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The Quantum Twisting Microscope(nature.com)
2 points by gwerbret 4y ago|0 comments
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by gwerbret 4y ago
While I'm sure the OP appreciates the successful "support via HN", it seems very clear that the real problem with your organization in this regard is people needing to do this in the first place. OP did say of the initial ban
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by gwerbret 4y ago
> And then, on page 40, there is a chapter called “The Ancestral Territorial Imperatives of the Trumpeter Swan.” That’s a really strange chapter to put in a computer manual. The real joke of ‘Territorial Imperatives of the Trumpeter Swan
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by gwerbret 4y ago
A summary of the original findings by the European Commission (1): "By decision of 18 July 2018, the Commission fined Google for having abused its dominant position by imposing anticompetitive contractual restrictions on manufacturers
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by gwerbret 4y ago
Of the lead author of this critical letter, the article says: "In her initial correspondence with The Lancet, Stanton declared that she was a part-time employee of Devenish Nutrition, an agricultural-technology and animal-feed company
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by gwerbret 4y ago
> Meh, come to Canada if you want to see really bad healthcare. While I'm sure it has its warts, I'm guessing your frame of reference is fairly limited if you consider the Canadian healthcare system to be "really bad"
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by gwerbret 4y ago
And right below that: "Author disclosures: P. G. Williams, no conflicts of interest."
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by gwerbret 4y ago
Bit of a tangent, but Derek Lowe is a great example of an exceedingly rare species -- a competent science writer. His writing manages to be engaging (and occasionally hilarious [0]) while still providing the reader with enough information,
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by gwerbret 4y ago
By ignoring cheaters, you're penalizing honest students, who suffer grade deflation as a result. Even if you don't grade on a curve, and there is no resulting grade deflation, the honest students will have devoted significantly
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by gwerbret 4y ago
> The cases that worries me most is however debilitating chronic illnesses (where antibiotics is used as a stop gap until medical science find a cure) Which debilitating, non-bacterial chronic illnesses are treated with antibiotics as a
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by gwerbret 4y ago
> So- in addition to losing their jobs, which Twitter assured employees would not happen I'm not that old, but even I remember a time when companies, at least in principle, would invest in their employees (via stable employment, reg
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by gwerbret 4y ago
Yes, the array itself was fine; was just a dumb action on my part given how brittle the system was.
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by gwerbret 4y ago
I had this experience when, years ago on my first day as group lead at $JOB, I was being shown a RAID 5 production server that held years of valuable, irreplaceable data (because there were no backups. Let me repeat that there were no backu
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by gwerbret 5y ago
> I've recently had to deal with the medical profession a lot more than in the past and I'm finding this sort of thing everywhere. OTC medicines that by current standards would not be made OTC This comment reflects a common, bu
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by gwerbret 5y ago
From the paper's methods section: "...then the scalp was resected to expose the entire dorsal surface of the skull." I imagine the open-source idea is that other research groups can build a two-photon miniscope on their own.
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by gwerbret 5y ago
While development of a new vaccine-delivery platform is exciting, I think it's important to take this announcement into perspective. The main problem with producing vaccines is not principally the delivery platform, but the difficulty
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by gwerbret 5y ago
Nevertheless! Care to share your story? What turned you away from academia?
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by gwerbret 5y ago
While other more knowledgeable folks than I have pointed out some very important things about your highly-declarative statement about dark matter, I'll raise one minor point about this research finding, which you can glean by reading t
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by gwerbret 5y ago
Perhaps I'm definitionally-challenged, but none of the skills listed strike me as "hard" skills. I see a hard skill as being one for which a person receives domain-specific training, e.g. CS major at $SCHOOL learning to progr
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by gwerbret 5y ago
As usual, there's an xkcd for that: https://xkcd.com/2014
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by gwerbret 5y ago
Presumably, many Googlers who are directly involved in designing and implementing content moderation are active readers of Hacker News, as is evidenced by the fact that having a story hit the front page is an effective way to solve problems
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by gwerbret 5y ago
Upon reading the responses my earlier comments generated, I suppose I should have disclaimed that I'm seeing this problem as the OP had portrayed it, which is as a thought problem in logic and economics, rather than an actual approach
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by gwerbret 5y ago
Fair point, but if the client does develop a preventable condition, it would be easy to show this is due to dereliction/negligence on the part of the physician, so the insurance would not pay out. If the client came down with a conditi
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by gwerbret 5y ago
I agree with the idea of paying the doctor a flat fee every month, but in my variant, the doctor has to repay you the entire sum you've paid to date, with 10% interest, if you succumb to any preventable illnesses; in other words, the d
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by gwerbret 5y ago
> Dr. Robert Glatter, an emergency physician at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York, said that smallpox can be lethal “even after it is freeze-dried.” For context, the vials were probably found in a -80C or liquid nitrogen -140C freezer, so
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by gwerbret 5y ago
> growing crystals was of paramount importance for certain structure determinations using X-ray crystallography (to answer "did I really prepare what I think I prepared?") Ahh, X-ray crystallography, a.k.a. the field of modern
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by gwerbret 5y ago
Yes, sorry!
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by gwerbret 5y ago
The first figure of the paper they reference [0] has the numbers for this study: -- 18.5% of females were tuskless before the war -- 50.9% of females were tuskless after the war -- 33% of females were tuskless in the first post-war generati
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by gwerbret 5y ago
I was merely indicating that the person to whom you initially responded (cycomanic) offered an excellent, and very detailed, point-by-point rebuttal of your initial broad comments about PhDs. I thought it provided a more nuanced explanation
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by gwerbret 5y ago
> I was wrong. Over 45% of students get a doctorate within ten years of beginning. I think the GP's point was that you're wrong on many fronts, simply because you've made broad, sweeping generalizations that don't nec

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