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by JunkDNA 15y ago
Thanks for writing this Paul. I lost my dad just over 10 years ago to pancreatic cancer. He was 46 and I was 23, just starting my career. It was a wakeup call about what really matters in life. Now that some time has passed it's easy to los
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by JunkDNA 15y ago
Can we get a sanity check from someone with actual background in this area? Seems like this would only work point to point in a line of sight manner with no obstructions. While still cool (satellite TV/Internet comes to mind), it's hard to
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by JunkDNA 15y ago
Ever since my daughter was born two years ago I basically stopped watching movies and only watch a small amount of TV. This has made me realize that the products being put out by Hollywood are inconvenient and not a good value for the money
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by JunkDNA 15y ago
Actual shipping costs (not shipping and handling which is what you often get charged by merchants) are pretty inexpensive when operating at the scale Amazon does. My family had a small factory so I got a good sense of what the shipping cost
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by JunkDNA 15y ago
The biggest problem has been and will continue to be interpretation of the results, particularly in human clinical sequencing. Especially as more data becomes available with advances like this.
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by JunkDNA 15y ago
If you aren't using something like Adblock, just wait until all the ad networks figure out you're pregnant. My wife was totally creeped out one day when she realized practically every site she visited was showing baby ads.
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by JunkDNA 15y ago
Complicated to explain without being able to refernce the figures, but they basically had "symbols" that consisted of short DNA sequences. These were followed by longer sequences that made a "tail" of DNA.
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How AOL—Aka Facebook 1.0—Blew Its Lead(online.wsj.com)
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by JunkDNA 15y ago
The rights I was referencing are freedom of assembly and freedom of speech. My point is that it is extremely difficult to remove money from politics and still allow these. Let's say you and I want to start a movement to influence our repres
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by JunkDNA 15y ago
I recognize that Lawrence Lessig is beating this particular drum lately, and he's probably way smarter than me. However, I can't escape the idea that money is the mother's milk of politics. It's like water in that it always finds a way thro
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by JunkDNA 15y ago
1) In US high schools, the students don't generally buy the books, the school does. They often use them for several years in a row. Publishers know this when pricing them. So on one hand, they give up the high price point, but on the other,
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by JunkDNA 15y ago
The difference here is that smallpox is a virus that was eradicated with a vaccine. Antibiotics against bacteria are another matter. Vaccines allow your body to use its full nuclear arsenal. Antibiotics on the other hand are single points o
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by JunkDNA 15y ago
I was surprised too, I'd expect those numbers to be roughly equal. The only thing I can think of is that they're using Flash for audio. The Flash runtime has run better on Windows than other platforms for a while. Would be curious to see th
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by JunkDNA 15y ago
As an average end user, what specific problem is NFC going to solve for me? I just don't get it.
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JS Encryption of Personal Health Information(biomedcentral.com)
2 points by JunkDNA 15y ago|0 comments
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The Scribe of the Double House of Life(chopcbmi.org)
1 points by JunkDNA 15y ago|0 comments
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by JunkDNA 15y ago
Only in the parallel universe of corporate press releases do statements like these make sense: - "As the printer evolves into a content hub in homes and offices, HP Instant Ink allows additional content pages to flow – with savings and conv
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by JunkDNA 15y ago
A bit of a meta-comment, but I'm starting to think that I'm going to end up reading all the surprising and interesting segments of this biography as blog posts. By the time the book arrives, I fear all that will be left to read is the borin
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by JunkDNA 15y ago
Reminds me what an incredible guy Woz is as well. Makes me wish I could have been there as the two of them debated the future of the personal computer in their garage.
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by JunkDNA 15y ago
I had a feeling this was right around the corner the moment I saw his presentation to the Cupertino planning committee. My dad died of pancreatic cancer 10 years ago at the age of 46. In the month or so leading up to the end, as his liver s
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by JunkDNA 15y ago
Not sure in this specific case, but generally my experience is that many researchers in the biological sciences want to sit on data for a long time. The often given excuse is that they want to be absolutely certain they can extract all publ
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by JunkDNA 15y ago
With respect to antioxidants, there had been mounting evidence recently that antioxidants could paradoxically increase cancer risk. The evidence so far is that there are cellular pathways that spool up in the presence of oxidants and can ca
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by JunkDNA 15y ago
Yogurt has been my primary weekday breakfast for at least a decade, probably more. I recently switched to Chobani for one reason: Flavor. It tastes rich and creamy like it should be bad for you, but it's not (true of most Greek yogurt). Wit
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by JunkDNA 15y ago
Thanks for doing that, I found myself wishing they had put error bars on when I saw that graph but was too lazy to do it myself. With respect to the statistical power issue, it may be they just didn't have enough students. Unlike your typic
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by JunkDNA 15y ago
Hadn't seen Vidyard before. That's a brilliant business model. Lots of people don't want all sorts of stuff crapping up their content. Plus, it's a perfect example of flying underneath Google. Google is not going to give up advertising any
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by JunkDNA 15y ago
Wow... impressive bio. I'd love to hear more about the retail internet space, do you have a blog? I feel like there isn't a lot of good info out there on how to operate at a moderate scale (i.e. you're not trying to be Amazon, but you're al
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by JunkDNA 15y ago
Indeed. I recently saw a US job posting located in a major city that wanted a COBOL programmer to update a legacy system. I know I've read articles in the past about how much of a need there is for COBOL programmers, so I was kind of curiou
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by JunkDNA 15y ago
This is not at all similar. It would be highly surprising to me to find that long-term exposure to ritalin leads to deletions and copy number variations in someone's DNA. Furthermore, it is improbable that a drug causing DNA changes would
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by JunkDNA 15y ago
This study is nearly a year old. Even at that, it is not an example of the first eidence that ADHD is a genetic disorder. There's at least one other study from 2009 ( http://www.research.chop.edu/publications/press/?ID=475 ) that had simi
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by JunkDNA 15y ago
Since there was so much interest about this yesterday, I thought this analysis might be a better insight than all the press release style stuff floating around. I missed this during my skimming of the article: "The patient's kidneys were, i

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