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by wpasc 8y ago
No it just means that it uses a particular subset of pesticides and follows certain parameters. Many people will argue that its just a nonsense credential while others will say "better than nothing". I personally count myself in t
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by wpasc 8y ago
Can we (HN community) please stop upvoting sciencealert garbage? They never cease to post utterly sensationalist garbage that is always clickbait titled and never accurately represents the information.
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Biogen's New Beta Amyloid Targeting Alzheimer's Drug Halted(statnews.com)
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by wpasc 8y ago
Out of curiosity what is your issue with Jack/Twitter ethics? Too much censoring or not enough?
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by wpasc 8y ago
Epic Games circumvented this pretty easily with Fortnite on Android
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by wpasc 8y ago
I can't speak for the person to whom your replying, but at any big tech company doing anything with recommendations, machine learning, etc. will have teams where having a PhD is huge especially when being considered for promotions
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by wpasc 8y ago
I wonder what percentage of questions just need a correctly working example because the questioner is unsure of how to use a given API. Automation of this I imagine could actually be doable.
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by wpasc 8y ago
I selfishly love standardized testing because I have mostly done well on it. but SAT prep is ABSOLUTELY effective. I have my own personal anecdotal experience as well of that of my peers, but there are countless prep courses that boast impr
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by wpasc 8y ago
Fair reply, and thank you for replying. While I agree the funding mechanisms you mentioned certainly must exist, I imagine things like unexpected delays for a given therapy or complications with a clinical trial (not with the medicine but w
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by wpasc 8y ago
NIH funding has been highly stagnant for sometime as well as NSF funding. Drug development and research timelines are much longer than any single politician's term. What successful government projects inspire your confidence that they
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by wpasc 8y ago
What troubles me about insulin prices is that raising prices can simultaneously be used to satisfy shareholders with growing profits AND be used to fund new drugs (revenue from existing drugs obviously must fund the creation of new drugs).
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by wpasc 8y ago
I frequently wonder how much market volatility is amplified by High frequency trading and algorithmic trigger fingers. With most of the decline reference in this article returned (at least from an index perspective) by March, I wonder how m
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by wpasc 8y ago
interesting choice of HN screen name :-)
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by wpasc 8y ago
I was fascinated to see how low New York was. Given the immense amount of car traffic, anyone have an idea as to why its so low?
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by wpasc 8y ago
I'm sorry, but why is no one commenting on the fact that 100 employees signed? A quick search shows that Microsoft has 134k employees (not sure if that includes contractors). but less than .1% of employees signed. All these media headl
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by wpasc 8y ago
I agree on both fronts, a well written article but to me the notion of people observing any missed key on the keyboard would only increase the likelihood of me messing up tenfold. Props to those who livestream coding, I don't think I c
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by wpasc 8y ago
I completely agree with you about the rising levels of autoimmune diseases. Lots of ideas are swirling around such as the Hygiene Hypothesis. You may in fact be right about your diet choice. However, look up "mcdougall starch diet auto
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by wpasc 8y ago
Hello, I downvoted and will tell you why. I don't have crohn's or UC, but I do have ankylosing spondylitis which is a related autoimmune issue which is very correlated with crohn's/uc especially in the genetic incidence
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by wpasc 8y ago
I've read the Selfish Gene and loved it, but I had NO idea that meme originated from that book. I must have skimmed that paragraph. Thank you for this!
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by wpasc 8y ago
I agree, but the range of topics which may be popular at any given time is narrower and two stories about a single topic are likely to trend at similar times shrinking the sample space somewhat.
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by wpasc 8y ago
chess/go are very different games to starcraft in terms of incomplete information, realtime nature, and micro/macro strategy. It looked very similar to the first version of OpenAI's Dota 2 bot. Their first iteration only play
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by wpasc 8y ago
I agree with sentiments of parts of what you say. However, the 3rd world countries have had the largest gains in the last 30 years. Global extreme poverty, child mortality, lifespan in 3rd world countries have had the most improvements BY F
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by wpasc 8y ago
I wonder how Starcraft2 compares to Dota 2 in terms of difficulty for the AI. Moreover, I'd be interested to see how OpenAI and DeepMind's techniques, models differ in approaching these games.
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by wpasc 8y ago
$10 bucks says you're talking about Pinker's Englightenment now
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by wpasc 8y ago
what do you believe is a better alternative? in your specific case, must one live in a house full time to maintain ownership?
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by wpasc 8y ago
Many companies who have tiered hiring packages (many, many employers) by default reward a masters more than a bachelors, and a phd more than a masters. There are quite a few examples (especially at good employers) of a masters being plainly
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by wpasc 8y ago
I frequently see people say "Google should be broken up" and I want to hear more on that argument. Meaning Google and Youtube should be separated? but then we're no longer talking about just their search dominance right? How
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by wpasc 8y ago
Now I see that you're OP and looking through the comments, I just want to say I feel for you. I am 26, when I was in high school I was highly active with a lot of exercise. Due to the peripheral manifestations of my AS I can't rea
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by wpasc 8y ago
Not in technical terms, but the doctor was head of hip arthroscopy at NYU Langone and an associate prof of medicine at NYU. Very legitimate doctor (I really liked him and think he is a great doctor) and facility in NYC. They never made any
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I have Ankylosing Spondylitis with peripheral manifestations in knee, elbow. I did an autologous stem cell injection into my peripheral joints with no effect.

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