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  1. Which gives a global p value of... on Results Are In From Psychology's Largest Reproducibility Test: 39/100 Reproduced · · Score: 2

    Great! With p=2E-65, studies in psychology aren't totally random.

  2. There, you have your answer! on FBI Can't Find Its Drone Privacy Reports · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The original question was if they did any privacy assessment report of the impact of using drones. I think by saying that they can't find any such report, the answer seems pretty obvious....

  3. Wider effects on Smartphone Theft Drops After Spread of Kill Switches · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The killswitches seem to have a much wider effects than realised by these insightful articles.
    Murder rate at the same time in San Francisco
    http://www.sfgate.com/crime/ar...
    and New York
    http://gothamist.com/2015/01/0...
    seem to have also decined!

  4. Hindsight is 20:20 on What Would Have Happened If Philae Were Nuclear Powered? · · Score: 5, Funny

    And if that comet then hit earth, do you know what a huge catastrophe that would have caused?
    Then we would be saying 'ah but couldn't they just use solar power?'

  5. Re:You mean it wasn't a conspiracy ? on Hacker Barnaby Jack Died of Drug Overdose · · Score: 1

    And why is being hit in the head by a brick a better way to die?

  6. Re:Badly written and unpublished on European Health Levels Suddenly Collapsed After 2003 and Nobody Is Sure Why · · Score: 2

    Yes, here: http://is.gd/7q1YoR
    and here: http://is.gd/A29tl4

    Why am I still here? Why are you still here?
    I guess http://xkcd.com/386/

  7. Re:Badly written and unpublished on European Health Levels Suddenly Collapsed After 2003 and Nobody Is Sure Why · · Score: 2

    Replying to myself.

    The relevant stats are about years of healthy life, and not life expectancy. That didn't change at all.
    So whatever effect there is has nothing to do with dying, and only with being sick (Huh?)
    Years of healthy life has a lot to do with wording of questions, and just looking over the italy stats in the raw
    data, the years of the anomaly are also the years in which the data table states that the question was worded differently.

    So, my conclusion is: nothing to see here, move on.

  8. Badly written and unpublished on European Health Levels Suddenly Collapsed After 2003 and Nobody Is Sure Why · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This paper is in its infancy. It is somewhat garbled, the methods don't really specify the methods.
    The methods are basically "we graphed mortality over time". But you can't really criticize it much,
    because it is not published, and probably not submitted yet. The only question is why did it get to slashdot?

    The most likely explanation for the effect at this stage is some kind of error. Either in the calculation,
    or as the authors point out, in the wording of the questions (which probably would be a good idea to
    test before this paper is published ?)
    "Standardized translations of the questionnaire have been used; nevertheless it is likely that linguistic or cultural differences, as well as changes in the wording of questions, have influenced the way the respondents indicate a longstanding health problem or disability and their way of communicating the types of restrictions caused by this problem"
    Or, in the population measured (migration from East-Block countries?) or many other possible problems.
    All these I'd bet much higher chances than a real health effect.

  9. Re:won't help for Samsung note 2 on Not All USB Power Is Created Equal · · Score: 1

    I don't think this is true for some devices. As the grandparent said (me), for the Samsung Note 2, charging current depends strongly on the USB cable used - same charger will charge at different rates depending on the cable. (And sometimes the same cable + charger will charge at different rate depending on luck).

  10. Re:won't help for Samsung note 2 on Not All USB Power Is Created Equal · · Score: 1

    I don't think it has to do with voltage drop. A cable usually will not show a voltage drop ~0 resistance for 2m of cable. And, same cable will charge other devices without any problem. A cable might burn out with too much current. Maybe that's the worry? I haven't really heard of that happening....
    Even the originally supplied cable is rejected sometimes. And, if you get a bad charging rate, just unplug and replug the cable for another roll of the dice.
    No, I think it is a simple bug in the charging control in the phone.

  11. won't help for Samsung note 2 on Not All USB Power Is Created Equal · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Samsung seems to measure the "reliability" of the supply or the cable, and limits power based on those values. Then the same supply will charge at different rates depending on the cable used.

  12. How is outcome decided? on Bribe Devs To Improve Open Source Software · · Score: 1

    How will they decide if the goal was met? I could easily envision a case where I ask for something, developer implements it with a slight change.
    Now, I'm still unhappy about the result, but developer thinks he finished the job.

  13. Re:Anti-Trust on Microsoft, Apple and Others Launch Huge Patent Strike at Android · · Score: 1

    Maybe they tried to buy them to prevent exactly this from happening?

  14. solutions on Why Johnny Can't Speak: a Cost of Paywalled Research · · Score: 1

    go to a library, or look up the articles and e-Mail the authors for reprints.

  15. Re:Cycling not the Answer on How Safe Is Cycling? · · Score: 1

    Did them all. And I'm not extreme. (You can shower at work, you know?)
    But your point is valid. Most of the time I don't bike under those conditions.

    I use a streetcar or walk.
     

  16. Re:Leaked evidence chemical attack was false flag. on US and Israel Test Missile As Syria War Tensions Rise · · Score: 1

    If you follow the parent link, you'll see that the claim is that the videos are fake. E.g.

    "From the Anthony’s wife dialog with her friend it’s clear the video with the children killed in the chemical attack near Damascus was staged by U.S. Intelligence."

  17. Re:Leaked evidence chemical attack was false flag. on US and Israel Test Missile As Syria War Tensions Rise · · Score: 1

    I don't understand the claim. Is the claim that the videos are fabricated? But
    data about hundreds of dead, including kids, comes from many independent sources, some of which are highly
    reliable - such as doctors without borders. Are all these sources in on it, and not many people actually died?

  18. Re:Indeed ... on Transport Expert Insists 'Don't Dismiss Wacky Hyperloop' · · Score: 1

    Sorry, I didn't mean to say whether it solves the land problem or not. I was saying that Elon Musk claims it solves the land problem.

  19. Re:Indeed ... on Transport Expert Insists 'Don't Dismiss Wacky Hyperloop' · · Score: 1

    And, hyperloop isn't maglev, instead levitating on an air cushion.

  20. Re:Indeed ... on Transport Expert Insists 'Don't Dismiss Wacky Hyperloop' · · Score: 2, Informative

    The swissmetro is maglev. Also, I think that Elon Musk's main idea is to implement it in California along highway 5, solving the land problem.
    It isn't an abstract invention, but a specific solution.

  21. Re:About as scientific as Wakefield study on USPS Discriminates Against 'Atheist' Merchandise · · Score: 1

    Yes, you are right. So the clustering and the maltreatment events could be separate.

  22. Somewhat related... how do you browse projects? on Has Kickstarter Peaked? · · Score: 1

    Can someone explain to me how you browse projects on kickstarter?
    When I click on "Technology" I have an option to chose either "staff picks" or "popular this week", or "recently funded".
    What about browsing non staff picked/recently funded/popular? How do I find those?

    Could that be the reason that some project don't get a single contribution?

  23. Re:About as scientific as Wakefield study on USPS Discriminates Against 'Atheist' Merchandise · · Score: 1

    And what is the chance that out of 89x2 packages, 6 labeled "atheist" end up in the same sack, but no unlabeled ones get there? Unless the label had an effect on correlation between packages...

  24. Maybe we can ask the chinese to put a mirror up? on Political Pressure Pushes NASA Technical Reports Offline · · Score: 4, Funny

    I mean, we could ask really nicely, no?

    Hey, china, how about it? In the name of humanity? Openness?

  25. "curse" on Go To Uni, Earn a Degree In Drones · · Score: 1

    One little word in your comment that kinda reverses its meaning...