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by gravelc 7y ago
Yeah, it's tragic. No damage to any property. Doesn't interfere with anyone going about their daily business.
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'Warning flag': IPCC finds rapid land warming threatens food security(brisbanetimes.com.au)
2 points by gravelc 7y ago|0 comments
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by gravelc 7y ago
None of these examples help us survive. Humans are highly adaptable and live in nearly every climate. We don’t need to evolve. Unfortunately our staple crops are far less adaptable, and we’ve already done a very good job at extracting what
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by gravelc 7y ago
I highly doubt many people want to drop nationalism completely (I don't). If however agencies like the UN can no longer raise a peacekeeping force to stop conflict spreading, that becomes a serious issue. Climate change is the trigg
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by gravelc 7y ago
Frightens me to think of the impact this is going to have on agricultural production over the next ten years. In cooler countries, there's sometimes benefits to warmer seasons, though biotic stresses like more insects / fungal di
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by gravelc 7y ago
My dad sadly passed a way in a gyrocopter accident (one he designed and built himself). A good number of his flying buddies have passed over the years too. Safety is an issue for gyros due to a combination of reasons - they're often
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by gravelc 7y ago
Nanoparticles aren't inherently bad; after all a portion of the particle size distribution of clay sits down in the low nano range. Due to its inertness, I suspect gold is on the relatively safe end of the spectrum. However, whatever
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by gravelc 7y ago
Giant is a Taiwanese company. I've had quite a few of their road bikes and mountain bikes over the years, and they have all been excellent - superbly designed and built. All made in Taiwan too - it seems only their cheaper frames are
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by gravelc 7y ago
Really sorry to hear what you're going through. Cancer is a terrible terrible thing for the sufferer and their carers alike. I do however disagree with some points made; as a researcher who doesn't work in cancer, I often see it
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by gravelc 7y ago
I'm going to disagree with go with 'sometimes yes and sometimes no'. Take a construct and transform it into a plant. Check the expression of the transgene from hundreds of different transformation events, and there'll b
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by gravelc 7y ago
Still not cheap - $200 for DDR4-2666 up to $350+ for DDR-3200 from what I can see on Newegg
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by gravelc 7y ago
Is there any clarity on how much RAM the 3900X supports? Presumably can do 4x32GB, which would make for a great little bioinformatics workstation. Am very excited with this chip and Windows bringing the full Linux kernel - can do everythin
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Driverless cars in trial confused by white lines, scuff marks on Brisbane roads(brisbanetimes.com.au)
1 points by gravelc 7y ago|0 comments
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by gravelc 7y ago
Struggling to see the equivalence here. Midwifes have to make the correct decisions in a stressful situation in an extremely tight time period (seconds to minutes when it's the business end of things, so to speak), with limited informa
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by gravelc 7y ago
Not sure who 'us' is; HN readership is pretty diverse. I'm a scientist and earn roughly the same as a midwife in Australia. Having said that, my first child nearly died during birth, and having a very good midwife who knew t
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Why Australia's tech sector keeps getting rolled in Canberra(brisbanetimes.com.au)
18 points by gravelc 8y ago|1 comments
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by gravelc 8y ago
This got me thinking about whether people take this approach in analagous non-eSports. A quick google of Ronnie O'Sullivan shows he thinks healthy eating is more important then exercise to snooker, though he was possibly already the g
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by gravelc 8y ago
I don't have a problem with the vibe of law, though it might be terrible in implementation and its drafting may have unforeseen consequences (haven't read it, so don't know). Don't really understand why people are confla
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by gravelc 8y ago
That's very sad. Stayed in Flores and went to Komodo Island on my honeymoon. The dragons are amazing and was fortunate enough to see fully-grown males have a battle for dominance. The ranger's carry a long branch with a fork in
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by gravelc 8y ago
Incredible story. Richard "Harry" Harris and Craig Challen were jointly awarded Australian of the Year on the weekend for their efforts in the cave rescue. Absolutely deserved.
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by gravelc 8y ago
It matters a lot - any error in a read cannot be corrected for if it's the only read covering a loci. Coverage is also uneven; an average of 1x would mean a significant portion of the genome has no coverage. Even 30x would leave gaps
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by gravelc 8y ago
Has anyone ever claimed it's none? There's no simple answer to your question as it depends on many things - sequencing technology used, library prep and coverage to name a few. Generally, it's not far from none when aligning
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by gravelc 8y ago
Wasn't 'burner phone' used throughout The Wire, so must have been in print before 2008 (the show's last season).
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Apple's Submission to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intel and Security(documentcloud.org)
1 points by gravelc 8y ago|0 comments
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by gravelc 8y ago
Doing a bioinformatics Masters degree. Had 15 years molecular biology wet lab experience and was getting very bored with the repetitiveness of it. Did the degree, learnt to code. Now earn more money, much safer in a highly competitive jo
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by gravelc 8y ago
There is a right to silence under common law apparently.
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by gravelc 8y ago
I agree. "yes" votes in referendums are quite rare in Australia. There'd be much political mileage to made campaigning against it.
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by gravelc 8y ago
Can anyone comment on how this is likely to affect multinational entities like Apple? Given the Australian market is so small, would it not more sense to leave the jurisdiction entirely rather than compromise security? Same goes for App m
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by gravelc 8y ago
Thanks - missed that.
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by gravelc 8y ago
Wow! Really like it. The windows organisation is well done. Usually just use whatever comes with Ubuntu, but this is much nicer. As an aside, had to add TERM=xterm-256color to my Raspberry Pi's .bashrc to get it to play nice when I

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