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by jforman 13y ago
What "understanding"? This paper provides no evidence whatsoever that sex-biased gene expression is due to nature rather than nurture. They collected data from adults only (well, 2 people were under 20 out of 137 subjects). You
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Y'all are getting hung up on insisting that Bitcoin is a currency, which nobody is arguing. There are important differences in the use cases that make a currency valuable to society, though. And Bitcoin is a far cry from demonstratin
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There's a large difference between a currency being used for anonymity and a currency being used for stability and trust (hence the use of "reserve" vs. "anonymous" in my post — I omitted "reserve" in the
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by jforman 13y ago
Because the value illegal actors find in Bitcoin isn't in its role as a currency, but rather in its role as an anonymous method to globally transfer wealth. Even if millions of people use Bitcoin for that use case, it doesn't mean
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by jforman 13y ago
"the CPUs won't run it" A TOS is a contract between Google and its users. The "CPU" in this case should then be the two parties to the contract (as these are the people meant to directly consume the contract's
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by jforman 13y ago
"they're just asking for a license that allows them to distribute the content" The license is much broader than this: "By furnishing your User Content to Medium, you give Medium a non-exclusive worldwide, royalty-free,
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by jforman 13y ago
This strategy would quickly lose its merit outside of Harvard. Failing to gain tenure at Harvard is the expected outcome, so a) the sense of rejection is less, and b) your remaining job prospects are good because this is generally recogniz
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by jforman 13y ago
The conjecture is reasonable. My point is that it's inappropriate to trump up an untested conjecture, as it creates a cost to the investigator for not being right. And you don't want to be incentivized in this way during your in
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by jforman 13y ago
"Davies and Lineweaver are currently testing this prediction by comparing gene expression data from cancer biopsies with phylogenetic trees going back 1.6 billion years, with the help of Luis Cisneros, a postdoctoral researcher with AS
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by jforman 13y ago
Your searches don't need to persist. Your mail kinda does. And since US law compels US companies to comply with warrants, this isn't possible to do.
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by jforman 13y ago
Regardless of the actual damage in this instance, the CCC is empowered to restrict the use of public lands when they reasonably think environmental damage might occur. Parker/Ventana violated their rules, so the CCC sent a Cease and
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by jforman 13y ago
That's not correct — he can't claim statutory damages (those prescribed by written law) but copyright infringement is a tort that will bring damages through civil action even without registration.
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by jforman 13y ago
Furious? He just got a pay day — I'm sure he can find a lawyer to take the case on contingency. Should be a pretty quick settlement.
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by jforman 13y ago
While "falsification" is impossible for complex models, the predictive power of a model can be shown to be inadequate. It takes years for it all to play out, but it's still science. Economics is far worse since we have such
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by jforman 13y ago
Because law is not expressible as code. The phrase, "the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures" is captured in human language for good reason —
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by jforman 13y ago
"Make no mistake, this is as much a PR ploy by Tesla to pump up their offering." I don't get your negativity here. The fact that a major green tech company working with government support is able to shift financing over to the private mark
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Going Rogue(sciencecareers.sciencemag.org)
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by jforman 13y ago
With real property, you can't get sued for negligence just for having lax security. You can incur liability if somebody gets onto your property and hurts themselves (the particulars of which I'm not familiar with since IANAL), and you may
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by jforman 13y ago
> It's cultiavating a culture of "It's OK to have no security" This is how the rest of our culture works. If you leave your door unlocked and somebody robs your house, we charge that person with robbery and put them in jail. We might
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by jforman 13y ago
There is a common portion called the MBE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bar_examination#Multistate_Bar_... However, as mentioned in another comment, what you learn in law school and what you need to learn to pass the Bar exam have relative
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by jforman 13y ago
I just changed the format of the column to "text" from "auto" and kept using it for my thesis work. It's too useful to bail on because of a quirk like this.
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by jforman 14y ago
What's at issue is not the "right to patent human genes" but the right to patent in vitro copies of human genes. The claim from one of the primary patents at issue: "An isolated DNA coding for a BRCA1 polypeptide, said polypeptide having t
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by jforman 14y ago
"'Studies have shown that identical twins who grow up in separate families have an IQ correlation of 0.74, while adoptive siblings have no more similar IQ than strangers.' ... First off the bat, such studies are obviously social science, no
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by jforman 14y ago
> This is true about all formal business structures. They should always be separate from your personal finances. This is more than "should." In an LLC, co-mingling finances can expose you to personal liability, which can result in pers
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by jforman 14y ago
IANAL, but some basic details: There needs to be a strict separation between the corporation and the people behind the corporation. As part of this, the LLC's finances need to be kept rigorously firewalled from personal finances — never pa
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by jforman 14y ago
An LLC may be easy to set up, but maintaining the personal liability shield is non-trivial. I'd recommend getting advice from a lawyer no matter the route taken.
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Nobody. They have immunity. Change comes from the legislature.
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This meets your "halfway credible" standard, although I can't vouch for its ultimate accuracy: http://www.volokh.com/2013/01/14/aaron-swartz-charges/ This blog describes a scenario in which JSTOR blocked Aaron's IP, then MIT blocked his M
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by jforman 14y ago
In 1984, a commission found that federal sentencing was too arbitrary (making us a "nation of men" rather than a "nation of laws") and so mandatory federal sentencing guidelines were enacted by Congress (the supreme court later made them no
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by jforman 14y ago
A TOS can actually be very important in determining whether criminal law was broken or not. Take a real property, rather than intellectual property, example: my house is private property. If you open my door and walk into my living room, y

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