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by bmahmood 15y ago
Apologies for the lack of clarity. When I said 20,000 protein-coding genes are not enough, I was referring specifically to the traditional view that one gene codes for one protein. It's pretty well understood now that this is not the case
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The exact mechanism is still being studied for sure, but the phenomenon is well documented and continually researched (article a couple years back: http://www.pnas.org/content/105/44/17046.short ). The most widely cited example in humans i
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Agree that this article isn't the most descriptive, and evolutionary may not be the best of terms, but it should be noted that epigenetics has caught the eye of developmental and neurobiologists for some time as explaining much more of huma
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3 Powerful Roles I Played as a Government Intern(mbilalmahmood.com)
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Do Fat CEO Faces = Fat Profits?(moneyland.time.com)
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Its exciting to watch this proposal start to come to fruition. I worked in the government, and attended an Access to Capital Summit in the Dept of Treasury back in March, where I saw this proposal take bloom. At the Summit, Jessica Jackley
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by bmahmood 15y ago
Often its by just shuffling funds from certain programs to another. I believe in this particular case, they'll also use revenue-generating measures like closing tax loopholes to fund the new programs, thereby not adding to the deficit.
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Majority of the comments seem to be discussing the merits / morality of taxation, rather than Buffet's central points. Entertaining the discussion on the merits of taxation, I've found John Rawls' Justice as Fairness to be especially enligh
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Thanks for the response. Didn't consider that, and as such helps to think of products in new markets as simply the combination of facets in tangent markets.
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How do you develop a marketing strategy around a latent customer need?
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UK Government considers blocking Twitter, Facebook(forbes.com)
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