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by lvs 8y ago
If John Clarke were still alive, this would make for one hell of an interview.
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by lvs 8y ago
"can," "may," ... 1) My argument was simply that the limit on recodable codons is much higher than two, as it was claimed in the article. That's hard to argue with. I didn't say the result in every case would b
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by lvs 8y ago
Not really. It's just a question of codon frequency. Organismic codon bias ensures that some codons are actually used quite rarely in the genome already. Specifically, the frequency of TAG stop codons is ~0.03% in E. coli, and the freq
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by lvs 8y ago
Floyd does very nice work, but this particular justification -- at least as expressed in this article -- for a 4-base code is completely flawed. The article claims that the reason to augment the codon table is because only two stop codons c
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by lvs 8y ago
Probably the link should be changed to the Forbes piece or the original disclosure. This was not Newsweek's original reporting. https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2019/01/16/massi...
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by lvs 8y ago
That makes it almost worse. You're already holding a ticking time bomb, and we'll let you know how to defuse it in a few hours. p.s. As far as I can tell from skimming the background, no vulnerable contracts have actually been fou
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by lvs 8y ago
Garbage! Figure 2: The coffee-treated group is anomalously higher in the quantified metric BEFORE the treatment. This is entirely an artifact of stratifying the treatment vs. control group prior to wash-out. The only significant difference
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by lvs 8y ago
What a deeply saddening state of affairs.
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by lvs 8y ago
I miss the days when you could buy a piece of software -- like, physically buy a license that allows you to use it in perpetuity on your own terms. Then, if you want to pay for some hosted features, it makes sense to have a subscription. Bu
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by lvs 8y ago
The only team who has published results based on direct examination of patients did not draw that conclusion. You can read the JAMA paper yourself. The rest of the peanut gallery is simply speculating off that single report.
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by lvs 8y ago
This article reads as irresponsible gaslighting, and the magazine should have known better than to publish it in this snarky voice. The referenced reports that raise the possibility of psychosis are maintaining a scientific voice: that one
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by lvs 8y ago
I agree -- this single point of failure is incredibly scary. There must be a legal mechanism established to ensure consumers are protected. This is an inevitable technological cycle within markets: 1) a technology arises 2) usage spreads ac
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by lvs 8y ago
A defense against this is merged mining (e.g. Dogecoin and Litecoin, Namecoin and Bitcoin).
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by lvs 8y ago
This is very interesting. It's self-hosted and therefore not reliant on someone's brittle/invasive business model. I'd consider switching over to this in a heartbeat if it could handle attaching arbitrary files to notes
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by lvs 8y ago
> This is because its impossible to bend light beams in free space. This isn't strictly true, depending on how you define "free space." In fact, you can bend light at will if you can control gravity. Gravitational lensing
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by lvs 8y ago
Ironically, that title itself hypes the content of the perspective piece that follows. It does to not refute any finding in the PNAS paper. They simply question whether the observed effect on LH, which wasn't disputed, is clinically re
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by lvs 8y ago
No, spark discharge EMI is a broad spectrum signal.
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by lvs 8y ago
It's a good question. It depends on whether we're observing arc discharge or just combustion. If it's arcing, it could surely have a significant UV component. But I suspect this is burning copper or aluminum. HV transformers
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by lvs 8y ago
Someone with HV experience should probably know better, but I'm curious if the color is due to burning copper and/or aluminum. Copper salts used in fireworks burn at nearly this color.
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by lvs 8y ago
"They" ... "the ones" ... "it only takes one" ... It takes only one bigoted executive to screw up your company fairly well too, but I think we all know what to do about that one. Edit: Fine, "bigoted"
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by lvs 8y ago
So your argument is seriously that regulating satellite launches is akin to alcohol prohibition? Do you think that's a reasonable comparison?
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by lvs 8y ago
It could just be that we simply haven't had time to figure out the manner in which it's hostile.
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by lvs 8y ago
The argument was that preservation is "stealing from the future." Ergo, the commenter apparently believes in earnestness that a personified "future" has an unqualified right to destruction. The argument as presented is s
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by lvs 8y ago
This is a great argument in favor of nuclear annihilation.
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by lvs 8y ago
Lol. When small banks start offering high interest retail accounts, it means they need deposits fast.
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by lvs 8y ago
Authoritarian governments are rarely accused of being artful.
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by lvs 8y ago
Yes, state action on this is likely to occur first, and it should definitely be done sooner rather than later. State law commonly templates federal law, as it has historically done with mileage standards, the ACA, etc. Get this done in CA,
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by lvs 8y ago
Whatever the case, the exit-ramps are there at every stage and every moment until you do it. To play this as some kind of rolling ball that couldn't be stopped strains logic and seems basically counterfactual.
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by lvs 8y ago
That is a meaningless statement. The decision to prepare is distinct from the decision to commit. It's farcical to imagine that these overvalued companies are just filing on sheer momentum. Doing it now is an affirmative decision. Also
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by lvs 8y ago
Sanctions governing trade with Iran have been codified through multiple acts of Congress and are overseen under the Departments of Treasury, Commerce, and State, under Title 31 statute, with additional regulatory aspects within Titles 15 an

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