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by danielford 16y ago
I think what he's getting at is that you can look at the genome of E. coli, which was sequenced in the nineties, and is one of the most common model systems used in research, but we don't know what the functions of a lot of those genes are.
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by danielford 16y ago
I hate nature's flying dirty syringes as much as anyone else, but most of the proposed solutions are either localized to a certain area, or species-specific, or both. Why wouldn't we just start with the disease vector species, then check t
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by danielford 16y ago
I've been doing this for the last six months, and I didn't even realize it until now. Thank you.
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by danielford 16y ago
You've just earned your Voice of Reason badge.
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by danielford 16y ago
If I worked within fifty feet of an NMR machine I would do nothing but this, right up until they fired me.
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by danielford 16y ago
Sorry, I really didn't need to be so rude. That said, I think getting quotes right is important if you're going to use them. Otherwise you're contributing to sum total of misinformation in the world.
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by danielford 16y ago
Yes, but you still dicked up the quote. Footnotes and mothers are not synonymous, much to the relief of both.
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by danielford 16y ago
I think the thread expired some time ago, but since you asked I'll attempt to explain my reasoning on the fine-tuning of the universe. There are a number of physical constants in the universe that if altered slightly would result in a univ
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by danielford 16y ago
I'm a deist because I find several of the philosophical arguments for God's existence compelling. Specifically I think the arguments from fine-tuning and the intelligibility of the universe are strongly in favor of God's existence. The Lei
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by danielford 16y ago
Yeah, I haven't wanted to reach through the internet and smack so many people since the last time I read the comments for a YouTube video. I suppose they deserve to know why they're wrong though. For starters the article isn't saying anyth
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by danielford 16y ago
That's why Richard Feynman accepted the Nobel prize. From his autobiography, Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman: I therefore had no idea why someone would be calling me at 3:30 or 4:00 in the morning. "Professor Feynman?" "Hey! Why are you b
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by danielford 16y ago
It depends entirely on the professor and the department. My adviser once said that he expected forty hours a week, but if we really wanted to be successful we should put in sixty. I know plenty of other people with ridiculous horror storie
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Is There A Higher Education Bubble?(suburbdad.blogspot.com)
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by danielford 16y ago
That's complicated. My criticism of Aubrey de Grey is one I have of transhumanism in general, which is that it's mostly CS people taking Moore's law and applying it to biological problems without having any experience in biology. Aubrey d
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by danielford 16y ago
That's an explanation that rests on group selection, which tends not to be taken very seriously by most biologists. Similarly, group selection explanations of why we age are held only by a handful of researchers in the field of aging. Most
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by danielford 16y ago
It's not just the cost of production for me, but also that when I buy an ebook I am decreasing the supply of that book in the used book market. This should cause used versions to be priced more highly, and increase the probability that some
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by danielford 16y ago
You've just given me an awesome idea for a startup.