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by rackjack 5y ago
Interesting analysis. The same reasons why it is difficult for LGBT people to form a state appear to also be why they are easily discriminated against across cultures.
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by rackjack 5y ago
You're talking about praxis, we're talking about research. I agree the praxis can be pretty bad, but in regards to the above commenter's remarks on why people don't just simply collect data and apply it, medical professi
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by rackjack 5y ago
> I’ve never been given a cancer diagnosis, but I’d imagine it’s much, much worse to be told you have stage 4 cancer versus stage 1. It's bad all the way. > If you are one of the people with a false positive, you schedule a follo
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by rackjack 5y ago
I don't enough about heart disease treatment to comment on the degree it ruins your life. People already get further testing. People already get second opinions. In the time you are changing your lifestyle (a good option for helping tr
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by rackjack 5y ago
They are mass collecting the data. They have more data than they know what to do with. Bioinformatics abuses data science at levels comparable to Google and Facebook. They are getting quality samples from the population. But it's not a
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by rackjack 5y ago
> Getting a cancer diagnosis today is a huge deal because testing is infrequent, usually in response to a problem, and the diagnosis tends to be late and accurate. Getting a cancer diagnosis is a "huge deal" because getting can
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by rackjack 5y ago
> If people had your attitude about AIDS we would have let all AIDS patients die because “oh well nothing we can do.” No, if people had my attitude about AIDS they would say "Jesus Christ, don't tell 1 and half million people e
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by rackjack 5y ago
1. Most/all businesses above a certain size are state run or directed. 2. Sorry if it came off that way. It's just that in my personal experience, China is much more dependent on this kind of ingratiation compared to America. (e.g
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by rackjack 5y ago
So many tech people here thinking they know how the entire medical industry works... medical problems and the research that arises from them are staggeringly complex and messy. Please... if you've never had experience with this kind of
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by rackjack 5y ago
Same vibe as "I would just simply..." What do you think the entire medical, pharmaceutical, bioinformatic, etc. industries have been doing for decades? Are you really so arrogant to think that other people are too lazy and stupid
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by rackjack 5y ago
> It correctly identified when cancer was present in 51.5% of cases, across all stages of the disease, and wrongly detected cancer in only 0.5% of cases. If all 300 million Americans get blood tested each year, that is 1 and a half MILLI
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by rackjack 5y ago
I honestly forgot he existed. He always seemed more like a mythical character than anything else to me.
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by rackjack 5y ago
Nixon founded the EPA and George W. Bush established no child left behind...
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by rackjack 5y ago
They pay you the bare minimum needed to keep you, so why would you do anything but the bare minimum amount of work? Passion is things you are actually invested in, like hobbies, or your family, or a business you own, or a particularly inter
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by rackjack 5y ago
Joy [1] is a function-level stack-oriented (read: FORTH-y) programming language inspired by Backus's FP. Funny how these things end up connected. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joy_(programming_language)
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by rackjack 5y ago
I was gonna say... since the tweeter's name is "Loki's Buttslut" and he says it's a "comic reference" I wouldn't be surprised if he, as a fan of Loki, just barely crossed the threshold of copyright in
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by rackjack 5y ago
What effect will this have on the web, for somebody out of the loop?
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by rackjack 5y ago
1. China's industrialization was and is powered by a staggering number of poor people searching for a better life. See also: Japan's industrial rise. 2. The government in China is extremely strong and centralized. The top official
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by rackjack 5y ago
Agreed, their comment screams "I'm European and I think I can drive across America in a day" to me, especially the bit about the police force.
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by rackjack 5y ago
"But Uli Ernst, a behavioral ecologist at the the Apicultural State Institute at the University of Hohenheim, Germany, adds that since older and younger ferns (their clones) live together sharing water and nutrients, one could technic
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by rackjack 5y ago
Wow my memory completely butchered it. Here's the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZfcc21c6Uo The top YouTube comment(s) say the quote I was thinking of: “You can’t give me my rights, I was born with them. You ca
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by rackjack 5y ago
Off-topic, but does anybody remember the name of the emancipated slave that said something along the lines of "You can't give me freedom, you can only give it back"? I really love that quote but I can't find the original
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by rackjack 5y ago
To those curious: IIRC Extension fields can be described by polynomials. Example: F_2 = { 0, 1 }. f(x) = x^2 + x + 1. (This is "irreducible", which basically means it's "prime" in a polynomial world.) Note that F_2[
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by rackjack 5y ago
I think that's the one I was looking for, thank you.
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by rackjack 5y ago
I think that's the one, thanks.
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by rackjack 5y ago
Anybody remember the URL of that one psychiatrist blog? Paraphrasing a quote from there: "No, I can't be narcissistic, I hate myself too much! In fact, I spend all day looking in the mirror and thinking about how much I hate mysel
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by rackjack 5y ago
Yeah, I would do (2) if possible. ``` struct Person { name: String, } struct Engineer { name: String, boss: String, } trait Name { fn get_name(&self) -> &str; } impl Name for Person { ... } impl Name for Engineer { ... } ```
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by rackjack 5y ago
"widely agreed upon" is debated. According to Wiktionary: "yeeted 1. simple past tense and past participle of yeet" [1] Worth noting there is a fair amount of discussion on whether the past tense is "yeeted" or
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