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by veddox 9y ago
I don't think the authors are native speakers, let's forgive them for that ;-)
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by veddox 9y ago
This whole study strikes me as rather weak, I wouldn't give assign too much importance to the results. As mentioned below, the number of participants was rather low (though that is not uncommon in the life sciences and medicine). Also,
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by veddox 9y ago
The study doesn't say whether red meat is "good" or "bad", just that eating red meat correlated (within their study group) with shorter telomere lengths. Telomeres are caps at the end of the chromosomes that serve a
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by veddox 9y ago
Put simply: if you test a random event often enough, you're going to get lucky eventually. In statistics, the question everybody asks is whether or not a given result is "significant". To answer this question, one calculates
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by veddox 9y ago
I'm sorry, I really can't follow your line of reasoning here. Could you elucidate?
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by veddox 9y ago
This strikes me as a very hyped article. "It’s like Einstein’s theory of relativity, but for viruses" - seriously?! While the proposed explanation for differing rates of evolution is doubtlessly interesting from a scientific persp
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by veddox 9y ago
I like the idea, but I am afraid that as long as there are no "big names" behind it, it isn't going to make much headway in the conservative world of science. As tough as it sounds: reputation is the currency of science, and
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by veddox 9y ago
> What, if anything, will come after Facebook for human connection? "If anything"? I can pretty much guarantee you that in 50 years (or 100, to stay on the safe side), nobody will be using Facebook anymore. The question is not
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by veddox 9y ago
Excellent comment, I couldn't agree more! Just two things to add: For general language skills, find authors who have good style and read as much of their work as you can. They might be well-known book authors (I personally enjoy CS Lew
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by veddox 10y ago
Oh wow! Thanks for sharing that!
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by veddox 10y ago
> (Except this is Europe, where a hundred years is not a particularly long time...) Precisely what we mean ;-)
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by veddox 10y ago
> Tying in the US seems a bit forced here. Absolutely. Obviously the Civil War did play a role (there's nothing in history that isn't connected in some way), but trying to set it up as a major cause of WW1+2? No thanks. To me
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by veddox 10y ago
Nobody is asking France to return Alsace-Lorraine, but in a historical article, one might expect at least a footnote to say that this wasn't just French territory! And I don't think the comparison with Texas is all that fitting:
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by veddox 10y ago
I don't think you understand the extent of the distrust and resentment that existed between the French and the Germans. It goes back much further than 1871. You could probably go back to the Middle Ages, but let's start with Napol
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by veddox 10y ago
I use my initials when I'm getting to grips with a new code base. It's not for committing, just as an aid when I'm jumping around following the code.
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by veddox 10y ago
Yeah, that's the way I've been using it too: FIXME - something is there, but it doesn't work TODO - something that needs to be there but isn't yet XXX - something is there and works, but should be cleaned up.
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by veddox 10y ago
Short answer: code them ;-) Long answer: The Algorithms and Data Structures course is one of the foundational courses of a CS degree. Even if you think you don't need to be able to implement the algorithms you learn in your work later
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by veddox 10y ago
Given a hacker collective of sufficient size, know-how, resources and time, perhaps. (Even though they might end up destroying half of civilization themselves in the process...) Seriously, no. Aside from the fact that war is in essence a so
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by veddox 10y ago
About two years ago I stumbled across Paul Graham's essays and started reading my way through them. One of them was "What I've learned from Hacker News" ( http://www.paulgraham.com/hackernews.html )... Tha
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by veddox 10y ago
1. Your page took almost a minute to load. 2. What does your platform offer that I can't already get via Twitter? 3. You talk about the service being "free of media bias". But what about the bias of the people reporting your
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by veddox 10y ago
A fascinating article, thank you for sharing!
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by veddox 10y ago
Can you give a reference for that number? Sounds intriguing...
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by veddox 10y ago
Check their help page here: https://duck.co/help/settings/regions
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by veddox 10y ago
Ecosia has a great business model, if I wasn't already a dedicated DDG user I would switch straight away...
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by veddox 10y ago
> Earlier this year I made the conscious decision to remove all Internet service from my home. It ended up being the best productivity decision I’ve ever made. Yep, can confirm that. I haven't had any Internet in my student flat in
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by veddox 10y ago
Yea, I think it passed that mark a long time ago.
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by veddox 10y ago
A similar example comes to mind from Stephen E. Ambrose's book "Band of Brothers". He interviewed WW2 veterans who talked about how every soldier going into combat for the first time believes that he's going to survive.
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by veddox 10y ago
I would attribute a lot of that to survivorship bias - we usually only hear about successes. (Nobody likes to talk about failures.) That leaves us with the impression that successes are a lot more common than they really are. Also, hope and
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by veddox 10y ago
1. Be interested in the person standing opposite you, show real empathy. 2. Listen to what they say. 3. Try to understand why they say what they say; if necessary, ask questions. 4. If you ask questions, ask open-ended questions. ("Why
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by veddox 10y ago
> Online conversation is usually vastly better than "water cooler" conversation IRL where people typically say nothing of real importance. Usually, the point of conversation isn't to "say something of importance"

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