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by pcrh 10y ago
>200 years ago the US had a backwards culture which considered slavery reasonable. It really isn't 200 years ago that the US considered treating "others" so badly -- and by your own criteria, there are still many pockets o
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by pcrh 10y ago
A very high fraction of the economy is arts and media-based; in some locales (such as L.A.) it may well be over 50%. You are not going to get good architects, designers, story-tellers, graphic artists, lawyers, and even politicians, if no o
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How the Green Book Helped African-American Tourists Navigate a Segregated Nation(smithsonianmag.com)
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by pcrh 10y ago
I suppose the only saving grace of this "natural" death by thirst, which is not an uncommon occurrence, is that it is done while the person is heavily sedated. Otherwise it would be incredibly painful, I imagine.
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by pcrh 10y ago
Another process that "assists" dying is withdrawal of fluids while someone is heavily sedated. The ensuing death is "natural", but inevitable.
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by pcrh 10y ago
Unless linked to geothermal structures, most deeply underground caves are much cooler than that, around 10-15°C.
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by pcrh 10y ago
That's the strangest "think of the children" argument I have ever heard. It can't be too hard to avoid working for one of these companies.
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by pcrh 11y ago
A lot of those who used to drive for minicabs now drive under Uber's banner. However, for the last 30 years at least, in London there has always been the distinction between the more loosely regulated (and cheaper) minicabs with the mo
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by pcrh 11y ago
To me, the need to resort to such tactics indicates that Uber doesn't have a very big advantage over its competitors. The usual reason passengers seem to prefer Uber is their easier availability and greater reliability. Others will cat
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by pcrh 11y ago
In most businesses if a man wears anything except a suit and tie it is a topic of serious consideration, and possibly a firing offense. The polo + khaki uniform of SV tech is an exception, but still pretty constrained compared to the option
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by pcrh 11y ago
Man... this is depressing... I'm counting on you lot at HN and beyond to create the technology allowing widespread encryption that makes such surveillance moot.
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by pcrh 11y ago
Theranos' goals were always fishy. The fact of the matter is that their vaunted "one drop of blood" technology is a smokescreen, as in reality almost all clinical blood tests use a very small amount of material for the actual
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by pcrh 11y ago
I decided to look that up... The result is curious indeed. It appears that Kim Philby's father, St John Philby, was a senior civil servant, but not an aristocrat. He was what was called in those days an "Arabist" and had con
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by pcrh 11y ago
>will happily throw the rest of it away for this comment "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his [karma] for his friends." John 15:13
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by pcrh 11y ago
TIL "agnotology", "the study of culturally induced ignorance or doubt". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnotology
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by pcrh 11y ago
It might be worth noting that the author is English. The English have a very peculiar relationship with accent, in that one's accent is one of the prime indicators of social class in their country. As such the author may be unknowingly
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by pcrh 11y ago
Somewhere like the Overlook Hotel?
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by pcrh 11y ago
I don't believe that NK has demonstrated that they can build nuclear bombs... If I recall correctly, their claimed nuclear detonation was not in fact a fully-fledged nuclear explosion. Also, they are weak as heck, and can't realis
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by pcrh 11y ago
Can't you write depreciation against profit?
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by pcrh 11y ago
The Begley paper and the whole debate over reproducibility spawned a worthwhile introspection on behalf of the journals, several of which have adapted the information required from authors in response. However, I am distinctly unimpressed b
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by pcrh 11y ago
While I applaud this effort, it does concern me that they have chosen to publish only three of the claimed 47 failures to replicate. The Begley that spawned in part this debate was seriously flawed for two reasons: the first is that the exp
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by pcrh 11y ago
It isn't such a terrible thing. Unlike corporations, which routinely withhold data generated in clinical trials, academic researchers must eventually publish their data, otherwise their careers will suffer.
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by pcrh 11y ago
I suspect IP isn't really the question here. After all, the required balls are made in "Germany, Switzerland or Japan" so I doubt they couldn't be made in China, if someone wished to. On another note, the article neatly
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by pcrh 11y ago
The authors have chosen an unfortunate way of expressing themselves, to say the least. The evident fact is that published data is there for anyone to re-examine as they wish, however I believe that the authors are referring to unpublished
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by pcrh 11y ago
With respect to conferences and continuing medical education, there's no need for this to be "subsidized" by drug companies, such conferences are already expensive to attend, despite such "subsidies" in any case. Pe
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by pcrh 11y ago
Actually its more like 300 treatments that haven't panned-out... ‘Too much good news’ – are Alzheimer mouse models trying to tell us how to prevent, not cure, Alzheimer’s disease? https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed&#x2
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by pcrh 11y ago
I wouldn't be surprised, actually. I suppose the left versus right descriptions of politics are somewhat dependent on context. On the other hand, historically communist countries currently span a range of left/right cultural tende
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by pcrh 11y ago
The culture of the Bay Area is also much more "left-leaning" than that of much of the US. The Bay Area likely helps creativity and innovation in other ways as well, as it has a ingrained culture that favors outsiders and diversity
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by pcrh 11y ago
Finding that the father has contributed ~1/4 of his genes to the child would normally exclude them from being described as the biological parent, who would normally contribute ~1/2 his genes to the child. Possibly the father had n
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by pcrh 11y ago
>catastrophe bonds Would you care to expand on these and how they work? They sound interesting!

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