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by torkins 13y ago
So given that ADHD is, in actual fact, a neurobiological diagnosis, not a psychological diagnosis, then I guess you're stating your support for treating it with drugs?
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by torkins 13y ago
Which article did you read? Not only was there no discussion of the cost of false negatives, there was very little treatment of the actual cost of false positives, just a nebulous assertion that its bad for kids to be on pills. I would say
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by torkins 13y ago
I didn't get it when he mentioned it but thanks to your comment I'm pretty sure I do. Might want to remove the clue for others' benefit
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by torkins 13y ago
premiums rose by 4% for 2013, so that's the right direction, even sub 5% edit: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/21/business/survey-finds-mode...
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Obama: Marijuana No More Dangerous Than Alcohol(politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com)
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by torkins 13y ago
As others have said this GAAP/FASB principle makes sense. The only thing I'll add is that you mentioned not being able to ask for that money back. The accounting activity involved in a refund of prepaid liabilities would be to re
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by torkins 13y ago
look at it from the other side: Do you think it is criminally negligent for a parent to bring up their child without any education whatsoever? Do you think the state should intervene to protect criminally neglected children from their negle
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by torkins 13y ago
Median senator age is 62. Most Senators are highly educated (many from highly-paid professions such as legal before they became highly-paid senators) and married. Thirty years of high income (100-150K family income in today's dollars)
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by torkins 13y ago
"Education loans has led to restore[sic] slavery" is one of the most hyperbolic comments I have read on HN. I don't agree that giving students credit secured by future income is equivalent to forcibly converting a free human
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by torkins 13y ago
The point you made was that India et al are bad too, so why are we judgmental Westerners always harping on North Korea. North Korea is a grotesque among nations, reminding the Western observer more of dystopian, cautionary literature more t
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by torkins 13y ago
I wouldn't argue that it is a modern Western democracy, a great place to live or a place of reasonable social equality. However, Indians do have the fundamental right to move about India and to leave India without special permission. It m
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by torkins 13y ago
India simply does not belong in the same group as North Korea, Iran, or even China. Fundamentally, whether it struggles with poverty or not, it is a democracy, not a totalitarian regime. Indian citizens vote in elections and enjoy the free
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by torkins 14y ago
At LogicBlox ( http://www.logicblox.com/ ), we use it to deploy our customers' applications both for testing and production. We also use hydra ( http://hydra.nixos.org/ ) to run our buildfarm. We're soon going to use NixOS for our deploy
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by torkins 15y ago
I think you're misinterpreting the meaning of one-way mirror. He means that you're hanging out with your friends while being observed surreptitiously by people on the other side of the one-way mirror (a one-way mirror is reflective on one
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by torkins 15y ago
how about just making it so people can share what they want with who they want, without difficulty? I don't want my software to preach to me about how to democratize my social whatsit, I just want to find a replacement for emailing picture
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by torkins 15y ago
The article treats the 'open' and 'closed' status of APIs as if it somehow relates to being open-sourced or something. Really they are just referring to access control, which is both irrelevant to the issue at hand (whether an API is copyri
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by torkins 15y ago
If you'd bother to watch the video you linked, you might notice he doesn't actually say that... in fact he says that is a stupid thing to say.
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by torkins 16y ago
No, he's wrong. Natural selection doesn't speed up or slow down, it just is. Each passing generation there are pressures put on the spreading of human genes, and those pressures are the manifestation of natural selection. Whether those p