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Ask HN: What sort of data do distributed systems handle well?
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by niels_olson 10y ago
reminds me of natto. Gross. edit: why the downvotes? They bring up tofu and then name the cure something close to natto, cured soy beans. And by cured, I mean fermented. And by fermented, I mean stringy at the molecular level, smells and ta
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by niels_olson 10y ago
I have two friends who are quite senior in local CROs. I assure you, this can be done better.
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by niels_olson 10y ago
I write this from a Surface Pro, leaving a retina macboook and an ipad pro in my bag: really glad to hear someone in a core Apple industry putting together a solid case for "Apple: please vector some engineering talent to macOS, now&qu
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by niels_olson 10y ago
The consent forms for surgery and research need to be for whole genome or even multi-omics sequencing. There a bazillion IRB protocols, and they all have their own consent form, wasting the samples on just 10 or 20 genes. Which would requir
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by niels_olson 10y ago
Folks, everyone in the world who can get their hands on an illumina sequencer is developing these "30 gene", "400 gene", "N gene" tests, liquid biopsies, blah, blah, blah. Even the fact that they got a VC to sh
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by niels_olson 10y ago
This is actually a really good idea, I just can't subscribe. I've tried, twice :(
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by niels_olson 10y ago
Are media embargos a new thing, or is just this reporter's first time around this block, and they're shocked to see the sausage get made. Quite frankly, the science press has failed to earn the trust of scientists day in and day o
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by niels_olson 10y ago
Any bets that this document was not made in iWork?
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by niels_olson 10y ago
I hear what you're saying, but in English-speaking Christianity, the word "hallowed" is strongly associated with religious obligation. And invoking God just takes the conversation down a highly polarized path.
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by niels_olson 10y ago
I'm a military physician, and I was a line officer before that. I have watched people die and brought one back to life. I have trained to kill and save. I have brought a ship alongside suspect vessels for boarding and sent men into flo
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by niels_olson 10y ago
> Talking to Siri in public still feels weird Even when it's normal, like when my daughter used to have an imaginary friend, talking to your imaginary friend is weird.
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by niels_olson 10y ago
Sure. I know the owner of BT's.
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by niels_olson 10y ago
Second Chance or BT's Southern BBQ would be good.
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by niels_olson 10y ago
we could start a PQ HN meet-up. My treehouse accomodates 4 and has a pulley system. We can haul up buckets of beer :) Note to self: uptownfunk, falkenb0t also in PQ. That's 5
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by niels_olson 10y ago
Dear Apple: I abandoned my unlimited-data-for-life AT&T plan and jumped on Google Fi the last day they were offering phone discounts, just to avoid buying an iPhone 7. Yes, I actually use my SD card slot and my headphone jack. And my US
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by niels_olson 10y ago
Also, our brewery scene is way better! Wait, you mean biochemists, geneticists, and molecular biologists might know something about yeast? No.....
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by niels_olson 10y ago
Shhhhh! Just shhhhhusshh!
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by niels_olson 10y ago
I'm in San Diego and have visited SF many times on business and pleasure. I used to think I would want to live in the City and retire in the Bay area. Today, I'm not so sure. It's just too crazy. Driving from my friend's
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by niels_olson 10y ago
LES = Law Enforcement Sensitive
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by niels_olson 10y ago
VA hospitals generally support university research, not military research. The military has their own hospitals and more importantly their own field casualty care systems. Source: I am a physician researcher at a military medical center. As
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by niels_olson 10y ago
The biggest issue with airways is making sure the blade has batteries. Had a guy show up to a doc-in-a-box I was staffing and they had a full complement of tubes and blades, but no batteries. That is one time you really want batteries.
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by niels_olson 10y ago
The experiment I described is done in undergrad bio labs, I honestly can't find a paper a paper on it. Anyone with an interest: there's a paper that could easily be published!
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by niels_olson 10y ago
We have no evidence that surgeons scrubbing before donning gloves makes sense either. In fact, there's an undergraduate experiment where people scrub for up to 3-4 minutes and swab after every 10 seconds and plate the swab. The plates
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by niels_olson 10y ago
Geopolitical influence in high profile forums. Interesting. I've read about it, but hadn't seen it in the wild on my own path. Thanks!
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by niels_olson 10y ago
18F is too small to live on its own in the federal beuracracy. GSA is the correct parent org by alignment. Mandating it's existence in US Code would be helpful, though it may be premature to define it's scope yet.
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by niels_olson 10y ago
Twins, siblings, adopted kids and their siblings. Twins separated at birth are a sweet group if you can find it.
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by niels_olson 10y ago
Are people looking at the organization of these macrostructures in the brain to design generalized AIs yet?
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In my mind, this article is squarely aimed at that segment. They are trying to tell one of the most competitive labor markets in the world, AI developers, that they're hiring, but more importantly, that they're doing interesting t
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DoD PKI interoperability chart(iase.disa.mil)
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