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by civilian 10y ago
When dnautics says "different environment" he's not talking about the global environment, he's talking about the environment around the cell. A minimal viable cell should be able to survive on water, some dissolved gasse
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by civilian 10y ago
They didn't go with that because that's what we call newcomers to Seattle!
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by civilian 10y ago
Not to mention with all the mpg test fraud going around these days.
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by civilian 10y ago
We already knew there were organic compounds in space, this just added another one to the list of organic compounds in space. Nothing to see here, folks.
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by civilian 10y ago
Is he raging? waterphone sounds depressed about these state of affairs, not rage-filled. He doesn't want to be happy about an officer's death, but in the face of the behavior of our police force? It's weird how our monkeybrai
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by civilian 10y ago
Austerity != hoarding cash. Greece, Spain and Portugal haven't shown us that austerity damaged the economy. _Their economies were already bleeding_ but they were throwing enough money & debt at the problem to cover it up. Austerit
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by civilian 10y ago
Oh yeah, Ng talks pretty slow. 1.25 is a minimum cruising speed and I often go faster.
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by civilian 10y ago
I just started the Coursera Machine Learning course. I know that it's probably a bit under your skill level, but the second half of the class might give you some broad education about what's possible in the field of machine learni
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by civilian 10y ago
+1 looking for elaboration. I mostly agree and want to know your reasons!
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by civilian 10y ago
I wrote a command called 'lc', which list commands in a directory. I've found that what I really want is context-specific command history,and this provides it. Linky: https://github.com/pconerly/lc-listc
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by civilian 10y ago
No? Your understanding of racism is wrong, I think. It's not a "I'm going to reserve my airbnb for my racial group only!" it's: "I'm uncomfortable letting someone of another race rent my house, because I a
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by civilian 10y ago
Huh. I like your PO Box analogy. We should get the USPS to run mail servers.
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by civilian 10y ago
The way you're talking suggests you're not a JS developer, so I'm discounting your opinion on JS topics to zero.
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by civilian 10y ago
Huh, that is awesome. As a novice vimpire I'd love to figure out a teaching tool like that for vim. Vim doesn't really have a menu-- but maybe something that recognizes what series of edits you just made and suggests a shortcut?
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by civilian 10y ago
Bernie Sanders says YUGE too :-P https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9V3-GAsMEHQ
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by civilian 10y ago
You're not taking cousin marriage into account--- a lot of those 50k people are the same people. And I'm using the loose definition of "cousin"-- any non-immediate, however distant, family relative.
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by civilian 10y ago
110% yes. I've been playing Stellaris, and they actually put hotkey references in the tooltip! I can't do everything with the keyboard, but I'm doing way more than I was. Hotkeys are great and we should encourage more tooltip
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by civilian 10y ago
I'm really kicking myself for saying "a few" genes are shared between archaea & bacteria. > The proteins that archaea, bacteria and eukaryotes share form a common core of cell function, relating mostly to transcriptio
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by civilian 10y ago
I'm quoting the author of the book that this thread is discussing, this isn't a random cherry-pick. :) Craig Venter wasn't sailing around the world 3 billion years ago. //edit okay, so, I was trying to explain what
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by civilian 10y ago
Hmmm I see what you're saying. It's a mess but I optimistically think it's still something we will be able to tease out, by looking at many genes in a genome. FWIW, It was recently estimated that 2% of core genes per genome
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by civilian 10y ago
From Nick Lane's article "How did LUCA make a living? Chemiosmosis in the origin of life" http://www.nick-lane.net/LAM%20BioEssays.pdf > The concept of organic soup is nowadays closely allied to the idea
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by civilian 10y ago
I just don't like how they talk about certain science topics, it's really... simple. I really enjoyed their episode on the Galapagos, and "The Rhino Hunter" http://www.radiolab.org/story/rhino-hunte
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by civilian 10y ago
How so? I will happily agree that bacteriophages & HGT ruin the idea that phylogenetic tree can be a perfect tree-- our phylogenetic tree has many undirected cycles in it.
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by civilian 10y ago
Of course horizontal gene transfer exists, but that's also a discrete event that we can track. And a horizontal gene transfer event is one directional-- We wouldn't have a world where all archaea and all bacteria share fundame
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by civilian 10y ago
If you had read the book, you would know that Archaea and Bacteria both share some genes. Not many genes, but a few genes that are very fundamental. And not even the genes we were expecting to be the "minimum viable product" for
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by civilian 10y ago
#2 seems like it could be tested. #3 seems like a decent model, but is the model actually consistent with how "all organic life" functions? And what is the distinction between Organize&Analyze and Analyze&Decide and Decid
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by civilian 10y ago
Was it a great episode? I felt like they added a lot of silly soundclips and used a lot of bad analogies. And per usual, you can almost literally hear the gears in Robert Krulwich's head grinding.
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by civilian 10y ago
I can understand people who don't drink, but I don't understand people who have never drank. It feels like an obvious personal flaw, a sign of cowardice, that you would not have even tried something so routine and common in our
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by civilian 10y ago
I want my brother to tell all of you guys about how it's not worth his time to vote. (Especially in an extreme democrat state like california-- it's unlikely that he'd be the deciding vote.) But my brother is so aware of the
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by civilian 10y ago
Right, I am definitely talking about the culture. There are some valid arguments not to use GMO, and I never hear them. You should check this out: http://acsh.org/news/2016/05/17/pinterest-a-sewer-pipe-o

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