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by grey413 8y ago
Nope. Phylogenetic families are based on the degree of shared ancestry, not the presence or absence of any given trait. I mean, don't get me wrong, you CAN develop phylogenetic trees based on traits. That's how Linnaeus and all su
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by grey413 8y ago
Genomes are used as a reference point for all sorts of genetic analysis. It's comparable to having the source code to a binary. Plant breeding in particular benefits from having better analytical tools on hand, since it's such a c
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by grey413 9y ago
US political and military protection.
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by grey413 9y ago
Everything else aside, there was absolutely no way that this was going to work. Injecting plasmids under your skin and expecting it to change your genes is like pouring nitrous oxide on your steering wheel and expecting your car to go faste
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by grey413 10y ago
Dogs are kind of a weird case, from an animal population standpoint. On one hand, there are a ton of 'purebred' populations that undergo very specific selection and which are fairly genetically isolated from the rest of the specie
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by grey413 10y ago
Culling non-desirable stock is an important tool in any breeding program. The essence of evolution is replacement, after all.
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by grey413 10y ago
That's actually already an area of active study. See http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1534580708...
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by grey413 10y ago
In terms of pure impactful science I'd say 1920-1960 or so. Quantum mechanics and everything it led to (modern chemistry, in particular) is the big one, but there was also relativity, the modern evolutionary synthesis, huge advances in
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by grey413 10y ago
It's been addressed elsewhere in the thread, but the problem is not statistical false positives, but rather technically "true" positives (for what the test measures) that do not correlate to an actual disease. More data point
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by grey413 10y ago
That's not how public figures work. Influential public figures are influential largely because they are credible. Credibility requires history. Anonymity precludes history. Take Jeff for example. Jeff has a history. Jeff is a credible
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by grey413 11y ago
Even if you're not invested in reddit's fate (I'm a fairweather user myself), this whole debacle has been a fascinating example of how to screw up community management, and how that in turn ruins public relations. Good commu
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by grey413 11y ago
The business may be evaporating, but the service is going to continue. It turns out that getting documents and packages to any given citizen is really, really important for the function of governance. In many ways, stripping the post office
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by grey413 11y ago
So, an average of approximately $65 per taxpayer per year. I'm personally ok with that.
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by grey413 12y ago
Nope! Cosmic radiation causes much higher energy collisions in our atmosphere every microsecond of every day. Even if those collisions form black holes, our continued existence as non-singularities is evidence enough that they're not a
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by grey413 12y ago
I would venture to guess that those organizations feel that the pains of working with a prototype is worth the payoff of shaping the final product (not to mention the immediate advantages of rust's already stable safety features).
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by grey413 12y ago
Thanks, that was a genuinely interesting analysis
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by grey413 13y ago
Keep your heavy runtime code and invocations behind "if __name__ == '__main__'" blocks. Alternately, if you're using a framework keep your runtime code constrained to the appropriate entry class/function. Outsi
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by grey413 13y ago
Evolutionary geneticists don't trace individual lineages that far out, nor would they need to. The hypothesis under question is that the porcine/proto-hominind cross provided a variety of important, wide-acting traits that all hum
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by grey413 13y ago
The champion of the theory attributes the lack of genomic similarity to repeated back-crossing to one of the parent populations. To put it in other words, the droplet of initial hybridization got diluted in the larger gene pool, but the nov
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by grey413 13y ago
Goat and sheep lineages diverged approximately five to eight million years ago[1]. For reference, human and gorilla lines diverged roughly six to eight million years ago[2]. Also, different breeds of dogs are considered the same species (an
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by grey413 13y ago
Actually, the period between the development of woody plants and the development of wood-eating fungi was approximately 60 million years, and is known as the carboniferous because of all of the carbon that got sequestered. Also, the key che
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by grey413 13y ago
The huge majority of any fungi tends to be in the ground or within it's host. Plus the entire problem is quite likely that the wood/leaf eating fungi are radiation sensitive, so...
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by grey413 13y ago
To the best of my understanding, graphite in reactors serves the purpose of moderating nuclear chain reactions. The radioactive materials in the forest are almost certainly not dense enough to undergo a chain reaction, so adding a moderator
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by grey413 13y ago
That was really concise and well written. I particularly appreciated the clean warnings and subtle grips about the confusing pats of the syntax.
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by grey413 13y ago
Four reasons, all dating back to when I started using VC. 1) The GUIs were better, especially on windows. I think that gap has closed some in the last few years, but I think hg still has an edge. 2) Bitbucket offered free private repos and
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by grey413 13y ago
The logic is that fewer moving parts means a lower failure rate. It amounts to paying a premium for longer-lived drives. How much you value that is a matter of taste and means.
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by grey413 13y ago
Academia in general sticks surprisingly close to the guild model. You have professors as masters, postdocs as journeymen, grad students as apprentices, and undergraduates as initiates.
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by grey413 13y ago
If I had to venture to guess, the project most likely started with 0.x notation because the first few releases didn't have major planned features such as the declarative ORM. After that there were never any truly backwards incompatible
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by grey413 13y ago
I find it highly unlikely that vat meat would totally replace livestock. For starters, a large portion of the world doesn't have refrigeration or reliable transport infrastructure, let alone industrial labs. Even in developed areas, yo

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