Comment Re: It's just a tool I guess (Score 1) 294
Do some reading on "clinical equipoise" and you'll start to get it.
Do some reading on "clinical equipoise" and you'll start to get it.
The control group in a drug study would not place someone currently on strong medication onto no medication. That would violate the ethical principle of equipoise. The subjects in the control group wouldn't be given a placebo; that would be horrendously unethical. They would be given either the current gold standard of care or the new drug/procedure being tested. The researchers and subjects would both be blinded to which they were receiving. For instance, an RCT comparing hydrocodone to a new med would have both arms take a new pill, but both pills look identical. One would contain the medication they've been taking and the other would contain the new drug. That's not what the OP is talking about though.
I'm not super experienced in clincal trials, but the study the OP was a part of doesn't sound like a double-blinded RCT; it sounds more like a limited-rollout experimental kind of clinical trial, where certain people are allowed to elect to try out the drug. This is not really a scientific experiment that would have a control group, but a limited opt-in rollout of the drug.
I don't think there area any areas where both TW and Comcast operate. So it won't change the number of choices for anyone.
The beta is bad. It's so bad. The comments are reduced in screen width about 50%. Subject lines are deemphasized, scores are minimized, etc.
The discussions are the reason to come to Slashdot, and the beta trivializes them entirely. It looks like the comment section on a generic news site.
The comments now look like an afterthought, whereas they used to be the primary focus of the site.
What Facebook wants to do is send a text message with a special code to your phone. Letting the app read your text messages allows the app to read the code automatically so you don't have to copy and paste from the messages app.
The device is not a "mask" in any way, shape, or form.
They should totally get you in on this project. I imagine they have no idea they're doing it all wrong.
In the app properties page for pre-installed apps, the "disable" button is replaced when the app is updated with an "uninstall updates" button. After you hit "uninstall updates" you can hit "disable."
The only apps you can't disable are actual system apps. Things like Google Services Framework, Google Account Manager, Google partner Setup, etc, can all be disabled.
You can easily disable those apps.
Sure, but if it never goes away and we produce it for another 100 years......
No one is talking about banning it, really. They're talking about raising awareness and recognizing it as a potential problem. Set up some basic regulations on its production and use now and we won't have to worry much about it later.
Good point. When you consider that, the proportion of anthropogenic warming accounted for by PFTBA would be higher.
Math fail. Should be:
CO2 is 2,000,000,000 more concentrated so it has 300,000 times the impact. Point still stands though, to some degree.
Well, there are no known processes by which PFTBA is broken down or removed from the atmosphere. So the effect is basically cumulative.
The other thing is that atmospheric concentrations are already in the 0.18 ppt range. CO2 is about 2,000,000 times more concentrated at the moment, at least in the Toronto area. This means that CO2 still has around 300 times the impact [ballpark figure based on numbers in the article], but if we keep up PTFBA production it could potentially start to be significant.
"The easy things first" makes sense, but "easy things" and "hard things" aren't always mutually exclusive. And frankly, PTFBA reduction is probably much closer to "easy thing" than CO2 reduction is.
I dunno about TV, but I learned about this because it was a front-page story on the New York Times. It's not like the mainstream press isn't covering this.
Well that's the point. They're not experts in software. They're experts in law. The lawyers and witnesses come in to explain to them how they work, because it's not that hard to understand.
It doesn't make the justices experts in software any more than someone explaining biology to you makes you a physician.
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