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by pcrh 11y ago
It is a common misconception that the US subsidizes others. Expenditures by US companies account for no more than 50% of pharmaceutical research among the top ten drug companies [0], so the rest of the world contributes as much as does the
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by pcrh 11y ago
A few recent papers have shown that it can be done by directly introducing the required proteins.
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by pcrh 11y ago
Modern gene editing is not a paradigm shift, but rather a technical innovation, and one that will surely bear fruit, at least at the level of substantially increasing the rate at which biological research and bio-industry processes can adva
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by pcrh 11y ago
The only way surveillance on the current scale will be defeated is if technology makes it moot. Perhaps someone could comment on whether current encryption protocols are sufficient? If not, what would it take?
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by pcrh 11y ago
Thanks, that was an interesting read!
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by pcrh 11y ago
Thanks! I'm glad to know I had the correct interpretation of confidence intervals!
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by pcrh 11y ago
Could someone explain what this implies? As a non-mathematical person who sometimes uses these tests in biological experiments, I find it frustrating why statisticians can't just give us something we could indeed use with confidence th
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by pcrh 11y ago
Quite. He performed the research, but it doesn't indicate whether he spent 2 years doing mostly this, or did just one of the experiments over a few weeks... Similarly for the first author.
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by pcrh 11y ago
There are only 3 authors on the Nat. Neurosci. paper, so he likely spent a large amount of his time working on this project. So it would be a bit unfair to compare his output in that lab to that of the first author of the same paper. Metric
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by pcrh 11y ago
From Pubmed, it appears that since 2007, he published 6 papers in one lab (likely his Ph.D. lab), including a first author in PNAS, and 4 papers in a second lab since 2013, including the Nat. Neurosci. paper you cite, where he is one of 3 a
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by pcrh 11y ago
We've become used to such accidents, and usually blame them on the driver. In the event of a driverless car killing someone, the manufacturer will have to shoulder the blame; and Google/Uber/etc are much more attractive targe
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by pcrh 11y ago
I would be more inclined to agree with the California or Nevada approach, i.e. extensive testing and stringent reporting. Only in that manner will the safety of driverless cars approach that of airlines, which is what will be required if a
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by pcrh 11y ago
See this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9687696
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by pcrh 11y ago
A French...no (a Frenchman, OK). An English... no (an Englishman, OK). A Japanese... yes. A German... yes. An Italian... yes. A Chinese... no (a Chineseman, no; Chinaman, also no). It seems to be pretty random, like a lot of English grammar
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by pcrh 11y ago
Similar here, I spent some time trying to find out of it was a quote from Graham Greene or some other author who wrote about the Caribbean or South America... no luck though.
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by pcrh 11y ago
The tunnel under the midwest project reminded me of the SF to NY burrito delivery project: The Alameda-Weehawken Burrito Tunnel. http://idlewords.com/2007/04/the_alameda-weehawken_burrito_t...
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by pcrh 11y ago
Well... what you quote sounds convincing with respects to your argument. I don't know the novels well enough to dispute, however.
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by pcrh 11y ago
Perhaps the perceived homoeroticism is modern? The passage linked-to above doesn't appear sexual to me, but rather a reflection of the affection a person can feel for his fellows, and the (non-sexual) sensual joys that exist in this wo
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by pcrh 11y ago
In the context of this thread, it's worth pointing out here that the sperm referred to isn't semen, but spermaceti. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sperm_whale#Etymology
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by pcrh 11y ago
Is this because of the "trading" element? Otherwise it would be divulging company secrets?
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by pcrh 11y ago
My analogy of gene transfer with the LHC is as you quote; whatever humans do with respect to gene transfer has already been done many times over, and never resulted in a mass extinction event. There are two mass extinction events that have
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by pcrh 11y ago
My argument isn't that because something happens in nature it's OK. But rather it is closer to the argument that the Large Hadron Collider will not create a black hole that the whole planet will be sucked into. In the case of the
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by pcrh 11y ago
From the point pf view of a biologist, his argument against GMO is pretty weak. He is essentially saying that we don't know , therefore there could be a large negative consequence. However, he has failed to grasp, or educate himsel
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by pcrh 11y ago
"Cheney will soon announce from Camp David that the United States will have to work the “dark side.” ...
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by pcrh 11y ago
Those links appear to suggest two things: 1) secrets 2) magic sauce While the possibility of "magic sauce" is in theory possible, its existence would suggest that it is currently possible to mathematically describe the behaviour o
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by pcrh 11y ago
The Medallion Fund cited appears to be the one that made its impressive returns by gaming the tax system: http://www.bloomberg.com/bw/articles/2013-07-03/the-irs-chal...
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by pcrh 11y ago
I can see a competitor using the fast food model to effectively compete with Uber. By having a large enough number of clean, reliable and uniform cars a competitor would provide a more consistent and predictable ride than Uber, which relies
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by pcrh 11y ago
With regards to corruption in Romania, contrary to the implication of the article, there has been a big push to eliminate it. Some articles: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/05/opinion/romanias-anti-corr..
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by pcrh 11y ago
The linked article indeed provides genetic evidence for pre-Colombian Polynesian migrations to S. America.
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by pcrh 11y ago
"Archaic" Austronesians, Malays, Polyesians, etc, were remarkable sea-goers. Not only did they populate Madagascar from Borneo, it now appears that they populated South America as well... mind boggling. Previous data on the matter

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