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Yes. https://www.technologyreview.com/s/609999/us-doctors-plan-to...

I'm not sure I understand why the tree had to be climbed to be measured. Isn't that what trigonometry is for?

Just got an alert about 911 being out in MA. A bit belated, if state police twitter is correct that it was fixed 3 hrs ago https://twitter.com/MassStatePolice/status/10786404842292224...

I mean, this calories in calories out study is in the same NYT issue: "Exercise May Aid in Weight Loss. Provided You Do Enough." https://nyti.ms/2KMz7f9

No, we weren't. This is something carefully measured by economists. The workforce is consistently becoming more productive, albeit at a slower rate

https://www.bls.gov/opub/btn/volume-6/below-trend-the-us-pro...

It's not weird that an elected official wants to advance their agenda. What's weird is that precinct judge is an elected position in Philadelphia.

That is literally the point of it

Gotta Wait for the "Louis CK moment," where the technology it's so boring that people are annoyed by it

http://www.cc.com/video-clips/avmzsg/stand-up-louis-ck--give...

All the necessary hardware? Do Teslas have lidar?

I think that's a fair response. Allowing unions isn't really philanthropy, but it's certainly related. He wouldn't have so much money to be "generous" with if all Amazon employees were treated fairly.

"let Amazon workers finally unionize." - @demsocialists

https://twitter.com/DemSocialists/status/875511888049778688

Disagree. Note that both mammogram and colonoscopy frequency recommendations have both been reduced recently, both because the cost of screening and because of the consequences of false positives resulting in unnecessary medical intervention

Pretty sure Obamacare wouldn't allow that, but they could start subsidizing devices.

Please tell us more about your experience in being a Dean

US law enforcement is allowed to take fingerprints, which can then be used to unlock the device. Somewhere less friendly may just compel you to put your finger on the device

I wouldn't have taken the jail time for granted. Goldman Sachs managed to escape their admitted fraud with no executives going to jail.

I think OP's point was that there is no powerful hardware around to install the "powerful" server OS on

+1 =/

How do you cut a cake in a way that gives me a piece that is only large enough to satisfy the host's expectation that I will like the cake they made?

Also check out adhocteam.us. I don't work there, but they're doing important work for HHS and VA.

“I like the FedEx guy, 'cause he's a drug dealer and he don't even know it! And he's always on time.” - Mitch Hedberg

But what's the Weissman score?

This is obviously just target practice for the military, right?

I'm no fan of spam, but this seems to tie in to net neutrality. I'm not sure I want verizon deciding who is good or bad on the internet.

Pretty surprising, given the existing research on this: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/innovations/wp/2015/07/2...

> Research that Stanford has done shows that drivers resuming control from Level 3 vehicles functioning in autonomous mode take 10 seconds just to attain the level of ability that a drunk driverpossesses. And to get back to full driving competence takes 60 seconds.

They're not claiming to have a new solution. They cite a Djikstra algorithm from 1978, and explain why they believe it is a good solution for certain modern applications.

Allowing workers to be paid less doesn't result in more jobs, it just results in more profits for fewer people. http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21586578-americas-inco...

http://www.pkarchive.org/cranks/LivingWage.html > This theoretical prediction has, however, been hard to confirm with actual data. Indeed, much-cited studies by two well-regarded labor economists, David Card and Alan Krueger, find that where there have been more or less controlled experiments, for example when New Jersey raised minimum wages but Pennsylvania did not, the effects of the increase on employment have been negligible or even positive. Exactly what to make of this result is a source of great dispute. Card and Krueger offered some complex theoretical rationales, but most of their colleagues are unconvinced; the centrist view is probably that minimum wages "do," in fact, reduce employment, but that the effects are small and swamped by other forces.

Despite three randomized trials, "there is no evidence that these persistent subjective complaints represent ongoing active infection or that repeated or prolonged courses of antibiotics ... provide any benefit."

[paywall] http://www.uptodate.com/contents/clinical-manifestations-of-...

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=11450676 N Engl J Med. 2001 Jul 12;345(2):85-92. Two controlled trials of antibiotic treatment in patients with persistent symptoms and a history of Lyme disease. Klempner MS1, Hu LT, Evans J, Schmid CH, Johnson GM, Trevino RP, Norton D, Levy L, Wall D, McCall J, Kosinski M, Weinstein A.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=12821734 Study and treatment of post Lyme disease (STOP-LD): a randomized double masked clinical trial. Krupp LB, Hyman LG, Grimson R, Coyle PK, Melville P, Ahnn S, Dattwyler R, Chandler B Neurology. 2003;60(12):1923.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=17928580 Neurology. 2008 Mar 25;70(13):992-1003. Epub 2007 Oct 10. A randomized, placebo-controlled trial of repeated IV antibiotic therapy for Lyme encephalopathy. Fallon BA1, Keilp JG, Corbera KM, Petkova E, Britton CB, Dwyer E, Slavov I, Cheng J, Dobkin J, Nelson DR, Sackeim HA.

To count all the ants in the world? Presumably the rub is that you have to wait for all the ants in the world to become "well mixed", which is unlikely to happen before the ants die.