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by pezzana 5y ago
There's no need to believe anything in science. In fact, the default position should be disbelief. There are experiments and explanations. Some explanations keep working after many experiments. Many do not. Those explanations that surv
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by pezzana 5y ago
> Crick and Watson certainly didn't discover DNA as the substrate for Mendelian inheritance, that was known long before. They (in collaboration with Rosalind "don't talk to me about this woman" Franklin) discovered it
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by pezzana 5y ago
Go back to 2009 and 2002 and you'll see very similar sentiments. The Bay Area is done. The author compares this to the decline of Yahoo. It started grinding lower and never recovered. But a better analogy might be Amazon. It was finish
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> A number of districts and law enforcement divisions say they’ve looked into it and don’t view the threats as credible or even real. It's possible that districts can have very different views of credibility based on recent events,
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by pezzana 5y ago
What happens when prices keep rising but wages don't keep up? Prices stop rising. Look back over the last 40 years and you'll see the same pattern. Inflation spikes are sharp but short. In the last few decades, inflation spikes te
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The Russian flu pandemic (1889-1891) may have been caused by coronavirus(sfamjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
7 points by pezzana 5y ago|1 comments
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by pezzana 5y ago
> Here, then, is the problem: People who are unlikely to be hospitalized by Omicron might still feel reasonably protected, but they can spread the virus to those who are more vulnerable, quickly enough to seriously batter an already coll
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by pezzana 5y ago
> A few months ago, I stumbled upon this post where someone spent 9 years making a shed. No knocks on them, but it’s not even a particularly good-looking shed. This is the link: https://www.reddit.com/r/DIY/comm
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Kraft will pay you $20 not to make cheesecake for Christmas(lite.cnn.com)
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by pezzana 5y ago
Where can I find an explanation of the problem(s) log4j actually solves? The home page doesn't do it. The wikipedia article doesn't do it. I remember when it first came out and couldn't think of a single use for it that could
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by pezzana 5y ago
> When I look at a new feature I just think that I will make it shitty or get called out on not doing things the "right" way. Why are you implementing features as a CTO? Isn't that what your team is for?
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by pezzana 5y ago
QE is an asset swap between the Fed and a bank. The Fed gets a treasury and the bank gets a reserve asset. The reserve asset can't leave the banking system. It can't be used to buy stocks. It can't fund pensions. It can'
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by pezzana 5y ago
> Cash-rich eurozone banks are rushing to change their euros into dollars by the end of the year, driving a key measure of demand for the greenback. > The interest rates on three-month euro cross-currency basis swaps, in which one par
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by pezzana 5y ago
> Took me more than 3 years to write (1+ year of fulltime billable time) It shows - very polished. Have you described your process for writing the book anywhere? Given the quality of the landing page and samples, I'd also be interes
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by pezzana 5y ago
> Personal financial columnists and comedians do not understand the jobs that gift cards do. They are not cash-but-worse-in-every-way. Closed loop cards allow a giver to personalize a gift to the recipient. A Barnes and Noble gift card t
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by pezzana 5y ago
> A new study could change that. Researchers have identified an odorless compound emitted by people—and in particular babies—called hexadecanal, or HEX, that appears to foster aggressive behavior in women and blunt it in men. Hexadecanal
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by pezzana 5y ago
This is a fascinating site beyond the power indicator. For example, a recent article discusses low-tech solar panels: > ... To start with, ever since the 1950s, solar panels have been unfit for recycling, resulting in a waste stream that
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by pezzana 5y ago
Beware of all of the advice in this article, which boils down to: - take on debt - consume For when inflation reverses course, as it likely will, those debts will become hard as a rock and you'll be paying back in a currency that relen
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by pezzana 5y ago
> The team, including Juntendo University professor Toru Minamino, confirmed that mice administered with the vaccine showed decreases in the zombie cells, medically known as senescent cells, and in areas affected by arterial stiffening.
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by pezzana 5y ago
The consensus view is that this is the result of QE. The Fed has "pumped trillions of dollars into the economy." And that explains the blistering inflation print today. But consider: 1. gold, the traditional inflation hedge, is at
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A key inflation measure rose to a 39-year high last month(lite.cnn.com)
109 points by pezzana 5y ago|97 comments
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by pezzana 5y ago
> My biggest mistake was that I didn't have experience as a biotech researcher or postdoc working in a lab. That is is big problem - good to recognize it as such. I can tell because the article, though lengthy, never seems to state
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by pezzana 5y ago
From Bloomberg: > Bondholders of $19.2 billion in Evergrande dollar notes face deep haircuts as the company overhauls its mammoth balance sheet without a government bailout -- a process that promises to be long, contentious and potential
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by pezzana 5y ago
> The industry has gained political capital, too. In America, the congressional Blockchain Caucus counts 35 lawmakers as members. Cynthia Lummis, a senator from Wyoming, has received a big chunk of her 2026 campaign contributions from in
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The future of the $447B space industry in 15 pictures(fastcompany.com)
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by pezzana 5y ago
> ... Compiling simple programs into silicon should be like using llvm or gcc: fast, automated, and accessible. Some benchmarks would have been helpful. What kind of performance gain are there to make?
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Nearly 70 ICU medics at Spanish hospital test positive for Covid after party(lite.cnn.com)
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by pezzana 5y ago
> But when writing a book, pretty soon you run into things that Markdown doesn’t natively know how to do, and so you have to either look for extra tooling to fill in the gaps, or build support for those things yourself. There are open so
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The Suburban Experiment (2020)(strongtowns.org)
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by pezzana 5y ago
Odd that the article doesn't even mention the labor participation rate ("the number of people ages 16 and over who are employed or actively seeking employment divided by the total noninstitutionalized, civilian working-age populat

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