dbcooper

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by dbcooper 4y ago
One of the worst aspects of this forum is the completely ignorant blaming of "big pharma" for any and all short-comings of health systems.
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When Private Equity Becomes Your Landlord(propublica.org)
7 points by dbcooper 5y ago|0 comments
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by dbcooper 5y ago
You can also use a one line JS bookmarklet on the article page, such as the following: javascript:(function(){window.location = ' http:// ' + window.location.hostname + '.sci-hub.st' + window.location.pathname;
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by dbcooper 5y ago
More complete summary from the NY Times: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/01/03/technology/elizabeth... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29789074
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by dbcooper 5y ago
This is more complete than any of the other reports.
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by dbcooper 5y ago
Count by count summary of jury decisions: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/01/03/technology/elizabeth...
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The Next Few Years in DNA Sequencing(41j.com)
2 points by dbcooper 5y ago|0 comments
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by dbcooper 5y ago
There is no carbon on the moon. Try sustaining anything without that element.
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by dbcooper 5y ago
No one cares. It's publications, grants, and patents.
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by dbcooper 5y ago
A chapter in a crappy text is worthless for tenure, grants etc. It doesn't count at all for meeting your publication goals.
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by dbcooper 5y ago
Another publishing anecdote for the thread: One of the big publishers asked me to write a chapter of a bioengineering textbook. Compensation? Digital access to the book for 12 months. Not even a hardcopy!
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by dbcooper 5y ago
Yeah, I take it as a professional or civic duty. I'm a junior professor, and am currently not getting paid while I wait until I can return to my campus. Covid has done a number on my lab, so I don't have a suitable grad student to
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by dbcooper 5y ago
I reviewed a submission (review paper) to a top journal recently. It took a lot of time, and I responded with seven pages of recommendations, comments, and corrections. My recommendation was to transfer it to a more specialist journal from
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by dbcooper 5y ago
“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.” A quote that could certainly apply to research on biological systems. Just because you think you're smart, doesn't mean you can out think the system or even
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by dbcooper 5y ago
Seems like GTK4 has some font rendering regressions: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/issues/3787
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The sequencing trap that risks stagflation 2.0(ft.com)
2 points by dbcooper 5y ago|0 comments
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by dbcooper 5y ago
Why do people here always want to reduce the equity and income of pharma and biotech scientists?
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by dbcooper 5y ago
Good. They've created massive value.
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by dbcooper 5y ago
Not for a while.
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by dbcooper 5y ago
Any tips for Twitch?
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by dbcooper 5y ago
Historical Italian Cooking is a good channel on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsDUyQI88LLvpu9RCevwQEA
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Microsoft Wants a New Font(thurrott.com)
8 points by dbcooper 5y ago|1 comments
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by dbcooper 5y ago
Music for Programming is a great site for electronic music mixes that are suitable for working to. https://musicforprogramming.net/
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Qualcomm Completes Acquisition of Nuvia: Immediate Focus on Laptops (Updated)(anandtech.com)
1 points by dbcooper 6y ago|0 comments
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by dbcooper 6y ago
I wonder if this would indicate Intel going fabless ...
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TSMC reportedly planning on building six new manufacturing facilities in the US(notebookcheck.net)
5 points by dbcooper 6y ago|3 comments
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by dbcooper 6y ago
Absolutely right, Pfizer has failed on those as drug candidates for the last 20 years.
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by dbcooper 6y ago
This is great fun. Thanks!
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by dbcooper 6y ago
I've worked with nucleic acids (DNA and RNA) in my postdoc, and now in my own lab, and I'm quite shocked that anyone would rely on UV absorption measurements. They're inherently insensitive, and suffer from unreliability and
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by dbcooper 6y ago
Big thumbs up to the reporter for the “Victory is life” DS9 reference.

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