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by daughart 10y ago
You could argue that in today's environment graduate students are artificially under-priced, creating incentive for universities to use them as a cheap form of labor while training more than the job market can support.
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by daughart 10y ago
In the life sciences you're never really doing "your own research." The PI has the grant, usually tells you what to do, oversees your results, and puts his/her name in the final spot on the publication. Yet that is &quot
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by daughart 10y ago
It would be great if this opened the door to sleep aids that activated the brain's natural sleep induction mechanisms, as opposed to today's sleep aids, which are basically just sedative/CNS depressant/muscle relaxers.
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by daughart 10y ago
The database and internal messaging is at least in part customized IBM software. Howard is friends with IBM Lotus Vice President Jeff Schick and talks about him occasionally. They also seem to use RCS ( https://en.wikipedia.org&#x
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by daughart 10y ago
I'm not sure I buy the premise that a few percentage points tax difference in short term angel investments in Silicon Valley will have any effect. For one, angels are aiming for a relatively rare 5-10X (or more) return, so a few percen
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by daughart 10y ago
That's not clear at all -- there's no evidence that information was classified in the first place, but moreover a request to convert to "nonpaper" refers to sending a written summary or briefing. Jake Sullivan is no fool
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by daughart 10y ago
It's not actually clear to me that she put national security at risk. During the recent U.S. State Department hack, an unclassified email system was compromised. Most of the emails Clinton sent (99.6%) were not classified at the time,
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by daughart 10y ago
Gross negligence and extreme carelessness are not the same. Gross negligence is a conscious and voluntary disregard of the need to use reasonable care. Clinton clearly understood the need for reasonable care as she took some security measur
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by daughart 10y ago
It's really not conceivable to you that, given the way the law is written, her actions are not clearly illegal, while Snowden's were? The laws in question are written around intent, and Snowden's intent was clearly different
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by daughart 10y ago
She probably would have lost her clearance and job also. Fortunately for her, she'd already quit and is already applying for a new job that doesn't require security clearance.
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by daughart 10y ago
If the latter was the case why not just use the .gov email for state dept. business and the clintonemail.com email for international cash for favors?
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by daughart 10y ago
Humans play an important role in the continuous improvement process.
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by daughart 10y ago
YouTube isn't a very reputable source. That being said, universal voter registration is the real answer, which sounds like a pretty good idea to me.
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by daughart 10y ago
The idea that "Sanders' support has been stronger than Hillary's in most areas." must not be true, though, right? Otherwise he would have more votes. I think "more vocal" is accurate, but not actually larger in
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by daughart 10y ago
Republicans shut down the polling sites in Arizona to save money, and also this was decided well before anyone knew Bernie would be a contender. Same with all the voter registry purges. Bernie is right that he attracted a lot of people who
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by daughart 11y ago
It would be really hard to synthesize something of any significant size using these instruments.
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by daughart 11y ago
When I was there, the University of Pennsylvania had coed dorms and coed shared bathrooms. It wasn't a big deal.
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by daughart 11y ago
The weak point in the cryonics movement, in my view, is this: 1) The average life expectancy of a multinational corporation-Fortune 500 or its equivalent-is between 40 and 50 years. 2) The average life expectancy of a civil government is on
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by daughart 11y ago
What freedoms has Obama stripped away?
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by daughart 11y ago
I got to the third sentence: "Based on an analysis of reality, it is well-informed on economics..." Funny, I remember it as a comedy about petulant capitalists.
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by daughart 11y ago
The technique used to develop the therapy is not really what is being patented here. In practice, anyone will be able to use CRISPR for research purposes or to develop therapies. The question is, why would you invest in using this to develo
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by daughart 11y ago
They do a pretty good job regulating drug imports that violate IP, and I suspect they will here as well. The materials in question will be complex human therapeutic compositions, not research materials. I strongly doubt people will be creat
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by daughart 11y ago
Besides his contributions to computer science, his invention of the confocal microscope profoundly affected biology research and is still in wide use.
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by daughart 11y ago
They don't own any facts. They own the ability to exclude others from selling, as well as importing/exporting, certain materials.
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by daughart 11y ago
I'm assuming you're trolling so I will stop responding. CRISPR isn't my field and I'm not going to dig into supplements to disprove your theory, which is that CRISPR is not real somehow? I work in the Church lab. I know
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by daughart 11y ago
It's an interesting distinction here. I would argue that the science is already free. The Cas9 protein is a natural product. The guide RNA can be synthesized easily. What is being patented here is use of Cas9/CRISPR to edit human
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by daughart 11y ago
That is far more easily explained by contamination, which, as you mention, is actually how they explain it in papers.
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by daughart 11y ago
No pre-existing cells have the mutation at the site you're trying to engineer. It just doesn't happen. Otherwise selection alone would be good enough. But mice cells don't have that much intrinsic variation. Plus a lot of tim
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by daughart 11y ago
There's a huge gap between the scientific breakthrough and the work needed to create a safe and effective therapy. It's not academically interesting, and academic scientists won't do it. It's optimization, not discovery.
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by daughart 11y ago
This particular piece of IP is probably worth billions of dollars. I think that's a little better than applause.

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