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by dkural 10y ago
We've been doing this for a while in the genomics space, check out "common workflow language": https://github.com/common-workflow-language/common-workflow-... Where each container is described by what ty
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The judiciary process is not just focused on punishment, but protection of society from violent individuals, rehabilitation, and creating disincentives for other perpetrators.
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You may find it informative to read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980_Turkish_coup_d%27%C3%A9ta... for some context.
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The biggest failure point of economic productivity in the second half of 21st century will be the production of new people - i.e. babies. Cities are the biggest contributors to this, where people have extremely low fertility rates. Many you
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The truth is, US Super-Computer spending is hard to justify and most of the owners of these in various national institutes are shopping for customers to justify their funding, although their set-up is not a good fit for many types of comput
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The issue is, people rarely build the right product on the first try. Your reasoning here assumes that the thing you've spent time building well was the right thing to build. It's worth getting things out quickly initially to find
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At least in a private industry context - tis is the #1 reason how developers often justify over-engineering. Actually, vast majority of software either never ships or fails to achieve any meaningful use / market leadership (i.e. no on
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I guess people care less when Google uses google.com because, it's actually a good search engine =)
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It's not the mass media only, it's also the PR offices of these institutes, and the scientists that go along with it. The reason these institutes value overblown media coverage is, well, it's needed and often enough to convin
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by dkural 11y ago
Saunders MacLane: Category Theory for the Working Mathematician - most of the concepts implemented in this package are introduced there. I tend to dislike the "Category Theory for ___" type books, too much verbiage and misleadin
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With the tax evaded, we could END hunger, we could END child poverty, we could have universal pre-school, we could pay for state college for everyone. It is good to keep in mind that society must be balanced between to centers of power: sta
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I suppose, only if there is no Maxwell yet :)
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Yes.
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The scientific article makes a far from convincing case for the purported importance of this mutation. The journal its published in (eLife) is not exactly known for high-quality comparative genomics / molecular evolution work either.
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TL;DR version: I use it as an example to illustrate why it's bad to generalize. More: I don't disagree with left parties policies - I am a Democrat, and would most likely for left-wing parties in most of Europe (or whoever is less
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Someone who disagrees with your policy does not make them a douche. This is the beginning of illiberal politics: If you are not with me, I will denigrate your person and declare you an enemy. The left wing of Europe was running at full sp
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Agreed re: guidelines. Edited to keep it about the argument.
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Most drivers prefer Uber. Uber takes value away from the middlemen, takes a smaller share of the middleman cut, and redistributes the remaining value to the driver and the passenger. Hence its popularity. Most of the profit in the old syste
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A counter-example, and a different framework to think about equality: Most of Scandinavia has fragmentation, freedom of expression, and genuine diversity of choice, diversity of lifestyle, of opinion, but it also has more equality. One can
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I believe hierarchy is not detrimental at all (indeed, it is a pre-requisite) for cooperation. Humanity spent the vast majority of its history in loose bands of tribes with no clear inter-tribal hierarchy. Thus we spent thousands of years m
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Organic food is overall a net negative for the environment. Due to higher crop loss, more land is used for agriculture, even when taking fertilizer-related energy use into account. Many pesticides target genes only found in the disease vect
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by dkural 11y ago
This finally puts aeon.co on my 'never read' list. What a poorly fact-checked piece of writing.
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Many nations have money, but no Space X. The American people have been wasting their money on military contractors for decades, and the United Launch Alliance, with no visible progress. If anything Elon Musk is saving us taxpayers money. No
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Simply false. It contradicts statistical fact and scientific fact. 1) Average annual hours worked: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_time#Average_annual_ho... 2) The vast majority of humans cannot survive with aver
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by dkural 11y ago
This algorithm is widely used in genomics. Here's an explanation by Ben Langmead, a computational biologist, with some Python code as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4n7NPk5lwbI The original paper, interestingly,
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by dkural 11y ago
That's true - by relocation I mean perhaps a few more miles out, as opposed to living literally adjacent to the mine next to the toxic dumps. The photos show kids clothes drying next to the open pit etc.
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It is very unreasonable to first allow mining in the center of town, and then expect someone else, not those reaping rents (in profits and in taxes) to bear the costs of moving the citizens to to avoid lead poisoning. Their health is ruined
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I challenge you to find a single study showing that any immigrant group (by country of origin.. by ethnicity) takes from the economy more than they contribute. The elderly with pensions, benefits, and healthcare costs, usually are the bigge
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Actually overall violence is down worldwide over the last few decades, including Europe. See Pinker's book on the subject, "The Better Angels of Our Nature". I could easily give anecdotal evidence pointing out the latest mass
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The main reason being ethical is considered to be difficult, and morality being a topic of study and debate is due to considering the question "why should we consider our own welfare over that of others?" - ie are there reasons to

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