jane_is_here's comments

Songwriter chasers are the new ambulance chasers.

Sounds like sheer incompetence. Dust off your CV and start applying elsewhere.

When startups fail, the commonest cause is fcked founders. And your founder sounds fcked in spades.

In polycythaemia vera, it translated to strokes and heart attacks.

Just like it does for the Tour De France. Rob Goris was a recent example http://velonews.competitor.com/2012/07/news/goris-30-dies-of...

He is an epidemiologist. I would have expected haematologists, chemical pathologists, cytopathologists, clinical biochemists, histopathologists and other relevant specialists on the board.

At the moment, there is just a trophy, retired epidemiologist.

At the Financial Times site, much of the value is comments by the readers, many of whom are active in the industry.

A number of paleoanthropologists are skeptical of the claims. They say that the bones look like H.erectus and that some of the more bizarre claims sound "tailored for the media"

You almost always want to sell the portfolio firm after three to five years. It is therefore in the PE firm's interests to have the firm healthy and thriving. The idea is very definitely not to cripple or harm the portfolio firm.

For an excellent example of best practice look at what Blackstone have done with the Hilton Group, Wolfskin, Merlin Entertainments ( owner of Legoland, Madame Tussaud's, London Eye ), the Bujagali Hydropower Project in Uganda or the Moser Baer Projects in India.

He was far more effective and far more successful than Machiavelli.

He selected Chandragupta to destroy the Nanda dynasty and used him to create the Maurya empire. The Mauryas ruled the largest empire ever in the Indian subcontinent. Ashoka, the third to rule the empire was responsible for the global transmission of Buddhism.

He was also far more vindictive than Machiavelli.

"It is also told that once, the thorns of a bush hurt Chankya's feet while he was passing through a forest. The wily Brahmin was cut to the quick, and wanted revenge. He got his revenge by pouring sugar syrup into the roots of the bush, thus ensuring that the ants ate up the root and destroyed the bush."

His main philosophy was "A debt should be paid off till the last penny; An enemy should be destroyed without a trace".

"In the last 20 years only 2 new drugs have been approved till a 3rd this spring."

Wrong.

In the first 7 months of 2015 the FDA approved 6 oncological drugs

In 2014 the FDA approved 10 oncological drugs

In 2013 the FDA approved 12 oncological drugs

https://www.centerwatch.com/drug-information/fda-approved-dr...

It is true that only 3 drugs have been approved specifically for neuroblastoma, a rare childhood cancer. This accounts for 6% of childhood cancers.

Misrepresenting facts does nobody any good.

"So is Polybia-MP1 another game changer in the Cancer world?"

No. HN has been suckered yet again by a PR release.

These are similar to and around as reliable as the PR releases that claim to revolutionise the internet, cars, plastics, toothpaste or condoms.

Read the primary source.

Abstract: http://www.cell.com/biophysj/abstract/S0006-3495(15)00768-7

Full text: http://www.cell.com/biophysj/fulltext/S0006-3495(15)00768-7

Please do not go off on a tangent after reading brain dead PR releases meant for the masses. These are the scientific world's equivalent of clickbait and have little connection to the actual study.

How much longer before Google starts flagging Sourceforge as a malware site ?

He contibuted more to literature, if it can be called that, than to neurology. His writings were akin to the breathless articles in Wired on the "AMAZING DIGITAL FUTURE".

If you want to read real neurology, as opposed to the neurology case studies for the unwashed masses that Sacks churned out, Lord Brain's Diseases of the Nervous System ( now in the 12th edition ) is a classic. http://oxfordmedicine.com/view/10.1093/med/9780198569381.001...

I already have the Haskell toolchain and libraries. It merely required the command "apt-get install haskell-platform". However, the Haskell Playgrounds feature that Chakravarty offers sounds interesting enough to spin up a Mac VM.

I have a nice Baoer 79 Montblanc Starwalker clone that I paid under $4 for ( delivery included ) Here is someone's review http://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/topic/240914-baoer-7...

If you prefer something larger,the Jinhao 159 is a clone of the Montblanc Meisterstück 149 http://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/topic/216230-jinhao-... and is under $6 on ebay

The problem is having to use a Mac. I guess that I could spin up my Yosemite virtual machine...

Have you considered Canada ? It has nice people and is not as hostile to migrants as some other countries.

I give them money if I have spare cash on me. They need it more than I do.

As to what they use it for, they are adults and can make their own choices, whether it be using it to pay for a EduX course ( unlikely ) or buying heroin ( unlikely ).

If you or I became homeless ( admittedly unlikely ) and begged for money ( hopefully unlikely ), surely you would want to be given money rather than fake friendliness or food.