rfatnabayeff

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by rfatnabayeff 12y ago
There's a much more safe alternative with almost same possibilities - a kinda "balls-and-magnetick-sticks". In that case, spheres are just metallic, not magnetic. Only joints, sticks, have magnetic ends capped inside the plas
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by rfatnabayeff 12y ago
It's not about rarity of the disease. The problem with those percentages is that they're commercial bragging. The 99.9% accuracy is indeed very poor accuracy in case where there is 99.999% chance that one doesn't have a disea
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by rfatnabayeff 12y ago
Whatever the number of people, the device is still 99.8% B.S.-teller for $500.
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by rfatnabayeff 12y ago
The technique is reported to be 85% accurate. That is, there's 15% chance of false positive. According to wikipedia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanoma#Epidemiology ), upper bound for melanoma incidence is 20 pe
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by rfatnabayeff 12y ago
I can't understand why I'm not getting 2% from my point of view. A person is identified positive in two distinct cases: if it is ill (p1=0.001) AND the test shows positive (q1=0.95), or when it is clean (p2=0.999) but the test wro
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by rfatnabayeff 13y ago
"Rodriguez’s sentence clearly demonstrates the seriousness of his actions." This awkward moment when the seriousness of the crime is judged by the length of the sentence. Reminds me of a typical Soviet (and modern Russian) "p
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by rfatnabayeff 13y ago
When they zoom in using the touchscreen - isn't that the digital zoom, not optical? If so, the last x10 seems not legit.
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by rfatnabayeff 13y ago
There are some other useful commands for organizing the stream of datas for pretty printing: column - columnify the incoming stream into columns pr - set up incoming stream for pretty printing including columnification along or across the s
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by rfatnabayeff 13y ago
Eventually they might probably encounter a person, a "troll-terrorist", who's demands would be not money, drugs or "release of brethren from prisons", but "introduction of even stricter TSA procedures". Th
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by rfatnabayeff 13y ago
How can I order it from Russia?
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by rfatnabayeff 13y ago
Author provides source code using non-monospace (!) slanted (!!!) font. I would have wasted a damn gigawatt to unsee that.
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by rfatnabayeff 13y ago
It's interesting that none of the BitTorent software was mentioned, at least BitTorrent Sync as an alternative to proprietary cloud storage.
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by rfatnabayeff 13y ago
There is a proverb in Russia (actually, it's a quote): "There're someone for whom even a mare is a fine bride". So, it's not surprising that for someone Facebook is fine too.
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by rfatnabayeff 13y ago
Most people is interested in continuation of themselves and their close relatives. Seven billion of people, driven by this interest, form a hivemind that dictates their own fate. Should it be the extinction of 9.999% of species - so be it.
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by rfatnabayeff 13y ago
so if it's fine with the vanished 90%, why should one be bothered about 10%?
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by rfatnabayeff 13y ago
This is my native city (more than 1M of people): http://earthengine.google.org/#intro/v=54.739011,55.95804350... Everything seems fine so far. :)
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by rfatnabayeff 13y ago
I didn't get your point. Should we stop controlling road traffic and prevent car accidents until the very last malaria mosquito is dead?
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by rfatnabayeff 13y ago
That's was the clip that motivated me to make the comment in the first place.
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by rfatnabayeff 13y ago
You're right. For ordinary people around me malaria is not a problem. And yes, here people die in road accidents and should it happen that one side of the accident is a local government/enforcement member friend or relative means that they'
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by rfatnabayeff 13y ago
You know, when local rednecks witness slight daily weather change, they proudly attribute it to 'global warming'. I mean, we track the weather for at most a hundred year. We tend to see any several-year trend as an alarming global tendency.
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by rfatnabayeff 13y ago
Why? One would probably tend to keep the impact tolerable enough for themself, but you're not going to find enough people except green fanatics to be motivated to minimize it.
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by rfatnabayeff 13y ago
The Earth is fine, people. One herd of farting cows diminishes all the human effort in CO emission decrease in nearby town. One volcano eruption diminishes it worldwide. One major earthquake contributes to Earth landscape change more than a
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by rfatnabayeff 13y ago
...because task to be solved to score higher IQ differ from task to be solved to succeed in investment.
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by rfatnabayeff 13y ago
The article states that reducing leg room from 32 to 31 inches allowed for one additional seat row. Which means that there were already no less than 32 rows on those planes. Six seats per row give 192 passengers. RITA numbers clearly show t