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Sensible doctors do not believe drug company marketing. I get large amounts of ad-junk from drug companies that ends up unread in the bin. I refuse to meet with drug company repres…

Two years late. HGST has been shipping helium filled HDDs since 2014.

If the paper is retracted, do the publishers give a refund ? See http://retractionwatch.com/ to see the massive number of retractions that happen.

"The Journal‘s reporting suggests that Theranos had been falsifying lab records to make it look like its own proprietary gear was as reliable as the industry standard. Documents fr…

School is only incidentally about education. For instance, never underestimate the power of networking at a elite private school. A few random stories, all true: A client of mine i…

Kyle Vogt said: "This is false." Talk to your lawyer before posting on social media.

Interesting stories. Better copy editing would make them easier to read. "Ed had shouted on them like this" "No real kidnapper hauls around a struggling, scream-seeking captive" "I…

"A long-awaited Senate Intelligence Committee encryption bill would force companies to provide “technical assistance” to government investigators seeking locked data, according to …

What is wrong with using TeX ? MathML is reinventing the wheel. Only, the MathML wheel is square, flat and breaks when used.

" Dyson did pioneer the bagless vacuum cleaners Dyson did pioneer the bagless vacuum cleaners" On the contrary bagless vacuum cleaners have existed since the 1920's, around 20 year…

"In April and May 2015, a test to measure prostate-specific antigen, or PSA, failed quality-control checks 22% of the time. The PSA test is used to help detect prostate cancer." Ou…

I propose that facebook() be put into the public kernel For the secret* kernel that is known only to us, facebook () should be replaced by hn().

"Maybe it was just a different time." Ellison's 200 million dollar house set on 23 acres, suggests that selective memory might be playing a role.

The graph accompanying the article indicates that we need a global campaign to persuade more men to do "studio.art.drawing". At the very least, we need an article in the Communicat…

Did Craig Wright come to the Satoshi Roundtable ?

" a library for processing for the THAMIL language " ? I know of it as Tamil.

I read the WSJ, FT, NYT, RCP, and The Hill if I want exposure to the "media". And HN for light entertainment. There is no way that I would look at inane posturing on Yahoo's blogs.…

Yahoo has digital magazines ? Why would a search company have junk like that ? How much other worthless baggage do they have ?

Link to the full order: https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/2714005/SB-Shoote... It is a PDF.