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by iso1337 7y ago
The problem with these silk biotech companies will be scale up and competing with existing cheap and abundant fibers. Silkworm silk already has issues with water and such clothing has to be professionally cleaned. Many silks have the prope
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by iso1337 7y ago
I'd recommend the following book: How Economics Shapes Science https://www.amazon.com/Economics-Shapes-Science-Paula-Stepha... It looks into key challenges of the scientific labor market.
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by iso1337 7y ago
I’ll give your analogy a try. Google could do that because the basic components were so cheap due to consumer imaging. On the lab side, there’s no similar downward pressure for making more accurate automated pipettes cheaper - I fully belie
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by iso1337 7y ago
Not to mention other cars have a lot of shiny surfaces too.
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by iso1337 7y ago
It would use far less water than crops.
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by iso1337 7y ago
Maybe they were referring to the i3 REx, which also has an ICE. Also i3s use a special, skinny tire that is really expensive
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by iso1337 7y ago
Charging a subscription for CarPlay is unacceptable too
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by iso1337 7y ago
What did you replace flying with?
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by iso1337 7y ago
Are you referring to the one that hit Puerto Rico? Cynically I think that's because many people don't consider that truly part of America. (Note that's not my personal views, but just trying to make sense of why there was s
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by iso1337 7y ago
I think that there needs to be an equivalent of a climate 9/11 event. Maybe Miami getting wiped off the map by a category 9 hurricane (and call me a pessimist but the loss of a city in a developing country to climate change just won&#
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by iso1337 7y ago
Source please. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life-cycle_greenhouse-gas_em... Solar is listed at 4x more and wind seems to be on par with nuclear. Both solar and wind are far better than the hydrocarbon alternatives.
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by iso1337 7y ago
Those older texts were written in Classical Chinese, so there's still a barrier in terms of context and education to fully understanding them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_Chinese
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by iso1337 7y ago
I filled in the form and was immediately met with a login form. No thanks and also made a mental note to never visit this site again. There’s zero reason I should need to login to see these tips.
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by iso1337 7y ago
I like these commute options that make it easier to get around but starting at $2/ride seems a bit high. If I were to use this twice daily for 200 days a year, I'd be looking at $800/year! I'd rather buy a bike in that
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by iso1337 7y ago
While this fee is outrageous, I think EV specific fees are inevitable as gas tax revenue dwindles. The fairest would be use-based but most people seem fundamentally opposed to tracking through tags or mileage (some people are okay with it w
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by iso1337 7y ago
Able to? Yes. Willing to? Not as much. Just consider the following: 1) it’s been so long since people have first hand witness of the horrors of smallpox, polio, etc. So long that anti-vax is alive and well in affluent, educated enclaves. 2
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by iso1337 7y ago
What are your plans for when the carpool sticker expires in 2022/23?
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by iso1337 8y ago
Yeah, that and the incentives are not there for programmers. They are often treated as the support, not given proper training and managed by people who has no idea how to develop software. This is slowly changing but is still bad.
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by iso1337 8y ago
It’s already used: look up Polymerase chain reaction. Copying isn’t as interesting as de novo synthesis, being able to specify an arbitrary sequence and have it synthesized.
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by iso1337 8y ago
The issue is also we don't know what to write. I'm being a bit extreme here, but not being able to do rational design limits things to mostly 1) build a lot of variants, using some educated guessing, 2) test those variants, 3) pl
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by iso1337 8y ago
Maybe in the distant future. There are really three steps: writing, storage, reading. Writing: There are dreams of using biology to write DNA (currently we use chemical synthesis). See the San Diego startup Molecular Assemblies. That could
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by iso1337 8y ago
There are already xenobases being developed, eg Romesburg. Those add extra bases beyond the 4-5 seen in nature.
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by iso1337 8y ago
Related is querying: You can synthesize another pair of Oligos to selectively amplify part of the DNA that you wrote and only sequence that. Look up PCR if you are interested.
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by iso1337 8y ago
From the paper: “Our system’s write-to-read latency is approximately 21 h. The majority of this time is taken by synthesis, viz., approximately 305 s per base, or 8.4 h to synthesize a 99-mer payload and 12 h to cleave and deprotect the oli
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by iso1337 8y ago
It’s a shame that all 15,000 photos aren’t digitized and available online to be viewed by all. It would be such a humanizing view of China’s past.
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by iso1337 8y ago
This has the much less interesting name of Three-North Shelter Forest Program on wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-North_Shelter_Forest_Pro... It's hard to assess the progress as most sources are from
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by iso1337 8y ago
Looks like they forgot to proof read their website too. "If you are want to consume carbon-neutral hydrogen, please reach us at sales@charmindustrial.com" I wish them the best of luck, but I've seen the first wave of biofuels
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by iso1337 8y ago
Looks like Miscanthus grass. Although shouldn't it not matter? Why not partner with a corn grower and use corn stalk or chopped corn cobs? Or gasify cardboard.
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by iso1337 8y ago
This is great and makes sense as fleet operators care the most about total cost of ownership. I wonder if they factored in th Nissan Leaf bartery’s propensity to slowly die after a few years due to lack of active thermal management. Perhap
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by iso1337 8y ago
IMHO data eng is too niche and new for that kind of content. But I would love to see if there is anything out there like that. Is the goal here to get through system design interviews or something like that? You can check out pramp.com if

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