rfinney

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by rfinney 8y ago
ICC has no jurisdiction in the United States. U.S. did not ratify the treaty. No point in letting them pretend they do. Imagine European idealists prosecuting Clinton, Bush and Obama for "war crimes"? No way.
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by rfinney 8y ago
India started developing nuclear weapons in the 1950s and first tested a nuclear bomb in 1974.
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Workers suddenly have more power to demand higher pay and better jobs(washingtonpost.com)
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Equifax CEO testifies company took security seriously(cnbc.com)
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iPhone Sales Are Falling(apnews.com)
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by rfinney 8y ago
"non major liberal cities" I think the "me too" thing proved the coastal elite were part of the problem.
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Demographics: Renting vs. Owning(calculatedriskblog.com)
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by rfinney 8y ago
This provides access to hundreds of public and tens of thousands of restricted access cancer genomes (and often the matching "normal" samples): so you can see and visually verify mutations. Interestingly, too, you can check out g
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by rfinney 8y ago
NCI Chromatic - Cancer Genomes with WebAssembly: https://chromatic.nci.nih.gov/
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Kalashnikov Kamikaze Drone(washingtonpost.com)
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United States Note(en.wikipedia.org)
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Apple and Goldman Sachs Partnering on a Credit Card(cnbc.com)
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Public Records Reveal Shell-Company Secrecy That Google Uses(boingboing.net)
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The Oral History of Office Space(rollingstone.com)
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by rfinney 8y ago
We did. We had American Express, Diner's Club, Discover (the old Sears) ,department store cards, gas station cards, Bankamericard (Visa) and Interbank (Mastercard). In the 1960s there were hundreds of credit cards. Visa and Masterca
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by rfinney 8y ago
Key phrase from the article is "modern generation of insulin". A good overview of the design and effects of the new insulins are here : https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/dme.13692
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by rfinney 8y ago
http://statisticstimes.com/economy/countries-by-projected-gd... US: $62,152 Japan : $40,849
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by rfinney 8y ago
Fair enough, we should adjust for inflation. From Brookings : "Real median household income grew roughly 1.6 percent in 2018" https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2019/01/31/household...
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by rfinney 8y ago
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/01/nonfarm-payrolls-january-201... : On a year-over-year basis, though, [wages] still amounted to a 3.2 percent increase, consistent with the past few months and around the highes
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by rfinney 8y ago
U.S definitely is not in a recession. https://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2019/02/bls-job-openings-... : BLS: Job Openings Increased to Series High 7.3 Million in December . "Professional forecasters see econo
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Sweden's Cashless Experiment: Is It Too Much Too Fast?(text.npr.org)
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by rfinney 8y ago
Look again at the the PFF (Pro Football Focus) link in my post which the moderators flag banned : https://www.profootballfocus.com/news/fantasy-football-metri... . Check out the PFF grades in the graphic for the last 2
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by rfinney 8y ago
A very old joke: economists have predicted 9 out of the last 5 recessions.
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by rfinney 8y ago
A thought here: Multitrack recording appeared in 1955 : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multitrack_recording . Multitracking opened a new, fertile valley for exploration and did usher in a golden age of pop music that wa
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by rfinney 8y ago
7 February 2019 Lancet paper on Tisotumab vedotin trial here : https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanonc/article/PIIS1470-2... (entitled: "Tisotumab vedotin in patients with advanced or metastatic solid
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A.I. Study of Human Genome Finds Unknown Human Ancestor(smithsonianmag.com)
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by rfinney 8y ago
[edited to remove mis-information ] apologies!
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by rfinney 8y ago
From https://investresolve.com/blog/over-two-centuries-of-global-... (linked to in the bloomberg article) : Trend and momentum are defined as the 12-month-minus-1-month excess return. While this is consistent with tra
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Scans Show Female Brains Remain Youthful as Male Brains Wind Down(npr.org)
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by rfinney 8y ago
Young people have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations; moreover, their hopeful disposition makes them think themselves equal to great things - and that means having exalted notion

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