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by jimworm 11y ago
Seems plausible on the surface, but not supported by research. The average elite female athlete is only as strong as an average male. Quote: The results of female national elite athletes even indicate that the strength level attainable by e
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by jimworm 11y ago
I wish they would just go ahead and ban it outright today, and in my naive imagination the whole country would plunge into disaster. Airliner crashes, car crashes, market crashes, the whole lot. Unfortunately, selective enforcement of this
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by jimworm 11y ago
A more human mode of rubber-duck debugging. Might have a detrimental effect on office politics if these cheerleaders are not changed out regularly. They might even become programmers themselves, after absorbing a lot of experience with many
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by jimworm 11y ago
Alimony, or the quick modern way for man to achieve indentured servitude.
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by jimworm 11y ago
Devil's advocate: if we accept that, then in effect the ban on child pornography could either be massively proliferating child abuse, or massively proliferating the collection of child porn. Maybe both.
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by jimworm 11y ago
There are seatbelt buckles made specifically for silencing those alarms, and boy are they popular in China. http://item.taobao.com/item.htm?id=43123079687
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by jimworm 11y ago
I've been working remotely for the past three years. The greatest benefit was time saved from the lack of commute. Work requiring deep concentration is a lot easier, but I found it harder to influence others in the company not within m
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by jimworm 12y ago
Pajata [1] is unweaned veal intestines, and contain a cheese-like substance. It's one possible source of cheese invention. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rigatoni_con_la_Pajata
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by jimworm 12y ago
They wouldn't expect to make international news by being mentioned in a blog post from the president, that's for sure.
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by jimworm 12y ago
Famous people leach fame into others by interacting with them. The easiest way to force someone to interact with you is to hit them somewhere vulnerable. Mr Schilling either wasn't aware of his vulnerability or hoped that it wouldn&#x2
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by jimworm 12y ago
I learned about Arcosanti from the arcologies in SimCity 2000, and have maintained some curiosity since. How does it feel to live in Arcosanti, compared with life in a "regular" city?
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by jimworm 12y ago
Would self-owned cars have a need to know the implications of its actions? Legalities? Will they – like humans – be able to take on small losses in order to survive? Can they be expected to uphold the law like humans are? What if they act a
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by jimworm 12y ago
One might take the Kowloon Walled City as an example of organic human architecture. It would indeed be interesting to see where architecture ends up when given a ride on a genetic algorithm, although the parameters will need to be very, ver
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by jimworm 12y ago
Eve is another must-try in my book. I haven't seen them outside of New Zealand yet though. http://www.loveapples.co.nz/new-zealand/our-apples/eve/
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by jimworm 12y ago
Not my experience with Chinese hospitals, and I've seen several (with consultation fees of 2 CNY - not the entitled rich crowd). Usually there are five or six other people pushing each other to get the doctor's attention inside th
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by jimworm 12y ago
Natural selection isn't some benevolent deity. Its MO is to drive species to extinction, it's just that when some individuals find a way around it we call that evolution. Without knowing which traits a species "needs", t
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by jimworm 12y ago
The "ground contact" parameter while walking sounds functionally very close to the "proprioception + pain" parameters for animals in a hobbling situation. An animal (me, specifically) quickly discovers a hobbling strateg
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by jimworm 12y ago
Physical effects could be used in combination with symbols. The current trefoil is enough to warn the people of today, so that should continue to be used. If knowledge of the trefoil is lost, however, the actual radiation would serve as a w
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by jimworm 12y ago
Imagine raisins inside a lump of dough expanding as it is baked into a fruit loaf.
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by jimworm 12y ago
The Antarctic, Greenland, other glaciers.
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by jimworm 12y ago
Humans have been very successful at beating evolution, if more by accident than purposeful action. Mosquitoes won't be pushovers like the dodo were, but if we eradicate one species of them they won't be the first insects we'v
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by jimworm 12y ago
Thanks to your cue, I found a candidate gene that might fit the bill called Medea [0]. Wolbachia itself won't cause catastrophic sex-ratio imbalances, so does not cause a "White Plague" scenario. [0] http://www.nat
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by jimworm 12y ago
I've recently been thinking about the possibility of a genetic disease for mosquitoes, transmitted down male lines but killing only females of the same brood, with the intended result that a relatively small release of males can cause
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by jimworm 13y ago
Reverse transcriptase. mRNA, and therefore cDNA, could have things like introns excised. Still, that's like saying "A zip file can't be copyrighted, but whoever manages to copy the contents once it's been decoded by a th
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by jimworm 13y ago
tl;dr: like restriction enzymes, but easily retargetable because they recognise sites using RNA.
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by jimworm 13y ago
This article made me git stash list and gee I hope I was faster doing all those things the second time round.
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by jimworm 13y ago
"they will be able to safely walk in any streets" As adults, yes. Also maybe as children, if they don't look Chinese and never wander away from the rich neighbourhoods.
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by jimworm 13y ago
If all antibacterials were harsh chemicals like hydrogen peroxide that might be true. But check out multidrug efflux pumps, and things like triclosan.
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by jimworm 13y ago
Beta-lactamases are now pretty much everywhere, but the difference with NDM-1 is that it's not inhibited by the standard defence against beta-lactamases, clavulanic acid. With these plasmid being traded around out in the wild, the fear
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by jimworm 13y ago
GMail, Google Hangouts tmux, vim git, Bitbucket, Github

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