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by rollthehard6 10y ago
AlphaGo for the simple reason that, in that scenario any human would be absolutely bricking and would be pretty much bound to make an unforced error as a result.
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by rollthehard6 10y ago
Easy to imagine vascular dementia rates being higher due to air pollution, would be interesting to see if rates of non-vascular dementia, such as Alzheimer's are also higher.
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by rollthehard6 10y ago
Reminiscent of the 1993 Jack in the Box E Coli outbreak - they bounced back, I'm sure Chipotle can too. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993_Jack_in_the_Box_E._coli_o...
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by rollthehard6 10y ago
I don't know about the US, but here in the UK, if you are in say, your 40s/50s and out of work, good luck trying to get yourself a trade - apprenticeships are still the province of the young and the government won't help retr
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by rollthehard6 10y ago
I dunno, I'm a long term *NIX person (Solaris 1994-2011, Linux on and off 1994-2006, Linux mostly 2006-now) I am now involved in more Powershell scripting on Windows than I have ever done before. I don't see - Get-Content -Tail 10
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by rollthehard6 10y ago
At one point Sun had a similar model before RHEL + VMWare ate their lunch - https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19095-01/sfe2900.srvr/819-1269-1...
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by rollthehard6 10y ago
It's trivial to emulate old versions of z/OS, have a look at Hercules - http://www.hercules-390.org/ Not sure about OS/400 (IBM i) emulation, but you can get accounts to play with it seems - http:/&#x2F
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by rollthehard6 10y ago
The notorious Doritos shop lifting sea gull of Aberdeen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kqy9hxhUxK0 And another in South Shield, who favours Greggs - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4QXyUjQCgE
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by rollthehard6 10y ago
Some doctors and researchers believe the benefit from statins is more to do with the decrease in inflammation caused by them. Possibly widespread use of statins has beneficial effects on other disease processes too.
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by rollthehard6 10y ago
This was used to great effect as a weapons device in the 2000AD comic story Strontium Dog - http://www.musicbanter.com/members-journal/79558-trollhearts...
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by rollthehard6 10y ago
Agree that reflection and contemplation is important. Likewise, writing your thoughts out is also powerful and sometimes, being forced to edit your point down to one or two 140 char snippets is not such bad thing either. Similarly, being ex
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by rollthehard6 11y ago
To be fair, having not tried Siri for a year or two, it has gotten much better at dealing with the Glasgow accent ; ) I recall around 2000 having to fake a US accent in order to get an airline's voice response system to put me through
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by rollthehard6 11y ago
I wonder how much of the research into this has taken place outside of the context of the famously sleep-deprived USA?
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by rollthehard6 11y ago
Although it's obviously more of a problem for hardware people judging by this article, this makes me glad, as a sysadmin, that my career has been almost exclusively contract based. This wasn't much of a conscious choice, it was ju
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by rollthehard6 11y ago
Much as he annoys me a lot of the time, Niall Ferguson's Reith Lecture on this topic is worth a listen - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01jmx0p
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by rollthehard6 11y ago
Much as he annoys me a lot of the time, Niall Ferguson's Reith Lecture on this topic is worth a listen - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01jmx0p
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by rollthehard6 11y ago
See also Rogue Trooper from 2000AD - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogue_Trooper in which the 'biochips' where backups for the minds of disposable, genetically engineered soldier's bodies.
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by rollthehard6 11y ago
Another floppy disk hold out are the many musical keyboards/synths manufactured in the 80s and 90s that used floppy drives to load patches and sequences. Hell, patch, there is another anachronism that has a lot in common with the flopp
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by rollthehard6 11y ago
With you on this, we treat animals better. My dad was diagnosed with Alzheimer's at 62 and with liver cancer at 63 - in his case we noticed he was off his food and the GP did palpitate his liver and this led to a scan and diagnosis. He
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by rollthehard6 11y ago
So many of these complaints seem to focus on edge cases, what proportion of car journeys would really trigger 'range anxiety'? Even in the US I imagine such long trips are the exception for the majority of car owners.
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by rollthehard6 11y ago
Apple used to use it in the PowerPC days as did Sun - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Firmware http://www.brendangregg.com/Sun/obp.html
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by rollthehard6 11y ago
On the patient experience, i.e. entirely anecdotal side : https://creator.zoho.com/ldndatabase/all-others/view-perma/C... from : http://www.ldndatabase.com/cfs.html
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by rollthehard6 11y ago
As for any autoimmune disease, have a read up on Naltrexone (Papers that is, not pseudo science blogs and advocacy sites that are generally poorly substantiated) One on an MS model in mice : http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubme
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by rollthehard6 11y ago
Interstellar seemed to suggest use of a similar method when the astronauts were in hibernation.
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by rollthehard6 11y ago
Another condition where Naltrexone might be of help for chronic patients : http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3351864/
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by rollthehard6 11y ago
On the bullshit side column, what's your view on Naltrexone? I take it for Crohn's and it has helped me a lot and know of many MS patients who have benefited from it too.
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by rollthehard6 11y ago
Personally I don't think we can truly call ourselves civilised whilst we persist in valuing our fellow humans' health and their very lives in terms of financial currency.
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by rollthehard6 11y ago
This also includes the interesting area of drugs which are already been patented and licensed but find new uses once out of patent for different conditions, Naltrexone being a prime example. google Dr Ian Zagon's work at Penn State if
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by rollthehard6 11y ago
If that were really true nobody would be trying to figure out why the UK is so unproductive, either that or we are working very hard doing very little (Said he on HN at work).
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by rollthehard6 11y ago
Story today on the BBC, from analysis of 500 word stories written by UK kids between 5 and 13 for a competition 'Words including email, mobile and Facebook are in decline, it said.' http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/e

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