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by quasque 13y ago
According to the association that represents the pharmaceutical industry in Britain, the shortages you refer to were due to pharmacies taking advantage of exchange rate differences to sell medicines abroad rather than supply the UK market[1
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by quasque 13y ago
I understand your argument, but the assumption it's based on - that pharmaceutical industry income is disproportionally financed by the USA when compared (per treatment) to other developed nations - requires supporting data.
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by quasque 13y ago
I'd be interested in seeing the data to support your claim.
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by quasque 13y ago
Yes, but then you're in the realm of interfacing directly with the hardware to reflash the chip, somewhat upping the difficulty of this hack.
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by quasque 13y ago
I'm always amazed at the astronomical prescription prices in the US, even with insurance. Here in the UK it's capped at £7.85 (~$13) per medication per time period, which is usually about a month - with many people on low incomes
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by quasque 13y ago
The CMOS battery often has nothing to do with BIOS settings, on many modern laptops it's stored in the BIOS flash memory, with no such reset sequence available. If properly secured, physical hacking is not as easy as it used to be.
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by quasque 13y ago
Same experience here. In the rare case where a key text was unavailable in the university library, the lecturers would usually email us scans of the relevant chapters. Alternatively, interlibrary loans - typically from the British Library,
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by quasque 13y ago
Gresham's law doesn't apply as it's ~3% of £1 coins in circulation, not of all.
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by quasque 13y ago
Note that the research paper[1] includes a link to the image-generating software[2] they've written. Quite interesting to play with to get an interactive feel for how the various parameters of their model affect the facial appearance.
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by quasque 13y ago
Censorship is not always a bad thing, when used in moderation.
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by quasque 13y ago
Thanks for the information. Interesting to note that the datastore isn't really deleted when one revokes Dropbox access to the app, even though it's no longer listed on the datastores page - relinking the app to Dropbox resurrects
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by quasque 13y ago
That's interesting, does anyone know from where in the Dropbox user interface such datastores and their contents can be accessed?
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by quasque 13y ago
Apart from being a rather risky investment vehicle, the only use case that seems to be unique to Bitcoin is black market transactions. It's an excellent intermediary currency for purchasing items such as illegal drugs. Or for services
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by quasque 13y ago
Alternative DNS roots exist [1] but they're not going to receive widespread adoption as the current system is deeply ingrained into how the Internet works, and works well enough. Even if it was massively flawed, people would still be u
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by quasque 13y ago
Is this overindulgence in corn a USA thing? I'm not overly familiar with your foodstuffs.
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by quasque 13y ago
I see what you're saying but it's not really just a by-product, it's an integral part of the research. Both the "why" and the "how" are needed, especially when looking at rational drug design to have speci
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by quasque 13y ago
The rise in cancer incidence is mostly due to people living longer; advancing age is the biggest risk factor for most cancers. Anyway there are many other risk factors, and evidence for corn itself being one is scant. Alcohol intake, smokin
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by quasque 13y ago
It's not a waste of money. Therapies for certain cancers do get developed and, in conducting such research, we learn a great deal more about cell biology. Yes, the trigger for carcinogenic mutations is mostly environmental influence -
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by quasque 13y ago
Of all the things to be incensed by on this topic, the fact that words have more than one definition (with the copyright infringement meaning going back to at least the 18th century[1] - it's not a recent derivation) has got to be the
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by quasque 13y ago
> I never said that we should receive them for free. Re-read my post. Slowly. There is no need for such a condescending tone. Anyway, I don't see how a staggered movie release cycle can be considered unethical. It's not causing
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by quasque 13y ago
It depends what they are sharing. Sharing copyrighted works without the authorization of the copyright holder is the common definition of piracy. In which case, how is it unethical (as you say) to equate the two?
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by quasque 13y ago
Movies and music are a luxury item, not an essential. So it is very difficult to construct an ethical argument that supports piracy of newly released works, as there is basically negligible harm to the consumer in not receiving such items f
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by quasque 13y ago
Seems somewhat unethical to release something that is essentially designed for piracy.
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by quasque 13y ago
Nicely found. I was trying to look up the paper, but the article had named the wrong journal - shoddy journalism indeed. Full text here if anyone fancies a read: http://ge.tt/55GwqzO1/v/0
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by quasque 13y ago
The side effect of sexual dysfunction is sometimes used therapeutically - for example, citalopram (an SSRI) is also prescribed to treat premature ejaculation.
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by quasque 13y ago
The images being embedded are of particularly low resolution - maximum size seems to be about 0.2 megapixels - so this free offer shouldn't be encroaching onto their paying markets in any significant manner. Seems like a wise move.
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by quasque 13y ago
I still don't really understand the importance of this. Also rather than being open, isn't Netflix still locked down with DRM? I seem to recall there is a Netflix DRM plugin built into ChromeOS.
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by quasque 13y ago
The plaintext passwords may well be sitting somewhere in memory even on Linux (e.g. see [1]) but I do agree that the organised caching of such passwords in Windows is a weakness. I'm quite surprised that LSASS.EXE is not protected in t
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by quasque 13y ago
Why is it one of the most important?
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by quasque 13y ago
> For giggles, here's a tool you can use to dump not only your saltless Windows password hashes but the actual passwords. This is because Microsoft also uses a reversible encryption scheme: http://blog.gentilkiwi.com&#x2F

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