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by trendia 8y ago
Sounds like NumWorks [0] [0] https://www.numworks.com/
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by trendia 8y ago
"Acyclovir crosses the blood-brain barrier, a desirable quality for the treatment of herpes encephalitis, neonatal herpes simplex virus infections, and, possibly, multiple sclerosis" [0] "The bioavailability of orally adminis
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by trendia 8y ago
We still don't have price transparency, so it's not surprising the customers of health don't shop around. I went to a grocery store health clinic without insurance and asked how much it would cost to see the doctor. They were
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by trendia 8y ago
Did the Senate ask the CIA to spy on them? "An internal investigation by the C.I.A. has found that its officers penetrated a computer network used by the Senate Intelligence Committee in preparing its damning report on the C.I.A.’s det
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by trendia 8y ago
In the context of the infectious disease hypothesis, do you know why caffeine / coffee would be associated with lower incidence of Alzheimer's? (It reduces amyloid-beta levels, but if plaques are not the cause of Alzheimer's
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by trendia 8y ago
The amyloid, T3D, and viral hypotheses still don't explain why cholesterol, obesity, air pollution, lack of sleep, and sedentary liftestyle positively correlate with Alzheimer's and high caffeine intake and regular exercise negati
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by trendia 8y ago
Source? Wouldn't these people need to be specifically from the search team, and not Google in general (which would have almost no control over search)
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by trendia 8y ago
When I use apt-get I am downloading from debian.org, where at least there will be a record of what was executed. Further, I trust debian.org more than some random github repo. When I use curl|sh, I could execute hidden text, e.g. through a
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by trendia 8y ago
I love that "Do not track" is not interpreted as an instruction to not track but rather as an additional 1 bit of discriminatory data.
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by trendia 8y ago
Acyclovir improves outcomes in HSV encephalitis [0], but does not completely cure it or prevent long-term damage in all patients. The worst side effect of encephalitis is memory impairment: > The most common and most disabling complicati
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by trendia 8y ago
> Firefox is about letting you control your browser experience The true history of Pocket suggests otherwise -- in 2015 Mozilla integrated Pocket, which was at that time a private company separate from Mozilla, into Firefox. Further, whe
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by trendia 8y ago
I moved to the ESR branch specifically to get a web browser that just browses the web. (It's the default in Debian for that very reason!) However, version 60 added pocket, along with other "features" such as the optional Fire
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by trendia 8y ago
> the giver can sue the receiver to recover the ring if the engagement is broken off. Which contradicts the whole idea of an engagement ring: > In the United States, until the Great Depression, a man who broke off a marriage engageme
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by trendia 8y ago
This may be true, but the government also has the power to control inflation, which limits the purchasing power of those dollars. See: Venezuela, Zimbabwe, Germany ~1920
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by trendia 8y ago
Of course, the people who really had experience in Bitcoin in 2011 are not out looking for jobs...
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by trendia 8y ago
My post is describing why minimum income would not result in everyone getting $50,000 a year.
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by trendia 8y ago
To get everyone up to the poverty line and not have to cut government projects, you'd have to triple tax revenue. Since the average tax burden for those making $500k+ is around 30% already, that would effectively mean taxing them a
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by trendia 8y ago
The total US tax revenue in 2017 was $3.422 trillion. If you split that evenly among 300 million people, each would get $11,000, which is half of the poverty line of $22,000. Even if you thought that little money was acceptable, to afford i
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by trendia 8y ago
Utility companies usually enjoy both natural and state-granted monopolies for many reasons. The state grants them monopolies because cities don't want multiple companies laying conduits or having disputes over access to existing condui
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by trendia 8y ago
Facebook's earnings are driven by their ad network, not user interaction. That is, as long as Facebook is able to identify and track an individual, they can make money even if the user never spends much time on Facebook. So, stock pric
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by trendia 8y ago
Genetics play an important factor. CYP1A2, one of the enzymes that metabolizes caffeine, varies by as much as 40x between individuals. In those with a high level of the enzyme, caffeine is metabolized quickly, so they can drink coffee in th
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by trendia 8y ago
The source of Facebook's revenue is its ad network, not the use of its social networking capabilities at facebook.com If you visit a news site and click on an ad that was shown through Facebook's ad network, then they receive mone
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by trendia 8y ago
I understand the value of guerrilla marketing, but at the same time it makes them seem less credible. Imagine if they offered a 75% discount for defending them or praising them on Hacker News! That would make any comment in support of GitLa
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by trendia 8y ago
> why apple always fall towards the earth but not earth towards an apple? But it does.
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by trendia 8y ago
I'm not convinced. I run a Pi-Hole [0] to redirect all advertising-related queries to a black hole. When tracking the most-blocked domains, Microsoft is at the very top [1]. For instance, when I enter "Office" into the start
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by trendia 8y ago
On a broader scale, the NSA had William Binney implement a way of vacumming up data, but the system include Constitutional protections and required a warrant to access. Once it was implemented, the NSA took him off the project and put other
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by trendia 8y ago
I would like to know how this will affect Microsoft. I run a Pi-Hole [0] to redirect all advertising-related queries to a black hole. When tracking the most-blocked domains, Microsoft is at the very top [1]. For instance, when I enter &quot
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by trendia 8y ago
Why have autonomous agents talk to each other? It is vastly simpler to fill out an online form.
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by trendia 8y ago
Honest question: If an embassy started blaring very loud music (or a siren), can the US do anything about it? Likewise, if they started emitting strong microwaves at people, can the US do anything about it? It seems like there must be som
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by trendia 8y ago
> Timothy Draper, the well-known venture capitalist, had been a neighbor when the Holmeses lived in California. The children played together. “I gave her her first million bucks to get the business going,” Mr. Draper says. “She totally b

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