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by gumby 2y ago
The article discusses this: while there are some superficial similarities, the drivers ture out to be different, not similar, between human and murine populations. To usefully do any such studies you’d need to develop a model supporting the
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by gumby 2y ago
> is likely that if there were "only" 1 billion humans global warming would have progressed only an 8th fraction of what it currently has. Unlikely. Most of the greenhouse gasses were released by the wealthy countries. Climat
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by gumby 2y ago
Named, BTW, after Hal and Ted, not the word “halted”. Weird Stuff is gone; Eli Heffron by Kendall Square is gone…in today’s unrepairable world there’s little place hardware hackers to source the random parts like they used to carry.
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by gumby 2y ago
> I recall one cold-chain company being well known for its back-up battery because medical products are often stopped in customs, and the boxes cannot be plugged in. This is very interesting. Is there not a problem with battery-powered
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by gumby 2y ago
> Even in vaccines this is a solved problem with fewer points of failure if you just add telemetry. It's not a solved problem, and in fact it's a serious problem, pretty much anywhere outside the OECD.
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by gumby 2y ago
The battery is an internal heat source.
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by gumby 2y ago
> Regarding the number of researchers, of all of my friends who got a PhD only a single one did it because he liked research. This is sad; luckily for me the percentage is higher among my friends. I suspect your experience is closer to
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by gumby 2y ago
> Then the next day the product ships, and you go home satisfied with how you did your job? Yes. Programming is typically a blue collar job in Japan. Making a device means design it, build it, validate it, and ship it. The factory does
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by gumby 2y ago
Sheesh, there is probably no hope for humanity. I vote for the rationalist robots.
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by gumby 2y ago
You should put it in capsules and sell them through Whole Foods.
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by gumby 2y ago
Clearly they did not plan ahead. If they really worry about these issues they can simply move or turn to the private sector. If the private sector can’t help them, that’s clearly due to the jackboot of unelected bureaucrats — congress ne
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by gumby 2y ago
Oh goody I can sell seven models, one for each day of the week!
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Ammunition Vending Machines(gizmodo.com)
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by gumby 2y ago
I should have guessed. Of course the water picks up the imprint of the filters. My device would use magnets! Moving magnets so it doesn't bias the water.
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by gumby 2y ago
> And another way to look at it is that these people are going to be scammed by someone, it might as well be you, some with morals Hard to believe that anyone scamming others has acceptable moral scruples. Rather a case of "Yes, he
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by gumby 2y ago
Is it supposed to be my fault, or the governor's fault that they chose to live in Flint and not Palo Alto or the Upper East Side of Manhattan? If you make bad choices, take responsibility and bear the consequences. That's the Ame
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by gumby 2y ago
Just relabel some cheap white-label distillation units by putting them in a pretty metal housing, with "100% natural rubber" hoses (sell a subscription to hose replacements too!) then mark up 600%. My problem is I am uncomfortable
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by gumby 2y ago
Well, we all know what else fish do in the water and I don't want my kids being born with gills.
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by gumby 2y ago
If homeopathy "theory" says that the water retains an "imprint" of other chemicals it encountered, clearly the tap water coming into your house is horribly contaminated with the fish pee, ozone (from UV purification trea
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by gumby 2y ago
> 128th ‘German Medical Assembly’ recently declared that: “the use of homeopathy … is not an option that is compatible with rational medicine, the requirement for the best possible treatment and an appropriate understanding of medical r
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by gumby 2y ago
> They seemingly want to make sure you have a main Mac desktop always. I’m willing to believe in this case it’s because they want the Mac to survive. I’m sure every Mac is profitable (in accord with one of Apple’s core values) but Mac s
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by gumby 2y ago
> what part is clickbait? They are gravitational wave researchers. They are physicists who are in practice data scientists. They are both male, presumably have experienced no amputations, and look like they were born in the 20th century
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by gumby 2y ago
> Gravitational wave researchers cast new light on… Seems like they are a bit out of their lane, as light is an electromagnetic phenomenon, a completely different force from gravitation. More seriously: the fact that the two scientists
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by gumby 2y ago
A scooter, motorcycle, car, and delivery van all serve different purposes, though there is a little crossover between each stage. The same is true about these devices: yes, in a pinch you can grab that document and search for something but
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by gumby 2y ago
The article mentions childbirth: my mum, an MD, tells me that as late as the mid 1960s nitrous was the only option provided, in Australia at least. I used to go to a dentist who had a heavy hand on the nitrous. Not enough to make you giggl
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by gumby 2y ago
Holy cow, that’s crazy!
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by gumby 2y ago
I was there last week for the Dead and it was really quite good. Didn’t feel “huge”, the sound was good (didn’t need a huge sound system on stage) and the graphics ( which usually I find a distraction) were quite good. I find Vegas pretty
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by gumby 2y ago
Why? I just ignore them.
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by gumby 2y ago
> Talk about burying the lede. Also there was too much discussion of his background before getting around to the topic at hand. A little detail might have been interesting, but it felt padded out.
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by gumby 2y ago
You can agree or disagree, as you say, with SoM (Marvin was my undergrad advisor so my opinions are...complex) but that book can in many ways be considered a summation of decades of research in the field. To reinforce your point: even if y

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