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by 08-15 5y ago
> All I need is file I/O and the ability to split strings. ...until there is a newline inside a field. The moronic quoting mechanism of CSV is one half of the problem; people like you, who try to parse it by "just splitting s
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by 08-15 5y ago
No, not first generation. That would indeed show up, as it did in "Oase 1": https://www.nature.com/articles/nature14558 > Are you saying the Denisovan genome doesn't have unique mutations? It sure d
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by 08-15 5y ago
Well, there are two more Denisovans according to their mitochondrial genome. There isn't enough nuclear genomic data from either to measure the distance to Neanderthals or confirm the alleged admixture with Melanesians. Too bad,
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by 08-15 5y ago
It means, I think he's incompetent and the stories he tells about our genetic makeup are, well, just stories, and not based in science. Considering the topic at hand, you should know who David Reich is. He (co-) wrote every single pap
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by 08-15 5y ago
For those who think David Reich is a scientist, I recommend "Genetic evidence for complex speciation of humans and chimpanzees", John Wakeley's reply "Complex speciation of humans and chimpanzees" and "Patterso
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by 08-15 5y ago
How much is large? The dendrogram is right here: https://www.eva.mpg.de/genetics/genome-projects/neandertal/ The difference between the Denisovan and the Neanderthals is bigger than between San and French, b
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by 08-15 5y ago
It is far more notable that there is exactly one known Denisovan fossil, namely the distal phalanx the whole "Denisovan Genome" was sequenced from. One could argue that she was just another Neanderthal, but that didn't do th
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by 08-15 5y ago
Oops, looks like I overlooked an "also". But I still can't think of a protein poor and energy rich waste stream in whisky making.
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by 08-15 5y ago
Why do you feel that, though? My favorite counter example is "A Draft Sequence Of A Neandertal Genome". The article was accepted by both Nature and Science before it was written . The authors chose to publish in Science, becaus
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by 08-15 5y ago
Am I missing something or is this actually bad? > Glenfiddich has sold off spent grains left over from the malting process to be used for a high-protein cattle feed. This sounds as if the leftovers used to be sold as cattle feed, but now
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by 08-15 5y ago
> extruded polymers like plastic bags, wraps and containers are almost always synthesized from waste products of fossil fuel refinement That's almost completely false. It obviously depends on the kind of plastic. PE and PP are made
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by 08-15 5y ago
What's really missing is a "meh" button, meaning "this was a waste of time". I'd have clicked it.
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by 08-15 5y ago
Only if that complex process provides any value. So what is the value of a paper journal over a website? That the pictures look better? I love how you compare a scientific journal to a cinema. It really brings your point home. But you&
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by 08-15 5y ago
Clearly, publishers do a lot of work. But what is the value they provide?
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by 08-15 5y ago
> It's the publishers stealing from the scientific community, universities and tax payers, and the politicians and bureaucrats are complicit. Not really. The publishers provide hardly any value, definitely not commensurate with the
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by 08-15 6y ago
Of course! Anyone can grab something from the ocean floor (~3000m deep), especially something as easy to find as a lump of glass. Glass is also totally easy to melt on your kitchen stove and adding radioactive glass to the bomb you have l
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by 08-15 6y ago
A glass log at the ocean floor costs no one anything.
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by 08-15 6y ago
Yes, you can. Most nuclear power plants are more dispatchable than most gas burners. Countries with lots of nuclear power plants (France) absolutely run them in a load following regime. [Edit: And, as usual, downvotes rolling in for poin
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by 08-15 6y ago
Misleading headline. The text actually says "solar PV with revenue support " is now the cheapest electricity. In other words, solar PV is cheap, because somebody else is forced to pay for it.
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by 08-15 6y ago
What part of "this assumes a breeder reactor" did you not understand?
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by 08-15 6y ago
Energy consumption of reverse osmosis is about 4kWh/t. The byproduct is a ton of brine. Sea water contains about 3ppb Uranium, so our brine contains 6mg of U per ton of fresh water produced. A 1GW nuclear power station consumes about
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by 08-15 6y ago
Now you're making up stuff because you lost the argument about the cost of waste disposal.
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by 08-15 6y ago
> Which has, of course, long since been spent. Of course. But not on anything related to nuclear waste. In plain language, it has been stolen by the government. If you don't like the taxpayer having to pick up the tab left by inco
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by 08-15 6y ago
His marriage already has a dominant partner: his wife.
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by 08-15 6y ago
> she has said that me being reluctant [...] is a form of emotional abuse > her grad school tuition that I had been saving to pay for her > she has not worked for >90% of our ~10 year marriage My friend, you are not abusing your
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by 08-15 6y ago
> Transferring nuclear waste and processing them is not cheap. Actually, it is, because there is so little of it. However, in the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982, the US government declared that only the US government can handle nuclear
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by 08-15 6y ago
So what? The fact, historically attested, is that an NPP of 900GW can be built in 4-5 years, using 1970s technology. Do you dispute that?
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by 08-15 6y ago
Wow, I had no idea! I was under the mistaken impression that France managed to build 57 reactors, which produce about 50GW, in 23 years, and the first of those took only 7 years to build. There's even a rumor that some were built in
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by 08-15 6y ago
Bill Gates also said that 640kb ought to be enough for anybody. As long as electricity generation, transportation, and space heating are carbon intensive, there is just no point in worrying about steel and cement.
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by 08-15 6y ago
Are girls actually outperforming boys academically? It's repeated a few times, that girls attend college more often than boys, and achieve higher grades. But college is a broad term; you can study electrical engineering or gender stud

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