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by brfox 15y ago
I can't decide if this is a dumb question or not, but why does something like the ISS always face the surface of the Earth in the same direction? For example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=7... I know the rea
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by brfox 15y ago
Innovation is the commercialization of a good idea. So, the ideas are easy to come by, but combining the good idea and the commercialization is what really makes something innovative.
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by brfox 15y ago
What is the "one page PDF" that was referred to in this article?
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by brfox 15y ago
And animal models of disease (or aging) are much simpler than real life human biology. One big reason being that lab strains of mice (and maybe the rats in this study, too) are inbred and very homogeneous - genetically speaking. So, somet
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by brfox 15y ago
This kind of gene patent is not relevant for drug companies who are trying to make therapeutic proteins. 1. if the whole concept of a "gene patent" (as described in this article) were shut down then drug companies will still be fine, since
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by brfox 15y ago
flagged, article doesn't load without account
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by brfox 15y ago
I like that one, too. But then I read the others and they seem to give a totally different picture, like: symmetric pencils falling in space. It is interesting to read how the different physicists visualize and explain this concept.
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The Higgs Boson - A one page explanation(hep.physics.utoronto.ca)
97 points by brfox 15y ago|20 comments
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by brfox 15y ago
This is why Google+ will surely get a huge audience.
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by brfox 15y ago
Then maybe a comment should get a single star if it gets a moderate share (5%) of the total points, or at least 5 pts, whichever is higher. Zero starts would be the default.
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by brfox 15y ago
This sounds kind of like pg's Viaweb? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viaweb
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by brfox 16y ago
I used to be more likely to click a link on Google if the domain name looked more authoritative. So, a lot of those common names with high prices would seem to be valuable for that reason. And, I think Google ranks sites higher if the dom
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by brfox 16y ago
Nice job! I agree about the uselessness of baby name wizard. You did a great job making it more interesting. Are you having any luck getting visitors or higher in organic search?
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by brfox 16y ago
We should team up or something... I made this baby names website a couple years ago when my wife and I were looking for baby names. I didn't like the sites out there too much and made this to help search. (since then I've been so busy wit
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by brfox 16y ago
Mine did the same thing, I sent it in for a replacement and HTC was easy to deal with and shipped me a phone right away.
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by brfox 16y ago
I watch 1 hr of Netflix every evening in Seattle with Qwest and it is very reliable.
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by brfox 16y ago
Windows is not open source so it is probably harder for the carriers to just lock it down (unless they require something in the business deal). With Android, being open source, then the carriers can change it however they want.
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by brfox 16y ago
My two kids had a completely different personality when they were each 2 months old. Their personalities have hardly changed in 4 years. So, none of these 3 theories account for this - I think genetics is a much bigger deal.
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by brfox 16y ago
Buy a used one, scan everything, then sell it. That's what I was going to do, but I liked the scanner so much I just kept it.
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by brfox 16y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=rtm
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by brfox 16y ago
I tired about 10 random ones and 3 were real links. So are they approx 30% full already of the 4 character urls? I guess you better not shorten a url to a page you don't want to be public, because then the address will be easy to guess.
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IBM Bids $1.7 Billion for Data Company Netezza(nytimes.com)
2 points by brfox 16y ago|0 comments
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by brfox 16y ago
The patents are for the use of these molecules as drugs in order to treat a disease. That is a very non-obvious and inventive process to figure out which of the 25000 genes in the human body will be useful as a drug - and what the exact co
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by brfox 16y ago
I haven't read the actual study - just the presentation in this link. However, I would be REALLY hesitant to conclude anything from this other than Celera chose uninteresting things to make patent applications on. The "outcome" for innovat
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by brfox 16y ago
I just tried it out and it is not what I hoped it would be. It only stores a little bit of gmail - subject plus a little text from the unread mails (maybe IMAP works better). It didn't seem to get any of my facebook posts... so I'm going
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by brfox 16y ago
I haven't tried it out yet but I really, really like the idea of saving all my online activities to my computer. I put a lot of effort and I actually spend time worrying about how to make sure these things will not get lost when these comp
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by brfox 16y ago
That seems like it would be worthwhile (to cut down the number of queries): http://products.wolframalpha.com/api/pricing.html
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by brfox 16y ago
SuperGenPass is a bookmarklet which seems really nice - it has a different password for each website and 1 password that you use to create the different passwords.
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by brfox 16y ago
This thread has too many one-line jokes like reddit.
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by brfox 16y ago
I have always disliked this type of graph. But some people think they are the coolest thing. Like this baby name website is really popular and it is based on a graph like that: http://www.babynamewizard.com/voyager (A couple years ago I

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