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by daughart 13y ago
The NIH should require statistics training in the same way the require ethics training for all life sciences graduate students.
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by daughart 13y ago
Misleading title linked to crap pseudoscience article. "World renowned heart surgeon" - Hasn't had a medical license since 2008, and had 5 regulatory actions taken against him between 2000 and 2008 while working in Arizona (n
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by daughart 13y ago
Fantastic article - worth the read. This is why I am astonished about the talk of Microsoft selling Xbox. Live is clearly a distinguishing feature and I look forward to seeing what is more important to sales - the Xbox Live ecosystem or the
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by daughart 13y ago
Venter deserves credit, but for what? - Shotgun sequencing was invented by Sanger, not Venter. - Venter used capillary sequencing, like the Human Genome Project (HGP), which is a dead-end technology surpassed by next-generation sequencing a
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by daughart 13y ago
They can still buy private ammunition. I think you're correct that a personal military ammunition stock is no longer mandated by the state.
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by daughart 13y ago
Value is multifaceted, but in this case it should be pretty clear. If the demand for something only exists at a price less than the cost of production, then the product will not appear on the market (at equilibrium, all else being equal, et
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by daughart 13y ago
Labor is a complex commodity because it is linked to a human being. It's natural and right that the value of labor is influenced by supply and demand. However, value is also determined by the cost of production. What is the cost of pro
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by daughart 13y ago
If you want to see really un-ironic irresponsible ideas, go read the post on the anarchist solution to healthcare. I'll give you the tl;dr: anonymous healthcare for bitcoins.
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by daughart 13y ago
32 pounds of marijuana in that case. If you were going to do a test run in this way, you could send a single schedule IV Xanax or something. I'm not saying it's a good idea but the likelihood of putting your neighbors in danger is
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by daughart 13y ago
Why?
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by daughart 13y ago
Apple increasingly proves that intransigence in response to customer feedback is not a defining feature of Apple's aesthetic. Another example is the reduced motion setting in iOS7. There's no need to piss people off just for the s
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by daughart 13y ago
I work in an open-office layout and when people want to write or code they often work from home to avoid distraction. For every serendipitous conversation I have, there are ten distracting and useless conversations. I would kill for a cubic
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by daughart 13y ago
I'm sure it does, but they don't have a problem assigning other required classes, such as a one-hour-a-week communication of science class. One hour a week for a year is enough to cover a lot of material.
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by daughart 13y ago
As a graduate student in the life sciences, I was required to take a course on ethical conduct of science. This gave me the tools to find ethical solutions to complex issues like advisor relations, plagiarism, authorship, etc. We were also
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by daughart 13y ago
If you reread my statements, you will realize there is no implication that we need more government. As an ideologue, you have projected onto my statements a position that you want to argue with. To say that the government never relinquishes
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by daughart 13y ago
If a bigot makes a product I want, I have to punish myself in the act of punishing them. If instead they are "punished" for being bigoted (or better, disallowed from acting bigoted), the punishment is no longer mutual. This is pro
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by daughart 13y ago
Tim's argument is really more from the perspective of human rights than economic justification. The link to economic activity is only that, "we undermine people's potential and deny ourselves and our society the full benefits
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by daughart 13y ago
I agree. Sexual orientation, however, rises above political belief and religion as a matter of personal identity. In other words, it should be clear that discrimination for reasons of gender, race, national origin, age, disability, sexual o
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by daughart 13y ago
Seems more like "two rights make a right" - companies benefit from public institutions and in return companies do not discriminate. Both of these things are beneficial to everyone. Only in libertarian ideology are either of these
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by daughart 13y ago
Seems ideological rather than factual. It's well known that the level of employment at the IRS prevents the government from collecting billions of dollars of revenue they are legally owed. In other words, the government is understaffed
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by daughart 13y ago
Except from my understanding the government is generally hugely understaffed with a large backlog of tasks that are mandated at the congressional or higher executive levels.
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by daughart 13y ago
Card replacement - my credit and debit cards as well as RFID cards (college ID, T pass) - is THE killer feature. This is the only feature that would cause me to switch platforms.
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by daughart 13y ago
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by daughart 13y ago
Because pro-gay-rights activists have so much blood on their hands compared to homophobes and bigots. Oh right, it's the other way around. In America, a "vote" with a wallet means as much as a vote with a ballot.
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by daughart 13y ago
Bioengineering and synthetic biology will never be like electrical engineering, but some of the differences can be exploited. For one, you can use directed evolution to optimize a biological system without relying on rational design. For an
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by daughart 13y ago
I think it's actually quite promising. We're good at cell biology but poor at systems biology. If we can convert neuroscience to understanding what types of neurons exist and how they function, that is probably very tractable. In
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by daughart 13y ago
I hope people in the connectome camp take this to heart. I strongly doubt that modeling the connections of neurons will reveal the way the brain works. The mouse and rat brains are very similar in connectivity, but the behavior of the mouse
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by daughart 13y ago
There is no reproducibility crisis in science. 1. Reproducing work is a waste of resources. Use the money and researcher hours to develop tools that are more reliable, cheaper, and easier to use. A major reason why no one reproduces experim
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by daughart 13y ago
I think this is a horrible idea. The average age of R01 has risen to over 40! Why add another 2 years by requiring students to reproduce work that is already published? It adds virtually no value to a graduate degree. The most difficult par
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by daughart 13y ago
People wear perfume. Some people are allergic to perfume. So what. At some point it's the person with the allergy's responsibility to manage their immune response through medical treatment.

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