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by mchannon 9y ago
A lower T/S ratio is associated with advanced age (had to dig hard to find that one- check out page 9 of this paper: https://www.rug.nl/research/genetics/students/internships/an... ). In other words
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by mchannon 9y ago
The title of the article's pretty misleading. "sugar" means to most people either sucrose or glucose. Fructose, lactose, etc. could also qualify. No, this uses a very obscure and expensive chemical called thymidine (most co
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by mchannon 9y ago
Burglars generally want two things- get your stuff and get out. I suggest if they've taken it as far as breaking into your house, and you can't scare them away (maybe something that _sounds_ like a shotgun getting cocked), you let
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by mchannon 9y ago
It's not a word, according to google ngram viewer. Two types of usage on google, one dealing with dance music and the other from 100+-year-old periodicals.
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by mchannon 9y ago
I don't think it's sinister, I just think it's looked upon as extra work, with no obvious upside. For would-be competitors who want to send in spies, it's easier to move on to other companies that publish addresses. In t
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by mchannon 9y ago
When SF fogs in (which is far more often than you'd expect), they close a runway. As a result, you experience crowding in SF even before your SF-bound plane leaves the gate or takes off due to air traffic control ground holds. Epic de
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by mchannon 9y ago
Concord has an airport that used to have daily nonstops. A plane crash into a mall and assorted NIMBY's have closed it to daily scheduled commercial traffic, but it's still perfectly capable. Watsonville has an airport with plent
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by mchannon 9y ago
Once past the paywall, it doesn't get much better. “At least 100 different pesticides are known to cause adverse neurological effects in adults, and all of these substances must therefore be suspected of being capable of damaging devel
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by mchannon 9y ago
This article dishes out too much hype. Photosynthesis may be 0.5% - 2% efficient, but this new technology is "roughly 1000x as efficient as photosynthesis", which must make it 1000% efficient. Further, the comparison with photosyn
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by mchannon 9y ago
Wish I had a use for this- looks really well-put-together. That said, you'll probably want to fix the spelling for "vendors" on the main page (it's misspelled 'venders').
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by mchannon 9y ago
To those who are Francophonically impaired, https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&pr...
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by mchannon 9y ago
Assuming you write code for a living, most hiring managers (even big 5 hiring managers) care far less about your work history than you'd imagine- it's merely a means to an end, the end being how well it applies to the skill sets (
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by mchannon 9y ago
Is this a breakthrough? Sure. But it's probably not a panacea. * Getting actual salt particles out of flows of water is not what their experiment accomplished. They got larger particulates out of the water. The latter is quite easy
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by mchannon 9y ago
Apple had a version of this problem (45/45/10). After much less time than 18 months, Cofounder Ron Wayne cashed out his 10% of Apple for $800. Are you at peace following Ron's path? One other point is the notion that you&#x2
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by mchannon 9y ago
Missing from this article is the most fascinating thing about this story- why someone thought it was a good idea to make the cat litter substitution that made this whole mess possible. In Los Alamos, those charged with repackaging the waste
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by mchannon 9y ago
Average Joe looked at your post, enjoyed the colorful icon at the top for a brief moment, and then his eyes glazed over. If you really want to resonate with him, publish this in comic book form. I'm serious.
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by mchannon 10y ago
Silly point. O2 shortages are irrelevant- 210,000ppm to 209,800ppm O2 is far less of concern than 300ppm to 400ppm CO2.
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by mchannon 10y ago
That's because it's easily explained. About half the O2 lost through burning of hydrocarbons becomes CO2. Other half becomes H2O. The latter doesn't increase its percentage in the atmosphere just because there's more
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by mchannon 10y ago
"easily obtainable" is relative. For instance, Cobalt is actually less common in the Earth's crust than either of the two rare earths we most typically associate with magnets, Neodymium and Cerium. With Cobalt demand reachi
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by mchannon 10y ago
This bit of genius branding is also highly misleading. Himalayan salt (found frequently in warehouse clubs) is a product of Pakistan and is produced >100 mi from the nearest portion of the Himalayas. I still use and enjoy some on occasio
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by mchannon 10y ago
Mturk sometimes has a bit of latency from issued HITs to cascade through the system, but you can issue anticipatory tasks to counteract this latency. The more $$ you offer, the less time it will take someone to take it on. Combining these t
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by mchannon 10y ago
TL;DR: Yes.
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by mchannon 10y ago
Used it a fair bit; gets expensive, and you get what you pay for, unless you spend a fair amount of money (some people have trouble being honest- maybe they're in too much a hurry). You can opt to not pay people who don't do the
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by mchannon 10y ago
A lot of misinformation on here. The short answer is it depends on where you live. Many states and localities, particularly in California, have enacted "ban the box" laws. ("the box" in this particular case is a box yo
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by mchannon 10y ago
Clerky actually doesn't provide their own; they line you up to use one of two services, neither of which is particularly competitively priced or well-thought-of. Many would consider annual registered agent fees as too little money to c
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by mchannon 10y ago
Harvard Business Services out of Lewes, DE ends up being the lowest priced and tech friendliest I've found so far.
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by mchannon 10y ago
In order for Apple to even consider making that tradeoff, they'd have to find a successor technology to Thunderbolt (Intel makes Thunderbolt), which has been part of the Apple ecosystem for quite some time. USB-C might fit that bill, b
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by mchannon 10y ago
Pretty much all of these other posters appear to agree that it's some form of "here's what's wrong with you", when in fact, none of us can know if that's the case. But let's look at the numbers. Pretend e
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by mchannon 10y ago
Look at diversity as something to be accumulated over a career. Would you rather hire the 40-year-old developer who's worked at one position in one company for the last 20 years, or the 40-year-old developer who's worked at 20 po
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by mchannon 10y ago
Do nothing. Plenty of able-bodied people today don't work. They live off investments, the government, and/or the largesse of friends and family. Many lead lifestyles you or I might find very limiting, but they're Americans

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