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  1. Re: Females are different to males on Women Die More From Heart Attacks Than Men -- Unless the ER Doc Is Female (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Seems like it might be helpful to interview those doctors and figure out what they are doing differently. The difference is small, so something you wouldn't see in most of the population. You'd have to treat a lot of patients before you came across it.

  2. Re: Investigation to get at the truth on The Internal Report Proving the FCC Made Up a Cyberattack (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 0

    glwt. It doesn't look like Democrats are going to get control of Congress, which is unfortunate. Note that Republicans have gotten almost as much done in their time controlling government as the D's did their time under Obama. Republicans have been a lot more quiet about it though, passing deregulation and tax cuts as everyone worries about Russians. For R's it's the best distraction ever.

  3. Re: Student work on Online Photos Can't Simply Be Republished, EU Court Rules (politico.eu) · · Score: 1

    Not in America, either, unless he signed some special contract with his school that I didn't sign.

  4. Good question! Just for kicks I asked a blind person that question, this is the response:

    "It could be worth trying. There is already a braille music code, and though it can be cumbersome at times, I think it is less cumbersome than having just a raised staff with print music signs... But it could be fun to try. Let me know if you decide to do it, and I will check it out..."

  5. Re: But is HFT a good thing? on Heat and Humidity Slow Down High-Frequency Trading Due To Microwave Links (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    The trading platforms get paid a lot of money to allow the high speed connections into their systems. They are not in a hurry to stop it.

  6. What seriously secure software are you thinking of here?

  7. People don't care about bloat anymore. You can notice this by looking at the node_modules directory of any node project. It's huge.

  8. Re:Tell Tale Sign... on FCC Admits It Was Never Actually Hacked (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1
  9. Re: This donkey is just trying to be popular on 'Why Liberal Arts and the Humanities Are as Important as Engineering' (wadhwa.com) · · Score: 1

    Then become a master of many trades.

  10. Re: This donkey is just trying to be popular on 'Why Liberal Arts and the Humanities Are as Important as Engineering' (wadhwa.com) · · Score: 1

    Shouldn't have specialized. I knew I should have gone for the prehensile tail! When evolution was handing it out, of course.

  11. Re: Not just size and bandwidth on Front-End Developer Decries 'Garbage' Design Choices on 'The Bullshit Web' (pxlnv.com) · · Score: 1

    Not at all. I just do my part to make the world a better place.

  12. Re: Not just size and bandwidth on Front-End Developer Decries 'Garbage' Design Choices on 'The Bullshit Web' (pxlnv.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't deny it. People like you make me suffer, and I lose because of that. If I ever meet you I'll stab you in the back.

  13. There are a lot of Indians I've met who seek after fashion statements. In some cases, living in bare empty houses so they can afford to make payments on their BMWs.

    Also, don't be deceived: there are also a lot of really rich people in India. It's not all poverty.

  14. Re:The Two Cultures on 'Why Liberal Arts and the Humanities Are as Important as Engineering' (wadhwa.com) · · Score: 1

    I'd also like to see something like Ethics 101..... as compulsory subjects.

    What on earth would you expect people to learn from that? That life should be fair?

  15. Re: This donkey is just trying to be popular on 'Why Liberal Arts and the Humanities Are as Important as Engineering' (wadhwa.com) · · Score: 2

    like an unhealthy obsession with slide rules

    An elegant too for a more civilized age. His point remains, though, if you only have one skill, you're a tool and in danger obsoletion.

  16. You missed the opportunity......obviously we need to give them treadmill desks. Computer based learning with full activity!

  17. Re: unfortunately... on 'Why Liberal Arts and the Humanities Are as Important as Engineering' (wadhwa.com) · · Score: 1

    If someone says, "Your ideas are not based in truth," the way to counter the argument is to show that they are based in truth. While any reasonably large movement will attract some irrational people, you should be able to demonstrate that the core truths are correct.

  18. Re: Not just size and bandwidth on Front-End Developer Decries 'Garbage' Design Choices on 'The Bullshit Web' (pxlnv.com) · · Score: 1

    Sure, shirk responsibility if you want, but you still suck, and I look down on people like that. Waiting for your boss to make you better? What a loser. Doesn't the Israeli army teach better than that?

  19. Re: Assassination? Or Hoax? on Venezuelan President Survives Drone Assassination Attempt (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Not much of a compliment

    It's a huge compliment. Look how few people manage to do it.

  20. Re: Assassination? Or Hoax? on Venezuelan President Survives Drone Assassination Attempt (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    At least you're using your own words, good job.

  21. Re: unfortunately... on 'Why Liberal Arts and the Humanities Are as Important as Engineering' (wadhwa.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm not doubting you but do you have a citation on that? None of my history classes claimed to teach that.

  22. Re:unfortunately... on 'Why Liberal Arts and the Humanities Are as Important as Engineering' (wadhwa.com) · · Score: 2

    True enough. Unfortunately, a lot of the social sciences these days just teaches a view of history in which the Enlightenment, the Roman Empire, and technology are just tools of the male patriarchy to suppress women and Africans. Social science departments at universities like Yale have explicitly defined themselves as institutions for political change, not institutions concerned with seeking truth.

    You make it sound so Soviet.

  23. A musician is king in a world in which you can 3D-print anything that you can imagine.

    I've been 3D-printing a lot of the music I've composed. So far no one wants to listen to it. If you want a sample, PM me your phone number and I'll send it to you on my quantumfax with teleport enabled.

  24. Because if it weren't for liberal arts majors, the STEM people wouldn't be able to go home after work and watch Netflix.

  25. Re:Whoa whoa whoa ... Super Bad Idea on Security Researchers Express Concerns Over Mozilla's New DNS Resolution For Firefox (ungleich.ch) · · Score: 1

    You do realize getting around DNS filtering is trivial, right?