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by busyant 5y ago
From the Science article: "However, limitations of BAC cloning led to an underrepresentation of repetitive sequences, and the opportunistic assembly of BACs derived from multiple individuals resulted in a mosaic of haplotypes. As a re
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> Do you have an example where half the parking lot is covered in ice, or trying to break on a road with unpredictable traction so that they don't end up halfway through the intersection? If the car is "smart," maybe it wi
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Interesting. You've made me realize that models (in the scientific sense) are lossy transformations of reality.
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> I remember always being optimistic about the future. Now I'm not so sure. 1968 here... I was somewhat pessimistic about the world throughout most of the '80s, primarily because of the cold war, Libya, etc. But when the Berlin
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by busyant 5y ago
My mother participated in a clinical trial starting about 3 years ago. The rationale behind the investigational drug was that it might target inflammation associated with infection (I won't go into details). Honestly, I would have pref
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apolipoprotein_E#Alzheimer's_d... Alz is not entirely dictated by genetics, but certain genetic alleles can influence your likelihood of developing the disease. I am watching my 81 ye
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> you Americans fetishize brand name universities I'm sure some people do this (American and non-American). But whether you like it or not, attending a brand name university has advantages. I went to a mediocre state school for unde
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by busyant 5y ago
Not quite a horror story... Over the course of about 7 years, I "amassed" options for about 100,000 shares ($0.10 each). I got laid off in the great recession of 2009 and I was pretty annoyed at being laid off (I won't go int
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When you dissect a joke, it dies on the operating table.
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No. Is that part of the plot? edit: just read the wiki for the latest Bond movie. Apparently, there is nothing new under the Sun. Thank you.
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by busyant 5y ago
I'm sure I'm not the first person to consider this, but ... RNA molecules can often be "evolved" in vitro to bind/inhibit target molecules with high specificity (e.g., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#
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by busyant 5y ago
All I can say is that I find "losing" the hour to be brutal for several weeks. I've never been good with jet-lag either. I like to joke that I never fully recover until they give me back the hour come November. I'd rat
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> Can't we do the sensible thing and lift the minimum income high enough so that only those who want to study will go to college and do so without fear of missing out? In my particular case, this was not an issue. I don't want
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> I’m surprised expulsion wasn’t on the table. Couple of points that I omitted. First, I was teaching at a local community college. The students were from a nearby university. They were trying to avoid the equivalent classes at their own
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by busyant 5y ago
About 5 years ago, I had 3 students who worked as a team to cheat. * The ringleader placed his iPhone under his leg. * He would lean back in his chair and hold the exam sheets up in the air. It looked a little unusual, but it (initially) se
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by busyant 5y ago
Thank you. That makes me feel a little better!
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> I don’t see what’s sad about that, other than maybe the disappointment of losing naiveté. From my own experience, some sadness is due to treating a few people with disdain in my youth. At times, I was an arrogant, pissy teen. I wish I
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by busyant 5y ago
> 7 sells loose cigarettes to middle school kids. 7 will leave the shopping cart in the middle of the parking lot. Your comment made me laugh out loud. 7 isn't that rebellious in my universe.
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> The ways we could end up in a nuclear war are frightening to the point of madness. Haven't read the book, but I watched Dr. Strangelove when I was young(er). What made the movie great to me was that it made me realize that, althou
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by busyant 5y ago
I view the digits as having genders and personalities. "5" and "6" are definitely guys. The evens tend to be a bit kinder than the odds. Hasn't helped me with arithmetic, though.
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by busyant 5y ago
Would be cool if this were merged into a single map of Europe with a single search. You could get a sense of your "surname diaspora."
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I've come across this one for Italy: https://www.italianames.com/italian-last-names-maps It has regional heat maps, but I prefer the one provided by surnamemap.eu It seems more granular and more comprehensive (my moth
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by busyant 5y ago
Not sure if you've read it, but his bit about how God is a Republican and Santa Claus is a Democrat is great. And this endorsement is coming from a latte' sipping out-of-touch east coast liberal. edit: you can find the full bit
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Would be amusing if they had a blue checkmark.
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I'm trained as a bacterial geneticist. For reasons that I won't go into, I worked at a biotech startup where (for a period of time) everyone in my group was trying to culture microbes from common household surfaces. The nastiest p
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by busyant 5y ago
Recently saw a video where Bill Burr said if he could do it over, he'd treat high school like a hip club with no cover charge. Everybody's in their prime. All the guys have a full head of hair. Do what makes you happy.
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ditto, minus the cigs
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> Workers feeling threatened by technology think the technology is bad or worthless, news at 11. I appreciate the sentiment and I think it's understandable to think that. In this particular case, however, my co-worker was one of the
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> every kid can draw up novel structures. Then: how do you actually fabricate these (in the case of real novel chemistry and not some building-block stuff). Noone has a clue! Yep. I worked at a biotech startup in the early/mid 2000s
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> but you could spend hours upon hours reading the rules My brothers and I bought Axis & Allies about 25 years ago. We spent a few hours trying to assimilate the rules. Then we got bored and did something less mentally taxing. We con

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