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by polyfractal 13y ago
> [...] if I were a Chinese spy, why wouldn't I have flown directly into Beijing? I could be living in a palace petting a phoenix by now. If I didn't like this guy before...I certainly do now.
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by polyfractal 13y ago
It is probably more accurate to say that cDNA represents a snapshot in time of a particular mRNA "species". Any particular mRNA could lead different lives, depending on what kind of post-translational modifications are made to it
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by polyfractal 13y ago
OR he's just a whistleblower trying to do the right thing for the States.
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by polyfractal 13y ago
Cross-breeding is fine, inbreeding is not. When you identify A+B makes a taller plant, you start breeding the children C with each other to isolate the "tall" gene. Soon you are inbreeding the descendent's of A+B. Most &quo
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by polyfractal 13y ago
These are reasonable arguments. My biggest problem is that all GMO gets lumped together. Legit GM that helps increase drought-hardiness in water-starved Africa gets lumped with Roundup-GMO. I agree my post was way over the top, but damn,
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by polyfractal 13y ago
As a biologist, the furor over GM plants drives me crazy. Crazy! Why? We've been genetically modifying plants for hundreds of years. Mendel himself fucked around with plant genetics - crossing plants is nothing more than fiddling wi
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by polyfractal 13y ago
Touché. I should read more clearly, and be less angsty. Sorry about that :)
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by polyfractal 13y ago
Rails is not a language. Rails is not ruby. I wish people would stop conflating the two.
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by polyfractal 13y ago
Lucene (and projects built on Lucene like Elasticsearch and Solr) make Java relevant, even ignoring everything else built in Java.
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Customizing your Document Routing in Elasticsearch(elasticsearch.org)
1 points by polyfractal 13y ago|0 comments
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by polyfractal 13y ago
> btw why is he looking through the lens if the microscope is plugged into a monitor? Seems redundant... Actually, this is pretty common, especially if you are doing fluorescence microscopy (complete derail from your main point, sorry
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Detecting anomalous traffic patterns with ElasticSearch and Vowpal Wabbit(euphonious-intuition.com)
1 points by polyfractal 13y ago|0 comments
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by polyfractal 13y ago
Search for "convert PDF to HTML linux" and you have a whole page of relevant, useful links. I don't understand your complaint. Google isn't making anything seem "difficult". They offer advertising space, and companies happen to sell pdf c
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by polyfractal 14y ago
I don't doubt that cryonics is a valid science, but it is not a valid business model right now. The things I did in my lab were valid science, but I would be thrown in jail for ever giving those reagents to actual patients. Like I said,
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by polyfractal 14y ago
That's fair enough, although it should be noted that proteins/molecules are still active at -80C, just very slow. Things still break down, some enzymes are still active, etc.
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by polyfractal 14y ago
>No, that's not very rational. Cryopreservation may have low chances of success, but it's like a billion billion billion times better than just dying (which has zero chance of success). Nobody is claiming that cryopreservation is very
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by polyfractal 14y ago
That is not peer-reviewed research, and therefore I treat it about as seriously as I treat any other comment on the internet: at best incompetent, at worst maliciously deceiving. Considering its published by a company that makes money from
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by polyfractal 14y ago
Hmm...except that cryopreservation is still, as of this point, a complete crock of shit. Trying to find a necromancer would be more productive. As an ex-biologist, I can assure you that horrible cellular damage is being committed to these "
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by polyfractal 14y ago
Agreeing with everything you've said. In addition, there are some really excellent gardening tutorials on Youtube. Last year I learned how to sucker tomatoes from youtube, as well as constructing those vertical string things that allow yo
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by polyfractal 14y ago
To be fair, even your original observation is complete speculation that may or may not apply, as admitted by yourself. You could easily reformulate your statement as: > I noticed an uptick in hellbanned after the baked-goods incident.
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by polyfractal 14y ago
> A large minority of the civilian population would have a much easier time deposing the government and instituting a new one than a foreign state (or group of US states attempting to secede) would. [...] A large minority of the popula
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by polyfractal 14y ago
FWIW, I routinely run WP + W3TotalCache on nginx. Sure, their config files were a little interesting to get setup the first time, but now it's smooth sailing. It's only easier for Apache because the .htaccess files are readily available a
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by polyfractal 14y ago
Fun fact, Google doesn't play nicely with ESPs either. Most mail providers (Yahoo, Hotmail, etc) use a feedback loop when you report spam. After you mash the spam button, the ESP that sent the mail is notified that a particular email was
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by polyfractal 14y ago
Hehe, sorry, I always get into a fit when these threads pop up. :) Totally understand your point about needing a certain minimum threshold to start saving. If you are living paycheck to paycheck, you don't really stand a chance. I just lo
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by polyfractal 14y ago
Hm, I understand your comment but I'm going to push back on it. Two years ago I was a Research Technician working for a neuroscience lab in Boston. I was paid 32k a year (USD), paid 700/month in rent (with three roommates), 150/month heati
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by polyfractal 14y ago
TSA != FAA
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by polyfractal 14y ago
Ah fair point, I misinterpreted the grandparent's statement in terms of persistence, not necessarily pooled persistence.
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by polyfractal 14y ago
> No it's not. You'll have to re-open connections to databases all the time. You can't use keep-alive to external HTTP APIs. You'll have to re-parse the PHP for every request. What? This is all factually incorrect. 1) PHP has support
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by polyfractal 14y ago
I think that was the parent's point...the term "hacker" has been diluted to where it can mean anything and everything. Just like the "pivot", "traction", etc.
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by polyfractal 14y ago
Agreed, although it should be stated that Ceasar Milan ("Dog Whisperer") is basically a fraud that has no dog training experience and just makes shit up. There are tons of documented examples where he makes things up on the fly, entirely c

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