its own chain. I've been following/waiting for this coin that is supposed to come out in a few days: https://chimaera.io/
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by nonbel 8y ago
>"data science hasn't really done anything useful in fields involving humans." So you think data science has not been useful to google, amazon, facebook, etc? Basically you are proposing that (at least) hundreds of billion
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by nonbel 8y ago
Right, the model accounts for all possible "causal routes", turning causality into something subjective.
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by nonbel 8y ago
>"If I look at all the alcoholic families in my municipality and compare their case history with big data gathered on a national level, I’ll certainly be able to predict how many of their children we’ll need to remove. I just can’t
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by nonbel 8y ago
>"the quantum mechanics behind them that's not really well understood." I've never heard of it being understood at all.
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by nonbel 8y ago
>"Same reason general relativity works." Dark matter/energy?
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by nonbel 8y ago
This is interesting. So if I get a strange number and search 800notes.com or whatever the carrier is getting paid?
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by nonbel 8y ago
So if I don't answer, who is paying for the call? I thought unanswered calls were free for some reason.

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