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by stenl 8y ago
US taxes on average-ish incomes are definitely among the lowest in the OECD (as expected): http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/10/24/among-develo...
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by stenl 8y ago
Unfortunately we are still vastly better at making a worse mouse (or cow) than a better one, to paraphrase biologist Anne McLaren. Sure, evolution did eventually make a super smart chimp, but it took 7 million years of tinkering.
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by stenl 8y ago
Sweden, all of it, walked out in July and we’re doing fine. I doubt any PhD students avoid our institutions because of it, and we somehow manage to get the papers we need anyway. Asking on twitter is effective, or directly from authors. And
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by stenl 8y ago
Sweden has recently cancelled all Elsevier subscriptions, so we can’t access the journals anyway (except Open Access papers)
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by stenl 8y ago
Julius Wagner-Jauregg specifically treated neurosyphilis, an infectious disease, not just any ”psychiatric” disorder. That makes it perhaps less surprising that activating the immune system should have an effect. Today neurosyphilis is trea
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by stenl 8y ago
How about a nice game of chess?
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by stenl 8y ago
Neuroscientist here. The study shows no such thing. Maybe you refer to this: ”for the first time, identifies brain tissue macrophages proximal to neurons in over 40% of individuals with schizophrenia who are in a high inflammatory state.” B
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by stenl 8y ago
As a Swede, I have to agree that the level of overt poverty in US cities is shocking (specifically, as it is juxtaposed with so much overt wealth). I don’t know if Anericans care more about helping the poor, but clearly enough people don’t
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by stenl 8y ago
I find it very counter-intuitive that they would cite an ”ageing population” as a contributing cause of a drop in life expectancy. I suppose there might be some way that that could be true, but it’s not straightforward.
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by stenl 8y ago
Solution: free day care. It’s a win for taxpayers if those parents go to work and pay taxes instead of staying home with the kids. Also a win for women’s liberation.
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by stenl 8y ago
Reminds me of the Ise Jingū shrine, which has been torn down and rebuilt every 20 years for 2000 years.
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by stenl 8y ago
They should use Bayesian statistics, in which case it doesn’t matter when you stop (more precisely, stopping when you get a result does not bias the outcome; of course running the test longer will make the result more robust). See http:&#x
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by stenl 8y ago
It’s definitely apparent to those in the field. All the good scientists know who publishes junk, even if the junk publishers are unaware. Arjun Raj has a great and relevant blog post on playing the long game in science: http://ra
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by stenl 8y ago
One major issue is the fact that reverse transcriptase, which copies the HIV genome inside the cell, is sloppy and makes lots of mistakes. As a consequence, every viral particle produced is a little different. A drug that targets any given
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Human Cell Atlas AMA(reddit.com)
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by stenl 8y ago
I'm not sure what point Bret is trying to make here. Of course interactive explanation can be powerful. As a complement to the actual paper, this can be very valuable, similar to how the HTML version of a paper is useful in many contex
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by stenl 8y ago
The typical approach is to plot log(x+1) instead, which deals with the zeros as long as you know what you’re looking at. It’s nice to add some jitter too, e.g. a uniform random float number in the -0.25 to 0.25 range.
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by stenl 9y ago
There is a thing you can buy at the pharmacy that looks like transparent nail polish but tastes extremely bitter. Basically makes it disgusting to bite your nails, but is invisible to others. Hard to get off too, so you’ll get a few days bi
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by stenl 9y ago
Why is there no internet in the subway in NYC? I always found that annoying.
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by stenl 9y ago
On the other hand, making kinchi yourself is super-easy. it takes literally five minutes to set up and a few days to ferment, then just gets better over time (weeks/months).
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by stenl 9y ago
Fun fact: iTunes Store censors actor Brad P++t's last name in Sweden using two asterisks, presumably automatically, presumably because it means d+ck in swedish. (edit: use + instead of asterisk to fool the markdown rendering)
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by stenl 9y ago
It's fine to disagree with his political views. That's precisely his point: the freedom to disagree is the foundation of a free society. What facts were distorted? That he was jailed, multiple times, for defending freedom of expre
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by stenl 9y ago
I find autopoiesis ("self-constructing, self-maintaining, energy-transducing autocatalytic entities") to be the most satisfying definition of Life. But I find it weird that they would throw that term out there without citing Humbe
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by stenl 9y ago
Luigi from Spotify is very nice. We use it for computational pipelines in our neuroscience research. https://github.com/spotify/luigi/blob/master/README.rst
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by stenl 9y ago
Vampire bats use modified capsaicin (chili pepper) receptors in their nose to detect infrared light: https://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v476/n7358/full/nature... They use this to find their warm-
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by stenl 10y ago
Yes. Of course, they should do it properly and not stop at that but look at all plausible factors. For example, there's a very common chromosomal abberration that leads to a ten-fold increase in the violent crime rate (or more), yet th
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by stenl 10y ago
So now correlation is causation? I'm definitely in favour of more high-quality research into the causes of crime and its relationship with immigration, social factors, gender etc. Again, we need facts, which can only be won by serious,
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by stenl 10y ago
First, to claim that there's a taboo on discussing these issues is ridiculous on its face when it's discussed pretty much every day in every newspaper. You just don't like when people disagree with you that crime is linked to
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by stenl 10y ago
I'm all for less crime, and for crime stats to be reported accurately. But come on, this is Hacker News, we don't do "well-accepted opinion". Find the facts, report them honestly and then we can have a discussion. Truth
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by stenl 10y ago
Wait, what? The problem is that the facts themselves have a left-wing bias. Crime has fallen over decades, and deadly violence has not changed for a decade ( http://www.bra.se/bra/brott-och-statistik/mord-och-drap

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