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by uvdiv 14y ago
"[...] were each associated with CHDs [...] but residence close to TCE sites alone was not." So, they actually found no correlation with TCE exposure. There found a correlation with one of the subgroups [TCE + other variable], one out o
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Alert over South Korea toxic leaks(nature.com)
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by uvdiv 14y ago
It seems higher levels of trichloroethylene than this are/were common, even outdoors: (note this data is 10-20 years old) Reported worldwide background levels vary from <17 to 109 ng/m3. In rural areas levels of 0.10–0.68 µg/m3 have be
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by uvdiv 14y ago
Here's the Korean version, in case the North Korean website goes down, or for South Koreans whose country is blocking it: (apologies if I've damaged the formatting) https://gist.github.com/anonymous/5276280/raw/4ce722bf2f5cc4... The Engli
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by uvdiv 14y ago
Almost all of the historical currency examples differ from Bitcoin in an essential way: they are valuable commodities independent of their use as money. (Called "commodity currency"). They are either useful commodities (sugar, cigarettes)
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by uvdiv 14y ago
Why are all of you commenting out of complete ignorance and near absolute lack of domain knowledge? If that's a serious question, because we're pattern-matching this issue with other ones we're emotionally invested in -- archetypical issu
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by uvdiv 14y ago
Previously, the definition of "works" was "can be shown to be significantly better than placebo" That's what they're testing -- except, on a subgroup which is less sensitive to placebos. If a drug works on this subgroup, and if (the assum
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by uvdiv 14y ago
Cyprus's finance minister said Tuesday that large deposit holders at Cyprus Popular Bank PCL (CPB.CP), the island's second biggest lender, could face losses of as much as 80% on their deposits as the government moves to wind down its opera
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by uvdiv 14y ago
It can't go Mach 20 in the atmosphere, so that wouldn't work.
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by uvdiv 14y ago
The idea of rigging a clinical protocol to titrate out placebo responders and redo the study on successively more favorable terms seems like a new variety of intellectual corruption . They're not more favorable terms. A drug which has no e
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by uvdiv 14y ago
You start letting the tail wag the dog when you start from the assumption you are testing stuff which must have a significant benefit, and ask how you can better demonstrate that benefit - rather than accepting that the results appear to s
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by uvdiv 14y ago
If even in those circumstances they're not getting strong signals that their drug is effective then changing the experiments until they show what you're hoping for is not the right approach. Inconclusive results are not conclusive negativ
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by uvdiv 14y ago
How is SPCD a "fig leaf of a fudged trial"?
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by uvdiv 14y ago
This looks genuinely useful. Getting more statistical power out of clinical trials, for free, means they can use smaller sample sizes and save millions. Lower entry barriers means more drug trials. Not sure what the author finds "repulsive"
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by uvdiv 14y ago
CloudFlare's report (6 days ago): http://blog.cloudflare.com/the-ddos-that-knocked-spamhaus-of...
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Online Dispute Becomes Internet-Snarling Attack(nytimes.com)
70 points by uvdiv 14y ago|53 comments
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The interesting part is how they found "interstate commerce" in chicken feed which wasn't actually sold and didn't actually leave the state (didn't leave the farm even): The Court decided that Filburn's wheat growing activities reduced the
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by uvdiv 14y ago
You're right! Good catch.
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by uvdiv 14y ago
(Who do you report bugs to on HN? In titles, the character ">" is silently erased: you need to manually enter the HTML entity "&gt". This can't be intended behavior! (Apologies for being off-topic, I really don't know.))
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Cyprus may raise bank confiscation to 25% on uninsured deposits (&gt€100,000)(nytimes.com)
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by uvdiv 14y ago
I don't dispute the utility of Bitcoin transactions. But I don't see how this translates into BTC value.
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by uvdiv 14y ago
There's no such thing. Value (market or use) is always relative to someone or some group of people. Yes, but there's an important and qualitative difference between valuing something because it's useful , and only valuing something becau
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by uvdiv 14y ago
Adding a lawsuit to the mix will probably mean she'll never be hired by anyone (who can read and is on the web) again. It's actually illegal to research job applicants in some jurisdictions. For instance, Finland. https://blogs.law.harva
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by uvdiv 14y ago
When people stop using bitcoin, this value will disappear. It is not intrinsic value. It is value assigned by group psychology, like a bubble.
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Psychology. It could crash tomorrow: industrial gold consumption isn't driving the price.
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Markets aren't good at finding prices for pseudo-"assets" that have no value. A bitcoin price of $0 is a valid market equilibrium, and a stable one. Your argument is a rationale for a commodity currency. Markets are good at finding prices
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by uvdiv 14y ago
Google says maybe? http://www.diamond-materials.com/EN/products/overview.htm http://www.e6cvd.com/cvd/page.jsp?pageid=298 The prices are a bit high: a 0.8 cm diamond optical window goes for $450, for example.
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by uvdiv 14y ago
Look up, for example, why top Napa vineyards go for low yields. I tried and failed (wikipedia) -- can you point me to something informative? I don't know what I'm looking for. There is a finite number of nutrients in the soil, and the pl
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So far you can realise why that cheap Zin blend from Lodi doesn't really do it for you with the most obvious of measurements: yield! They get even 10 tons per acre there rather than 1-3 tons in a high-quality vineyard. Fewer nutrients and
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by uvdiv 14y ago
Force a race condition on the variable `root'. if (n.divide(root).equals(root)) { Try to set it to 2^20001 on the first funcall and 0 on the second.

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