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by j-wags 3y ago
This makes me wonder if there could be strong enough laws around protecting genetic info (for example penalties that pierce the corporate veil) that those with fiduciary responsibility to the company could argue that destroying the data is
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by j-wags 3y ago
It's interesting to see how quickly the norms around cybersecurity changed. In 1999 the NSA was worried about avoiding ridicule for banning simple electronics in secure areas. In 2010 Stuxnet was introduced via simple electronics into
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by j-wags 3y ago
Yeah, wife and I just had covid and we broke out the masks for a few days. We'll probably do the same if we get the flu. I figure we've got 20 neighbors on our floor and maybe 10 are likely to get flu/covid in the next 12 mon
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by j-wags 3y ago
They say that they check ID, but I've traveled dozens of times in coach and business (both with single-use tickets and 10-ride passes) and a handful of times in a sleeper, and I've never been IDed once.
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by j-wags 3y ago
As a pedestrian in an urban area, my main purpose for communicating with drivers is to figure out whether they're going to actually give me the right of way that I (by law) have at stop signs. This is necessary because ~30% of human dr
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by j-wags 3y ago
I strongly suspect that we could make equally protective, lighter weight crumple zones if we were designing for collisions with lighter weight cars. Excessive cabin protection is largely needed because bumpers on light trucks are at head le
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by j-wags 3y ago
A slight tangent - I played small college football as a lineman and every once in a while we'd be in a televised game. Those games were almost a different sport because they'd stop play during commercial breaks, so it was as if 10
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by j-wags 3y ago
I learned recently that the pluralization of "octopus" is a linguistics rabbit hole. While most people would reach for "octopuses" or "octopi", the strictly correctest pluralization would be "octopodes&quo
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by j-wags 3y ago
In this vein, I recommend the 1420 channel on YouTube [1]. It has videos of random Russians being interviewed with provocative questions, mostly in the major cities but sometimes also in small towns/villages. It is admittedly anecdata,
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by j-wags 3y ago
I upvoted because I'm involved in a growing OSS project that's tangling with similar questions of scope and governance. Simultaneously being responsible for everything from software deployment and PR reviews to project scoping and
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by j-wags 3y ago
This article [1] on pumped hydro tempered my expectations a lot - It calculates that a nation-scale pumped hydro battery for the USA would need to be about the size of Lake Superior and have a 300 m height drop https://dothemath.
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Ask HN: Is anyone else having trouble with economist.com?
1 points by j-wags 3y ago|0 comments
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by j-wags 4y ago
Narrowly speaking, $100/hour is probably true. However my arrangement as a chemistry phd student at UCSD included the following conditions: To be eligible to earn $100/hour, you must be a grad student who: * only earns at that rat
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by j-wags 4y ago
Your comment could be read in two ways. Could you clarify? 1) The UC professor offered a remote postdoc because they did not have enough funding to pay the minimum UC postdoc salary, but could pay less to out of state employees 2) The UC pr
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by j-wags 4y ago
Ah, you're right - I'd vaguely remembered seeing this before and pasted the wikipedia section without reading it thoroughly. My mistake!
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by j-wags 4y ago
> They also are miserable with homeless people, drug addicts, and crime. What aspect of urban development caused these people to be homeless, drug-addicted, or criminal? Did the frequency of bus service get them addicted to drugs? Did th
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by j-wags 4y ago
The Netherlands seems to pull off having a high fertility rate [1] and high population density [2]. Anecdotally, my friend who was born there in the late 1980s described being allowed to travel alone starting from a young age. I had one Ame
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by j-wags 4y ago
Hackers damaged/destroyed the ROSAT satellite in the late 90s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ROSAT#End_of_operations
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by j-wags 4y ago
There were a few scenarios in the RTS Cossacks that had this - Two armies would be facing off, and the general (you) would just be a single horseman. You were surrounded by messengers that you could dispatch to various units, but you had to
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by j-wags 5y ago
I initially skipped over this post because it appeared to be written in bad faith [1]. But I gave it another shot and read the linked paper, and I agree with the summary. Thanks for pointing this out -- your post has changed my understandin
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by j-wags 5y ago
If you'd like to check out what current chemical database files look like, "Enamine REAL" is a fairly widely-known one.[1] My understanding is that this file is a mix of their ACTUAL in-stock inventory, as well as the product
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by j-wags 6y ago
Some of my friends started a weekly gaming group when lockdown began. We initially played 0 AD as a joke. One year in, we've had stints of Starcraft 2, CS:GO, and Among Us. But at this point we've settled into something of a rotat
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by j-wags 6y ago
The fridge should be a very efficient heat pump, moreso than an resistive electric heater. Can you get its waste heat to the fish tank?
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by j-wags 6y ago
> Once Miniconda is installed, we need to create and configure our environment. If you added Miniconda to your PATH environment during the installation process, then you can run these commands directly from Terminal, Powershell, or CMD.
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by j-wags 6y ago
Over the past 24 hours, I've had GitHub request that I re-verify my gmail three times (roughly 22 hours ago, 2 hours ago, and now), each time resetting my primary email's status to "Undeliverable" and "Unverified&qu
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by j-wags 7y ago
I attended a PhD defense yesterday that got zoom bombed. They quickly moved it to an actively managed call and the presenter did a fine job of keeping their composure and getting back on track. Now we're circulating guides about how to
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General American English(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by j-wags 7y ago|0 comments
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by j-wags 7y ago
From a purely monetary standpoint, genetic diversity has growing commercial uses [1]. Isolated ecosystems often contain genes and enzymes that let us access new areas of chemical space (this is big in drug discovery ATM). We recognize that
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by j-wags 8y ago
Hey Oleg, I just wanted to say thanks for doing some really great work. AutoDock Vina made a huge impact on the field, and its results are still on-par with commercial docking codes. Academic software development is a combination of some of