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by coriny 10y ago
Ah sorry, I missed a key phrase out - _pre-tax_ UK prices are the highest, and they are by a long way. Post-tax they're nearer the middle as the UK has by far the lowest energy taxes. Unfortunately it's too late to edit my comment
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by coriny 10y ago
The wikipedia link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_subsidies . e.g. in the UK north sea oil exploration is heavily subsidised: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/uk-govern
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by coriny 10y ago
e.g. https://hyper.sh/howto/ > This guide shows how you can launch a full functional Jenkins server in one minute And then configure this Jenkins works with you Github account.
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by coriny 10y ago
It's probably linked to this quote: > I will spend my last dying breath if I need to, and I will spend every penny of Apple’s $40 billion in the bank, to right this wrong,” Jobs said. “I’m going to destroy Android, because it’s a st
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by coriny 10y ago
The post-WW2 soft power strategy by the US was awesome and extremely effective. Sadly, it seems that by the 70s the pentagon had become solely obsessed with the projection of hard power. I personally reckon this has a huge amount to do with
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by coriny 10y ago
It's a difficult thing to compare, so I wouldn't totally believe the absolute comparisons, but generally most countries in Europe are considered to have higher social mobility than the US. The exceptions are Italy & the UK, wi
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by coriny 10y ago
Wow, right. When I first saw the link I thought, "Excellent, MS are contributing some good to the world via accessibility tools". By the time I had scanned the page, I had come to the conclusion that it was just marketing blather
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by coriny 10y ago
Maybe it looks like that to you because you're unfamiliar with this format? To me it looks like he's written a short bio that's ready for dropping into where it's needed. e.g. top hit on google: http://smallbu
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by coriny 10y ago
As a habit it is bad, but this is actually standard for short bios. It allows it to be dropped in place directly for conferences, PR shots, news articles, etc without any rewrite.
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by coriny 10y ago
How do you define what a society wants? There is not an implicit goal when a society exists, there is just a collective of individuals who happen to have some interaction. So essentially, this is the function of politicians in a democracy:
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by coriny 10y ago
I'm not sure, I kind of disagreed with both statements you were making, and decided to pick holes in the latter, since it was providing support for the former. If I'm missing a "wider point", can you elucidate?
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by coriny 10y ago
> If farmers can get rich growing crops, there will never be a famine. You're not considering that food has a limited shelf life, seasonal, difficult to distribute efficiently and the customers have highly variable purchasing powers
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by coriny 10y ago
Nicely demonstrated in Derren Brown's "The System": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9R5OWh7luL4 . Though we've rather ruined the twist ...
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by coriny 10y ago
> Ireland failed to collect the correct amount of money owed to the EC Just for your info this isn't what happened, it's Ireland's tax money. The EC doesn't collect taxes. Instead the EC ruled that Ireland was providi
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by coriny 10y ago
I surprised there hasn't been more suggestion of this. There's are known classic scams for stealing laptops from security lines - the one I saw demonstrated used two people and a common type of laptop case. The entire context here
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by coriny 10y ago
I think the URL everyone is looking for is http://www.truecaller.com/unlist . Impossible to check if it works though without creating an account and handing over all your details. They really should provide a "Is my num
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by coriny 11y ago
I wasn't think the US, particularly amongst the general population, particularly cared if the UK was invaded. There was strong anti-British sentiment, further boosted by the UK effectively defaulting on its WW1 war debts to the US, muc
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by coriny 11y ago
I know _ad hominem_ is generally uncalled for, but he's not known for doing anything else. As the Guardian tech editor he had a reputation for showcasing (i.e. Boot Up, which got pretty toxic) and writing articles attacking Android. Mo
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by coriny 11y ago
Sorry, I'm going to nit pick, but non-coding and "junk" aren't the same thing: Non-coding just refers to not being translated to protein, and we know (as you list, more for the benefit of others) that there are many non-
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by coriny 11y ago
I think people get emotive over the term 'junk'. It was always just a phrase rather than a technical description. We know that ~80%, maybe a little more, of the genome does not show conservation. If the function was important to t
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by coriny 12y ago
PostgreSQL is a very different beast to what it was 10 years ago. So for a while it didn't support use cases as well as various NoSQL/NewSQL databases. However, PostgreSQL has also been built by great bunch of developers who are h
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by coriny 12y ago
Maybe in Danish it's only 6 syllables? Because the English language completely agrees with you.
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by coriny 12y ago
Thanks for the interesting reply. At the moment I guess it's a case of wait and see. I think it's fair enough to have some non-specific skepticism about Perl 6 given the history, however it's clear the designers are putting a
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by coriny 12y ago
I'm increasingly of the opinion, after having to deal with biologist data format hackery for many years (they have no shame!), that every biologist should be taught relational database normalisation. That would make them actually stop
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by coriny 12y ago
Absolutely, with any serious application, it takes time to break it down and understand it. But the majority of perl generated in bioinformatics are basically advanced shell scripts and should be immediately comprehensible. This is rarely t
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by coriny 12y ago
BioPerl has probably got a lot better over the years, I haven't touched it in a long time (5 years+), so my views may be very out of date. I don't really want to get into reviewing Bio* libraries generally :) There is a general pr
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by coriny 12y ago
Bioinformaticians are generally capable of writing truly awful code... that's why I like to call myself a Computational Biologist. I still write crap code, but no one's expecting any better from a biologist ...
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by coriny 12y ago
Sorry, I was just pointing it out in case for anyone copying the code as they are both very common cases - especially dots as gap characters. The Grammar system does look quite nice. Parsing is definitely a Perl forte - though I seriously h
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by coriny 12y ago
>> To accurately follow anything non-trivial written by anybody in any programming language will require you a good grip over the language and its corner cases. There is no magic here, if a language doesn't offer facilities to he
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by coriny 12y ago
Just one technical comment - that parser will break on many FASTA files. They can also include '.' & * characters ('.' is often output by sequence aligners to indicate sections outside of the model, * is there for aa

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