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by ronaldx 13y ago
This wouldn't solve much of the communicating across timezones problem - although you may no longer have to look up the canonical time, you instead have to look up the solar time or local time convention (are they sleeping? are they at
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Several aspects you may want to consider on UK vs US: - the population density of the UK as a whole is about 7x greater. The US has really got a lot of space that could still be built on. - there is limited reason to live in Las Vegas unles
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by ronaldx 13y ago
I downvoted this comment because found the parent's comment more natural/conversational, and I believe you improved neither the sentence construction nor the comment thread.
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by ronaldx 13y ago
OK, personally what would I do in that hypothetical situation? Note that I would only take the trial week if I thought there was a good chance of it being a mutual match. If it didn't work out despite that, then I would consider it a g
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by ronaldx 13y ago
I would suggest the contrary. As an employed person, I have some resistance to giving up a reasonable job to enter into a permanent contract that has potential but that may not suit me as much. A trial week gives me, as a mature employee, a
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Thanks for the compliment :) If you sign up at http://xoxo.gl/ with an e-mail address then I'll let you know when there's more to see. Otherwise you can contact me for a chat ronald@xoxo.gl
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Measurably the first or second best education system in the world ( http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11939566 ; http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-20498356 ). You are apparently describing a
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by ronaldx 13y ago
An informative article, which is worth reading, but the conclusions seem bizarre and lacking in logic. Why should perhaps the best education system in the world pull back into a period of decompression? South Korea have created a generation
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Gravitational acceleration is approx 10% less? Based on the radius of the earth and the radial distance of the ISS. Some nice discussion: http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/29929/gravity-on-...
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by ronaldx 13y ago
> It's third lightest---there's an outlier that's way lower. wow, good spot, thanks :) Although it could be a problem for science, somehow it's nice that we can get a sense of margin of error by this method.
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Here's a causation argument: Considering that housing benefit was set for a long time at the median market rate, this surely drove rental prices upward. If landlords know they are guaranteed the median by way of housing benefit, they s
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by ronaldx 13y ago
> The point of the piece is that the author is a cheapskate(nothing wrong with that) and they would rather save the extra 387 quid/week. No - the author does not suggest that he plans to carry this out: note that he uses only hypoth
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by ronaldx 13y ago
http://xoxo.gl (hugs and kisses, good luck) - a web app to play family-friendly, traditional board games. Still prototyping for now. My goal is wide in scope: to build a site that allows you to take a few minutes to have a posi
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by ronaldx 13y ago
A mayor-supported electric bike hire scheme for Muswell Hill in London suggests that they're legally ok: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-24651760
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Yet San Francisco is one of the best cities for cycling in the United States? Flatness is plainly not crucial.
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by ronaldx 13y ago
The IPK being 2nd lightest out of 12 on the given graph is not statistically significant: even before accounting for post-hoc analysis. The even distribution suggests (to my eye) that this is as likely random as by some systematic effect.
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Why does tenure lock you down? I'm not aware of this being the case in Europe. I understand that tenure positions are hard to reach, but if you are providing value (whether that's through skill in research or education or pure &#x
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by ronaldx 13y ago
40km != 87 miles, as you note. This appears to be a transcription error in the article from an earlier 140km, and it should read 25 miles per year. (at least, if the graph is correct)
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Just to be clear: I can't share because that's exactly my point - as far as I can find, there isn't a single clinical example of stopping antibiotics early causing any problem of antibiotic resistance.
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Pinboard is a nice example, I have an account there. Ethical criteria are not high on my list, but I try to apply them to the best of my knowledge when two competing services both meet my needs. E.g. LibreOffice vs Microsoft Office, and Sta
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Yes, I get the theory, but I think it's probably false. No clinical evidence is offered.
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by ronaldx 13y ago
I have read it, and Dijkstra is a good call to authority, but I don't agree. His opening sentence is instructive: using the 'pernicious three dots', everything is totally clear: with an ellipsis, it's impossible to under
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Agreed. I find the half-open ranges impossible and stumble over them every time. They are inconsistent within two characters: closed on one side, then open on the other. If the notation was >my_list[0:3) at least it would be mathematica
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by ronaldx 13y ago
I don't see why we can apply these words and ideas to humans but not to bacteria. Our feelings ( wants ) and actions are a result of evolution just the same as bacterial action. We may choose not to ascribe feelings to bacteria, but th
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by ronaldx 13y ago
It's hard to know the answer to this question. Yes, antibiotic resistant bacteria pose a new threat to everyone (likely still less of a threat than non resistant bacteria did in 1950), but maybe not equally. it's possible that ant
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by ronaldx 13y ago
This is an unconvincing argument to me - if antibiotic resistant bacteria survive, why would finishing the course of antibiotics make a difference? Does it clinically happen that stopping a course of antibiotics early causes an antibiotic r
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Your take-away should really be that bacterial evolution is part of being human - without those 10^14 bacterial cells evolving over one million times faster than our own, we wouldn't be able to survive - we wouldn't be human .
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by ronaldx 13y ago
I appreciate your point and I don't disagree with you (+1). However, the issue is complicated and I wanted to present another side to the original post. I think it's likely that those two claims are mostly true in bacteria. Since
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by ronaldx 13y ago
> Eventually bacteria will evolve, and they’ll adapt ways around that to overcome that obstacle. I am more optimistic than that. Sure: as long as antibiotic resistance is crucial for bacterial survival, bacteria have a natural need to ev
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by ronaldx 13y ago
> Do you think that has the same chance as success as someone who's only goal is to make money? Yes, or at least maybe. The viability of businesses is extremely low in almost all circumstances. Doing something creative and putting i

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