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by jchallis 5y ago
Whenever I visit Appalachia, I ask how would I view this city if I were in China.The comparison is apt because the light industry mountain towns feel a lot like their equivalents in the PRC. As a county level city , Chinese Pikeville would
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by jchallis 5y ago
Just a personal thank you to Dr. Silver. My paternal grandmother's family was rooted near Cynthiana, KY and the 3M Post-It-Note factory brought a lot of prosperity and middle class jobs to this very rural outpost. My Uncle would alway
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by jchallis 5y ago
I've definitely transitioned from being the talent to being the agent. At work, I usually have 3-4 projects that are in my important/urgent quadrant and I spend most of my time making sure other people execute those effectively (o
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by jchallis 5y ago
There are known outliers : famously the Rolling Stone UVA rape case. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/dec/29/rolling-ston... I do not think that's applicable here. I think this woman was co
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by jchallis 5y ago
Unlike AR-15's that kill a great deal more children.
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For our engagement , my new fiancée gave me a complete set of the Landau-Lifschitz course and I gave her a diamond ring. Both gifts were clear, glittering , timeless.
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by jchallis 6y ago
That’s a pretty bold claim. The 1953 Nature paper laid out both the double helix and the Central Dogma (which is arguably the more important result). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molecular_Structure_of_Nucleic...
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by jchallis 6y ago
My employer also does not play the national anthem before I begin work. This is how I like it.
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By and large restaurants are terrible at providing healthy, nutritious, sustaining food. If the pandemic helps promote more cooking at home and more nutritious eating, the failure of restaurants may have a silver lining.
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This was one clear way Carvana was a better buying experience than the lots - they never made my wife feel less than.
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Electromechanical relays below the maze. Phone switches at the phone company labs.
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By any reasonable definition of learning, the mouse adapts to a new situation.
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Claude Shannon Demonstrates Machine Learning (1952)(techchannel.att.com)
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We welcome our Canadian brothers and sisters with open arms. My cofounder came from Waterloo and together we built a good company with good jobs here in the US.
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Wife works in pediatric infectious diseases in SF. “Community needle stick” is common enough to get its own acronym. They’re the folks that have to make sure junior doesn’t now have Hep A. Super normal.
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by jchallis 6y ago
I find his passion for quitting mainstream social media confusing if he is posting on mainstream social media. How do we know that Facebook wasn’t trying to help ?
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by jchallis 6y ago
One option is to emigrate to the United States, driving up pressure on the engineers who remain. My near-term ancestors all left Germany due to poor wages and a tendency for Bismarck to sacrifice draft-age men in wars, and while moving to t
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by jchallis 6y ago
Atheist fan speaking up for Benedict and his rule. My education was entirely organized by Benedictine nuns who internalized this rule and lived it daily. The focus on the importance of daily discipline made a big impression on me. Like the
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S. Korean population falls for first time on record low births(en.yna.co.kr)
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I’ll grant you the boldness, naïveté and arrogance of my 2006 self - he could be an insufferable a$$. But looking from the vantage point of 14 years on I think the statement is accurate and that researcher understood why. There was simply n
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by jchallis 6y ago
Every specialty has taboos and learning what they are and how to avoid them is part of being successful with the job. As a physics graduate student I made an impassioned case to a high energy researcher that the money spent on high energy r
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by jchallis 6y ago
SEC is pretty far from the tax collecting end of the house. Whatever their sins, greed for tax revenue is not a fair one.
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by jchallis 6y ago
@dang could we get a black bar ?
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I did not get the memo last year that it was running out.
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by jchallis 6y ago
In case someone from Google is reading this: - I am a real person who really manages IT decisions for a real company. - I use Google Cloud Print to keep our zoo of devices happily talking to our Japanese printers in the US and Asia. - You
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by jchallis 6y ago
My ICU physicians friends are in unanimous agreement that for most patients with advanced symptoms, staying at home with supplemental oxygen and observation is best. This is a sign that more serious and invasive procedures are required.
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by jchallis 6y ago
Complete outsider guess : Airtable.
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by jchallis 6y ago
CRISPR is at least as big an innovation as the ones you mention. Perhaps you are biased to the areas where you have the most familiarity ?
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by jchallis 6y ago
The chromecast screensaver is the background on the TV in my Airbnb. Multiple guests have told me how much that screensaver makes them feel at home when they travel, and makes the world a little less strange.
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by jchallis 6y ago
Cooler. Some folks refer to this as an Eskimo, a non PC term for the Inuit.

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