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by ronaldx 13y ago
I call it "defensive" because the answer is not simply "yes" and I think it's a poor position to view clinical trials uncritically. Clinical trials may indeed work, but it's absolutely not clear that they are
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by ronaldx 13y ago
>the students who say things like "I pay tuition, I'm a paying customer, professors have to do X/Y/Z for me" are rarely the ones at the top of the class (and rarely aspire to do so). I would suggest this is biase
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by ronaldx 13y ago
This defensive blog post perhaps misses a crucial point that is made by the NYT through a haze of lay-person journalism. By placing the focus on an 'average' patient, there is a danger of missing drugs which work effectively but o
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Of course, I accept that a recommended textbook counts as sufficient written material. But, it's not always the case that recommended textbooks cover the complete syllabus of a course - in which case, they don't count.
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by ronaldx 13y ago
>A colleague had a student mutiny because he refused to put up his lecture slides for download. I am an educator: It's important for accessibility and educational reasons to offer information in written form as well as lecture form.
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Let's be clear about this: the median world age is around 28 years. You are old.
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by ronaldx 13y ago
>The one gets the word out about a product or service and lets the creator point out why their audience would like it. I've heard this argument countless times but I'm fed up with it and I want to call it out: the constant and
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by ronaldx 13y ago
I wondered the same thing... I collected some thoughts but haven't reached a clear conclusion on that. I tend towards common for unrelated reasons. Kaposi's Sarcoma (KS) is caused by a herpes virus: KSHV, https://en.wik
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by ronaldx 13y ago
The part where they offer alternative choices is for you. The part where they suggest a choice is for people who don't want to make a decision is useful for many others particularly including potential customers. The fact that they rec
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by ronaldx 13y ago
This argument is against patenting 'junk' DNA: but European and American patent law both require a patent to have industrial application and to be novel. So, I find it unlikely that this situation should apply in practice (althoug
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by ronaldx 13y ago
>My concern is allowing people to patent biochemistry/DNA sequences, which is clearly bad. I was thinking about this earlier but I concluded that it was morally no different than any other form of patent - and modestly comparible to
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by ronaldx 13y ago
A simple way to define a 'species' is any group of creatures that can produce viable, fertile offspring. So dogs are breeds - they're part of the same species - because if you mate a great dane with a chihuahua, you'll g
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by ronaldx 13y ago
This is highly unlikely origin story. The main problem is that genetic data strongly and consistently suggests we are further from pigs than chimpanzees are. Genetic material often finds ways of crossing species boundaries: in lower organis
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by ronaldx 13y ago
That's tough and I hope you find a way to manage this. Regular exercise has all sorts of benefits including (in general) reducing anxiety, but single sessions of exercise often feel like they have negative consequences.
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Please, it's incorrect to draw "mentally ill" from this. Mental illness is a very common, serious problem of society which deserves genuine attention. What you described are not symptoms of mental illness.
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by ronaldx 13y ago
3% of salary is broadly very similar to the UK's version which is 9% on earnings above £21,000.
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Assuming you are in the UK, late payment of an invoice incurs statutory late penalties. Further non-payment can be resolved by small claims court. On rare occasions when I have been ignored like this, I have sent snail mail saying I will st
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Showing ads is not really the problem. Using public money to compete with industries (i.e. Rupert Murdoch ) who can place very high lobbying pressure on them not to do that is the problem.
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by ronaldx 13y ago
:) Since UK schools are considering experimenting with shorter/different summer holidays for the educational benefit, there was a parent on talk radio just this morning saying this was unfair because he may need to organise more babysi
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Cool. If true, seems like they had evolved tit-for-tat: keep the peace or we'll all punish you for it.
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Schools know that they are primarily a babysitting service: it's easy to understand from the nature of the fuss that parents make when school is closed on a work day.
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by ronaldx 13y ago
>Improving cell coverage / planning for growth is a specific purpose. Agree, so you just need contractual permission (not hard to get). You can't decide later that you want to use it for some other apparently-innocuous reason.
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by ronaldx 13y ago
If anonymisation is reversible (it seems clear that it is reversible, if it was anonymised at all), the data likely again falls under the Data Protection Directive in the EU. There, personal data legally requires explicit permission for eac
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Not exactly - the BBC often serves the same content without displaying ads in the UK. I'm not clear what's going on in this case, but it's more likely that this is out of its public remit - as a funded public service, they&#x
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by ronaldx 13y ago
I dislike it particularly because of the implication of stupidity: "I believe only stupid people won't know this, but I'm going to tell you anyway". In general it's poor form to assume readers know anything - consid
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by ronaldx 13y ago
>So far, they are a much less attractive target to malware authors than web browsers are. That alone makes me prefer them over web browsers, no matter what their theoretical vulnerabilities may be. I sympathise but find it quite contrary
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by ronaldx 13y ago
I gather this is driven by SVG: an efficient use of a minimal number of bezier curves (quite literally, reticulating splines ). It would be a nice project to automatically recreate existing image files as efficient SVGs. However, this proc
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by ronaldx 13y ago
"Multiplying-in-columns" is quite out of fashion. A 'grid' or 'boxes' method is surely now taught to/used by a majority of students in the UK. Long multiplication is not considered best practice and many s
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Ditching a client who generates 80% of revenue - and enough to provide for 2 people - is akin to quitting a good job with no job to go to. If you have a client like that who is hindering to growth, then a dominating strategy would be to spi
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Identified the exact same statements... that's not a joke .

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