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by spikels 12y ago
Those are just a tiny fraction of the reasons why medical research is so difficult. Others include statistical issues, genetic variation, high costs, long timeframes, ethical constraints, publishing bias, bias of researchers, various kinds
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by spikels 12y ago
More evidence that vitamins and supplements are bullshit. While people with specific conditions may benefit AFAIK there is no pill you can take that has actually been proven to improve the health outcomes on otherwise healthy people. All th
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by spikels 12y ago
You might want to look at the examine.com page more carefully. The only result that is both significant (i.e. large effect) and robust (i.e. agreement in lots of double blind studies) is a reduction of triglycerides. And that is an indirect
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by spikels 12y ago
Nice theory but the reality is quite different. Medical care is far from a solved problem. For example if you are a teenager who gets an aortic aneurism (literal your heart is about to explode) in a car accident only 50% will survive even w
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by spikels 12y ago
Seem like good ideas but none of the explain the decline of new business formation. 1. Despite EBay and freelancing self-employment has steadily declined from at least the 1970s[1]. I read somewhere once this has been go inning on for more
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by spikels 12y ago
You appear to think you understand these rather complex issues. I am skeptical that anyone does. So why are there fewer new businesses if it is not financing?
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by spikels 12y ago
I'm no fan of Taleb - simplistic ideas expressed in the most confusing and least concise way possible. Want to understand his 400+ page book "The Black Swan" refer to Rumsfeld's single sentence on "unknown unknowns&
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by spikels 12y ago
How is the reader supposed understand all this unless you actually say it in your essay. Instead you present a distorted caracature of ideas you clearly don't understand. Let me ask you this: if people don't act in their own self-
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by spikels 12y ago
I think you got it backwards: people act in their self-interest resulting (surprisingly to some) in many of them getting what they desire. This is not a theory but a description of reality.
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by spikels 12y ago
Why do people, even (possibly) smart and well-meaning people, think there is some one size fits all lifestyle that works for everyone? Maybe some people/jobs work better on different schedules. And exactly how is this experiment going
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by spikels 12y ago
Rope memory is quite beautiful. Seems like an alien technology - almost organic.
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by spikels 13y ago
Exactly - this seems like an obvious and easy improvement to the algorithm.
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by spikels 13y ago
That's how you used to have to do research - boxes of files. Today he would have had everything scanned and indexed multiple ways in a database. But there is something special about the less satisfying about this than a room containing
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by spikels 13y ago
"Eyes Wide Shut" is a masterpiece but also a very difficult film to understand. Even at its very slow pace it is too much to understand in one viewing. I paticularly love all the incidents that tangential to the main plot: the dru
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by spikels 13y ago
Everything is not class warfare. You just argued above that he created less because of his (well deserved) wealth later in life. So you can be both jealous and disappointed. Nice rhetoric!
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by spikels 13y ago
There is no Alibaba "share price" - it is a private company. EDIT: If you disagree with this statement, let me know what the Alibaba "share price" is and where to find it. Good luck!
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by spikels 13y ago
Maybe you missed it but rents dropped in the early 2000s when demand decreased after the first internet bubble popped and were flat in the mid-2000s.
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by spikels 13y ago
As of last strike (mid-2013) the average BART worker make around $130,000 including benefits but not including overtime. Including overtime one train operator made $175,000. And both these number are likely to underestimate future pension a
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by spikels 13y ago
I found the idea hilarious. Yahoo should stick to what it does best: holding shares of Alibaba! EDIT: I like how this has been picked up by a fashion industry rag[1]. Great PR effort! </snark> [1] http://www.fashiontim
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by spikels 13y ago
It is generally hard to take James Fallows' opinions seriously. He is a great writer but always seems to be of the wrong side of history. For example back in the late 1980s he led the "The Japanese are Taking Over the World"
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Marissa Mayer’s Secret Plan: Get Apple to Dump Google for Yahoo Search(recode.net)
3 points by spikels 13y ago|1 comments
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by spikels 13y ago
Quantum mechanics is where physics became more like mathematics: common sense no longer provides much guidance. It is really cool that it provides the missing explanation for one of the most common sense ideas in classical physics: the arro
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by spikels 13y ago
I always liked the basic income plus flat tax combination - simple and fair. Due to the means testing of various aid programs the tax system if often regressive and always confusing for low income earners. Exactly the opposite of what we sh
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Journalist Wearing Google Glass Claims He Was Attacked; Device Smashed In SF(sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com)
3 points by spikels 13y ago|1 comments
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by spikels 13y ago
Almost every city in the Bay Area has a range of affordable housing programs - from public housing to income restricted rentals and ownership opportunities to rental and purchase assistance programs. Some are federal, some state, some local
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by spikels 13y ago
Agreed - great reporting. Well researched, objective articles like this are very rare even on subjects as fascinating as this. Surprised to see it in Techcrunch - seems more like something you'd find in the New Yorker.
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by spikels 13y ago
Not sure Howard Zinn's "A People’s History of the United States" is a good pick unless you are already very well versed in history (and many other subjects) and know what to ignore. While an interesting read he takes a strong
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by spikels 13y ago
Almost everything is better in Japan! - Taxi doors open themselves (and the drivers wear white gloves) - Subway maps light up to indicate where you are - You can hold your table at a cafe by leaving your phone or keys or wallet & nobody
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Libertarian Charles Murray: The welfare state has denuded our civic culture(pbs.org)
1 points by spikels 13y ago|1 comments
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Diff of OpenSSL heartbleed fix (1.0.1f vs 1.0.1g)(pastebin.com)
2 points by spikels 13y ago|0 comments

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