cant_kant

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by cant_kant 10y ago
Sensible doctors do not believe drug company marketing. I get large amounts of ad-junk from drug companies that ends up unread in the bin. I refuse to meet with drug company representatives. I smile politely at them if I bump into them in t
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by cant_kant 10y ago
Two years late. HGST has been shipping helium filled HDDs since 2014.
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by cant_kant 10y ago
If the paper is retracted, do the publishers give a refund ? See http://retractionwatch.com/ to see the massive number of retractions that happen.
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by cant_kant 10y ago
"The Journal‘s reporting suggests that Theranos had been falsifying lab records to make it look like its own proprietary gear was as reliable as the industry standard. Documents from health care inspectors also seem to show that this k
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by cant_kant 10y ago
School is only incidentally about education. For instance, never underestimate the power of networking at a elite private school. A few random stories, all true: A client of mine is global <role_deleted_to_protect_anonymity> director
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by cant_kant 10y ago
Kyle Vogt said: "This is false." Talk to your lawyer before posting on social media.
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by cant_kant 10y ago
Interesting stories. Better copy editing would make them easier to read. "Ed had shouted on them like this" "No real kidnapper hauls around a struggling, scream-seeking captive" "I see I need to show the adolescent
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by cant_kant 10y ago
"A long-awaited Senate Intelligence Committee encryption bill would force companies to provide “technical assistance” to government investigators seeking locked data, according to a discussion draft obtained by The Hill." Full pdf
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by cant_kant 10y ago
What is wrong with using TeX ? MathML is reinventing the wheel. Only, the MathML wheel is square, flat and breaks when used.
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by cant_kant 10y ago
" Dyson did pioneer the bagless vacuum cleaners Dyson did pioneer the bagless vacuum cleaners" On the contrary bagless vacuum cleaners have existed since the 1920's, around 20 years before Sir James Dyson OM CBE FRS FREng was
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by cant_kant 10y ago
"In April and May 2015, a test to measure prostate-specific antigen, or PSA, failed quality-control checks 22% of the time. The PSA test is used to help detect prostate cancer." Ouch.... I see a string of class action suits in the
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by cant_kant 10y ago
I propose that facebook() be put into the public kernel For the secret* kernel that is known only to us, facebook () should be replaced by hn().
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by cant_kant 10y ago
"Maybe it was just a different time." Ellison's 200 million dollar house set on 23 acres, suggests that selective memory might be playing a role.
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by cant_kant 11y ago
The graph accompanying the article indicates that we need a global campaign to persuade more men to do "studio.art.drawing". At the very least, we need an article in the Communications of the ACM on the Top 10 Myths About Teaching
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by cant_kant 11y ago
Did Craig Wright come to the Satoshi Roundtable ?
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by cant_kant 11y ago
" a library for processing for the THAMIL language " ? I know of it as Tamil.
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The Clinton's family hedge fund is down to it's last $400M(zerohedge.com)
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by cant_kant 11y ago
I read the WSJ, FT, NYT, RCP, and The Hill if I want exposure to the "media". And HN for light entertainment. There is no way that I would look at inane posturing on Yahoo's blogs.
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by cant_kant 11y ago
Yahoo has digital magazines ? Why would a search company have junk like that ? How much other worthless baggage do they have ?
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by cant_kant 11y ago
Link to the full order: https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/2714005/SB-Shoote... It is a PDF.
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by cant_kant 11y ago
The key parts of the Federal order: "Apple's reasonable technical assistance shall accomplish the following three important functions: (1) it will bypass or disable the auto-erase function whether or not it has been enabled; (2) i
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by cant_kant 11y ago
Automatically indicting parents of abducted children follows as one consequence.
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by cant_kant 11y ago
By that impeccable logic, victims of homicide only have themselves to blame.
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6 days left for Theranos(businessinsider.com.au)
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by cant_kant 11y ago
The Financial Times says: "Nonetheless, one person close to the company said the sale price was lower than investors might have hoped for a couple of years ago, when Swiftkey was among the most popular smartphone apps in the world.&quo
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by cant_kant 11y ago
The original line from the editorial was: " There is concern among some front-line researchers that the system will be taken over by what some researchers have characterized as “research parasites.” This issue of the Journal offers a
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by cant_kant 11y ago
"The head of the police authority review board just resigned. An off-the-books police facility where over 7,000 people were taken and had their rights trampled was uncovered. So many people were tortured by the Chicago Police Departmen
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by cant_kant 11y ago
"After a year in limbo, the Navy has decided to move ahead and replace the service's top intelligence officer, whose tenure has been hamstrung by suspected ties to a disgraced defense contracting firm. The Office of the Secretary
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by cant_kant 11y ago
And the letter to Facebook from the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India. http://trai.gov.in/WriteReadData/Miscelleneus/Document/20160... ( pdf ) Poor countries are not necessarily Facebook-fodder.
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by cant_kant 11y ago
"Trai [ the Indian telecoms regulator] criticises Facebook for “reducing this meaningful consultative exercise designed to produce informed decisions in a transparent manner into a crudely majoritarian and orchestrated opinion poll” an

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