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541.
by busyant 9y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_fool_theory
542.
by busyant 9y ago
> Lamarckian theory that animals can pass on to their offspring traits that they acquired via their lifestyle. This was eventually proven false when we found no evidence that this is not how genetics actually works. Lamarckian theory mig
543.
by busyant 9y ago
Do you believe in bacteria acquiring antibiotic resistance? Do you believe in mutation?
544.
by busyant 9y ago
I grew up in the Berkshires and worked at Crane (making paper for the currency of several countries). Strangely, I've never heard of BerkShares.
545.
by busyant 9y ago
In an article about prejudging people by age, we have comments prejudging people by gender and hair color. My wife (blonde) frequently gets talked down to by people who make assumptions about her intelligence.
546.
by busyant 9y ago
Or...economists have successfully predicted 7 of the last 5 recessions.
547.
by busyant 10y ago
Gram + bacteria have no outer membrane.
548.
by busyant 10y ago
I've tested myself for the past 10 years and it seems as though I get sick (cold/flu-like) more frequently when we lose an hour. It's anecdata and small sample size and other possible confounding variables, but I think there
549.
by busyant 10y ago
I can't tell you how many times I tried (unsuccessfully) to replicate a procedure using the methods section in a research article. Then I contact the author and they send me a protocol that is a 'distant cousin' to what I rea
550.
by busyant 10y ago
> And what are the repercussions if he does NOT achieve all these within the first 100 days? He will claim that he did indeed achieve them despite all evidence to the contrary. If you manage to corner him on the argument, he will blame
551.
by busyant 10y ago
I think he's saying that focusing on shareholders is (counterintuitively) a bad sign for company health in the long term.
552.
by busyant 10y ago
Has Dylan himself commented on the award? He's unpredictable (and irascible) enough to make me want to hear what he thinks about all of this.
553.
by busyant 10y ago
I hate to do this since someone on another thread recently admonished HN commenters as being like crabs that pull other crabs back down into the pot, but I think that this paper is largely PR fluff and worthy of criticism. That being said
554.
by busyant 10y ago
If you're familiar w/ Martin's previous business dealings, you would know that his business model had nothing to do with research. What he has done (twice) is find a niche drug whose supply could be constrained (thiola @ Retr
555.
by busyant 10y ago
Soap is a remarkably good antibacterial as well. Im on mobile but will try to look up refs for this later. I used to work in this area and a colleague was an expert on antibacterial properties of detergents.
556.
by busyant 10y ago
This is a little depressing. I'm a lowly adjunct at one school and this is my last semester teaching chem with just an old-fashioned textbook (which is already overpriced). The department head has decided to switch us over to Cengage (
557.
by busyant 10y ago
I thought the punch line was going to be that Hiddink was duped into installing malware on his laptop that recorded and broadcast his tactical plans for future matches.
558.
by busyant 10y ago
Agreed. Playing on a 2nd division French team is not indicative of a brilliant con. Also, some of the information in the article strains credulity: Without balls to practice with, the team was restricted to doing a physical training sessio
559.
by busyant 10y ago
We have lived with (and sometimes even liked) curated ads in paper publications for decades. In the 1970s, my grandfather mailed his local newspaper and asked them to remove the ads when they made his copy of the paper. "I never re
560.
by busyant 10y ago
Unfortunately, if you think about this too much, everything gets flipped upside down. The tripod is the _perfect_ cover for a would be terrorist. Hide in plain sight. Etc.
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by busyant 10y ago
Wiki says holy see signed but didn't ratify. Don't know what that means tho.
562.
by busyant 10y ago
This sounds like a distinction without much of a difference.
563.
by busyant 10y ago
I'm simply basing my statement on my reading of that one story. I haven't read anything else on that site and I don't know the person at all. I think the original poster was simply responding to the "vibe" of that e
564.
by busyant 10y ago
There's something unseemly about ripping on other people. I know it's bill gates, but Hertzfeld comes across as the kind of guy who enjoys making people feel small.
565.
by busyant 10y ago
Maybe a more accurate phrase is "state sponsored sabotage."
566.
by busyant 10y ago
Many antibiotics classes seem to be partially selective at killing either Gram+ species or Gram- species. For example, fluoroquinolones can kill both Gram+ and Gram- microbes, but they are generally better at killing Gram-. Other classes
567.
by busyant 10y ago
I'd rather not mention my recent employer. But these startups do exist: look up Achaogen (achaogen.com) and Tetraphase (tphase.com). Cubist Pharmaceuticals was a big antibiotic developer that was recently purchased by Merck. Cubist its
568.
by busyant 10y ago
I used to work at an antibiotic discovery startup. I used to joke that there were so many groups with a Gram+ antibiotic drug discovery program going that my parents were probably running one out of their cellar. Gram- are tough.
569.
by busyant 10y ago
I agree with everything you said, but I feel that a large part of the population enjoys judging and punishing people. It's a large and dark part of human nature. There is a secondary problem as well: true rehabilitation seems incredibl
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by busyant 10y ago
I agree. "Sad" is the wrong adjective. I've seen similar stories take place when I was in grad school. In one instance, a professor wanted to fail a student (in his qualifying exam) b/c he didn't seem to take one of

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