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by Blahah 13y ago
You're half right - the countries with the best standards of living in the world are the ones that have social services that are paid for by publicly owned oil profits, then other resource extraction profits, then taxes. Scandinavia an
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by Blahah 13y ago
They used nail polish to seal the acidopore of one group of crazy ants, and simply sham-treated a second control group. After coming into contact with fire ant venom, the crazy ants with the sealed acidopores—which could not secrete any ch
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by Blahah 13y ago
Agree on all points. The second book was just god awful.
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by Blahah 13y ago
Another interesting SciFi exploration of economics is the Unincorporated Man ( https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4025200-the-unincorporat... ). Everyone is incorporated at birth, and trades shares in themselves (p
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by Blahah 13y ago
I've been playing using the spacebar... Debian/Chromium
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by Blahah 13y ago
In my experience, experimentalists tend to dwell on p-values and especially on cutoffs in their molecular experimental data as much as they do in high throughput data.
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by Blahah 13y ago
Publishing is easy. It's just a bit easier for the people who are (perhaps unconsciously) cheating. I'm pretty confident my loudly-refuse-to-cheat strategy will prevent me perishing before my time.
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by Blahah 13y ago
No.
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by Blahah 13y ago
Actually I have an ever increasing queue of collaboration requests. My reputation is (I am told) as someone who can rigorously get the story from the data, and who can solve problems. The people who don't want the rigour are the people
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by Blahah 13y ago
This is probably the most annoying problem in my daily life (yeah I know, first-world problems). I have daily conversations with biologists where I've analysed some data and associated (say) a posterior probability with each condition
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by Blahah 13y ago
Neat. Along the same lines for emacs people, there's writemode-good ( https://github.com/bnbeckwith/writegood-mode ), and for Sublime Text there's Writing Style ( https://sublime.wbond.net/packag
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by Blahah 13y ago
You're obviously not a scientist. If you were, you'd know we're groping around blindly on all sorts of frontiers :).
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by Blahah 13y ago
just FYI: gmail addresses ignore the '.', so lastnamefirstname@gmail.com is the same as lastname.firstname@gmail.com and l.a.s.t.n.a.m.e.f.i.r.s.t.n.a.m.e@gmail.com
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Knowledge sets us free. Let's return the favour.(blahah.net)
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by Blahah 13y ago
This. I'm at work, I don't want to watch a video (even on a legitimate break). Even if I wasn't at work I wouldn't want to watch a video. Some of us like words :)
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by Blahah 13y ago
Yes it would. Can I email you about this? I think we can help. Alternatively please feel free to email me - see profile.
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by Blahah 13y ago
This is excellent news. I really look forward to seeing Experiment grow. These are two challenges I foresee... 1. At the moment, the people posting projects are mostly PhD students. This is excellent for PhD students, but the real challen
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by Blahah 13y ago
Ehrlich wasn't wrong - hundreds of millions of people did die from starvation in the 1970s. Even in the 1990s, more than 100 million people died from starvation. Now ~8 million people die from starvation every year. You're right
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by Blahah 13y ago
Worst-case UN estimates are ~13billion, 9billion is best-case and looking increasingly unlikely. I think we'll hit mid-11billion.
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by Blahah 13y ago
I'll focus on what I know, just one issue: We'll run out of food. In about 2025 the global population will start to surpass what can be sustained by the available arable land in the world. We can't use more fertilisers or wat
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by Blahah 13y ago
Who cares what it was invented for: we can use it for this. If we only ever used tools as intended the world wouldn't have progressed very far.
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by Blahah 13y ago
Is there a guide to performance optimisation in Julia anywhere?
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by Blahah 13y ago
Or a fake ID... opening an untraceable bank account is one of the major use cases for identity theft. It's very likely that the money was moved into a bank account opening with a stolen or false identity, and the person will not be cau
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by Blahah 13y ago
University has a crappy insecure system for paying staff, they get hacked, so the staff stuffer? Just pay the man!
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by Blahah 13y ago
Some of our initial projects at http://solvers.io will include roles for designers.
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by Blahah 13y ago
Thanks! We've had similar feedback about specific tasks from the very few people we've shown the site to so far, and hearing it from you hammers it home. At the moment we're at the stage of recruiting initial projects. We&#x2
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by Blahah 13y ago
This is excellent, particularly the mentoring aspect of it. There is some really nice work to do in iPython and with Mozilla. Given the heavy Mozilla involvement I'm surprised they haven't gone with openbadges. We're working
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by Blahah 13y ago
af3's point is that you can avoid the risk of assuming bitcoin is anonymous by not buying a domain name at all...
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by Blahah 13y ago
I came here to say basically the same thing. If the author uses your gem, the timezone/active timeperiod identification route is greatly lessened. I actually think the combination of a custom domain and Github makes it much more likely
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by Blahah 13y ago
It's really easy to try Julia by just downloading it: http://julialang.org/downloads/ . I'm becoming increasingly convinced that Julia is the future of technical computing. We've just started pulling toge

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