richardhod

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by richardhod 7y ago
Did you really mean 'literally decimated'? See the Roman history that led to this word. I share the disambiguation to show other uses: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimation
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by richardhod 7y ago
It is unclear whether you approve of this decisionmaking heuristic
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by richardhod 7y ago
This may be true, but it's not how good business, corporations and executives should behave.
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Lead contamination found in baby teeth of children near Exide battery plant(m.phys.org)
2 points by richardhod 7y ago|0 comments
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by richardhod 7y ago
Anyone reading HN should understand about variance in data sets. Given you're stooping to the level of 'It's cold at the moment, at this one data point', I cannot take your conversation seriously. You can do better, and
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by richardhod 7y ago
weird. thanks for the correction, some phone glitch there
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by richardhod 7y ago
(2012)
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by richardhod 7y ago
You are still cherrypicking by concentrating on these data, which are not conclusive. /so, you show me part of an in-depth paper saying that there were data before 1979 .It appears there might. However, in the paper, it says there was
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by richardhod 7y ago
except he might thence be extradited to the US after facing the Swedish charges
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by richardhod 7y ago
the second graph shown in that denialist video says nothing about arctic sea ice in the way the NOAA data do, which go back only to 1979. They are data about ice anomalies, not ice coverage. Also, I can't find a source for that second,
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by richardhod 7y ago
You are wrong, and trolling: https://www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-piecing-together-arct...
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by richardhod 7y ago
He was definitely using Fahrenheit because he was talking in New York, and most of the conversations on global warming in the American sphere was conducted in Fahrenheit until about 10 years ago.
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by richardhod 7y ago
If you've taken VC, then surely there's an exit in about 5 years?
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by richardhod 7y ago
Can you give (, perhaps anonymised) examples? This makes me wonder which of the new breeds of skyscraper are actually a lot less safe than perhaps older ones. I have read the same with cruise ships as we have seen with a disaster or two on
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by richardhod 7y ago
can you expand on how, somewhat, for those of us who may not understand how to move to the next steps / leverage?
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by richardhod 7y ago
Well to be fair, they are in long-term stakes, wrong since these companies do end up impoverishing them. It's the problem that nobody without a backup and savings can think strategically, which is the paradox and issue with a predatory
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by richardhod 7y ago
I disagree. An oligopoly does not need to be a cartel, but a cartel is a special case of an oligopoly, and here I'm talking of oligopoly, not the narrower case. A structural deficit in a market can lead to oligopolistic markets and exp
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Malaria vaccine pilot launched in Malawi, first of three African country trials(who.int)
1 points by richardhod 7y ago|0 comments
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by richardhod 7y ago
It's called oligopoly, and can also be legislated against. ios and android together run the mobile market.
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Amazon’s system for tracking its warehouse workers can automatically fire them(technologyreview.com)
3 points by richardhod 7y ago|0 comments
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by richardhod 7y ago
Original research Abstract, linked at the bottom: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167739X1...
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Smartphone sensors keep an eye on crumbling bridges(futurity.org)
3 points by richardhod 7y ago|1 comments
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by richardhod 7y ago
Do you have a source? This sounds useful
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by richardhod 7y ago
Precisely this. I find it appalling that an associate professor was not given tenure, because that is normally a tenured position, particularly since he'd been there 20 years
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by richardhod 7y ago
I did read this as $58 for several seconds, making 5B a suboptimal abbreviation
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Helvetica Now: why the Marmite of fonts was redesigned(theguardian.com)
8 points by richardhod 7y ago|0 comments
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by richardhod 7y ago
when you say 'gain traction', can you clarify this a little?
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by richardhod 8y ago
indeed, it's mostly that they know which antibiotics and other drugs work on which infections, and when they will not work at all. So many people demand drugs for colds and flu, and it is only the incompetent doctor that will give you
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by richardhod 8y ago
sarcasm is generally frowned upon here, for these reasons
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by richardhod 8y ago
It's interesting how the US military copied the British class-based system of management, officers v other ranks. It does stymie a lot of creativity and talent.

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