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blakejennings

Re:The rise and fall of Apple's Swift on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @03:43PM (#17250404)
completely agree, this is intentional clickbait.

to top it off, there's a westworld spoiler at the bottom

Did you read the study?

From the Reuters article:

"Despite the widely held view that cannabis is benign, this research adds to previous work suggesting otherwise," said Ian Hamilton, a lecturer in mental health at Britain's York University.

There are several “handwaving” maneuvers in the paper, best summarized by this quote from lead author (PhD candidate):

"Yankey said were limitations in the way marijuana use was assessed -- including that researchers could not be sure whether people had used the drug continuously since they first tried it."

A direct quote from the paper shows this:

"Duration of marijuana use was estimated by subtracting participant’s age at marijuana use initiation from the age at the 2005 screen."

Then the conclusion begins with:

Marijuana use, especially prolonged years of use, may increase the risk of hypertension mortality…

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Should be clear now.

Re:Self-Driving Cars Have a Bicycle Problem on Monday February 27, 2017 @05:44AM (#13743297)
I think NNs would work well to solve the bicycle problem with some more data -- maybe a lightweight sensor of some sort on bikes, or a device that could communicate on a public VANET - That would be a safe long term solution, but obviously many years out.
Re:No, Mark Cuban, this tech bubble is not worse than 2000 on Friday September 11, 2015 @11:43AM (#10204295)
Mark Cuban's writing is just terrible.
Re:Show HN: File.io – Ephemeral file sharing on Wednesday July 29, 2015 @04:36PM (#9971389)
The link should be automatically copied to the clipboard upon creation IMO.
Re:Why you shouldn’t sell apps through iTunes on Wednesday June 11, 2014 @10:43AM (#7878223)
You shouldn't because you can't. Try the Mac/iOS App Store.