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by jjcon 4y ago
Maybe - the blood isn’t collected for DNA sequencing so they aren’t DNA samples. Furthermore DNA could only be realistically extracted from them for limited time (about a decade). If you want to view it as a DNA bank, it’s a pretty terrible
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by jjcon 4y ago
In nearly every western country (EU countries, Canada, Australia, New Zealand etc) the samples are securely stored indefinitely - in the US it depends on the state but many do keep the samples there as well. That does not mean they are rea
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by jjcon 4y ago
> chances are good that one of the first things you did as a baby was give a DNA sample to the government. This seems pretty disingenuous - yes you gave a blood sample (which has DNA in it) but no DNA genome sequencing is taking place -
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by jjcon 4y ago
Weren’t charges in this case dropped in February? Why is this in the news again? http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/feb/16/chesa-boudin-...
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by jjcon 4y ago
Intel just did that to conform to what the rest of the industry (namely TSMC) had already been doing. NM hasn't meant nanometers for a decade.
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by jjcon 4y ago
> I don’t hear anyone saying we’re running out of lead. Don't know much about materials science but is demand for lead expected to equal demand for lithium?
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by jjcon 4y ago
Are there countries where there is another main competitor? iOS is at like 30% global market share isn’t it (a bit higher in North America, uk, and some Asian countries like japan, lower elsewhere) I’m not aware of anywhere having a larger
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by jjcon 4y ago
> She’s raised nearly $300,000 from a slate of high net worth individuals so far I umm... I seriously doubt that
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by jjcon 4y ago
> I like the idea of amassing money that can be used as a threat of a lawsuit. I guess I don't really follow. What are they saying exactly? "Hey we have lots of money so listen to us" while simultaneously claiming SF isn&#
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by jjcon 4y ago
In my setup at least it runs essentially in CPU mode since there is no CUDA acceleration available and metal support is really messy right now. So while quite slow I don't run into memory issues at least. It runs much faster on my desk
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by jjcon 4y ago
Similarly I think most would expect result to imply retrievability.
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by jjcon 4y ago
Considering the trend started in the 90s and hasn't shown any particular jump in the past couple years that isn't supported by this research.
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by jjcon 4y ago
Couldn’t find good stats for shootings and children but it looks like 1000 kids die each year in the US from car accidents so all it would take is 10 kids dying a year in shootings which doesn’t seem like many at all (just consider kids in
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by jjcon 4y ago
Just to clarify, Psychedelics yes. Marijuana though is legal at the state level in some form for about 75% of the USA
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by jjcon 4y ago
I didn’t use Firefox pre-quantum so I’ve only seen this behavior post quantum. I last gave Firefox a try about a year ago and while the fans weren’t as bad the battery life/power consumption just wasn’t comparable to safari or chrome b
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by jjcon 4y ago
> which is a ridiculously tall order And yet a ton of people here think there should be lots of people building lots of completely separate browser engines… that is certainly more difficult To the point though - I think the threat of har
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by jjcon 4y ago
No, Firefox didn’t die because a few of us devs stopped using it and standardized around chromium. They died because chrome has outperformed them on speed and efficiency for a decade+ (I still can’t run FF on my Mac without my fans whirring
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by jjcon 4y ago
Chromium isn’t written by just 1 entity, Microsoft intel samsung have all made major contributions - and anyone can hard fork it if they want to. I know most others here disagree but we do need standardization in this modern web world and c
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by jjcon 4y ago
Yes? Again though what does that have to do with the topic here?
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It didn’t say 30% were rejected - it said on some offers as much as 30% were rejected. Again, the models can be totally accurate in aggregate but due to random variation or low sampling show as inaccurate on one specific offer, that is just
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by jjcon 4y ago
I’m not sure how any of your questions are relevant to the current discussion (or they should already seem obvious) but I’ll answer them anyway. My point isn’t to diminish the role of science, only to point out that science is again inheren
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by jjcon 4y ago
> The FTC press release[1] says "for many offers, almost a third of consumers who applied were in fact denied". That's quite a ways off from 90%. The statistics don’t play out that easily - their models may be accurate in
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by jjcon 4y ago
What about them? Sure a scientist is welcome to have their own opinion based on the scientific facts in a particular matter and they can vote just like everyone else because again, the science itself is only descriptive. Maybe I should have
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by jjcon 4y ago
> Politics should be informed by science. Informed by science, absolutely. I think the point here though is that science is inherently amoral (meaning without judgement). For a mundane non-political example, Science may say: If we ban sk
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by jjcon 4y ago
I mean New York has had big storms multiple times in its history - that is nothing new and I certainly don't interpret that as being what he intended: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1893_New_York_hurricane https:&
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by jjcon 4y ago
Oberlin already lost their appeal at the Supreme Court Level no?
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by jjcon 4y ago
So ignore nasa, ignore the international panel on climate change… you got this one figured out better than our best scientists? Sorry that sounds just as bad as the most extreme climate deniers.
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by jjcon 4y ago
> The melting of the ice-caps over the next 100 years or whatever will result is rising sea levels. Potentially a rise of hundreds of metres. If literally all the ice on the planet melted and ran into the ocean the ocean would only rise
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by jjcon 4y ago
Hmm still definitely in plenty of places though - chiefly NBCs streaming service https://www.peacocktv.com/watch-online/tv/the-office/4902514...
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by jjcon 4y ago
> Numerous scenes and whole episodes of The Office were silently removed from streaming services Some private companies vs entire undemocratically elected governments conversation aside… What entire episode has been removed? I’m an offi

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