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by pdm55 5y ago
We have benefitied here in Queensland, Australia from Chuck Feeney's philanthropy. He injected hundreds of millions of dollars into some of our key biomedical research institutes. He came to know about Queensland through his friendshi
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The mRNA Vaccine Makers(nytimes.com)
3 points by pdm55 5y ago|0 comments
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by pdm55 5y ago
This seems like an electrochemical process. A simple demonstration I used to do when teaching chemistry was to put an iron (Fe) nail into a silver nitrate solution (AgNO3). Immediately, you would see silver deposited. The Ag and Fe swapped,
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by pdm55 5y ago
I want to change the speed. [Edit: Now I see that I can vary the speed in my initial drag.] Have securtiy concerns putting this on my website. Can nasties be hidden in the code?
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by pdm55 5y ago
Thanks for the hint. I found this: Twitch VOD Track – Exclude Music from your Twitch VODs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwnD3tjhPO4
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by pdm55 5y ago
Would there be a reason that Twitch doesn't use such software?
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Ask HN: Does Twitch have a means of selectivley muting any background music?
1 points by pdm55 5y ago|4 comments
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by pdm55 5y ago
I needed the reminder to be patient. I was lucky during the financial crisis to have cash that I could put in a term deposit for 5 years at 7%, my first-ever term deposit, To my detriment, I took out half after a couple of years to create a
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Souk Market Crash(livewiremarkets.com)
2 points by pdm55 5y ago|0 comments
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by pdm55 5y ago
We have a certification system for every skill in Australia. Are you a Probation and Parole officer? A preschool worker? An ambulance worker? Working in the food industry selling cheese? You will need a certificate for these skills. Have yo
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by pdm55 5y ago
Thanks for the insights. I followed one of your links, namely your link to DEV (0). And found this guy's work (1) where he publicly details working through "Eloquent Javascript". Useful. (0) https://dev.to/ (1
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by pdm55 5y ago
"5D optical data storage (sometimes known as Superman memory crystal) is a nanostructured glass for permanently recording digital data using a femtosecond laser writing process. ... GitHub, a subsidiary of Microsoft, plans to use this
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by pdm55 5y ago
https://z-lib.org/
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by pdm55 5y ago
I hold conflicted views on this issue. I don't want to inhibit authors from publishing, as I love books. But often they are too expensive. So, about 50% of the time I pay for them, and 50% of the time I get them from sci-hub. And certa
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by pdm55 5y ago
The centrifuge has also come to play an essential role biochemistry. It is used to both separate proteins and determine their properties. A key challenge was to make something spinning above 10 000 revolutions per minute safe. Edward Pickle
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by pdm55 5y ago
"Gernot Zippe, an Austrian physicist, .. in the early 1950s figured out (with others) how to fix the problems that Beams had with his centrifuges. Amazingly, he did this while being a prisoner of war in the Soviet Union." http:&#
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by pdm55 5y ago
I have never believed the argument that we can develop a way to live to 200. I am now in my mid 60s and it seems that a number of my parts are starting to "wear out". My skin is certainly thinner; my eyesight is damaged (macula de
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by pdm55 5y ago
I can longer fit into my old clothes - the problem of the expanding waistline - which is why I take them to the charity store. We Aussies truly are a consuming society: too much food, too many clothes, too many electronic gadgets, too easy
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by pdm55 5y ago
The original goal of mRNA vaccine research was to fight cancer. After being so successful in immunizing against COVID-19, the research is refocusing on fighting cancer. Quote: Ozlem Tureci, who co-founded the German company BioNTech with he
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by pdm55 5y ago
Because of our increasing need for copper for electric vehicles, which contain about 4 times as much copper as a regular vehicle, the search is on for untapped copper reserves: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IZz26dR9ik&amp
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by pdm55 5y ago
I'm jealous of my wife. She uses her synesthesia (inborn association between numbers/letters and color) to remember phone numbers and people's names. I think she can remember all the different phone numbers she has had in dif
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by pdm55 5y ago
Lynne Kelly's book, "Memory Craft", explores memory palace techniques used from ancient times by different cultures. She is the current Australian Senior Memory Champion. The most intriguing thing for me is how she has turned
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by pdm55 5y ago
I moved my cursor pointer around the screen and hoped it would follow.
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by pdm55 5y ago
If only I had read advice like this earlier, life would have been so much easier.
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by pdm55 6y ago
As of 2019, oil, gas and coal were still king. They provided 84% of the world's energy needs. There were some exceptions: France: used nuclear for 38% of its needs; Canada: hydro for 24%; and Denmark: wind for 18%. See graphs from h
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by pdm55 6y ago
The effort, in terms of time and money, required to move to greener power generation will continue to be substantial as evidenced by this extract from the Berkshire Hathaway 2020 Annual Report: "[O]ur country’s electric utilities need
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by pdm55 6y ago
I'm not sure where this line of thought is headed. I once had to work with the Hela cell line, coating it in alginate polysaccharide. I thought to myself,"How can I test if the functioning of the cells have been altered by the coa
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by pdm55 6y ago
Allow me to explain one reason to have standardised tests. My last teaching job before retiring was in a school where the administration expected 75% of the students to pass Yr 9 Maths. The Middle School Head had come to my class a number o
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by pdm55 6y ago
I believe that Sicily, during the 1100s, was the place where translations from both Arabic and Greek to Latin occurred. In that century, it was ruled by the Normans who had conquered the Arabs. (Yes, the Normans, that same ex-Viking, Norman
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by pdm55 6y ago
>> "DeepMind seems to be calling the protein folding problem solved, which strikes me as simplistic". I have a couple of questions, which might be related (1) Why did you call it out as "simplistic"? (2) Will the D

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