jlgreco

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by jlgreco 13y ago
Yes, I think it makes sense that certain arrangements of DNA would be less susceptible to going cancerous than others. In one strand you might have a possible '1 bit flip' (I'm not a biologist in the slightest) change that
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by jlgreco 13y ago
From what I understand of this, the fungus basically "eats" radiation in the sense that plants eat sunlight, but that only prevents the radiation from damaging the fungus to the extent that the radiation hits the melanin instead o
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by jlgreco 13y ago
> "The fact that you'd prefer to push the work of replacing door knobs onto the people who need the functionality of levers, rather than onto the people who prefer the aesthetics of knobs, is a clear inherent bias against thos
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Old people have trouble with falls too. Maybe we should ban slick bathtubs, tile floors, and raised floors.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
> "Insurance companies are often accused of over-reacting to recent data (eg, a recent hurricane will jump up insurance next year). That being said, the insurance companies are also likely to actually look at the data and dis-regar
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by jlgreco 13y ago
It isn't clear to me that he meant "trend of whistle-blowers" to mean "whistle-blowers inspired exclusively by Snowden" . Both Snowden and Chelsea Manning (who previously went by Bradley, not Daniel) are a par
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by jlgreco 13y ago
> Probably due to the current building standards. No, probably because consumers demand stairs. There are plenty of places with very lax building codes; do you really think that ladders to get to the second floor are common in those p
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by jlgreco 13y ago
I use to live in a home where the front door opened up into a staircase which went to the living area, the first floor was commercial space, not residential. What would this hypothetical elderly visitor do then? I think accessibility is fi
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by jlgreco 13y ago
How many people have pets or children? How many people are incapable of operating a door knob? It seems to me that having the first group all buy $10 adapters per door will almost certainly be more expensive than having the few people who
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Just take some clamps used for woodworking and slap those on. Some of those come with racketing mechanisms and can hold for very long periods of time (often necessary, since sometimes people clamp wood into place for months at a time).
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by jlgreco 13y ago
If lever handles were actually preferred by everybody, then there would be no need for this legislation. Is it really a great injustice in society that somebody with poor hand dexterity might have to replace doorknobs in a newly purchased
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by jlgreco 13y ago
ADA was suppose to (figuratively speaking) build ramps, not tear down stairs. There is a theoretical threshold at which we should start considering if we have gone to far.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
You know, of all the problems that this community has, I don't think "the echo chamber is far too dampened" is one of them.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
> I use Reddit search more when I'm doing exploratory searching hoping to land on a site I've never been before, because it serves me already vetted/reviewed sites. In a somewhat similar way, I get a lot of good mileage
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by jlgreco 13y ago
I suspect that historians, given free access to a very very wide range of writings (and of course all the works attributed to Satoshi) and whatever the modern analysis techniques will be will make quick work of figuring out who Satoshi was.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
I think he means the man directly to the left of the man in the foreground of that picture. Blondish, square glasses, no tie.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Yeah, that part doesn't make sense to me either. Buuut, I'm not in the father's position, so I'll try to reserve some judgement.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Keeping programmers in cubicles or in open office space prevents them from drawing parallels between themselves an other sorts of professionals that command similar or greater salaries. As long as corporate programmers think of themselves a
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Imagine that body was somebody that you loved.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
I am not familiar with this particular site, but the general idea of an "assassination market" is that such a market is "actually" a dead pool where all participants are guessing when somebody will die, and anybody who
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by jlgreco 13y ago
You are misunderstanding me, I am asserting that the data doesn't match the "smiling people live in nice places" theory. Alaskans smile, despite having a high suicide rate and living in a miserable climate. Nevadans aren&#x
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by jlgreco 13y ago
I don't think you can just write it off as sun exposure. Alaska has fewer suicides than Nevada: http://dhss.alaska.gov/SuicidePrevention/Pages/Statistics/ag... I think there genuinely are different norm
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by jlgreco 13y ago
If this difference is in fact real and actually represents a difference in emotion or happiness, then I don't think climate has much to do with it. Alaskans have always struck me as overly cheerful people and they get similar cold and
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Oh my no, people on the east coast put far to much effort into smalltalk and smiling. The South is infamously bad in that regard, more than any other group of people that I know of, but nearly anywhere on the east coast puts too much val
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by jlgreco 13y ago
> It's not clear why the SR admin would be buying cocaine in the first place, though. Probably for one of the same reasons that anybody buys cocaine. Either because they like cocaine, or (judging by the amount), because they want
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by jlgreco 13y ago
> "Probable cause is not necessary for a search. It's necessary for evidence from the search to be admitted." The purpose of parallel construction is to create an artificial heritage for evidence collected without probab
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by jlgreco 13y ago
In the past 6 months I've worked in a cubicle, open office space, and in an office of my own, with a proper door. I would say that productivity was lowest in the cubicle, and is highest in the office. Open office space was the most u
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Combine this with the Finnish attitude towards smalltalk, and I think you'd get the ideal sort of country for me.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Even so, they are still forbidden by law from depicting genitalia, aren't they? Maybe this is a case of legal restrictions generating increased rates of kink.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6752077 Understand that I am very pro-git. I'm just trying to be precise here.

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