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by Reelin 7y ago
FAANG: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook,_Apple,_Amazon,_Netfl... FAAMG: https://www.businessinsider.com/faamg-tech-stocks-market-gol...
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by Reelin 7y ago
That is a really neat paper. > Successful replacement codons tended to conserve local ribosomal binding site-like motifs and local mRNA secondary structure, sometimes at the expense of amino acid identity. Based on these observations, we
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by Reelin 7y ago
> Most people fall in two categories, either a) not heard of Chomsky, or b) think he's wrong. On HN of all places I suspect that most people fall in a third category: c) related to designing & parsing grammars
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by Reelin 7y ago
> That said, they edits were deliberately just replacing like with like, so it would be expected that they survive. To the extent that we only consider encoded proteins, sure. But DNA and RNA has secondary and tertiary structure that do
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by Reelin 7y ago
> and that was the third attack in a one mile stretch Wow. Where was this?! I'm accustomed to clueless pet owners but that's just ridiculous. Cycling regularly, I recall ~4 run-ins over as many years (compared to none in urban
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by Reelin 7y ago
Having lived in a small town surrounded by rural area for a bit: > You can't exercise, because dogs don't just bark but also chase you, and no one cares or thinks you're the asshole for complaining because you're in t
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by Reelin 7y ago
I don't think that's entirely correct. > The bacteria are alive, though unusually shaped and reproducing slowly. If I understand correctly, they completely removed two serine encodings and one stop codon encoding. Given how imp
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by Reelin 7y ago
I think the meaning of "synthetic genome" here is "synthesized in vitro", not "100% artificially engineered sequence".
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by Reelin 7y ago
Many people seem unaware of how bad the 70s were, and that definitely predates Facebook. https://www.npr.org/2015/04/05/396359930/explosive-protests-... I suspect people just like to have a boogeyman to
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by Reelin 7y ago
In these sorts of discussions I think it's very important to quote the relevant parts of such a large, dense document when linking to it. US Code, Title 18, §842(p)(2) (A) > to teach or demonstrate the making or use of ... or to dis
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by Reelin 7y ago
> but shooting "fire" in a theater isn't There are legally recognized limits in the US, but that particular example isn't a good one. ( https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012&#x2F
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> but to ban the police seems extremely dumb I think this conclusion is due to missing some of the downsides. Could it cut costs and speed investigations? Certainly! But try to imagine some of the creative ways in which a naive implement
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> but pose no present danger to citizens I would suggest that if something appears likely to cause a fire, you can: a) Wait for the fire to start, put it out, then fix the cause. b) Preemptively fix the cause, thus preventing the fire fr
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by Reelin 7y ago
> Of course you could run your own internal Maven repository for your company and have every project rely on that exclusively, with only carefully reviewed and verified packages being imported there. Most won't have time to be so ca
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by Reelin 7y ago
Making a decision to delegate something is very different from not having control over it. Running with your example, I have complete control over the suit I wear; choosing to delegate that decision to the salesman is an explicit judgment c
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by Reelin 8y ago
> As a programmer in 2019, I think it's a bit hypocritical of me to opt-in to the industry that is responsible for the situation we are in while saying 'regulation is the solution here'. Ehh, it's not as though changi
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by Reelin 8y ago
> If you've given control of your data to a third party, you have no control. Full stop. Given the current state of affairs, doesn't that effectively amount to not carrying a cell phone if you don't want to be tracked? It&
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by Reelin 8y ago
> It's much more effective to measure and understand those behavioral tendencies directly, and the motivations behind them I never suggested otherwise? The term "tribal instincts" was meant to refer to precisely that. >
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by Reelin 8y ago
I think you are confusing tribal instincts (ie thought patterns and emotional drives) with tribal entities (ie the emergence and labeling of tribes themselves). A given instinct (ie predisposed thought pattern or behavioral tendency) potent
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by Reelin 8y ago
I no longer worry about verb tense, simply using whatever sounds best to me when writing that particular commit message. My messages don't match each other, but so what? They're readable and to the point. Why waste time worrying a
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by Reelin 8y ago
I often browser HN in a half width window for this exact reason. To be clear, I don't fault HN for this; I can trivially resize my window to whatever works best for me. Commit messages are different because people often interact with t
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by Reelin 8y ago
Because very often the client will be some piece of command line tooling that doesn't do those things. https://commit.style > Git is strongly opinionated that the author is responsible for line breaks; if you omit them,
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by Reelin 8y ago
> ... a letter from NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine and Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross requesting that it be delayed. FCC Chairman Ajit Pai rejected the request ... Ajit Pai strikes again!
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by Reelin 8y ago
That's an engagement issue. If a particular tool, approach, or technique doesn't hold your interest then it's very unlikely to work for you. You could try reflecting on why and try to change it, but it will probably be more
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by Reelin 8y ago
That New Zealand thing was an amusing read. I'm not actually as concerned with archiving itself as I am with having an offline cache of the data in my library for convenience. Also having an immutable snapshot (not necessarily static)
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by Reelin 8y ago
Looks interesting, I'll try it out when I get a chance. I suspect it functions in a similar manner to Zotero's built in archiver though, so I'm not optimistic about what the results will look like.
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by Reelin 8y ago
Forgot to mention originally, but I did try Zotero's snapshot feature. It seems to work better for some papers than others - the activation atlases one ( https://distill.pub/2019/activation-atlas/ ) is particul
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by Reelin 8y ago
Really glad to hear you guys are aware of this! I do love the expressiveness and ease of understanding that interactive diagrams offer, but find the prospect of a mutable scientific literature to be a somewhat horrifying one. I understand a
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by Reelin 8y ago
Slightly tangential question, but this is yet another piece of work published on Distill. I keep a library of the papers I've read in Zotero. However, when it comes to Distill I've run into a problem - I can't figure out a ro

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