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by jkimmel 11y ago
>The SF transit situation is the direct consequence of a failing tax base. The wealth of the local tech industry is not "trickling down" to improve city infrastructure, in proportion to the industry's growth. I'm not
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by jkimmel 11y ago
>Not only that but power trains are engineered with a half life of ~250-300,000 before they become unusable This makes me think of an interesting side effect. Will there be pressure on automotive engineering teams to significantly increa
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by jkimmel 11y ago
>guarantees you won't things that can't be learned from the single, genetically uniform mouse type that is used. This is a misrepresentation of the state of mouse biology research. We use many different strains of inbred mice (
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by jkimmel 11y ago
This is true. However, you can get to any topic you want easily using the search feature. A Table of Contents is provided, making front-to-back reading by topic pretty trivial. I've taken many university courses using this book and ma
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by jkimmel 11y ago
Molecular Biology of the Cell (Alberts) is free through NCBI! Many investigators jokingly refer to it as 'the bible'. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK21054/
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by jkimmel 11y ago
They take smaller blood draws from finger tip pricks that aren't large enough in volume to run on a standard machine from Siemens et al. To get around this, they supposedly dilute the samples to a point where the concentrations of anal
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by jkimmel 11y ago
Here's to hoping Bluetooth on my Macbook won't stop working every time I put the computer to sleep. Then hanging the entire system when I try to toggle it off/on.
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by jkimmel 11y ago
It appears Martin Shkreli has tried this a couple times before. http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2015/02/20/mor... In the past, he actually planned to limit access to the existing drug
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by jkimmel 11y ago
I really like this idea from a historical preservation perspective. HN comments contain a lot of a value in aggregate, and it would be a shame to lose necessary context to exploit this value due to simple link-rot. However, I can see issues
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by jkimmel 11y ago
>If you've got no money, you end up having to buy eg single cans of drinks instead of large bottles...you'd end up paying a lot more for a similar amount of stuff than someone who happened to have the money for the bulk. As an
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by jkimmel 11y ago
Beta is a coefficient that attempts to measure an investment's likelihood to move 'with the market.' The total market has a Beta == 1 by definition, with beta ratings above 1 indicating higher volatility/sensitivity to m
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by jkimmel 11y ago
The university where I did undergrad conducted "Virtual Biology Lab" in Second Life as recently as Spring 2015. A friend of mine got stuck in one of these fake classes. His description made it sound like a terrible excuse for a le
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by jkimmel 11y ago
My step-sister dated Josh for a while when I was growing up. My few memories of him consist mostly of Josh explaining technology to me at the dinner table in slow, careful words so that a middle school kid could understand. I remember him l
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by jkimmel 11y ago
In the book, Sergey says they simply rip the FOSS license off the header and replace it with a Goldman proprietary license. It's implied that the legality of this is a grey area.
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by jkimmel 11y ago
In Flash Boys , he makes it clear that he did not take any trading strategies or in-house models. They don't provide a ton of detail in the book, but it seems that he wanted to take some FOSS code he modified himself while at Goldma
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by jkimmel 11y ago
I think Magic could be great as a lower-price-finder for people with a more normal income. ie. "I found a rental car for $PRICE at SFO tomorrow. Can you find me anything cheaper?" If Magic finds you a better deal even with their c
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by jkimmel 11y ago
>The problem with these lab books is that they're often the personal property of the scientists and, as such, almost a sort of diary Further complicating things, individual researchers don't actually own the books. Often, an in
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by jkimmel 11y ago
In general, you can simply Google the title of an article and following the link in Google search results will circumvent the paywall. Google demotes links in their search results if they don't allow "first click" access to t
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by jkimmel 11y ago
> I was talking about the firehose, not the full social graph Ah, I got a bit muddled in my diction here. I was trying to refer to the firehose. The firehose itself should inherently have some useful graph data though, as you would be a
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by jkimmel 11y ago
Are there any examples of company selling their social graph data in this manner directly? The other companies I can think of (FB, Google, Tumblr) utilize the social graph to provide ad-targeting services, but don't charge to access th
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by jkimmel 11y ago
This isn't exactly the case. Many training funding mechanisms (ie. NIH Training Grants, Fellowship awards, & Career Grants/"K-awards") are not allowed to fund non-residents [1]. Funding international students is a di
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by jkimmel 11y ago
I'm not sure if it's uniquely American. I think the secondary school social system is based in the individualistic culture of American society at large, and may appear in other countries with a similar individual emphasis. In many
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by jkimmel 11y ago
An example of "dehousing" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Dresden_in_World_War...
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by jkimmel 11y ago
Also it seems a bit odd to suggest Google wouldn't understand mobile advertising value vs desktop. Google controls the #1 smartphone OS by marketshare and serves mobile ads over Google search products (& GMail now) to a large numbe
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by jkimmel 12y ago
Regenesis by George Church It's an interesting primer on the potential benefits of synthetic biology to society at large from one of the field's luminaries. He covers everything from engineering "mirror humans" (with inv
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by jkimmel 12y ago
I live in downtown Orlando, FL. We have a perfect (pathetic) example of this phenomenon. Most of the older buildings in the downtown core rest along brickpave streets that are awful to drive on. Horrible for the suspension, tires, the works
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by jkimmel 12y ago
In some situations, getting the parental income information can make for an awkward conversation. If the students assume they won't get in for absolutely free, they might decide against asking their parents probing financial questions.
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by jkimmel 12y ago
>The USA had the most crime, and the USA has seen the biggest decrease. No one knows why. Some have proposed that outlawing leaded gasoline has led to less lead poisoning in children, thus less aggressive behavior in adults and subsequen
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Inside Beijing's airpocalypse – a city made 'almost uninhabitable' by pollution(theguardian.com)
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by jkimmel 12y ago
We find it to be pretty competitive for our needs (PCR, genotyping, long-term storage). PCR is something like ~$1.50/rxn with our standard genotyping protocol, which works out to ~$0.30-0.40 more than the same reaction run in house. If

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