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There actually hundreds of companies doing this in China; but much fewer in India.
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This article written by a non-expert. The cost of genome sequencing has been relatively flat in the last couple of years; and Illumina, being the monopoly, has no incentives to reduce the cost of sequencing. Also; despite what some comment
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It's not.
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It clearly marks it as early, and as the work of a computer in the public's mind. We'll fondly think of these nasty deconvolution artifacts as retro in the not-too-distant future.
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Fountain (The Urinal) by Marcel Duchamp. He didn't make the urinal. He found it, decided it was good enough, and got it into an exhibit. There you go.
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This person seems to have kept in regular touch with friends and family, texting regularly, and even telling them about buying deadly poison.
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A lot of it is property taxes, payroll taxes, local taxes etc. and in any event, paid by a different generation. If we're willing to go further back, let's also not forget that a lot of this was achieved by slave labor & after
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Indeed, and how much of the income did they make? Keep in mind when a company "succeeds", they're succeeding on top of trillions of dollars of infrastructure - human capital (enabled by education! try hiring the same talent i
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The value of land would go down if food production shifted elsewhere.
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I agree with you that there is nothing wrong with pressuring individual companies. Totally agreed voting isn't simple! Also I tried to word my sentence carefully: I didn't claim no one cares; or that even the majority didn't
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If Americans are so keen to pay people better they should vote to elect leaders who will increase minimum wage. But they don't. So it does seem that the majority of voters don't care enough to increase minimum wage. If Americans w
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Famine and malnutrition hits people with one children or many. Also, Subsaharan Africa, where hunger is highest per-capita, is not an "overpopulated" subcontinent, having roughly 990 million people, and a massive amount of fertile
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While this is not my specialty, the field of "evo-devo" and developmental biology is the field trying to answer those questions. Honestly, we still know very little about how the genome results in morphology. It is a lot more lik
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That's a great question! As you know, DNA -> RNA -> Protein where the first arrow is transcription (polymerase) & the second one translation. Genes are transcribed by a polymerase, and a couple of factors determine if the p
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People with Alzheimer's seem to have more things in their brain that shouldn't be there than normal. Past findings include types of immune cells that shouldn't be there, various yeast, other types of virus etc. It's no
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Huh! I've learned something. Honestly, I have a PhD, doing human genomics, and to me Dawkins is a popular science writer. I don't know anyone in the field of genomics who is an actual working scientist who believes in the 95% numb
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The press release is misleading - no one is claiming 98% of the DNA is "junk", contrary to what the press release claims with no evidence. Regulatory regions around genes are understood be crucial to gene function and taught in u
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The article above has nothing to do with Junk DNA. "All genes" is still about 1.5% of the genome. I think Junk DNA is a bad term for the parts of the genome that describe it. In human-engineered physical systems, we are used to a
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Well, why discriminate on US citizenship for that matter, if academic merit is the main criterion. Americans of any kind would be less than 10% of the student body. Harvard does not claim to be a purely academic meritocracy.
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Ok, first of all, PloS One, while a useful journal, is not a traditional journal. This is partly why these researchers are able to get away with speculative claims. Let's go back to fundamentals. Humans are closely related to Chimpanze
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This is misleading & false. Genetic evidence has conclusively proven our roots are in Africa. While the bone finds are real; the entire interpretation and situating of those finds are incorrect. (I do human genomics for a living). Th
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" dedicate a few consecutive days (like weekends, or a Sunday, for example)" - who's parenting the kids? Note that about 86% of adults end up having kids.
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Hi, I calculated it basing it on the super-memo algorithm. That algorithm is more sophisticated and geared towards cards / smaller pieces of knowledge; but I think it works equally well as "re-study" / "re-learn&quo
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I'm taking you at your word and assuming you truly want to reach the cutting edge of knowledge and learn things like QFT, Gauge Theory, String Theory, etc. alongside the math needed for it. This is a long-term project, so I'd reco
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Great links! I agree with the general truth of the phenomenon described & your references do a much better job demonstrating this.
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The article is mathematically unsound and provides no proof or model whatsoever of what they claim.
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This is not a very frequent meeting. He is explaining to the public & investors why they should keep backing Tesla, and it happens only once a quarter. It's worth being thoughtful, given the tens of billions of dollars all the non
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It's ironic that the article seems to think building more roads, thereby improving road-to-miles-driven ratio will ease congestion. It also takes as fact that it's "as inefficient" to use Waze. My experience is Waze oft
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Having 10% shot at living your dream sounds pretty good to me. Or you could waste your youth at a corporate job, never finding out if you'd make it or not. That's the true tragedy. If you end up broke you could always go back to
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You are already free. The shackles are in your mind. Find meaningful work, whatever your passion is. In practice, you'll likely not starve or become homeless; but simply enjoy more modest means.

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