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DNA Evidence Can Be Fabricated, Scientists Show (2009)(nytimes.com)
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Although the term "magnetic graphene" is sometimes used to refer to FePS3, this compound isn't graphene - it's devoid of carbons. Rather, FePS3, like graphene, has a tendency to form thin sheets. But that's where th
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Few people taking theses tests understand or care about the privacy-destroying effect of what they're doing to themselves and their families. For example, this is from the AncestryDNA (different company) terms of service: By submittin
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It's not exactly clear what the actual offer was. From the end: The final offer I signed was ~$300,000 in total yearly compensation (over four years, including a variable annual bonus, and amortizing the signing/relo package).
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Annotation-based programming might seem cool now, but wait a few years. Magic always seems cool when you add it to a project - hey, look - I don't have to do <tedious thing> anymore. Then time goes on, and you (or your successor)
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Modern Sql: Evolution of a Dinosaur [video](vimeo.com)
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You are right (slaps forehead), and I was not thinking about the historical context. The earliest tables were based on "valence", or the ratio with which an element tended to combine with other elements in compounds. Two of the mo
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Guide to HTTP Cookies(blog.webf.zone)
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Revealing the secrets of jumping crystals’ motion(cen.acs.org)
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Does it tell us anything we didn't know, doesn't appear to. 1. Have a look at the heading under "Gruppe." It's the formula of the element's oxide. That hasn't shown up on periodic tables for a long time
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Watch the Netflix documentary The devil we know for more on PFOA (aka C8) and PFOS. They are widely used in the manufacture of teflon and other nonstick products. PFOA has made its way into the bloood of almost every human being.
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Names are abstractions. If there's an itch to apply some abstractions on a project, begin with good, very carefully considered names for functions, variables, and classes. The main difference between the projects that make me want to p
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This article tells about Seymour's many failed attempts to get investors onboard, but nothing - not one word - about the inventor selling prototypes himself. Yes, producing 100K units will require serious capital. But producing a few u
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Solar panel prices tumbled around 30 percent last year after China, the world’s largest producer, cut subsidies to shrink its bloated solar industry, pushing smaller manufacturers to the brink of collapse. 1. Cutting subsidies should rai
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The steep marketing spend ("more than $15,000") may have something to do with the title/subtitle. Specifically, it doesn't say anything to me at least: The Heart to Start: Win the Inner War & Let Your Art Shine This
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Were an MMT system inevitably go awry, the outward manifestation would be of course manifest as inflation, so central planners would of course try to get ahead of it by draining more liquidity, faster, by increasing taxes. As this fed on i
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World’s Oldest Periodic Table Poster Turns Up in Scottish Storeroom(livescience.com)
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Implied but not explicitly stated in the post is the idea that these interviews are mainly about solving puzzles given during interviews. How depressing. A big part of software development is knowing how to get things done with people you d
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The creator of a work has unique rights over that work. There are literally authorities on created works. They are the "authors." I think what Sagan is getting at is that no such relationship between scientists and science exists.
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The board's letter is linked in the article. https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/5683932-Resignation-... There appear to have been multiple complaints: 1. Ownership of the journal is non-negotiable. 2. Article
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I see how it could be interpreted that way. But my purpose was to credit the author and his book. Had I left the quote without attribution and claimed it as my own, I'm sure someone would have suggested I should take a refresher on pla
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The title's use of "Harvard" is interesting in that it hints at appeal to authority. Imagine that the astronomer were based at Lackawanna College. Would that information be worth conveying through the title? "Lackawanna
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On Permalinks and Paradigms… (2003)(plasticbag.org)
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The change that invalidated the transaction was not a hard fork. It was a soft fork. https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Value_overflow_incident A hard fork expands the range of valid transactions. A soft fork narrows that rang
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Dawn of Life in a $5 Toaster Oven(nautil.us)
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What's the source? The article says nothing about it, and seawater contains copper and other metal ions all by itself: https://web.stanford.edu/group/Urchin/mineral.html
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Really well done and I like the brevity. Here are some ideas for revising the code: 1. There are two functions called "distance" and they're identical. Only the outermost appears to be needed. 2. As written, the game places v
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The article isn't clear where the metals are coming from. It could be that the desalination process simply concentrates what's already in the seawater.
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Many of the most important technologies came from side hustles/projects, not from a deliberate attempt to solve a problem: - Twitter sprang from a failed startup idea rendered obsolete by a tech giant - Apple grew from two guys making
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I'm starting with a 2018 review, as described here: https://medium.com/@schlaf/how-to-conduct-an-annual-life-rev... Then, I'm going to set some realistic goals based on what I find.

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