a_bonobo

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   by a_bonobo 7y ago

   Apparently MIT Press has a book coming out from the author later this year on clear communication: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/make-it-clear
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   by a_bonobo 7y ago

   This may make more sense if it's normalised by the size of each hospital? Small hospitals are immediately at limit and make a red dot for obvious reasons. For example, there's a red circle next to Bremen, Alle-Weser-Klinik Verden,
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   by a_bonobo 7y ago

   I thought so too - if you're solidly upper middle class, then you'll usually stay solid upper middle class. The author went to Loyola Uni, a private US uni, which according to this site at least is 50% more expensive than the nati
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   by a_bonobo 7y ago

   The big fear with these smaller remote-ish places is that their tiny hospitals will be swamped - Byron Bay hospital is pretty small, the next large hospital would be an hour's drive to Gold Coast. Other local holiday destinations in Au
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   by a_bonobo 7y ago

   If you want to learn more about Le Guin's influences, I just finished reading Charles King's Gods Of The Upper Air ( https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42951225-gods-of-the-upp... ) It's pop-histor
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   by a_bonobo 7y ago

   I've posted this on HN before, NHK 'raised' one dead singer who sang a new song for this year's New Years special using similar tech: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/01/10/fi
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   by a_bonobo 7y ago

   Wikipedia already has a list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_self-driving_car_fatal... Along with your pedestrian death there were five (!!!) driver deaths. There's a reason why places like Germany don&#x27
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   by a_bonobo 7y ago

   If you have the money (and it sounds like you have), there are quite a few recipe box companies which send you boxes of ingredients and recipes every few days. It's a nice stepping stone towards fully cooking for yourself as it cuts ou
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   by a_bonobo 7y ago

   I don't think that data exists (outside of Honda's internal servers), does similar data exist for Teslas?
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    by a_bonobo 7y ago

    I was in a Honda Stepwagn last week and that one recognised stop signs and clearly displayed it.
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    by a_bonobo 7y ago

    You might enjoy Ousterhout's A Philosophy of Software Design - it discusses the many ways a programmer/system designer can fight rising complexity in the code base
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    by a_bonobo 7y ago

    This is just conspiracy mongering, you cannot engineer a virus like nCov using CRISPR alone - all CRISPR-Cas9 can do is insert point mutations/change bases, no way to use it to mereg different genomic pieces together
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    by a_bonobo 7y ago

    Yes that's being done, here's a preprint using this and similar sequences and comparing them with bat coronaviruses and SARS: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.01.22.914952v1....
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    by a_bonobo 7y ago

    There were at least message sticks: https://www.ancient-origins.net/ancient-places-australia-oce... >For instance, one of the message sticks in the Dandiiri Maiwar Exhibition at the Queensland Museum and Science centre i
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    by a_bonobo 7y ago

    At the 2019/2020 year's NHK New Year's event we saw a first truly deepfake artist: Hibari Misora, who died 30 years ago, sang a new song, the singer was 'regular' CGI hologram, the song was a new deepfake-generated
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    by a_bonobo 7y ago

    I found your steps particularly dishonest in the recent accolades for Shopify: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/12/26/shopify-ceo-you-dont-have-to... The reason Shopify is so successful is that they have 0 morals as
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    by a_bonobo 7y ago

    I've been struggling to find an equivalent for 'overengineered' in German - there's verschlimmbessern, a portmanteu verb of 'verbessern' (improve) and 'schlimm' (bad), it's what you use when you
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    by a_bonobo 7y ago

    These are the dying throes of a industry that knows its days are numbered. In biology, we now have biorxiv - arxiv but for biology papers - and the growth of papers there has been exponential (source: https://twitter.com/csh
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    by a_bonobo 7y ago

    To be nitpicky: you don't have to multiply by 1100 since Australia has two power networks that are not connected - one for Western Australia, one for the rest
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    by a_bonobo 7y ago

    I bought a new Subaru Forrester. Even the base model comes with cameras which do a lot of work, including automated braking
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    by a_bonobo 7y ago

    You're right, they were the same age and at the same school but apparently Hitler had to repeat a grade and Wittgenstein was pushed one grade ahead https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Wittgenstein#Jewish_bac...
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    by a_bonobo 7y ago

    With a preface by Douglas R Hofstadter, nice! I'll get it, thank you :)
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    by a_bonobo 7y ago

    If you can, read Zweig's The World Of Yesterday, a memoir on life in Vienna before WW1. It's surely rose-tinted, but the amount of culture and intellectual life was outstanding, what an enormous loss. (Hitler also lived there at t
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    by a_bonobo 7y ago

    Similar problem in Australia - lots of Chinese in Western Australia leads to overfishing of native Abalone stock: https://www.watoday.com.au/national/western-australia/the-ch... Restrictions on fishing are getting
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    by a_bonobo 7y ago

    Regular biotech is already very cost-efficient, it's just a matter of putting the gene in, not breaking anything, and then optimising the hell out of the protocol (optimising temperature, pressure, nutrient mix etc. in your bioreactors
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    by a_bonobo 7y ago

    > 50. The error message 'No space left on device.' means you are out of disk space. >On Linux systems, (and perhaps most Unix-likes? IDK) some fraction of the file system is typically reserved for root, typically to allow co
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    by a_bonobo 7y ago

    I work in bioinformatics, not syn-bio, but I have friends working in syn-bio. I first wanted to go into syn-bio during my undergrad days (about 13 years ago?) since then all the exciting things were happening, logical gates, fine-grain cont
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    by a_bonobo 7y ago

    Maybe China goes through what the young US went through? 200 years ago the US was a notorious thief of tech. The UK had strong export protections on skilled workers and important machinery, especially in the spinning industry. Alexander Ha
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    by a_bonobo 7y ago

    And most Conbinis have trashbins outside
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    by a_bonobo 7y ago

    Same thing in Australia, the wealth coming from the resources boom has been and is being given to a few rich people, not the general public (who are having social services slashed regularly)