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by reptation 9y ago
Especially for prokaryotes, how to define what is a species is an active problem in the philosophy of biology. IIRC, Laura Franklin-Hall at NYU has written about this ( https://as.nyu.edu/faculty/laura-rebecca-franklin.h
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by reptation 9y ago
It very much glosses over Turkey's own history of (Greek, Armenian) genocide and the very real differences in religious and other liberties between Turkey and the U.S.
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by reptation 9y ago
The Crystal Palace was also where the general public was introduced to the concept of dinosaurs (Richard Owen had coined the word about a decade before) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_Palace_Dinosaurs
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“Strong pairwise relationships” encourage cooperation(news.harvard.edu)
2 points by reptation 10y ago|0 comments
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by reptation 10y ago
I tend to agree, but had a lot of trouble understanding the article (I studied different branch of physics). I think this is the key: "The recipe was incredibly complex, but just three ingredients were essential: a force repeatedly dis
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by reptation 10y ago
So why, in this view, did U.S. life expectancy decline recently? http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/12/08/50466760...
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by reptation 10y ago
The Road to Wigan Pier should be in this. Orwell lived with coal miners' families in Northern Britain for months. I particularly was struck by his descriptions of the way social-welfare policies were used to weaken family structures of
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by reptation 10y ago
What if funding is very one-sided on an issue? Why can't a Scientific field get caught in a 'local minimum' for centuries?
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by reptation 10y ago
I remember working in a university physics lab and let me assure you when the patentable discoveries are made they are surely patented.
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by reptation 10y ago
Have you tried using federated sites like quitter.no? It's pretty much the same UI as Twitter.
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by reptation 10y ago
Is this part of a more general attack on Internet infrastructure today in the U.S.? http://downdetector.com/ has been showing many sites with issues (Google, Outlook, etc.)
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Opennebula 5 is out(youtube.com)
2 points by reptation 10y ago|0 comments
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by reptation 10y ago
Yeah, because the founding document of the U.S. is not the Constitution but the Articles of Confederation: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/unreasonablefaith/2013/09/the-c...
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by reptation 10y ago
check_mk is a very useful monitoring system which doesn't seem to be included: http://mathias-kettner.com/check_mk.html
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by reptation 10y ago
Not true, look at the Mehanna case: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarek_Mehanna or the Al-Arian case: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sami_Al-Arian
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by reptation 10y ago
the difference is that the author's version backs up every command to a file as it happens. If you have multiple terminals open, you do not get the same output running "history".
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UK GDP Includes Prostitution, Illegal Drugs(theguardian.com)
2 points by reptation 10y ago|0 comments
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by reptation 10y ago
It's hard to imagine a modern concept like "unemployment" without Capitalism, which brought with it boom/bust cycles: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_economic_crises There's very little o
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by reptation 10y ago
This is a well-known issue in scientific circles. The seminal paper of Ioannidis: http://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371%2Fj...
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by reptation 11y ago
There are a lot of assumptions in there. For instance, those methylation marks may in fact lead to changes in the DNA. Epigenetic silencing is possibly associated with gene duplication: http://link.springer.com/article/
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by reptation 11y ago
That claim is turning out to have exceptions: http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/epigenetics/inheritan... In some circumstances, epigenetic markers are retained and passed to the next generation.
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by reptation 11y ago
The creator emerges: http://nooga.com/172237/chattanooga-man-responsible-for-worl...
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by reptation 11y ago
Jordan Pollack's group is interesting (genetic algorithms, etc.): http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~pollack/ Web page is hilariously archaic as bonus
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by reptation 11y ago
dot files do not show up in ls command unless you add -a flag.
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by reptation 11y ago
In a sense, one can see how the Nazis' commitment to a brutal racial hierarchy undermined their ability to win WW2 (i.e. Jewish physicists left the country). On the other hand, is this being put forth as a serious theory of historical
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by reptation 11y ago
I work down the hall from this guy and he's really convincing: http://www.ccsenet.org/journal/index.php/apr/article/viewFil...
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by reptation 11y ago
Does anyone know of strong proofs of galaxy red shifts being due to relativistic Doppler effect? It seems like almost everything in Cosmology depends on this being true.
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Things I wish they told you about Emacs
19 points by reptation 11y ago|29 comments
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by reptation 11y ago
The news media was suggesting that France and European internal border security has not been so rigorous.
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by reptation 11y ago
How can one prove the claims of Evo-Psych? They would seem to be nearly untestable.

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