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by jballanc 7y ago
Gene location is extremely consequential, especially in Eukaryotes (everything that's not bacteria or bugs living near hydrothemal vents). A couple of things that are influenced by position: * First, and most immediate, are promoter&
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by jballanc 8y ago
It would vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction, but generally you can't just carve up a lot willy-nilly. In order to transfer ownership of a lot, a deed must be recorded with the relevant government agency (city, county, etc.). These
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by jballanc 8y ago
Or, if you have an installation of Julia, just run `julia --lisp` to get the same thing ;-)
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by jballanc 8y ago
What's volume? After-hours trading tends to be extremely light (and heavily restricted as to who may participate), so prices have a tendency to deviate from reality by quite a bit. Watch the futures if you want to know where AAPL will
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by jballanc 8y ago
"Buy on the rumor, sell on the news" is a tradition for Apple's Quarterly reports going back to at least 2004 (by my own memory).
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by jballanc 8y ago
Agreed, but I don't think that negates my point: taken to an extreme, libertarianism is extremely inefficient with respect to morals. Instead of making clear choices once (or once per election), I am now tasked with making an ethical c
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by jballanc 8y ago
It is what I'm hoping for, but I'm not holding my breath. Remember when the Senate instructed President Trump to sanction Russia? Yeah...
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by jballanc 8y ago
Sorry if I was unclear. I didn't mean to link "libertarianism" and "despotic theocratic monarchy", but rather "libertarianism" and "ethics via purchasing power". Ideally, governments should be wo
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by jballanc 8y ago
I doubt this will be a popular opinion on HN, but...this is what comes of libertarianism. What is a government other than a group of people who agree to work together toward certain goals and hold each other accountable to certain moral and
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by jballanc 8y ago
MbS is no Putin. What I still can't figure out is why the hell the Saudis went to all the trouble of flying in an entire team, and then smuggling the body out, when they could have just as easily had some "rogue agent" (presu
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by jballanc 8y ago
When I was at Apple, I once heard Steve describe his roll within the company as "hire the best people and say 'no' a lot". Also, behind closed doors, Steve swore a LOT . In other words, him calling something "dog s
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by jballanc 8y ago
Armenians, as an ethnogenetic group, did not arise until around 3000 BCE. Gobekli Tepe was abandoned by 7000 BCE, so there is no historical overlap.
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by jballanc 8y ago
Knowledge builds on knowledge, and (so far as we know) there's no shortcut to the gradual acquisition of knowledge. I think this is best exemplified by one particular episode of the YouTube "Primitive Technology" series: htt
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by jballanc 8y ago
> One cannot have both I guess? Not to be snarky, but... The whole point of LISP-style macros is that you very much can have both. Ultimately, generics will compile down, either via type erasure or a generated specialization, to a &quo
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by jballanc 8y ago
One of my favorite songs for helping to explain the importance and differences between time signatures is "Question!" by System of a Down ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENBv2i88g6Y ). The intro is 9/8 (as a
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by jballanc 8y ago
My favorite explanation of why autonomous vehicles will be so game changing is this imagined future conversation: [30 years in the future...] My son: Wait...you mean to tell me that people used to operate multi-ton machines, with a minimum
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by jballanc 8y ago
The Davy Crockett was deployed from 1961 to 1971, so we're talking '60s era tanks. There's a reason that modern tanks are radiation shielded, and similarly why tactical nukes are no longer considered part of tank warfare.
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by jballanc 8y ago
You might be interested in reading more about "Davy Crockett" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davy_Crockett_%28nuclear_devic... ) and the Fulda Gap ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulda_Gap
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by jballanc 8y ago
As a resident of South Florida, I'm guessing they're banking on the eventual Orlando connection. Many of the theme parks in Orlando offer very attractive discounts for Florida residents, especially in the off season, but speaking
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by jballanc 8y ago
It's funny that programmers (and their ilk) are constantly on the outlook for new ways to gain an edge by increasing focus, attention, and endurance, when two of the best substances for doing so have long been known: caffeine and nic
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by jballanc 8y ago
Considering their quarterly profit per employee, they still have room to go up from here: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=google+profit+per+empl...
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Apple Officially Discontinues Airport Router Line(mjtsai.com)
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by jballanc 8y ago
In theory you could already do this with Opal ( https://github.com/opal/opal ).
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by jballanc 8y ago
Oh, I realize that personality plays some roll in chess, but I think the degree to which is shines through in Go is on a whole other level. There is only so much you can do in chess that is still considered sound play. For example, you keep
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by jballanc 8y ago
For those new to the game of Go, one aspect of the game that makes it so much fun for me is the way that a good commentator or author can tell an entire story around the game (and Will Lockhart is one of the better commentators). Attacks, c
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by jballanc 8y ago
And yet, even that crash was the epitome of calm, efficient action on the part of the pilots: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYDZea4BcXE Edit : I should say, on the part of the pilots and ATC. Here's an even better a
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by jballanc 8y ago
Here's an amazing video of what happens in the cockpit during an engine failure in a commercial airliner: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEf35NtlBLg
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by jballanc 8y ago
It's not quite the same, but each year Hendrick Motorsports and Automotive group have an engine building competition. You can watch some of the builds on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nn1E9HgEaKo
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by jballanc 9y ago
You might be interested in Bussard: https://technomancy.itch.io/bussard
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by jballanc 9y ago
The real revolution for self driving cars will be what it does to deaths in the 18-35 demographic. A quick Google search turns up this ( https://www.verywell.com/top-causes-of-death-for-ages-15-24-... ) article that confirms

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