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by ronaldx 13y ago
Understand your point and shipping on Kickstarters is often ill-considered. But, please bear in mind that this is one way that the UK is not very well joined up with the rest of the EU: International shipping from the UK is awkward and expe
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Strongly disagree. 1. Your chart could be simplified to 'the temperature at every point on Earth is broadly always the same' - is this a useful visualisation? (Perhaps, but surely not at the same level of detail) 2. In your chart,
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by ronaldx 13y ago
An anarchist could have a novel and useful insight into taxation, despite the straw man you set up. It's common that deciding to reject the status quo requires strong and considered reasoning.
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Twitter respect their own rules but justify sending more e-mails by frequently changing the rules. If you opt-out of every e-mail type, they just add more e-mail types and automatically opt you in - check the settings again. I find this beh
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by ronaldx 13y ago
It's a pretty obvious business strategy to offer low prices with the goal of putting competitors out of business, in order to monopolise and ultimately drive up prices. (as long you have the deepest pockets) As such, I try to patronis
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Interesting but rather long. tl;dr version: 90% of people are like locusts/zombies, always preying on the best deals. 9% are Jeffersonian middle class - “small, local and independent” entrepreneurs. Whenever they offer anything less
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Fatigue is a non-specific symptom and is not necessarily chronic (fatigue is only classed as chronic after 4 months -- according to the article you linked). Nobody was laughing about it or mocking: we were discussing medical ethics quite se
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by ronaldx 13y ago
The claims for Vitamin D as an exception (without any strong scientific backing) seem to support the parent: "someone, somewhere at some time was pushing them as an amazing cure" I've also heard a GP (who I personally respect
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by ronaldx 13y ago
I understood that dietary Vitamin D isn't well absorbed and is of limited benefit in high quantities - It's far better to get daily sunlight, even in Northern climes. Disclaimer: not able to watch the video
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by ronaldx 13y ago
I felt a better option for the author would be to quote a price reflecting the high value of his time.
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Thanks for this clarification. I understood you were using the example of antibacterial drug discovery to defend traditional phylogenetic models (against the parent commenter). I wanted to illustrate that the lack of new results in these fi
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by ronaldx 13y ago
> if you're developing an antibiotic... Beautiful examples in theory, but blown out of the water in practice. In the current age of bioinformatics, practical modern antivirals and antibacterials are not being identified, not at all
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by ronaldx 13y ago
I appreciated your suggested experiment, so I tried it out. My results were perhaps not exactly what you anticipated: - My phone has 114 ppi (and wonderful battery life) - My primary computer screen has 128 ppi (and wonderful battery life -
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by ronaldx 13y ago
>Desktops should be evolving toward immersion. Disagree on two points: 1. The innate immersive quality of desktops nicely illustrates why desktops are out of fashion. The trend is for people to be less immersed in a single point of focus
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Perhaps you didn't understand my point. Google could easily decide to serve ads to paying customers, and it seems likely that they've left this option open to exercise later. The fact that they apparently "do not rely on ads&
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Is there anything (for example in the T&Cs) that stops Google from creeping ads to paying customers in the future? I bet not.
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Your premise is at least partially fallacious - whether or not I am willing to spend money anyway, is not the same as whether or not I am influenced by advertising. If I spend money in the same way as I would have spent anyway , then the a
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by ronaldx 13y ago
shouldn't it be >=, to catch double-charging?
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Oftentimes where I've seen duplicated content marked, the question suggested doesn't adequately or fully answer the new question, which may have an advanced or updated (or just different but valuable) slant. Keeping only the first
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by ronaldx 13y ago
I agree with you that certain hard work is best done by one person, if we're talking considering problems with computationally deterministic solutions to be difficult (and ignoring 'standing on the shoulders of giants' effect
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by ronaldx 13y ago
> They apparently believe that a one-developer, one-vote system would not judge such questions "correctly." I find this dichotomy fascinating. They do a fair job of justifying that democratic voting doesn't generally ident
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by ronaldx 13y ago
>Lengthy discussions can be interesting, but they don't solve problems. They're not useful. Eh? Discussions between experts is exactly how difficult problems are typically solved, in reality.
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by ronaldx 13y ago
The problem is that the ideal place to host these discussions is... Stack Overflow. Their policy on open questions is dead wrong.
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Relevant xkcd for this comment: http://xkcd.com/810/
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Starbucks UK have taken the advice from #6 ("How to keep your plants watered") and accurately applied it to their teabags: "Loosely plait two or three strands of wool together, immerse completely in water, and place one end i
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by ronaldx 13y ago
I dislike the premise of this article. All the alternatives have worse disadvantages: - repeating the name "Matt" is awkward - gender is an awkward requirement for sending a giftcard - assuming someone is male unless they are know
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by ronaldx 13y ago
This message is very confusing for me. I'm happy that you're finding personal benefit from Gittip. If it allows or helps you to keep providing great work to the community, that's excellent for everyone. However, the numbers y
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Midges in the Scottish Highlands are so sensitive to wind that the act of hiking itself creates enough of a breeze to prevent them from biting. As I found out first-hand this week: just keep walking. [Additional: Avon Skin-so-Soft seems t
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by ronaldx 13y ago
>The doodlers did not all become artists, many were just bored or uninterested. In fact, the doodlers were likely attending to the lecture, e.g. http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1882127,00.ht.
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Keep reading: the first example is a bit misleading (for the reason you state) and the article gets more interesting. They deal with this problem by coding the message with single-bit packets, always contrasting 0s with 1s.

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