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by jostmey 8y ago
Low pay, rowdy students... what else can we do to make teacher's lives miserable. I know, let's shot them with things.
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“A grand jury in Washington, D.C., issued a broad subpoena dated March 11 to at least one person involved in the 737 MAX’s development...” Given how cozy Boeing is with the US government, I fear that it will be the engineers and lower manag
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Yes, it's possible that an engineer made a mistake--Boeing will certainly blame everyone else including the pilots and engineers. But the bigger picture here is that the plane might be unstable, it used a "software patch" as
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My understanding is that the Boeing 737 max jet is unstable. Instead of redesigning a new plane from the ground up, Boeing placed the larger engines forward and upward on the wings. Boeing then tried to issue a "software patch" on
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I interpret this as an indication that the United States policy and law is run by Wall street and is corrupted. Boeing didn't want to develop a new airplane, cut costs, and doesn't want to lose money, so the FAA is not allowed to
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Chemical pollutants in the home degrade fertility in both men and dogs(sciencedaily.com)
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I'm not saying that guns should be legal (I'm also not saying they should be illegal ). What is important is to focus on the root issues, and I don't believe that the root issues are "guns".
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The debate here has focused on guns as the problem. Guns are not the problem, they are an expression of the problem. To quote the article: "The Economist stated that rapid urbanisation and inequalities in wealth distribution were some
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Immune receptors that bind healthy cells and tissue are said to be autoreactive, and the antigens on healthy cells and tissue that they recognize are called self-antigens.
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The scientific approach is the gold standard for validating knowledge. An individual makes observations, formulates a hypothesis, and experimentally tests the hypothesis with controls. I believe the reason why science is so important to hum
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What an awful opinion! Instead of having a transparent tax code that the public understand and can judge, we have an obfuscated tax system that only a few people can understand, so everyone should just ignore the fact that Jeff Bozo-head is
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And despite these losses Jeff Bozo is the richest man in the world. Clearly these companies are abusing the tax laws to avoid paying their share of taxes. Amazon depends on the roads that our tax dollars fund. Amazon depends on intelligent
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Any politician promising to raise corporate, capital, and estate taxes automatically has my vote
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Many countries have been able to rapidly modernize by copying Europe and the United States. But each country hit a wall after they were out of things to copy, and their economies slowed down. Both Japan and South Korea underwent rapid econo
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Perhaps the era of general purpose computing will come to an end. But what I see is a shift away from single CPUs supporting thousands of complex instructions to GPUs with simpler instructions sets capable of running calculations in paralle
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Yes, I am in research to do cool science. I write the papers because I want to do cool science. But then I have to decide where to submit those papers. At this point, the choice has nothing to do with science, so I am careful to pick journa
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As a academic researcher, here is my takeaway: European scientist will be much likely to see my publications under Elsevier and therefore much less likely to cite it. Going forward, I will avoid publishing under Elsevier (even in those jour
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> "having a vaccine is risky" That risk is for all practical purposes, zero
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I was going to put down "The Selfish Gene" myself. I remember picking it up in high school and hating the first few pages. I read the first chapter in college, and I didn't get what all the fuss was about. After college, I pi
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"There is an apocalyptic amount of people moving into California," Really? New york is crowded. Chicago is crowded. The bay area is just spread out. It just feels crowded because California won't build upwards, which is a res
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You're assuming that genetic engineering is expensive and that only the rich will be able to afford it. I think it more likely that genetic engineering will be cheap and easy to perform, for better or worse
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Recombinant genetic engineering was invented almost 5 decades ago, and only recently has it been used on a human embryo. I think humanity has been remarkably patient pursuing this technology. It has a bad rap today, but centuries from now h
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These new biotechnologies are eerily reminiscent of what's in the novel "Oryx and Crake" by Margaret Atwood. In a subplot, an inner circle of biohackers compete to drive species to complete extinction for fun. It's worth
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If you seek medical authorization, you will find that no one will approve it
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Direct gene editing was invented about 45 years ago. I am surprised, even shocked, that no one tried this until now. CRISPR has certainly made it easier to do, but other techniques have existed since the 70s. He Jiankui is being vilified no
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And there I think lies the problem. Cities have an economy of scale that rural areas can't match. In my opinion, living in a city should be cheaper. But land is finite and poorly utilized at the benefit of landowners.
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I have an iPhone SE and I've been extremely disappointed in its quality. After the warranty expired, the touch screen started giving out, a microphone stopped working, and the LED backlight started fading. I don't recommend the ph
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Quote "At every key point, state officials made decisions that undercut taxpayers and helped the companies that market video gambling" And that is one reason why I left Chicago. Both city and state are corrupt. I remember receivin
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Where Computational Immunologist Meet(b-t.cr)
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Identifying cancer associated immune receptors computationally(cancerres.aacrjournals.org)
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