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Leaving aside the bitcoin angle, this is actually a pretty good primer explanation of the market mechanics and psychology behind technical analysis.

http://www.esquire.com/features/patient-zero-1213 gives a pretty good feel for the challenges in treating cancer.

For the love of god, be sensible - sell half on Monday and put it back into a traditional retirement investment. You'll still do well if BTC goes up. There is no reason to put 100%…

I do see where you're coming from. Maybe if I said I don't believe it's a _new_ wealth transfer? 30% of the population is not going without care today - they are getting ER care fo…

The subsidies are to poor people. The poor people get medical care anyway, at ERs, where hospitals cannot refuse them. Or they forgo the care until mundane problems become chronic …

I'm a safe driver. Why should I have to pay for auto insurance? It's a wealth transfer to bad drivers. ... And actually, I completely reject your characterization of it as a wealth…

I would guess the user database is 11NF and has 1000 tables. The UML form of it cannot exist in our limited 4 dimensions of space and time :)

A gap in coverage is not as much a problem any more, thanks to the ACA. edit: Hey downvoter, let me educate you - the worst thing about a coverage gap used to be the potential to h…

"Vegan diets do not result in heart disease. Many studies have shown that vegetarians seem to have a lower risk of obesity, coronary heart disease (which causes heart attack), high…

The NEJM it ain't. Thanks for the links to the debunking articles.

What a pile of first world problems. I suspect a lot fewer guys will quit sugar and lose weight instead of quitting soy after reading this. And diabetes makes soy estrogen mimickin…

Yes, it is, because the person with $1 and no access to credit was just made up for the purpose of convoluting a point about wealth inequality in America.

Somehow this idea always comes from libertarian quarters, too(please, no 'no true scotsmen responses' replies about how nobody but a single mute hermit living on a mountaintop in S…

Makes the $1M+ target votes all the more absurd.

None of that matters. They can read what they're posting and filter out personal information. Who cares what the detractors think, it's the right thing to do. "Two wrongs don't mak…

No, I just was suggesting learning about any functional language, those two just came to mind first.

Languages I think you should know: C, Java, Bash, Javascript, one out of {Perl,Python,Ruby}, and perhaps a functional language like Lisp or Clojure. Each one will make your underst…

Yes, I can apparently set up a website with instructions for doing so and get a nastygram from Canonical, too. I run Fedora, anyway. edit: I wish people wouldn't try to make a 1 si…

s/misunderstanding/shrewd recognition of a budding PR disaster/ Canonical has really gone astray. Hell, the takedown order would never have been necessary in the first place withou…

Surfly.com is not easy to use outside of a mobile device or tablet (anything without swipe navigation).

That's not always true.