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"For older women, breathing air that is heavily polluted by vehicle exhaust and other sources of fine particulates nearly doubles the likelihood of developing dementia, finds a study published Tuesday." http://www.latim
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Facebook tried such a system in India [0]. "Called Free Basics, it provided only limited access to the Internet through a suite of websites and services that, unsurprisingly, included Facebook" https://www.cnet.com&#x2F
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Google knows the GPS location of almost every Wifi router, even if nobody has ever (successfully) connected to it with location services. By design, Android will search all Wifi SSID's and send the GPS coordinates back to Google, so th
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Your last quote is the opposite of what the paper says. The authors write that insulin resistance is not sufficient to cause AD and that other things are required: > Therefore, T2DM and obesity may contribute to, i.e., serve as cofac
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Netflix was sued because they kept rental history on former customers. Netflix revenue: $8,800,000,000 Lawsuit amount: $9,000,000 (or approx 0.1%) Lawyers received: $2,100,000 Plaintiffs received: $30,000 [0] https://arstechnica.
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I found a study to back this up [0] > "Spinal taps showed that the more deep sleep people missed out on, the higher their levels of A-beta in the morning. Tau levels didn’t budge because of just one night of slow-wave sleep disrupti
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That sounds a lot like Otto von Bismarck [0] . Fearful of the socialists, he tried banning them, but that didn't work. So, instead, he introduced "Soclialism-lite" with improved worker conditions, social benefits, and semi-pu
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Qt Creator handles this problem differently. If you call f<int>(0) and f<uchar>(0) within your code, then the Clang code model will process both in the background, check for any syntax errors, and show an error if either one fai
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In defense of the person you're replying to, a lot of large corporations have "employee improvement plans" that are designed specifically to create documentation that can justify a firing, especially when that firing is for s
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> just like on real property Most of a company's tangible assets aren't taxed. In fact, quite the opposite...
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That's exactly my point. Google is advertising this as a truth-telling mechanism, but it's a "majority belief" telling one instead.
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There are things that are false that everyone believes and things that are true that nobody believes... Google's algorithns weren't designed to tell the truth, only to tell what's popular.
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One of the amazing results of Ericsson's study of performance musicians was that those who napped during the day had a huge imprvement over those who didn't.
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That reminds me of an old joke: Q: How do you make $1 million in aerospace? A: Start with $1 billion
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The only thing that should follow a "This should never happen" is an assert or exception.
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What do you mean?
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Sometimes this is true, however there are many tricks that biotech companies use to prevent generics. The first is the very high cost ($ billions) of getting through FDA approval for a drug. Once a company has done this approval, then other
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(I'm not advocating, just explaining) The person you're replying to is referring to the study, which found that men rated women on appearance, while women rated men on career prospects. This is the "socially conservative&quot
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Suppose that cocoa does not have direct effects on health. Recruit 60 people, give 30 of them cocoa and 30 of them placebo. Due to random chance, you'll sometimes get positive results, and sometimes get negative results. If all of thos
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Urgent Care clinics might help fill the gap between long term care (where delays are OK) and emergencies (where delays are not OK).
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From another article on the same study (albeit earlier): > "Medicaid coverage increases emergency department use, both overall and for a broad range of types of visits, conditions, and subpopulations," says Amy Finkelstein, an
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The reason you have to wait 6 weeks is that the doctor's office does not have infinite capacity, and increasing that capacity would require adding nurses, doctors, and rooms. Instead, the 6 weeks is a result of 1) the number of people
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Strangely, a study on whether providing expanded medicaid* would reduce emergency room visits seemed to suggest that it did not: > It was widely believed that having insurance would encourage people to get routine medical care in doctors
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It's "normal" but a bit pricey [0]. [0] http://www.multpl.com/shiller-pe/
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On mobile, I was able to read it in incognito by using Reader mode (which disables all page CSS and Javascript.) This probably works on desktop too.
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New Intel chips have only had minimal improvements to previous chips, so there isn't a huge incentive to upgrade if you don't mind giving up a little performance in exchange for security.
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"By Kant's account, when one employs a concept to describe or categorize noumena (the objects of inquiry, investigation or analysis of the workings of the world), one is employing a way of describing or categorizing phenomena (the
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I wouldn't be so sure that private offices is a male-only thing, or that Microsoft advertising it had to do with the "lone coder." I know quite a few women who complain about their open office work plans and would jump at an
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In the population of districts case, there was an objective measurement: the difference in population of two districts. Then, the defendents made a subjective argument that they were "close enough". However, the Supreme Court does

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