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by spikels 13y ago
I agree completely. NPR is as good as it gets on US radio or TV (the competition is very weak) but has a decidedly pro-establishment and pro-government bias. This will make them particularly conflicted on the spying issue. This should not b
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by spikels 13y ago
I love all the doublespeak around this issue but "warrant-based" is a new one. I'm pretty sure that does NOT mean a warrant specifically naming each person whose information was collected. Or does it? You need a lawyer to tra
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by spikels 13y ago
This is just too hilarious to be true and it seems not to be direct quote from a government official but more the popular interpretation of a widely ridiculed statement by the head of the Venezuelan stats office. http://en.mercopress.com/2
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by spikels 13y ago
Of course the trade embargo has harmed the Cuban economy and personally I think it should have been ended long ago. However a trade embargo is not sabotage and there were reasons why it was originally put in place (Cuban missile crisis, exp
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by spikels 13y ago
You will wait in vain. Google has no incentive to explain. It would only damage any chance of other and/or future business in Argentina. But not every company is so timid. Brazil's Vale recently pulled out if a giant potash project and acco
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by spikels 13y ago
1) The reason Play can't operate in Argentina is because of government imposed currency controls have made cross border payments very difficult (reread 1st & 2nd paragraphs). 2) Learn about the Montoneros and it's members participation
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by spikels 13y ago
1) BA is not only the political and business capital but has 40% of the population and is 10 times larger than the next biggest city. 2) Menem was last president in 1999 and the last dictator was in 1983. The Kirchners have run Argentina co
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by spikels 13y ago
I read Scientific American most of my childhood - articles about physics, biology, math and especially the Amateur Scientist column (I so wanted to make that laser but had no vacuum pump). I loved it! Then in the 1990s something changed ins
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by spikels 13y ago
Didn't know that but last year one of the morning NPR hosts had to take a vacation for the duration of the election because her husband was running a big part of one of the campaigns. It's like a king's court - everyone fawning over the pow
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by spikels 13y ago
What's really crazy is that this was a big success and was probably leaked by someone proud of the achievement. Meanwhile someone else had decided to pursue these drastic measures to find the leaker. They may even work together. In any even
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by spikels 13y ago
We have a problem here and it is not any particular politician or political party but the assumption of almost unlimited power by our entire political leadership. They appear to believe they can do whatever they can get away with - just do
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by spikels 13y ago
I hate the term "Big Data" but if it somehow puts Oracle down it can't be all bad.
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by spikels 13y ago
You are right about the sequester cuts. I was looking at the annual numbers of the NIH front page which didn't include 2013. I wonder why 5.5% overall cuts translate to 20% cuts. The SciMag article makes it seems like they were only cutting
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by spikels 13y ago
If only it were so. Often important parts of the protocol exist only in a hand written entries in a lab notebook. Because very few people are reproducing experiments and it is lots of extra work and jornals have limited space all the requir
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by spikels 13y ago
Actually very few people are trying to reproduce results. It is a lose-lose situation. Either you confirm the previous results which won't get published or you can't confirm them which means you are either not as competent as the original r
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by spikels 13y ago
I think you are on to something. When science became so big that it first needed then eventually was run by "managers" I bet it lost much of its effectiveness. But how do we change this? For starters there is a lot of money involved for the
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by spikels 13y ago
I would like to add The Reproducibility Project and Reproducibility Initiative to your list. They are seeking to specifically address this issue. http://www.openscienceframework.org/project/EZcUj/wiki/home https://www.scienceexchange.com
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by spikels 13y ago
Why do you say funding is getting cut? NIH's budget has almost doubled in the last decade [1] and many of the other funders have seen similar growth as well as new funders appearing every year. I don't think the problem is lack of funding b
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by spikels 13y ago
If its not reproducible it is not science.
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by spikels 13y ago
The terms of these agreements seem pretty arbitrary and probably present a false sense of security. Properly encrypted data in the cloud is completely secure. In fact it should be impossible to tell from random bits. On the other hand data
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by spikels 14y ago
Explosions are very bad for business not only is your valuable plant destroyed but you can't make fertilizer until you build a new one. Existing and potential employees would demand higher wages and/or increased safety measures after an acc
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by spikels 14y ago
Don't Sanders & King almost always vote with the democrats? I would like to see real independents that vote sometimes with one party sometimes with the other and sometimes against both. That would be a true independent.
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by spikels 14y ago
Everyone just ignores this for some reason. http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Human-waste-shuts-down...
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Old Dirty Alley - Another Side of SF(olddirtyalley.net)
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by spikels 14y ago
I wish I was a SF sewage worker I'd be retired with a nice pension by now ;) Aloisius you just needed to walk around more in the downtown area - I walk everywhere. Next time you are here take a look around the NW corner of Mission and 8th i
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by spikels 14y ago
Open defecation is also practiced in San Francisco. I have seen is occurring in front of my apartments and on the street. You can find human feces on almost any walk through SOMA, the Tenderloin or Civic Center area if you know what to look
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by spikels 14y ago
Yes I must have been living under a rock while academic research (we are not talking about corporate R&D) became completely dominated by the persuit of funding. Yes I've heard that grant writing has become a key "research" skill. And I
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by spikels 14y ago
Contract? Are we taking about business or science? Now I am really worried. Is the goal to produce "tangible results" (papers, press, professional aclaim, popular fame) or try and maybe, even probably, fail to uncover something new but true
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by spikels 14y ago
The Trinity site is open twice a year to visitors. When I went 10 years ago there were still bits of the blueish-green glass mixed in with the grass and sandy soil. A small section was preserved and coverered with a low windowed box. The gr
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by spikels 14y ago
An alternative solution that works is some situations is to format the column as "Text". However you must do this before pasting the data into the cells or else it will already be converted. I use this technique for zip codes which can have

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