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by rosser 10y ago
Sure. I cry at movies and shows pretty often, too. (The finale of "Six Feet Under"? OMFG.) But that presumes those tears aren't somehow subtly different from personal grief tears. I really doubt they are, but if we're go
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by rosser 10y ago
Please help me understand how, "You are as out of touch as a republican supreme court justice. Willfully out of touch even." isn't somehow about 'rayiner, personally, given that it was said in response to his comment. Wh
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by rosser 10y ago
I quite agree with your first line, but downvoted your comment for the second line. That's personal commentary, and HN strives to keep discussion at the level of ideas.
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by rosser 10y ago
The "capitalist system writ large" might prefer it, but entirely too many individual capitalists — that is, the folks with, give or take, all of the capital — probably prefer things more as they are. Which, I believe, was the ar
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by rosser 10y ago
I don't think the difficulty in testing that hypothesis is whether your samples have some chemicals in them or not. It's finding a sample population, and the collection of their samples. That is, it's somewhere in the neighbo
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by rosser 10y ago
Changes to hash indexes are not WAL-logged, so they are not crash safe. Wait for 10.0.
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by rosser 10y ago
> The 'bootcamp' approach is what we know at the present time to work best. What other approaches have even been tried ? I don't think, in the absence of meaningfully tried alternatives that have been shown to be lackin
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by rosser 10y ago
I have an acquaintance working on a similar project, a CG film titled "White Tiger Legend". He's been a VFX artist on many films you've seen (LOTR and the Hobbit movies, Avatar, the Matrix trilogy, &c), and has been
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by rosser 10y ago
There's a pretty staggering breadth of admissions requirements for the various accredited medical schools in the US, and plenty of offshore schools that effectively will take anyone — basically MD mills. The Dominican Republic, in pa
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by rosser 10y ago
Saying "they are not durable" downplays the extent of how non-durable they are. That kind of "non-durability" needs flashing neon signs prominently featuring very large arrows, pointing at the specifics, not four vague
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by rosser 10y ago
> I mean, that's why we trust doctors, because the bar is that high. Two thoughts: 1. The old joke, "What do you call the person who graduated from medical school at the bottom of their class?" "Doctor." 2. The
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by rosser 10y ago
As someone who's worked with PostgreSQL for a decade now, I've very definitely seen cases where memory bandwidth is the bottleneck, not disk bandwidth. I'm pretty sure the IO subsystem would still be a narrower pipe than main
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by rosser 10y ago
Your email isn't listed on your profile. Mine is, though. Please do get in touch.
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WikiLeaks won't share CIA exploits unless companies meet terms(engadget.com)
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by rosser 10y ago
When this ships as a PostgreSQL extension, it looks like it could very handily solve a problem for which we're currently pilot-testing logical decoding. I look forward to trying it, and would happily explore whether beta testing in a l
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by rosser 10y ago
Can't this notion pretty much be summed with the Bertrand Russell quote, "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt"?
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by rosser 10y ago
Yes, that's correct. Thanks for clarifying.
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by rosser 10y ago
Like I said, any more is beyond my level of understanding of these things. All I can say for sure is that the GABA system is incredibly important, and kinda delicate. Read up on delirium tremens , for example: long-term alcoholics, and ben
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by rosser 10y ago
There was an article shared on HN a couple years ago arguing these that sorts of cost spikes and overruns are pretty much endemic to countries with common-law legal systems, and almost non-existent outside them. I'm having a hard time
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by rosser 10y ago
My theory: it's a back-handed jab at President Trump, as he's reported to be a user of Propecia for hair loss. Overtly political stories are usually flagged off the front page quickly, but this is "just" a journal articl
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by rosser 10y ago
The Wikipedia article says it prevents conversion of testosterone into dihydrotestosterone by the enzyme 5α-reductase, and also affects the GABA system. Particularly relevant quote: "Reduction of GABA-A receptor activation by these neu
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by rosser 10y ago
The linked Wikipedia article cites references to persistent ED and diminished libido common enough to warrant changing the labeling on the drug in 2014 . So, yes, this study is exploring that side effect, but it's inaccurate to call
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by rosser 10y ago
Among other things, in a drug that is used to treat BPH (benign prostatic hyperplasia — a non-cancerous enlargement of the prostate), and male pattern hair loss. It's also sometimes used as a hormone replacement in FtM transgender indi
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by rosser 10y ago
It was posted as a counter-point to its parent's unqualified assertion that raising prices lowers demand.
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by rosser 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veblen_good EDIT: It's not that simple. Raising prices doesn't magically lower demand in every scenario.
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by rosser 10y ago
Yeah, on a landing craft, expect some form of ablative armor. (How friggin' Star Trek is that ?!)
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by rosser 10y ago
In the short term, while the technology is still pretty new, perhaps. But that would assume an agility on the part of the people building the targeted missiles that I'm pretty sure only players like Russia and China can offer, and we d
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by rosser 10y ago
Dogmatism like "commit messages must be at least three lines" will result in commit messages like: here's some code. Concentrating on form over substance is myopic.
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by rosser 10y ago
Couple the forced migrations of people looking for water with people fleeing from water (rising sea levels), and we are potentially in some societal deep shit .
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Researchers “Translate” Bat Talk. Turns Out, They Argue. A Lot(smithsonianmag.com)
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