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by tszyn 12y ago
The rich don't need the government to exert influence and rig the game in their favor. For example, they can: - buy up their competitors to create monopolies - use one monopoly to build another one (e.g. "if you buy our competitor
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by tszyn 12y ago
Good points. A system with universal private health insurance and pharma companies that reinvest all their profits into research seems equivalent to a system with publicly funded research. (Of course, in private systems there are many unins
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by tszyn 12y ago
Exactly. We could have a government program to develop nuclear weapons (I wonder if the director of that program made as much as the CEO of Novartis), but we can't have a government program to cure cancer. There's something wrong
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by tszyn 12y ago
I am not saying researchers should live in poverty. However, the Forbes article is peppered with distasteful quotes from CEOs salivating over the billions they stand to make from cancer treatments. Imagine a real person saying "Sure, I
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by tszyn 12y ago
People need monetary incentives to fight against the worst disease on the planet? Helping millions of people is not motivation enough?
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by tszyn 13y ago
I think the parent is saying that the maximum allowed number of passengers was 50 fewer than the # of seats. Meaning that 50 seats were never up for booking.
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Google Drops Discussions Search Filter and Others(seroundtable.com)
81 points by tszyn 13y ago|82 comments
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by tszyn 13y ago
The parent's point was that courts can only get data that are in Google's possession. Every time you give sensitive data to a third party, you make it easy for the government to get their hands on it.
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by tszyn 13y ago
It's really impossible to rate your life numerically in relation to a "best possible life", so in order to give some kind of answer to this vague question, respondents fall back on some quantifiable measure like money. A sepa
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by tszyn 13y ago
What if women are equal to men in coding aptitude, but simply don't want to code? Is that still a waste that we should do something about?
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by tszyn 13y ago
A friend of mine recently got a rash (I don't think it was a classic bullseye pattern) and some fatigue. She didn't notice a tick. Went to a doctor, suggested that it might be Lyme disease -- doctor told her if she'd had a
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by tszyn 13y ago
I think any geek interested in improving their English should check out my website: http://www.antimoon.com especially the "How to learn English" section, which is a guide based on my own experiences and some language
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by tszyn 13y ago
It's terrifying how far European "leaders" are willing to go to suck up to the US Government.
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by tszyn 13y ago
Possible reason why Poland was among those countries: The wave of anti-ACTA protests was the strongest in Poland of all European countries. We are historically a rebellious, freedom-loving nation (just think of the the anti-communist moveme
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by tszyn 13y ago
While it would make me proud if my country granted asylum to Snowden, I'm quite sure that no European politician will dare provoke the wrath of the American Empire -- there would be no clear benefits but obvious disadvantages.
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by tszyn 13y ago
I found this pretty awesome explanation for why a microwave oven doesn't block cell phone reception: http://skeptics.stackexchange.com/a/5410 Clearly, this whole "cell phone in a fridge" thing is a cleve
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by tszyn 13y ago
Tried two different types of anti-static bags -- even if I use two layers, the phone doesn't lose a single bar of signal strength.
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by tszyn 13y ago
Probably not, but they also won't be able to hear me if I put the phone in another room. Or if I leave it in a car.
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by tszyn 13y ago
I just put my phone in the refrigerator and called it -- works perfectly. Then I tried the same thing with a microwave oven (following pilsetnieks's suggestions) -- didn't even lose one bar on the signal indicator. It did kill the
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by tszyn 13y ago
This is awesome! It would be great to be able to play this with your friends, with every player getting the same set of locations to guess.
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by tszyn 13y ago
Try googling / binging "L1 interference".
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by tszyn 14y ago
I've been thinking about this for years. Recently, I tried to persuade Double Fine to introduce some English-learner-friendly features in their upcoming adventure game, but I got the feeling that it's a very low priority issue for them. Her
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The right way to stress-test an overclocked PC(blog.szynalski.com)
1 points by tszyn 14y ago|0 comments
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by tszyn 14y ago
Exactly. I used to run a small StackExchange site. One day I had a look at my user dump and was surprised to see how many duplicate (and triplicate) accounts there were.
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Is constant consumption of content keeping you from having your best ideas?(blog.szynalski.com)
1 points by tszyn 14y ago|0 comments
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I am now afraid of browser plugins(blog.szynalski.com)
1 points by tszyn 14y ago|0 comments
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by tszyn 14y ago
Exactly. P(results|luck) and P(luck|results) are two very different things. We don't know the probability that the results are due to "just luck" (whatever that means).
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by tszyn 15y ago
Thanks. That makes sense. The more you stand to lose by drifting off, the less likely you are to do it. Even if the cost of getting back on track is just pressing F11 or seeking back in the video, it can be a significant disincentive. I thi
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by tszyn 15y ago
That's an interesting point. Why do you think it is easier to get distracted while reading a Web page than while watching a video? Do you think the argument still holds when you're viewing a page in full-screen mode?
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by tszyn 15y ago
I've been wondering about this myself. Why are videos supposed to be better than the same content presented as a textual tutorial (with some multimedia content like animations)? I can think of several advantages of textual content over vide

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