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by Blahah 13y ago
It doesn't matter what their aim is, BGI are advancing science that benefits us all. They publish their research, we read it, everyone wins. Except the pigs.
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by Blahah 13y ago
The survival rate is different because of the way they blastocysts have to be implanted. We have no reason to presuppose that cloned animals will present more risk to eat than bred animals.
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by Blahah 13y ago
For a long time exciting science has been coming from China. Why is that a problem? It's not a competition :) it's all good for the world.
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by Blahah 13y ago
I agree about some nature documentaries, though I've seen a good number that are clearly manipulative (in that they have staged a situation or misrepresented the facts). The BBC stuff is generally excellent.
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by Blahah 13y ago
You can easily change it - you just click the flag at the bottom of the iTunes store and switch to the country of your choice.
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by Blahah 13y ago
It turns out this has been uncovered along with a huge list of other horrifying practices on Okinawa by the USA in Sheldon Harris' book Factories of Death ( http://www.scribd.com/doc/91284707/Factories-of-Death
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by Blahah 13y ago
This articulates what I meant much better than I did.
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by Blahah 13y ago
I'm not saying it can't apply to books. I'm saying that the prevalence of bullshit is much greater in documentary films, making them in general a bad source of information. Of course I agree that there are many examples of pr
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by Blahah 13y ago
There is no worse way to learn than through documentary films. They are free to be as inaccurate and emotive as they want, without the inconvenience of journalistic ethics, and they very often are much more sensationalist than their textual
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by Blahah 13y ago
On AnkiMobile, whenever we find we want to use a feature or library that is much easier or only possible on later iOS versions, we review market share. We recently started retiring 4.3, and will soon retire 5. We already develop some new fe
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by Blahah 13y ago
any plans for more RAM options? something like the EC2 244GB?
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by Blahah 13y ago
Very interesting! Nice work guys. Just sent you an email about academic research use case. You don't mention anything about RAM in your pricing - what are the restrictions? And what about I/O and storage?
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by Blahah 13y ago
Agreed on all points. But market action != market forces. I was not persuaded by a disparity between supply and demand in the market to do a PhD. My PhD has a very direct route to helping the world, and I chose it because after about a year
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by Blahah 13y ago
For me at least: 1. I want to improve the world 2. Intellectual freedom matters to me 3. Money doesn't matter to me Market forces be damned.
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by Blahah 13y ago
It's a great idea. When I get home from work and discuss it with my other half, I'll be sending an offer too :)
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by Blahah 13y ago
I think the premise of the article is that jacquesm wants to do the thing he said he wants to do. The journeyman thing is just a nice way to set the story up.
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by Blahah 13y ago
And all holiday need not involve travel. My ideal holiday would be a week at home with a stack of old sci-fi novels, Mariokart Wii and a long walk in the countryside every day.
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by Blahah 13y ago
did you try not drinking before bed?
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by Blahah 13y ago
When I was a teenager I often forgot to take my housekeys when I went to school. If nobody was home when I got back, I would take a stick from the garden and open the latch with it through the letterbox. Around the age of 16 my wrist became
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by Blahah 13y ago
It is old. The page is copyright 2010, and the last news post was mid 2012.
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by Blahah 13y ago
*pedestal
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by Blahah 13y ago
Thanks for the explanation so I didn't look silly :). I agree with your main point - it's worth it if he gets to develop his skills faster.
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by Blahah 13y ago
http://googleblog.blogspot.co.uk/2011/02/microsofts-bing-use...
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by Blahah 13y ago
Do we really need an article to explain why it's childish? It's face-slappingly, consumer-insultingly childish.
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by Blahah 13y ago
For most 15 year olds it would not be an extremely easy task. What's impressive is that someone has gone down such a specialised skill-development route by that age. So both the OP, and you, are impressive.
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by Blahah 13y ago
Surely it matters for legal reasons? I thought that was what the parent was implying; he could get his games pulled for copyright infringement.
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by Blahah 13y ago
The reason sourceforge is preferred by some people for binary hosting is that you get download stats. People want to know their impact. I think GitHub would really drive sourceforge out of business if they started offering this.
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by Blahah 13y ago
Once you have had your freedom forcefully removed, maintaining it becomes a major source of happiness. > You don't really want "freedom," you want an obligation that you're excited about, you want a responsibility yo
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by Blahah 13y ago
That's a good technical point about the vocabulary - it's poisonous but to very specific species. I should have said not poisonous to humans . Regardless of how people feel, the need to use toxic pesticides and insecticides are a
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by Blahah 13y ago
Monsanto makes two types of GM crop products. The first, Bt crops, have the gene for a Cry protein from the bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis inserted so that they are toxic to the larvae of lepidoptera (moths and butterflies). The Cry pro

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