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by tyu100 8y ago
Wow, yet another internet moral panic piece from Farhad Manjoo and the New York Times. For extra credit replace smartphone and facebook with MTV and television and see if you can tell the difference from something written in 1983.
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by tyu100 8y ago
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by tyu100 8y ago
What are you talking about? If a store were to keep every size of each shoe for public display they would have space to show about four types of shoe. Every shoe store since the beginning of time keeps almost all stock in the back.
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by tyu100 8y ago
I think absolutely the opposite: this is a hugely positive disruption in North American cities. Car-centric urban design is such a disastrous problem in so many ways: land use, pollution, cost and so on, that we need massive and immediate d
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by tyu100 8y ago
Great context. You don't have to go too far back in the archives of this site to find discussion on Andy Grove's similar big project to use in silico to destroy traditional pharma discovery. We haven't heard much from that pr
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by tyu100 8y ago
The article was about why testing for lead in depression is probably not a good idea or at least not a better idea than a million other things.
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When Antibiotics turn Toxic(nature.com)
1 points by tyu100 8y ago|0 comments
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by tyu100 8y ago
In the Canadian prairies we already had an insanely short window between endless winter season and infinite mosquito season and now tick invasion season has ably filled that gap. Argh.
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by tyu100 8y ago
What are you basing this on? Europe just signed up to complete the massive Nord Stream 2 pipeline from Russia to keep on getting natural gas from the worst state actor in the entire world while cutting out any leverage their most vulnerable
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by tyu100 8y ago
This was one of the best didn't read the articles I've seen in a while.
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by tyu100 8y ago
In really is incredible how many billions of dollars are spent on marketing alcohol and how pervasive is is.
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by tyu100 9y ago
I forget if its the Verge or some other popular podcast but they are always suggesting Apple just put together a fully open and accredited online university. The problem is that there are a lot of people getting paid a lot of money all over
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by tyu100 9y ago
My thoughts as well, but still an interesting article.
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by tyu100 9y ago
I'm using concurrent.futures in production and its use of the multiprocessing module caused the Python grpc library to break in a really strange and hard-to-debug way: https://github.com/grpc/grpc/issues/
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by tyu100 9y ago
Beautiful article. The moral panic around social media is getting ridiculous, and as mentioned in this article and elsewhere, there's very little evidence that any of the C.A. targeting had any measurable effect on anything.
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AbbVie Failure Casts Doubt on Cancer Stem-Cell Theory(blogs.sciencemag.org)
1 points by tyu100 9y ago|0 comments
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by tyu100 9y ago
They usually do well for two reasons. First, the debt is on the books of the company they take over, not the private equity firm. Second, once they have control of the company they charge it 'management fees' for the executives an
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by tyu100 9y ago
Yes, another disastrous private equity takeover. Debt servicing and management fees to the private equity funds take so much money out of the company that there is little left for innovation or tactical missteps. Sometimes you will see that
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by tyu100 9y ago
Well, the debunking of many of Daniel Kahneman's insights was covered here earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15228712 I would everything on whatever this list is with a huge grain of salt along with any oth
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by tyu100 9y ago
There is none. Rat/mice studies are used as very early steps to point directions for actually significant studies in human populations.
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by tyu100 9y ago
Please stop posting these pre-clinical studies on rats and mice! No one should ever be taking anything away from these sorts of studies for human health.
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by tyu100 9y ago
That's a funny comment given how much watch makers spend on marketing and branding.
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Britain's Serious Fraud Office Faces Political Pressures(bloomberg.com)
1 points by tyu100 9y ago|0 comments
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by tyu100 9y ago
Did you read the article? It was a very nuanced look at how to provide medical care and the reasons caregivers and people either under-treat or over-treat and the high levels of uncertainty about the efficacy of any given medical procedure.
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by tyu100 9y ago
This isn't really a political issue. Implementation was done by the civil service and was and is managed by non-political deputy ministers. There was a similar disaster with the centralization of web servers in the federal civil servic
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by tyu100 9y ago
Frankly, cities like New Orleans, Baltimore and New Orleans need systems like Palantir, drones, license plate readers and etc.. They are like something out of Hobbes right now, with no effective state authority and violence levels unseen el
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by tyu100 9y ago
The new camera technologies are, for me at least, a reason to upgrade to the current generation. I'm going to grab an IPhone X along with some telephoto lenses for my wife so she can stop taking both her phone and DLSR camera on trips
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by tyu100 9y ago
Yes, this was a really strange omission as was the threat of any stronger regulatory controls on fracking for natural gas. Both could change the landscape heavily again in the next few years.
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by tyu100 9y ago
I was in Spain last year for several weeks and it was so depressing how every town viewed at altitude was covered in a pervasive pea soup of diesel smog. The link between German industrial policy/protectionism and environmental disaste
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by tyu100 9y ago
Right, so since a common problem with anti-depressants are the varied side effects of different classes (insomnia, weight loss/gain, sexual dysfunction, etc.. and etc..) a big part of going on an anti-depressant is you and your doctor

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