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A Gene-Editing Experiment Let These Patients with Vision Loss See Color Again(npr.org)
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by dsign 5y ago
Prayer doesn't prevent malfunctioning kidneys, yours or those of random strangers, as far as I know. So, it doesn't work.
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by dsign 5y ago
Scientific papers are incredibly specialized, and no amount of general training makes them easier to read. The best way to get good at reading your topic is to... well, do a lot of reading/corroboration reviewing of said papers. Access
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by dsign 5y ago
The big problem being that prayer doesn't work.
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by dsign 5y ago
At this point, I wonder if we are just being silly. We are never going to stop this planet's deterioration while being on it. Maybe building nice, big and posh O'Neil cylinders and moving everybody and their cows there would be le
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by dsign 5y ago
This is very disturbing; hundreds of thousands of individuals and companies host their important documents in Google Drive--and pay to do it. Imagine that tomorrow you are locked out of those by a faulty AI, and the company that you have sp
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by dsign 5y ago
The Kobo reader is fantastic for writing amateur fiction, or at least for self-editing it, because amateurs can only pay one or two editors instead of the small army that "professional" books require. You could head to the free
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by dsign 5y ago
This sounds too good to be true. But if it is true, it's yet another reminder of ageing being "treatable". Perhaps one day, "curable".
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by dsign 5y ago
> Since neutron bombardment also turns any material radioactive, not only do you need to tear down your fusion plant (or at least the expensive reactor part of it) every few years, but you have to do it with radiation-resistant robots, a
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by dsign 5y ago
I agree that they are a great email provider, the lesser evil, and I myself use a paid plan. But I believe that, as a society, we are rolling down a slippery slope where digital privacy becomes more difficult everyday. A couple of weeks ago
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by dsign 5y ago
The ProtonMail guys always said that unless they were 20 miles from the littoral, in the sea side, they had to abide by national laws. So it was bound to happen. What makes me sad is how flimsy their entire premise (not necessarily "p
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by dsign 5y ago
I'm going to answer with anecdotal evidence from Finnish people I know, not first hand. - Is the labor shortage real, or is the available labor simply too expensive for local tastes? Both, but mostly the first. A friend of mine chose t
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by dsign 5y ago
3D models are very variable: some are defined with just triangles, some include quads, some are NURBS or subdivision surfaces. Sometimes two sides per polygon are considered, sometimes just one. Ways of navigating a 3D model also vary wildl
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by dsign 5y ago
Really interesting article. By the end, they admit that what makes Delta worse is the sum of the parts, and not just a single mutation in the spike protein. This is a general property of biology: it's almost always the sum of the parts
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by dsign 5y ago
This is very cool. But the article doesn't say anywhere if the effect is high enough to cure disease.
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by dsign 5y ago
So, these adversarial collisions are the images that I need to send to my enemies so that they go to prison when they upload those images to iCloud? It seems trivially easy to exploit.
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by dsign 5y ago
That's absolutely true, but I wonder what it will take to take that point home for everybody.
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by dsign 5y ago
> In about 8 months you'll be able to unzip your pants with your nose. That's not the end of the world :)
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> We don't have to imagine. Everyone here is familiar with Clippy. I loved Clippy
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by dsign 5y ago
If this "brute approach"[1] of having multiple copies of a gene manages to prevent cancer, imagine what some (human) intelligent design can achieve. [1] Gene duplication is common in nature, and it's one of the main mechanism
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by dsign 5y ago
Apple is not a dumb company, they did this fully knowing of the backslash they would receive, very likely impacting their bottom line. Two scenarios come to mind: 1. They expect must people will shrug and let themselves be scanned. That is,
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by dsign 5y ago
One in a trillion? I wonder what assumptions went into computing that number, and I cheer for the "courageous" person who is bluffing it inside the company. Anybody in tech knows that whatever assumptions were valid yesterday are
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by dsign 5y ago
> Being in the same space physically I think speeds up a lot of things. In small teams and esp. at early stage startups your whole day is a meeting where things are discussed and resolved spontaneously. Who's going to write the fine
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by dsign 5y ago
> This has a huge impact because the birth rates for irreligious people are very low. It seems irreligious people are slightly more rational about these things. Raising a kid is a huge undertaking, and a lot of work. But a huge part of t
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by dsign 5y ago
> Can we achieve prosperity without economic growth? It's extremely difficult. Progress is almost always related to new products and services. Imagine developing those under the constraint of no economic growth. "We can't
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by dsign 5y ago
They ublish all their blog entries in English, but this one is in French. Why? I would understand if the information were addressed to French stakeholders, but this information is most relevant to (perhaps international, perhaps prospecti
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> You don't want a country that's projected to have 800 million people to get addicted to fossil fuels. I had to look this out, and it checks [1][2]. Of course, as with any forecast, anything can happen. I hope this turns out t
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I have a huge respect for this guy, but the irony of this is not lost on me: > Since most time scales are fixed by human re- action times, habits, and other physiological and psycho- logical factors, the effect of the increased speed of
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> But I can’t help but wonder if an on/off embargo with, say, four and year eight periods wouldn’t work spectacularly well? Maybe in the case of some other countries, who knows. The Cuban dictatorship has its own "internal emba
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by dsign 5y ago
Thanks for bringing out that link, I had had that nagging question about how specific Intel performance libraries were to Intel hardware. At least in this case, it seems not much.

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