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by mjfl 8y ago
Your fingers are patterned by a system just as proposed by Turing: http://science.sciencemag.org/content/345/6196/566
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by mjfl 8y ago
I literally couldn't care less where I lived. Is it really that big of a deal?
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by mjfl 8y ago
I'm not sure there is such a service. You can download the raw data on 23andme, it's just a bunch of SNPs though. I'm not sure there's much known about them other than what's already flagged by their service.
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by mjfl 8y ago
23andme
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by mjfl 8y ago
heterozygous
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by mjfl 8y ago
I got my genes sequenced recently and it turns out I have a mutant gene that predisposes me to Alzheimers - APOE e4. it's a cholesterol shuttling gene! Very important to keep low fat, it effects your entire body.
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by mjfl 8y ago
I think this argument, while true in some cases, is overly dismissive in general. The whole imperative to "stay in your lane" is one of the most destructive developments in modern science. In biology, for example, the field of syn
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by mjfl 8y ago
I am 26 and would definitely not have been ready for my father to die in the past year.
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by mjfl 8y ago
"considered harmful" considered harmful The origin of the meme was an editor's labeling of Dijkstra's commentary. Titling your own article this makes it seem like you wrote the article, forgot you wrote it, found it agai
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by mjfl 8y ago
Is this really new to anyone? I feel like this is pretty typical African dictator behavior.
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by mjfl 8y ago
Apple used to be a slave to the gods of productivity. Now it's living its best life using the 4 hour work week strategy!
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by mjfl 8y ago
I was being sarcastic
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by mjfl 8y ago
The obvious solution is to make private companies illegal.
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by mjfl 8y ago
There are probably a good number of Republican voters hired at Facebook. Most of those employees will be supporting Kavanaugh's nomination. There are obviously many Democrat voters employed at Facebook who won't be supporting Kava
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by mjfl 8y ago
Stripe cut me off, I'm using crypto now.
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by mjfl 8y ago
on the subject, would love a tutorial introduction to total synthesis...
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by mjfl 8y ago
What if I told you that even if everything goes perfectly by 2045, ITER is not a power plant, just a proof of principle? They would have to do further engineering to figure out how to effectively convert the heat generated into electricity.
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by mjfl 8y ago
Step 1 to reading a mathematics textbook is finding 4 hours per day to work through it. Most people cannot do that.
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by mjfl 8y ago
Content is stolen if and only if a user tries to steal it, so I don't understand how you are absolving them of responsibility. People pay for Netflix and I guarantee you that if people stopped paying for it, Netflix originals would sto
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by mjfl 8y ago
The harm is less people writing books like this in the future. Every dollar this book gets in revenue not only goes partly to the author, but goes into the record as profits for that "genre" of books. Every dollar of revenue for t
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by mjfl 8y ago
It took a lot of work for the author to draft this. Would it kill you to compensate them for it?
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by mjfl 8y ago
I feel like the proper measure would be return on investments experienced by venture capitalists. Though it's great to get bought out, that shouldn't be the end in itself, the end should be creating successful companies...
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by mjfl 8y ago
"AI's", even in their specialized domain of pattern recognition, still can't distinguish a corgi from a loaf of bread or specially designed white noise. The jobs he listed that are "in danger": truck driving, d
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by mjfl 8y ago
It would be nice if low volume foundry costs went down an order of magnitude. I'm in a bio lab right now, but I did CS in college and really enjoyed VLSI. If I want to turn a design into a prototype in my bio lab, it's going to co
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by mjfl 8y ago
It would really suck to have the global language of science change to Chinese though. And Beijing strikes me as the sort of place to suddenly require all their scientists to publish in Chinese one day, once they felt they had sufficient lev
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by mjfl 8y ago
You'd still be living way better than the global 90%, who are living off rice and sleeping on dirt floors. I get your comment though, it's really inconvenient when people make you consider reality.
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by mjfl 8y ago
none of the money evaporates, all of it makes it into the hands of other people.
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by mjfl 8y ago
I think you're looking at it the wrong way. I think it's an extremely positive thing for society that people who are dumb enough to squander their fortunes are given an opportunity to squander it, especially if those fortunes are
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by mjfl 8y ago
I like writing about math and physics, but the views on my Ethereum articles are 500x higher, I measured. But that's how the world works. If you want money or attention, you have to serve people.
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by mjfl 8y ago
Does anyone else find this ironic that this article is published in Nature, a subscription journal?

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