ShannonAlther

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by ShannonAlther 9y ago
I'm going to be slightly unorthodox and say that as long as they're no embarking on the same type of venture, having the same name is more-or-less okay. Nobody with domain-specific knowledge is going to be confused by this, and it
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People who don't have access to truvada definitely aren't going to be getting cutting-edge gene therapy any time soon. And how many people died of type I diabetes in 2015?
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by ShannonAlther 9y ago
It's awesome that this is possible. Right now HIV infections are basically a minor nuisance, provided you're taking the appropriate medication, but this bodes well for future treatment of viral infections.
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by ShannonAlther 9y ago
The trouble with comparing the best to the worst is that there's really no floor for how bad a programmer can be. If an average programmer takes ten minutes to do a task, and a great one takes four, how long does an incompetent one tak
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by ShannonAlther 9y ago
The problem is that every third sentence out of the president's mouth is so disconnected from reality that it boggles the mind. If Obama, Bush, or Clinton had said even a few of the things that Trump has it would have made headlines fo
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by ShannonAlther 9y ago
Phage therapy is also relatively common in Russia. http://www.nature.com/news/phage-therapy-gets-revitalized-1....
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by ShannonAlther 9y ago
Another 14-pointer which was overlooked: nitromagnesite <--> regimentations
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by ShannonAlther 9y ago
Mmm, so I spoke too soon on that front. In my defense, I've said this a lot to people who are advocates of Hyperloop construction (vacuum tubes are far too easily ruptured to be used in conjunction with transportation), but Musk is cor
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by ShannonAlther 9y ago
This has apparently been in the works for a while[0] in response to a ridiculous percentage of El Salvador's fresh water being poisoned by mining runoff. Good for them, this looks like it solves a lot of problems. Does anyone know what
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by ShannonAlther 9y ago
> But there's no engineering reason why a hole in the ground can't happen. Depending on the specific location, there may very well be. Underground tunnels are vulnerable to earthquake-inflicted damage, for instance, and you wou
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by ShannonAlther 9y ago
So we might hope. But I worry that when this reaches the courts, the case will be over a collision where the driver at fault has modified their phone to resist such an intrusion...
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by ShannonAlther 9y ago
In addition to maxerickson's point, a lot of the bill goes into paying the dental professionals who do the implanting. It's a (minor) surgical procedure.
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I'm pretty sure Nick Sand's arrest in 1996 was the cause of the sudden scarcity of LSD on the market 20 years ago. According to Erowid ( https://erowid.org/culture/characters/sand_nick/sand_nick_bi..
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by ShannonAlther 9y ago
From page 3, on the regulation of ISPs as utilities: ...the order has weakened Americans’ online privacy by stripping the Federal Trade Commission — the nation’s premier consumer protection agency — of its jurisdiction over ISPs’ privacy a
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by ShannonAlther 9y ago
Just briefly scanning the numbers on Wikipedia, Amazon.com could acquire John Deere, but it'd be highly unlikely unless they expected that a change in management would yield implausibly high returns.