paulerdos

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by paulerdos 14y ago
You wrote "This kinda reminds me of how peptic ulcers were once thought to be caused by stress until they were found to caused by a virus [3].". First of all, if you read the article you reference, you'll note that Heliobacter Pylori is a b
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by paulerdos 14y ago
Sad story for all parties really. Taints everyone. Reminds of the Florian Leibert case.
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by paulerdos 14y ago
I like how detailed AnandTech analysis are. Good to see that they persist.
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by paulerdos 14y ago
The Brazil chief was not detained over the Mohmed video.
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by paulerdos 14y ago
"The Chinese have a mob mentality." Uhm, racist flag anyone? Are you really seriously accusing the Chinese of being any different than us? Would you say that someone could look at our behavior in the past decade, and say that we don't also
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by paulerdos 14y ago
"I can't really afford .. but I ... value it" . I sometimes hear this and think, do you really? Customer pays for expensive car, hits the right social standing events, but consulting services get the "I can't really afford" story. Truth is
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by paulerdos 14y ago
"asking a doctor for advice about a sickness". Odd example given the poor objective performance exhibited by a significant percentage of medical professionals. I remember a study done evaluating the ability of medical professionals to ident
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by paulerdos 14y ago
Only probation for what was effectively attempted murder. If I was her, I would have shot him. He's going to hurt someone else eventually.
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by paulerdos 14y ago
The article is pretty much confused drivel with no clear substantiating data. My observations are that India is unable to control the growing fundamentalist Islamic element within its population. Recent riots and pogroms against native Nort
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by paulerdos 14y ago
Interesting. Applying these conclusions to inner city America would explain a percentage of the observed problems.
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by paulerdos 14y ago
You raise a seemingly valid point. But, your data seems to be different than mine. Many companies, especially large multi-national ones have an excellent track record of media manipulation and the ability to successfully hide massive proble
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by paulerdos 14y ago
"lower than the rate among US factory workers". This is a common comparison fallacy. The baserates you appear to be comparing with are all general population baserate. The baserate that I was thinking about was how many factory workers com
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by paulerdos 14y ago
It is hard to know who to believe. The journalist who has something to gain by exaggerating the suffering of the workers, or the company which has much more to gain by hiding the suffering. The truth is somewhere in between. Based on the Fo
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by paulerdos 14y ago
Wow. Utter disbelief. A foreign more technologically advanced people came in with weapons and technologies that were basically magic to these hunter gather/pastoral people. These people took up a last ditch desperate idea rather than subm
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by paulerdos 14y ago
I wonder how depressed people in the 3rd world manage to survive.
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IEEE study shows Indian researchers leaving India in droves(i.imgur.com)
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by paulerdos 14y ago
Hmm... Android uses java. Therefore, Android smells suspicious?