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by jboggan 9y ago
One major trend over the past 20 years has also been the realization that "non-coding" regions tend to be anything but, their effects are subtle and still being discovered.
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by jboggan 9y ago
Not an example of using a gun, but this wolf did not seem deterred by confrontation and repeated shots of bear spray to the face: http://www.montanaoutdoor.com/2013/07/wolf-attacks-bicyclist...
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by jboggan 9y ago
Maybe? It's certainly the dominant theory but I wouldn't ascribe real truth to it. There are certainly species today that operate this way but there's no way to prove they represent the origin of multicellularity. There'
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by jboggan 9y ago
Coming from a bioinformatics background this is really, really surprising to me. I knew there was always a chance of individual cells diverging from the shared genome but we always considered that a hallmark of cancerous, abnormal growth. T
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by jboggan 9y ago
Depends on what the scientists say. But if they deemed it was appropriate to balance the other herds, sure, and I'd pay a pretty penny for a lotto drawing on that tag. That's a lot of stew and sausage from one animal, it would fee
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by jboggan 9y ago
There were close calls in our hunting range before they came off the list, panicked hikers running and just encouraging them to be chased. They got more and more aggressive every year. Even though less than 10% of the hunters I know are act
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by jboggan 9y ago
RMNP has to cull elk because they like hanging out where they can't be hunted and overcrowd the local ecosystems where hunters cannot reach them. They are very intelligent and they know the seasons and the regions where they can be pre
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by jboggan 9y ago
Most modern hunting rifles have 2-3 rounds loaded. Even if you were rolling around with a 30 round magazine you could only try and shoot the ones that you could see. We had a camp member stalked by a pack while walking between two campsites
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by jboggan 9y ago
I know from firsthand experience how the elk and deer herds have been decimated in that region of the country, and in fact have been cut by more than 50% in the region I've hunted over the past decade. This dramatically shortens the se
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by jboggan 9y ago
Learn to hunt. Its rewards go beyond better personal nutrition.
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by jboggan 9y ago
I can't wait to have race conditions in my bank account! But seriously, this looks really interesting, sign me up.
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by jboggan 10y ago
I'm happy that this project is coming along. I never had any contact with the physical/chip team but I did attempt to contribute something to the theory group in a 20% project. It was absolutely the best and most challenging work
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by jboggan 10y ago
Duh. Management decided to strip off everything of value and push it into standalone apps (see: Photos).
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by jboggan 10y ago
At some point in the future there will be a silicidal holy war between different sentient AIs and it will be fought over Tabs versus Spaces.
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by jboggan 10y ago
My favorite brush with this phenomenon: Startup I worked for is approached by a large multinational corporation for a demo project, something that if integrated with their logistics could bring us a ton of money and raise our exposure. The
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by jboggan 10y ago
Can I refer you before I leave?
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by jboggan 10y ago
I'm leaving Google this week to start my own company again. The prospect of eventually sitting on the other side of the table and competing with these big companies used to bother me but I've realized that the personalities I&#x27
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by jboggan 10y ago
Boulder isn't that bad, isn't it only a 10-30% cut off base salary? The good strat is to get hired in MTV and then transfer to Boulder, your GSUs will still stay the same size. The better strat is to get hired in Zurich and then t
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by jboggan 10y ago
Google is a feudally organized collection of fiefdoms and this shows in their product strategy.
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by jboggan 10y ago
Here in LA we have summer movie screenings at the Hollywood Cemetery by a group called Cinespia, and they project the founder's collection of movie posters on the screen before the show. He has a ton of amazing Polish posters but my fa
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by jboggan 10y ago
Probably not Google, they do have a process for open source contributions though it is pretty expansive - technically you need approval for answering a Stack Overflow question with a code snippet. They do approve side projects in rarer case
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by jboggan 10y ago
Speaking as a native Georgian who got an excellent public school education, undergraduate and post-graduate education at Georgia universities, you really have no idea what you are talking about. I am not a Christian although I would say 90%
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by jboggan 10y ago
First missile lays down a volcanic ash screen, second missile flies through it to the target.
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by jboggan 10y ago
He burgled vacation homes, huge difference. Hunting and fishing are not as calorically rewarding as what he could get concentrated in peanut butter and sweets. Read the GQ article, it's fascinating how he would intentionally get fat fo
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by jboggan 10y ago
I doubt this is Trump-related, the major decisions about the change of direction were made in October.
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by jboggan 10y ago
Because the current post-secondary education system is for social filtering and conferring status, not teaching anything in particular.
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by jboggan 10y ago
Actually I was going to unveil another project that day. I've been excitedly working on this idea since I had the epiphany last night. So, I was checking our logs over the weekend and noticed that no jobs or processes ran between 2 and
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by jboggan 10y ago
I've been working on an alternative implementation of this but using tau instead, I'm not sure if my calculations are correct but I think it offers a 2x speedup over this method. It's still in stealth mode but I'm hoping
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by jboggan 10y ago
3D movies are a misnomer, they're actually forced perspective.
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by jboggan 10y ago
Now that's a really interesting theory.

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