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by yapcguy 13y ago
Same same but different. The PBOC has taken swift action, while other central banks have just been talking.
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I kind of agree. The Chinese like to gamble, so something rocketing up was bound to attract speculators. Some people claim this move is to prevent capital flight from China, which is possible, but unlikely given the volatility of the BTC-US
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Some of my film friends moved to Avid on Windows.
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Developers (should) prefer using Linux over OS X. Mac gaming languishes like it always has. Pro video users have jumped shipped (still waiting for the new Mac Pro sometime this month, 18 months after Tim Cook teased folks after WWDC, years
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Sobering. Britain ranked 26th and the USA 36th.
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Pisa 2012 results: which country does best at reading, maths and science?(theguardian.com)
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I just looked at the keywords for Go, Java and C to see if there were any gender based words. There were none. However there were quite a few phallic references, e.g. sizeof, extends, long. Oops.
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I've talked to a few women in their 20s and 30s about this and their opinion was that guys who are always beating their chests about how they help women fight sexism in technology are probably doing it get into some warm panties.
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True democracy in Hong Kong is 'impossible', says Basic Law expert(scmp.com)
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Hong Kong's first case of H7N9 bird flu virus confirmed(scmp.com)
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Node's cluster module is handy, but it's a workaround for the fundamental weakness in Node - the entire thing's built on top of a single-threaded event loop which blocks. Instead of just communicating across threads to do som
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Hold on a second. The publisher was more than happy to publish the study after it had been scrutinized even though they knew it might be controversial. Suddenly they change their mind. Why? Does this mean that all papers published by Else
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4chan user sets himself on fire in live streamed suicide attempt(dailymail.co.uk)
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More California Parents Opting Out of Vaccines; Look Up Your School Online(blogs.kqed.org)
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Ask HN: Who is using Blu-Ray to back-up their data?
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Fyi: The EU has a vaccine schedule tool. Schedules are somewhat similar to the US but not the same. http://vaccine-schedule.ecdc.europa.eu/Pages/Scheduler.aspx Also women in France are filing lawsuits over Gardasil.
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by yapcguy 13y ago
You can't "switch" if you're dead. Ever heard of the Gardasil vaccine ? "Amid questions about the safety of the HPV vaccine Gardasil one of the lead researchers for the Merck drug is speaking out about its risks, be
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I never said don't take vaccines. Yes, I do find it quite incredible that questioning the efficacy of vaccines is like a red flag to a bull for some people. Even though the Lancet has published research examining the flu vaccine's
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Remember how vicious the Node.js "community" were to outsiders who critiqued event loop blocking? Whatever the technical merits, I think this incident will do significant damage to the perception of Node.js as a serious platform t
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> If Ben can’t learn, we’ll fire him. Wow, Isaac (the post author) has quote the ego. Isaac (of Nodejs) broke the commit rules by not getting his patch signed off. Ben was quite right in rejecting it and reversing it. Imagine this was a
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by yapcguy 13y ago
And just how do "the rest of us" know if we have a weakened immune system? If the objective is to do good and save lives, why not give everybody the same "safer" flu shot as given to pregnant women? Why not eliminate the
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Look, 9% is a far cry from 60%... is 9% effective? The 9% represents elderly people, a target group for the vaccine. I think what's more important is that anyone considering the vaccine should be told that they still need to take prec
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I don't see anything in that Github thread to warrant summary dismissal of an employee. A good CEO would ask the relevant manager to sit the two parties down and resolve the situation. If it were not possible, human resources could be
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I'm not talking about the pronoun issue, I'm focusing on the hypothetical firing. It's completely unreasonable to fire someone over what in essence is reversing a commit. It might warrant a discussion with a manager, it migh
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Any reaction should be towards Joyent - not Ben. What we have learnt is that the CEO of Joyent is prone to over-reacting and will fire people over nothing. So don't work for Joyent as there is no job security when you can be fired for
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by yapcguy 13y ago
Walgreens says about the nasal spray "It should not be used in pregnant women" which implies it is harmful in some way, does it not? http://www.walgreens.com/marketing/library/contents.jsp?doci... Flu sh
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It's not effective. If brakes only operated 9% of the time, would they be effective? "The current flu shot is only 9% effective for the elderly and only 56% effective in general, according to CDC figures. CDC officials are baffl
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Who knows what motivates them... "GlaxoSmithKline agreed to plead guilty to criminal charges and pay $3 billion in fines for promoting its best-selling antidepressants for unapproved uses and failing to report safety data about a top
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Agree 100%. Look at some of the rabid and downright insulting responses to what I wrote elsewhere in this discussion. Even if you're pro-vaccine but question the schedule and efficacy and necessity of some of the shots given exposure
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Are you describing yourself in that last sentence? "The current flu shot is only 9% effective for the elderly and only 56% effective in general, according to CDC figures. CDC officials are baffled why the vaccine is so ineffective in

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