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by a_bonobo 6y ago
(Apologies, I had to truncate the paper's title somewhat to fit with HN's rules)
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LamPORE: Molecular screening for SARS-CoV-2 infection based on nanopore seq(medrxiv.org)
1 points by a_bonobo 6y ago|1 comments
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by a_bonobo 6y ago
Sounds like David Weber's Out Of The Dark
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by a_bonobo 6y ago
Speech-based control is almost mandatory for people with various disabilities (the blind, those with hand-movement problems/disabilities) and the elderly, a huge chunk of the population.
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Shournal – a file journal for your shell(github.com)
1 points by a_bonobo 6y ago|0 comments
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by a_bonobo 6y ago
The book being burned doesn't look like a bible to me - the breitbart article tries to spin that one book being burned into a NSDAP-like mass book burning event, with bible s being burned - we don't know which faction burned that
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by a_bonobo 6y ago
Where does OP's article say that the bible-burning incident was a 'lie'? New York Post says 'a bible', and your video a single book being burned, can't see whether that's a bible. The original video has b
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by a_bonobo 6y ago
As someone who is a biologist in Australia, oh my god is it a headache to get seeds into Australia. Lots of paperwork involved if we actually want to grow overseas plants, much easier to import extracted RNA or DNA (but way riskier for the
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by a_bonobo 6y ago
If we have nano-labs then we can also have nano-obfuscation-labs to protect our privacy - randomly mutate or CRISPR any DNA we shed
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by a_bonobo 6y ago
A lot of the huge equipment (trucks etc.) in Australian mines is already either remotely controlled or completely autonomous, precisely because there are no people around and the mines are so remote there are no surprises
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by a_bonobo 6y ago
Many if not most modern plant cultivars had at some point irradiation used on them to increase mutation rates to find interesting mutations with higher yield, higher resistance etc. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mut
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by a_bonobo 6y ago
As an academic, so a full-time writer, getting to the point of 'decent writing' took years and about 50% of my work-time so far. The key was never stopping writing (500 words per day on a weekly average) coupled with external, som
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by a_bonobo 6y ago
People were busy with their lives. Now that there's mass unemployment (=time and anger), a generally hated administration, and even more videos of police brutality all over the place it's all bubbling up.
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by a_bonobo 6y ago
A lot of bioinformatics (my field) uses graph algorithms. DNA sequencing machines don't give you entire genomes, they give you pieces. Re-assembling the genome from those pieces is a prime graph algorithm target. For example, Canu, one
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by a_bonobo 6y ago
The Oxford Nanopore people announced that they are in the 'advanced stages' of developing their own Covid-19 test called LamPORE https://twitter.com/nanopore/status/1263711292868694021 Press release: ht
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by a_bonobo 6y ago
I'm surprised how dodgy the Facebook and Twitter ads are. Maybe this is an Australian-localised thing influenced by all my various blockers and noscript extensions, but Twitter shows me 50% outright scams ('Twiggy Forrest says thi
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by a_bonobo 6y ago
I'm still waiting for the day when advertisers realise they've been sinking millions and millions of dollars into a garbage industry. Think of all the industries tied up into advertising, and how basic ad-money is to keeping on t
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by a_bonobo 6y ago
That was a PyCon talk a few years ago :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPgqfnKG_T4
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by a_bonobo 6y ago
If you want a bit of a political counterbalance to Sowell, try Chang's Economics: The User's Guide
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by a_bonobo 6y ago
I reckon subreddits are a good start, even though their lists are always domain-specific too: Biology: https://www.reddit.com/r/biology/comments/6jfscw/what_are_so... Law enforcement: https://
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by a_bonobo 6y ago
Oh if you can, try looking for similar recommendation threads from communities completely alien to you - law enforcement forums, midwife communities, car mechanics, biologists. HN is very insular in its interests as you can see with many po
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by a_bonobo 6y ago
Social philosophy/psychology, or cultural anthropology, is mind-bending to me. Erich Fromm's The Sane Society - on how society impacts people's mental health, and how to build towards a sane society Fromm's The Art Of Lo
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by a_bonobo 6y ago
Yeah I had to google this one - in German IT circles, DAU always means Duemmster Anzunehmender User (Dumbest Assumable User), never Daily Active Users
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by a_bonobo 6y ago
Exactly the same for me. My thinking is that I needed gaming because in the daytime, I have no room for myself as we're all cooped up in a small apartment. Games have become my own space where I make the rules, a huge contrast to dayti
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by a_bonobo 7y ago
thalia is running a lot of dodgy business practices focused on strong-arming smaller print-shops (see German Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalia_B%C3%BCcher#Kritik ), I'm really fond of zvab.com where y
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by a_bonobo 7y ago
In the points of fairness, in 10 years of Twitter I haven't gotten into any fights on Twitter? I keep fairly close to the 'science twitter' group, never get any fringe weirdos 'walk in' and start fights, but I mysel
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by a_bonobo 7y ago
I'm a researcher and Twitter has been an enormous boon for my work; within my field, most 'big' researchers are active on Twitter, they know me now, I know them, I'm always up-to-date with the research (way easier than f
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by a_bonobo 7y ago
Trier on that list still has a lot of Roman architecture standing around, a time-traveling Roman would have no problem finding their way. One of the city gates still stands, the throne hall of Roman Emperor Constantine (Basilica), the Amphi
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by a_bonobo 7y ago
I live in Australia and the diversity of bush-tucker is absolutely amazing! Tons of strange tomatoes (bush-tomatoes), of course kangaroo meat, quandong, kakadu fruit, kutjera, bunya nut etc. Except for kangaroo meat you can't get these
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by a_bonobo 7y ago
I've read a collection of his essays and outside of programming/startups, they are really mundane/black & white/binary division. I.e., the world is divided into nerds who are good, and bullies who are bad. I guess it

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