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There's a much more safe alternative with almost same possibilities - a kinda "balls-and-magnetick-sticks". In that case, spheres are just metallic, not magnetic. Only joints, stic…

It's not about rarity of the disease. The problem with those percentages is that they're commercial bragging. The 99.9% accuracy is indeed very poor accuracy in case where there is…

Whatever the number of people, the device is still 99.8% B.S.-teller for $500.

The technique is reported to be 85% accurate. That is, there's 15% chance of false positive. According to wikipedia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanoma#Epidemiology ), upper bo…

I can't understand why I'm not getting 2% from my point of view. A person is identified positive in two distinct cases: if it is ill (p1=0.001) AND the test shows positive (q1=0.95…

"Rodriguez’s sentence clearly demonstrates the seriousness of his actions." This awkward moment when the seriousness of the crime is judged by the length of the sentence. Reminds m…

When they zoom in using the touchscreen - isn't that the digital zoom, not optical? If so, the last x10 seems not legit.

There are some other useful commands for organizing the stream of datas for pretty printing: column - columnify the incoming stream into columns pr - set up incoming stream for pre…

Eventually they might probably encounter a person, a "troll-terrorist", who's demands would be not money, drugs or "release of brethren from prisons", but "introduction of even str…

How can I order it from Russia?

Author provides source code using non-monospace (!) slanted (!!!) font. I would have wasted a damn gigawatt to unsee that.

It's interesting that none of the BitTorent software was mentioned, at least BitTorrent Sync as an alternative to proprietary cloud storage.

There is a proverb in Russia (actually, it's a quote): "There're someone for whom even a mare is a fine bride". So, it's not surprising that for someone Facebook is fine too.

Most people is interested in continuation of themselves and their close relatives. Seven billion of people, driven by this interest, form a hivemind that dictates their own fate. S…

so if it's fine with the vanished 90%, why should one be bothered about 10%?

This is my native city (more than 1M of people): http://earthengine.google.org/#intro/v=54.739011,55.95804350... Everything seems fine so far. :)

I didn't get your point. Should we stop controlling road traffic and prevent car accidents until the very last malaria mosquito is dead?

That's was the clip that motivated me to make the comment in the first place.

You're right. For ordinary people around me malaria is not a problem. And yes, here people die in road accidents and should it happen that one side of the accident is a local gover…

You know, when local rednecks witness slight daily weather change, they proudly attribute it to 'global warming'. I mean, we track the weather for at most a hundred year. We tend t…

Why? One would probably tend to keep the impact tolerable enough for themself, but you're not going to find enough people except green fanatics to be motivated to minimize it.

The Earth is fine, people. One herd of farting cows diminishes all the human effort in CO emission decrease in nearby town. One volcano eruption diminishes it worldwide. One major …

...because task to be solved to score higher IQ differ from task to be solved to succeed in investment.

The article states that reducing leg room from 32 to 31 inches allowed for one additional seat row. Which means that there were already no less than 32 rows on those planes. Six se…