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by HillRat 10y ago
He doesn't have an equity vehicle for the research -- he needs funds for his university lab, but he's basically at a point where he needs more funding than he can get from public sources, but his work is still considered too specu
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by HillRat 10y ago
The opinion is at http://www.cafc.uscourts.gov/sites/default/files/opinions-or... ; Judge Mayer's concurring opinion starts on page 27.
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Federal appellate judge: End software patents(jdsupra.com)
3 points by HillRat 10y ago|1 comments
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by HillRat 10y ago
I think you're taking this a bit too literally. Consider a less extreme case; given a choice between a pound of gold or the current financial equivalent in Berkshire Hathaway equity (about 150 shares), which is more likely to provide h
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by HillRat 10y ago
Actually, I think the problem for Google is that the market is already pretty fragmented, depending on how you slice it, and shows no signs of vendor consolidation. In this particular case, Google's pushing hard on the flat side of the
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by HillRat 10y ago
I'm not sure that reputational risk is the same thing; I suspect one way to look at it is that a researcher who returns the null case is disrupting the organization by putting a lot of other peoples' work and assurances at risk. S
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by HillRat 10y ago
I think it's safe to say that Lockheed and Boeing didn't conspire to blow up a rocket on federal property -- but damn if the idea of Russia infiltrating spetznaz into the US defense industry for sabotage aimed at ensuring their co
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by HillRat 10y ago
At the risk of being facile, I think it was an attempt to deter peaceful dissent that provoked violent protest. Like the execution of Louis Antoine, it was worse than a crime -- it was a blunder. Edit: It's also worth noting that Fergu
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by HillRat 10y ago
Contextually, the employment of literally hundreds of armed troopers in anti-riot gear occurred before any violence at the protests, and the local and state authorities ratcheted up the response in the intervening days. Violence and looti
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by HillRat 10y ago
Target and similar stores carry van der Hagen razors, which are a pretty solid entry-level line.
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by HillRat 10y ago
Samsung (and LG) washers have design peculiarities that seem to be unique to them. For example, the bearings are actually part of the drum, so if they fail (a not-uncommon occurrence), you end up effectively having to replace the entire was
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by HillRat 10y ago
Good points, though those cases hinged on the argument that Argentina had, in its bonds, expressly waived sovereign immunity and made New York the forum for any legal action. Even so, the 2nd Circuit ruled against attempts to seize Argentin
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by HillRat 10y ago
Oh, are we planning to launch the Senate into LEO? That seems like a winner of an election-year policy proposal.
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by HillRat 10y ago
The gold standard protocol in Japan has traditionally been exclusive enteral nutrition, but Crohn's in western countries has generally been refractory in studies. Japanese remission rates are reported in the 70-90% range, so it's
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by HillRat 10y ago
Crohn's is best understood as a collection of symptoms than an actual diagnosis, because -- this article being a case in point -- the underlying etiology isn't understood. For example, treatments that work on Crohn's patients
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by HillRat 10y ago
FWIW, LD50 dosage is low for intravenous injection, but very high (multiple orders of magnitude higher) for intramuscular injection. The risk is generally not getting enough of a dosage, not too little, unless you somehow manage to hit a ve
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by HillRat 10y ago
To be fair, he wrote the original as an analysis of how coups d'etat tended to evolve during the postcolonial period; the "practical guide" was just a bit of academic provocation. (As Luttwak admits, he only knows of one coup
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by HillRat 10y ago
Red is one of those languages that I forget about until a story like this comes along, and then I'm reminded how much I want it to mature to 1.0. Looks like full I/O support will be probably be released in the next 12 months or so
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by HillRat 10y ago
Can someone explain to me how this fits into Schema.org's core mission (which, as I understand it, is basically to provide a lightweight ontological overlay on pages to assist search engines)? This seems like an attempt to build a form
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by HillRat 10y ago
Ah, your update definitely clarifies the situation, and your course of action makes more sense. I get the feeling that you've got a mismatch between your market's expectations and what you're providing -- they seem to think o
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by HillRat 10y ago
Sections 431 and 436 are probably some of the key sticking points. The problem is that you really do need humans with domain experience to explain exactly what a bill will actually do in practice, which is why lobbyists and stakeholders wil
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by HillRat 10y ago
This ... is not the best way to take advantage of what is basically a sales lead. After all, Scrollytelling is a small company with only a handful of clients, of whom De Volkskrant appears to the most important, so why barge in with DMCA ta
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by HillRat 10y ago
You know, people get on the US for our dangerously-lax gun culture, but our concealed wolf crime rates are significantly below Northern Europe.
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by HillRat 10y ago
Fluoridated toothpaste is, for regulatory purposes, a drug; caffeinated toothpaste is a food item. So this is just another way of saying, "We didn't want to deal with the regulatory burden." But, man, one tube of this thing i
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by HillRat 10y ago
More precisely, "DevOps" is the new way to pretend we don't need a sysadmin. It usually doesn't take long for me to wish for a greybeard with a background in debugging kernel drivers.
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by HillRat 10y ago
Basically predicted by Tainter's Collapse of Complex Societies ; functionally, the idea is that societies evolve complex institutions to maximize value extraction from a particular set of circumstances, but over time they also lose th
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by HillRat 10y ago
If done right, the competitive advantage is in the optimization of the allocation of labor. It's just that there don't seem to be that many labor-intensive businesses where optimization provides the kinds of returns necessary to m
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by HillRat 10y ago
Ultimately, this space will operationalize out to the company that can manufacture safe and reliable self-driving cars most efficiently. Assuming, of course, the fleet cap- and opex makes autonomous vehicles a more profitable proposition
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Patent suit settled over palm-sized gene sequencer(sciencemag.org)
1 points by HillRat 10y ago|0 comments
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by HillRat 10y ago
Under conditions of increased CO2 availability, plants tend to decrease waster usage and sequester more carbon. Growth rates are faster, but require increased mineral availability. Unfortunately, nitrogen levels in plants decrease in high-a

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