Agathos

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by Agathos 13y ago
If I ever lose the right to buy cough syrup, I might win it back by voting. If I ever lose the right to vote, can I win it back by buying cough syrup?
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by Agathos 13y ago
More like the bête noire of the Mars-exploration party. If you're going to the Moon you're not going to Mars.
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by Agathos 13y ago
I'm not sure what to make of the business plan. What's the exit strategy?
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by Agathos 13y ago
This reads a lot like my reaction to The Black Swan. It's interesting that Seliger says he really liked that one.
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by Agathos 13y ago
My first thought on seeing the headline was, "What? Only 2?" Off the top of my head I can think of: 1. Amino acid coding 2. Transcription factor binding and transcriptional regulation 3. Post-transcriptional regulation and RNA deg
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by Agathos 13y ago
"When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all." -- God(?), Futurama
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by Agathos 13y ago
That's why this decision is about a million times better than the settlement that was shot down years(!) ago. The settlement would have given Google a monopoly on the digitization of orphan books. A ruling sets a precedent that anyone
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by Agathos 13y ago
Also, the other kind of typing. Like if "traverseWithKey" appears at the top of the string, I have to hit it with: Applicative t => (Key -> a -> t b) -> IntMap a -> t (IntMap b)
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by Agathos 13y ago
> Although it's a fun read, it's a classic example of diving into coding without giving a project it's due diligence. The formation of this sentence seems odd to me. Why can't we say it's a fun read because it&
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by Agathos 13y ago
Indeed. Java in a sandbox in the browser is pretty much a failure. But there is no Go browser sandbox at all, so I'd hardly say Go is better off here. I guess you look better when you don't make the attempt at all.
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by Agathos 13y ago
Way better to stay quiet for fear of what someone will say on HN some years later. I'll go curl up in a ball now.
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by Agathos 13y ago
http://forkthecookbook.com/
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by Agathos 13y ago
Hospitals don't bill per hour; they bill per procedure. Data entry isn't a medical procedure.
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by Agathos 13y ago
No. There was an incident in which a wrecked Volt caught fire three weeks after a crash test. But if you haven't left your car three weeks after a severe side impact, you probably have bigger problems.
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by Agathos 13y ago
It costs $80,000 but it comes with a free car.
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by Agathos 13y ago
Doctors in the US get paid per procedure. I sincerely doubt there is an insurance billing code for time spent reading journal articles.
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by Agathos 13y ago
Yes, that's why we built that airport and hospital on the North Pole. Now intercontinental flights can make emergency landings in under 30 minutes at all times.
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by Agathos 13y ago
How this stay-at-home mom used one weird trick to conquer the internet! Click here! (And yes, that's how I parsed the link title at first glance.)
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by Agathos 13y ago
I don't think a local alignment is helpful for Sublime's ctrl-p. I would go with Needleman-Wunsch.
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by Agathos 13y ago
Why not sue the guy for slander? It did real and measurable damage, the potential employer has a record of the conversation, and the former employer has the true record of her work there. Seems like a slam dunk to this non-lawyer.
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by Agathos 13y ago
If my doctor prescribed something called paralytica then I would report him to my state's medical board.
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by Agathos 14y ago
If only you had been there to warn pets.com.
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by Agathos 14y ago
Now that vinyl is the exclusive domain of hipster audiophiles, the quality of the vinyl experience has increased a hundredfold. Households like the one I grew up in, with our scratched-up records and the player we picked up at Caldor, have
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by Agathos 14y ago
Aaand the Efficient Market Hypothesis takes another kick to the head. This is getting brutal, folks.
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by Agathos 14y ago
Part of the problem is that the tomato growers have been very successful in protecting their racket. When someone tries to sell a better-tasting tomato, the Florida Tomato Committee keeps it off the market.
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by Agathos 14y ago
Blogs sell display ads which are part of the big 41% slice of the pie chart. The smaller ones sell space entirely through AdWords--I think that's in the 41% as well, but I'm not sure. What I don't know is what constitutes blog spending unde
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by Agathos 14y ago
They are essentially a government agency with a profit motive. This worked out as well as any reasonable person would have anticipated. The strange thing is, the government still hasn't stripped them of their quasi-regulatory powers.
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"Antedisciplinary" Science(ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
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by Agathos 14y ago
Interesting to read since I made the same career move last year. I agree with about half of it but don't see a lot of value or useful advice here. I find it curious that he stops to salute ecologists, since I was in an ecology lab. I liked
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by Agathos 14y ago
It's human nature to feel uncomfortable, even angry, when a taboo is violated. Talking publicly about your income is taboo.

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