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by jonathansizz 10y ago
The article isn't saying there is no adaptation; obviously there is and we have evidence for much of it. But where we don't have evidence, we need to assume a null hypothesis of no selection. This might sound obvious to outsiders,
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by jonathansizz 10y ago
You're looking for purpose, but as the article states at the outset, don't ask 'what is this for'; ask 'how has this sequence evolved?'. 90% of our genome is unconserved, meaning that it is not under selection.
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by jonathansizz 10y ago
Okay, but the article is mostly not about adaptations or phenotypes, it's about evolution in its broadest sense: changes in the sequences of genomes. Most of these changes have no effect on phenotype; others have effects which may not
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The Non-Existent Hand(lrb.co.uk)
3 points by jonathansizz 10y ago|0 comments
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The importance of neutral null for understanding evolution(ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
95 points by jonathansizz 10y ago|32 comments
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by jonathansizz 10y ago
It sounds like you got a defective unit. I've used half a dozen Chromebooks across the price spectrum, and none have had any of those problems (even the lowly Acer C720 from years ago). In particular, battery life and touchpad are usua
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The Trouble with Quantum Mechanics(nybooks.com)
2 points by jonathansizz 10y ago|0 comments
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by jonathansizz 10y ago
I'd argue that having to worry about the being in the correct gear actually necessitates greater awareness of the road conditions and situation. In a manual transmission vehicle you have to continuously anticipate what's about to
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2017: What Scientific Term or Concept Ought to Be More Widely Known?(edge.org)
3 points by jonathansizz 10y ago|1 comments
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by jonathansizz 10y ago
Questions for you to ponder: 1) Why do you think their results would get better if more people use their engine? 2) If their results really are better than Google, as you claim, why is their user base so small after all these years? 3) Why
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by jonathansizz 10y ago
According to the US Fish & Wildlife service, wind turbine deaths are tiny compared with many other human causes. https://www.fws.gov/birds/bird-enthusiasts/threats-to-birds....
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by jonathansizz 10y ago
A fundamental problem is that it's much easier to break things than build or maintain them. In many cases, gains accomplished over years or even decades can potentially be erased almost overnight (certainly in the environmental, politi
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The Rebel Economist Who Blew Up Macroeconomics(bloomberg.com)
3 points by jonathansizz 10y ago|0 comments
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by jonathansizz 10y ago
Yes, exactly. New Star Soccer is one game that did this; original purchasers lost features they'd paid for. I also thought it wouldn't be allowed, but apparently it is. If they just released a separate free version there'd be
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by jonathansizz 10y ago
I absolutely agree with you about paying actual money for a full game. The problem with this though is I've been burned a few times buying a game, only to have it become free with in-app purchases later on: functionality that was previ
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First test of new theory of gravity(earthsky.org)
25 points by jonathansizz 10y ago|4 comments
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Burning Up the World (2012)(lrb.co.uk)
2 points by jonathansizz 10y ago|0 comments
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Schadenfreude with Bite(lrb.co.uk)
2 points by jonathansizz 10y ago|0 comments
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by jonathansizz 10y ago
> Companies are more directly accountable through $$$ What's direct about that? Companies are directly accountable to their shareholders, accountable to the general population via the government, and very in directly accountable to
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Google Earth Engine: Timelapse(earthengine.google.com)
4 points by jonathansizz 10y ago|0 comments
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The Rockefeller Family Fund vs. Exxon(nybooks.com)
3 points by jonathansizz 10y ago|0 comments
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All the Water on Europa(apod.nasa.gov)
2 points by jonathansizz 10y ago|0 comments
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Trump to scrap Nasa climate research in crackdown on ‘politicized science’(theguardian.com)
11 points by jonathansizz 10y ago|2 comments
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The Couch Potato’s Guide to the World Chess Championship(new.uschess.org)
4 points by jonathansizz 10y ago|1 comments
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by jonathansizz 10y ago
People have pushed this "You are paranoid, no one is out to get you" narrative since the 90s. And nobody has got you since the 90s. When will it happen? And when it does, what will 'it' be?
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by jonathansizz 10y ago
I really don't need a lesson on how transcription and translation work. I have a PhD in genetics. I am of course not disputing that DNA is transcribed into RNA and RNA is translated into protein. In your original post, you state: Centr
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by jonathansizz 10y ago
I'm not confused. Your link shows how DNA is transcribed into RNA, which is translated into protein. That's not the central dogma; it's the misinterpretation of what the central dogma states, which I pointed out in my above c
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by jonathansizz 10y ago
You repeat a popular misinterpretation of the central dogma. The term was coined by Crick^, and actually says that once the information in nucleic acid goes into protein, you can't get it back out again. So if you want to diagram it, i
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AT&T in advanced talks to acquire Time Warner, reports say(theguardian.com)
7 points by jonathansizz 10y ago|1 comments
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32GB iPhone 7 significantly slower than more expensive versions, tests show(theguardian.com)
105 points by jonathansizz 10y ago|44 comments

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