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You wrote "This kinda reminds me of how peptic ulcers were once thought to be caused by stress until they were found to caused by a virus [3].". First of all, if you read the artic…

Sad story for all parties really. Taints everyone. Reminds of the Florian Leibert case.

I like how detailed AnandTech analysis are. Good to see that they persist.

The Brazil chief was not detained over the Mohmed video.

"The Chinese have a mob mentality." Uhm, racist flag anyone? Are you really seriously accusing the Chinese of being any different than us? Would you say that someone could look at …

"I can't really afford .. but I ... value it" . I sometimes hear this and think, do you really? Customer pays for expensive car, hits the right social standing events, but consulti…

"asking a doctor for advice about a sickness". Odd example given the poor objective performance exhibited by a significant percentage of medical professionals. I remember a study d…

Only probation for what was effectively attempted murder. If I was her, I would have shot him. He's going to hurt someone else eventually.

The article is pretty much confused drivel with no clear substantiating data. My observations are that India is unable to control the growing fundamentalist Islamic element within …

Interesting. Applying these conclusions to inner city America would explain a percentage of the observed problems.

You raise a seemingly valid point. But, your data seems to be different than mine. Many companies, especially large multi-national ones have an excellent track record of media mani…

"lower than the rate among US factory workers". This is a common comparison fallacy. The baserates you appear to be comparing with are all general population baserate. The baserate…

It is hard to know who to believe. The journalist who has something to gain by exaggerating the suffering of the workers, or the company which has much more to gain by hiding the s…

Wow. Utter disbelief. A foreign more technologically advanced people came in with weapons and technologies that were basically magic to these hunter gather/pastoral people. These p…

I wonder how depressed people in the 3rd world manage to survive.

NBER study also shows Indian researchers as the least likely to return to India. http://www.nber.org/papers/w18067

Hmm... Android uses java. Therefore, Android smells suspicious?