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by nfc 6y ago
"This deletion likely hindered its ability to bind effectively, making it harder to produce severe infections. Such evolution by deletion is actually a common feature of these viruses." Is this really the case?, how would that be
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by nfc 6y ago
I'm not saying it will not happen, there are certainly clues pointing out in that direction so no need for "except" :). On the other hand there are scenarios compatible with the data you are mentioning that do not lead to pop
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by nfc 6y ago
I think if what we are discussing is population growth we should talk about the global data not that of individual countries. Whether some countries population is increasing or not is a different question. I looked at this source https:&#x
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by nfc 6y ago
Strong leadership "can" mitigate this danger. An interesting question is how likely it is that it'll mitigate it rather than exacerbate the problems. I suspect the type of strong leaders humans usually elect are not the ones
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by nfc 6y ago
I was building something with a very similar same feature set (minus the sharing publicly) for the last few weeks to add as a feature to my platform, just less polished as befits a 1 person team with no funding :D. There are a lot of things
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by nfc 6y ago
Hi, I think there could be some synergies between what I'm working on and what you are doing. Couldn't find a way to contact you other than Twitter or LinkedIn, if you want to have a talk my email is in my profile :)
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by nfc 7y ago
This could be a giant experiment on wether we can function as a society working much less. A experiment that we'd be forced to make on an immense scale at the same time and across too many segments of the economy unfortunately.
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In Italy, Going Back to Work May Depend on Having the Right Antibodies(nytimes.com)
8 points by nfc 7y ago|6 comments
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by nfc 7y ago
In fact the simulation of any timeframe would be constrained by physical laws. For example for a Boltzmann Brain with a similar chemical composition as ours the speed at which chemical reactions occur would limit the speed of experience. Fo
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by nfc 7y ago
Perhaps it's natural to be very critical of the adaptation of something your are very emotionally attached to?. I for one loved reading the books as a kid and I felt that some scenes (Legolas shield surfing and flying between elephants
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by nfc 8y ago
Slightly off topic but I found contemplating this possibility amusing: Would it be possible that once we manage to eliminate obvious logical and contextual mistakes in the generated texts, they could be used to discover alternative (and con
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by nfc 8y ago
Just a small fix for those that were checking as I was If the ground distance each way is D, airspeed is V, and wind speed relative to the ground is w, total time is D/(V-w) + D/(V+w) = 2DV/(V^2-w^2) = 2D/((V^2-w^2)&#x2F
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by nfc 8y ago
You are right that this could be the case, and it's mentioned in at least one of the papers [1] where they say that a better understanding of the physical state of this gas is needed to estimate its contributions to the baryonic mass.
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by nfc 8y ago
I'm not really sure of what you mean by false positives. After my understanding of the stacking technique as used in other contexts in astrophysics and without going into too much details : The problem they were facing is that the sign
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by nfc 9y ago
I agree with you about the identification part. I was wondering whether we could have a user friendly way to have a system of usernames + "something else" that allowed usernames to not be unique while still solving the identificat
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Why We Forget Most of the Books We Read(theatlantic.com)
13 points by nfc 9y ago|0 comments
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Catalan elections infographic with number of votes per region (in Spanish)(resultados-elecciones.rtve.es)
2 points by nfc 9y ago|0 comments
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by nfc 9y ago
That's a very sensible comment, I should have expanded a bit more. I do not think that the mechanism I described is the only one influencing hunger. Another, as you said, is our craving for sugary/fatty/salty things and the m
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by nfc 9y ago
In the context of this theory, if what your body is lacking is one of the vitamins you are consuming, and this way of consuming it allows for the body to use it as it needs, the answer would be yes.
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by nfc 9y ago
“How do we decide what and how much to eat? Maybe satiety consists of different pathways that control different types of nutrients,” This is a pet theory of mine. That, vastly simplifying, our bodies try to make us eat until we have a suff
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by nfc 10y ago
I think you misread the origin of the Judaeo-Spanish ladino. From the wikipedia page [1] : "This Judaeo-Spanish ladino should not be confused with the ladino or Ladin language spoken in part of North-Eastern Italy, which is closely rel
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by nfc 10y ago
Agreed. A minor nitpick about "I'm not sold on universal basic income". I'd argue that what your are proposing is both "universal" and "basic income", it's a variation of the usually proposed UBI
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by nfc 10y ago
In fact it's university that is seen as second tier with respect to engineering schools except for a few majors like medicine and law. (I'm not french but have lived in France a few years)
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by nfc 10y ago
or We won't have true AI until AI explains the human brain as a "form of AI"
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by nfc 10y ago
That seems like a good idea, and is along the lines of things I've been thinking about to verify the donation. However if a business did not want to comply with the license they would probably just not include this "powered by&quo
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by nfc 10y ago
well, I was calling it open source in the sense that it could allow the same kind of collaborative development that open source allows. Any company or individual could see it, modify it and sell it. Perhaps it's not open source by some
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Ask HN: Open sourcing my project, how to enforce the “social” license I chose?
2 points by nfc 10y ago|5 comments
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by nfc 10y ago
If you are serious about it my contact is in my profile, the project description is in www.alfiv.org and some of the products already created at www.alfiv.com. Completely bootstrapped up to now. We've got a small prototype api.
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by nfc 11y ago
If you agree with not getting paid while you have no effect on the bottom line I'm hiring ;)
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by nfc 11y ago
I object to the notion of unconditional basic income. I think the possibility of large portions of the population underachieving in their return to society while we are still not rich enough as society to afford it is very real. I'd pr

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