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by amacbride 8y ago
(I took the Stanford nanoscale materials science class this summer, and we all had a good laugh. Graphene is very interesting, but it’s subject to the hype cycle.)
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by amacbride 8y ago
“The only thing graphene can’t do is make it out of the lab.”
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by amacbride 8y ago
I think the other critiques of is article are on point, but there was one quote that did resonate with me (as an Apple user and developer since the ][ ): “Seriously Apple, what is going on with the QA department there?”
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by amacbride 8y ago
I specifically don't want weight loss greater than 1-2lbs/wk -- slow and steady wins the race. Trying to change a very complex set of equilibria too quickly is a recipe for disaster.
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by amacbride 8y ago
I know it's just one data point, but I've been doing a very mild form of intermittent fasting (more time-restricted eating) since June, and have been very happy with the results. (I stop eating by 8pm, don't start again until
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by amacbride 8y ago
I know you're being snarky, but at the same time, you're not wrong. Too much of a theoretically "good thing" is still too much.
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by amacbride 8y ago
Gah, that's awful. It looks more like the branding for a protein bar: "New EXTREME library to the maaaaax! Get some!!"
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by amacbride 8y ago
...by a little bit (mostly due to Boeing's greater familiarity with NASA paperwork requirements.) "Based on NASA's "schedule risk analysis" from April, the agency estimates that Boeing will reach this milestone some
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by amacbride 8y ago
Forty-one total samples? Um...its not quite anecdata, but call me when the N is a bit larger.
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by amacbride 8y ago
As a 5-generation Californian, I will address this in my native language: "Dude, this is totally lame."
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by amacbride 8y ago
My guess would be that because more people are on PrEP, fewer people are using condoms.
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by amacbride 8y ago
The proximity of Stanford and Berkeley didn't hurt.
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by amacbride 8y ago
You may be thinking about some work that was done regarding mutational effects on conformation and expression. (Molecular biologists have known about it for a long time, but this was an interesting information-theoretical approach from a gr
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by amacbride 8y ago
(Oh, and massive financial shenanigans.)
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by amacbride 8y ago
What they promised is theoretically possible, but they ran afoul of the huge practical problems that made people with actual biology and engineering backgrounds (like myself) very, very skeptical.
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by amacbride 8y ago
Exactly. This is why Proposition 13, limiting annual property tax increases, passed in California in the 70s. (It's now widely maligned by outsiders, but they're usually not interested in the history.)
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by amacbride 8y ago
I will say that my best investment by far has been real estate, followed by typical 401k index funds. (Pre-IPO stock options have been hit or miss.) The best advice I can give is to live below your means; it doesn't mean you have to de
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by amacbride 9y ago
Worked like a charm for me, after a little tweaking of the source code. (My use case was a 70-year-old who couldn't remember which code she used on her phone.)
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by amacbride 9y ago
I'm hoping that the next generation of designers mocks it as dated and embarrassing and embraces something ultra-baroque just to spite them. It will be hilarious.
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by amacbride 9y ago
Honestly, most of the content seems to be from HN these days.
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by amacbride 9y ago
Only if salaries are forced to scale with the increase in property taxes; rapid increases to the point of unaffordability were one of the reasons the law was enacted in the first place.
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by amacbride 9y ago
Dave Ditzel is no slouch. I'll be interested in seeing how this goes.
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by amacbride 9y ago
You're probably thinking of the so-called "glymphatic system" that was in the news a few years back. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glymphatic_system
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by amacbride 9y ago
Remember when you had to boot it into kadb and fiddle around with symbols to get it to run at all? (IDR3.2 or so) Good times, good times...
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by amacbride 9y ago
The Mount Hamilton to Half Dome in Yosemite (168 miles) is the view that blew my mind when I first saw it. http://astronomy.snjr.net/blog/?p=416
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by amacbride 9y ago
The Mount Hamilton to Yosemite view (168 miles), is the one that blew my mind when I first saw it: http://astronomy.snjr.net/blog/?p=416