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by jforman 15y ago
"The stated problem is... what happens after you absorb the salt water" — other comments about this paragraph notwithstanding, it's just not true that simple osmosis from blood to cells is the operative factor in hydration, so the article i
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by jforman 15y ago
Alas, this article is not remotely accurate. In truth, the best thing that you can drink when extremely dehydrated is lightly salted, sugared water (on an empty stomach, at least — food can provide the salt/sugar otherwise). This is why P
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by jforman 15y ago
This isn't a universally effective optimization. It's an exquisite optimization for when a little imprecision is tolerable. Micro-optimizations like this are rarely worth the increase in cognitive complexity of the code, but Quake had to
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by jforman 15y ago
Reminds me of The Hero's Journey: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hero%27s_Journey (the pattern of separation, initiation, and return common to many hero myths).
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"You have all these waiting periods, and it was just too awkward and too slow. So Mike [Markkula] said we needed two things: a floating point Basic (that's a Basic with decimal points, which I didn't have) and a floppy disk." Sounds like a
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by jforman 15y ago
Government employees' work by law is in the public domain: "Copyright protection under this title is not available for any work of the United States Government, but the United States Government is not precluded from receiving and holding co
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by jforman 15y ago
A little known fact: the vast majority of grants (by volume of cash) are technically awarded to the professor's university rather than to the professor him/herself, giving the university broad control over the product of the professor's res
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by jforman 15y ago
If a miRNA alters the expression of transcription factors, chromatin remodeling agents, or other epigenome modifiers, the effect could last long after a person stops eating the miRNA-containing food.
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by jforman 15y ago
How many startup man-hours were spent tracking that Ubuntu bug down on Cassandra instances? I've heard several nightmarish stories.
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by jforman 15y ago
I haven't studied the details of the vector they used, but as a general comment HIV is a very well-understood virus, so removing its potential to infect a human should be easy to do in theory. Practice is another matter, since molecular bi
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by jforman 15y ago
9391, back from ye olde "The Facebook" days
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by jforman 15y ago
Your cynicism is not well borne out on this message board.
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Comparing the relatively thoughtful discussion on this topic among the web development community to the reddit mob is not particularly fair or accurate.
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by jforman 15y ago
I understand technology, and I'm pretty skeezed out by their use of Etags... Also, if they truly think they're innocent, why wouldn't they just educate their userbase? Seems odd to make such drastic architectural changes just because of a
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by jforman 15y ago
If the report "significantly distorts our technology and business practices," why are they making such significant changes to their technology and business practices as a result?
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by jforman 15y ago
As somebody who worked on a social networking website for high schoolers back in the day, I can say with authority that trolling never stops in that age range. We quickly gave up the profanity filter arms race as we saw more and more obscu
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by jforman 15y ago
On the other hand, many companies avoid using AGPL code altogether. Code that isn't used can't be improved.
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by jforman 15y ago
This is not permitted.
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by jforman 15y ago
They aren't waiting — watch the demo of Google Wallet / Google Offers from D9 last week: http://allthingsd.com/video/?video_id=49011B68-9F7F-44C0-BC2...
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by jforman 15y ago
I am curious why they call the variation "tiny." The mutation they describe is "the deletion of two genetic letters" — since genes are read in groups of three, a deletion of two letters results in a completely different protein after the s
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CoSQL: SQL and noSQL are really just two sides of the same coin(cacm.acm.org)
60 points by jforman 16y ago|17 comments
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by jforman 16y ago
No, individual states cannot issue visas. The border is controlled by the federal government (specifically, the Department of Homeland Security). One thing you can do is sign up for votizen and send a message to your representatives here,
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by jforman 16y ago
No reason other than, oh, on the order of $100MM in unvested shares?
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The true total market value of a company is certainly a proper metric for comparing size.
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Baba Yetu of Civ IV first video game grammy winner(destructoid.com)
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by jforman 16y ago
This paper is significant because it finds a precise molecular mechanism whereby reduced telomere function affects organ health. From the article, "We demonstrate that telomere dysfunction activates p53 which in turn binds and represses
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by jforman 16y ago
rNTPs are the monomers of RNA
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by jforman 16y ago
> Anthropomorphizing such things is a silly because it confuses people The rest of my post gave a very high-level explanation of how a virus infects a human cell. To explain it in full would take many hours verbally (it took me months
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by jforman 16y ago
A 15-minute search yields: we don't know how prions infect a cell. "the underlying mechanism of infection remains unresolved" http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjo... "the exact physiological function of PrPC and th
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by jforman 16y ago
That's...a very good question. So much for my vaunted Ph.D. I'm going to Google Scholar to figure out how the hell a consumed protein can get into a nerve cell...

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