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by rflrob 16y ago
Nobody knows whether it will or not---the most revolutionary discoveries tend to come from unexpected places. As far as I'm concerned, an atmosphere where science has to justify itself as practical is just asking for all the really revoluti
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by rflrob 16y ago
From your tone, it sounds like youre critical of the original article, but Social Security collapsing in 2040 means, for anyone in their 20s, that they wont see a payout. What was proposed in the article was, to my twenty something view, "m
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by rflrob 16y ago
It's an interesting map, but I would've preferred some alternate weighting scheme, such as by calories consumed or tonnage produced. While I like olives and dates, do they get produced in significantly greater quantities than barley and wh
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by rflrob 16y ago
Skimming through the paper ( http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjourna... ), I don't know that the mass spectrometry they did really required a military-academia connection, as the article seems to imply. While the mac
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by rflrob 16y ago
If you go Window > Message Panel, then you get the conversation showing up on the side. I haven't figured out how customizable this is yet (I'm used to it being below the message list).
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by rflrob 16y ago
Priority Inbox hasn't been out for long enough to realistically expect it to be in yet, but it'd be nice if it makes it into the final version. Also, one thing that GMail does right is detecting which of my many linked accounts an email w
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by rflrob 16y ago
From the paper on arXiv.org: "planets that show significant eccentricities – possibly like GL 581 d – are unlikely to become locked in a 1:1-resonance. Therefore, GL 581 d is not considered to rotate synchronously in this study." I'm actua
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by rflrob 16y ago
"Moreover, it takes, on average, about 20 years for professors to attain tenure" I'd be curious to see the source of that statistic, and what exactly it's including. For instance, is the PhD process part of those 20 years, as well as postdo
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by rflrob 16y ago
It might be bad Japanese (my own Japanese wasn't ever good, and it's been years since I've studied it at all, so I can't evaluate), but it is at least comprehensible.
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by rflrob 16y ago
His argument is not that voting has no impact on wealth or stability, it's that you can't deconvolve voting's impact on wealth from wealth's impact on voting. One could imagine a scenario where a Party X state had vastly impoverished natu
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by rflrob 16y ago
Maybe this is part of some larger story that I'm not finding the links to, but which recruiters? How many? And for what industries? I can't imagine that each of the programs at any given school are of exactly the same quality.
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by rflrob 16y ago
"It is a profoundly erroneous truism, repeated by all copy-books and by eminent people when they are making speeches, that we should cultivate the habit of thinking of what we are doing. The precise opposite is the case. Civilization advanc
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Google Tests Search Results That Update As You Type(techcrunch.com)
3 points by rflrob 16y ago|1 comments
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Lessons at Berkeley: Genetics and Beyond(spittoon.23andme.com)
1 points by rflrob 16y ago|0 comments
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by rflrob 16y ago
If niching else, it seems like changing directions would make it pretty clear which way a given line is meant to be read (unless it contains a hugely unlikely proportion of mirror-symmetric characters like A, O, M, &c.)
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by rflrob 16y ago
It seems to me that the calculations of how he's saving money relative to staying at home is offset a fair bit by the cost of airfare. All the same, I don't think that means one shouldn't do things like this---the experience (both professio
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by rflrob 16y ago
I think the claim that this will affect scientific data is a little alarmist. Most of the data I work with comes from a CCD, which Im almost certain has a linear scale between input brightness and pixel value. But more importantly, I wouldn
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by rflrob 16y ago
What really bothers me about this article is that at no point are there actually any eight year-olds. It's one thing to say "An eight year-old could understand this", and another to have a loose transcript of an actual conversation, à la "
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by rflrob 16y ago
While I'll grant that all these speeches were made on a trip to the Middle East, it doesn't seem reasonable to me that the Muslim world needs to be a particular focus of NASA. In terms of important world partners, I would think that Indi
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by rflrob 16y ago
My understanding from talking with people in the field is that BioBrick parts aren't nearly as turn-key as could be hoped. I'm sure that over the next decade or so, they'll get much better, just as computer technology did, but they aren't
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by rflrob 16y ago
I think the underlying assumption is that by selecting traits that one has relatively little control over (foot size, thigh length, etc.), then showing participants a physically unrelated trait (i.e. the face), that they're somehow insulati
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by rflrob 16y ago
My understanding is that in addition to determining the proper prescription, grinding lenses to fit them is something that many third world countries don't have the infrastructure for. Self-adjustable, 3rd world-friendly spectacles do exis
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by rflrob 16y ago
The mouse distance issue doesn't really bother me. Something well over 90% of the time, I switch tabs using keyboard shortcuts (actually, most of what I do in the browser is now keyboard based, thanks to Vimperator http://code.google.com/
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by rflrob 16y ago
I had assumed that the "Vuvzela button" would feed the audio through the bandpass filter that got rid of vuvuzelas.
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Real Lives and White Lies in the Funding of Scientific Research(plosbiology.org)
45 points by rflrob 16y ago|16 comments
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by rflrob 16y ago
I get the Sunday SF Chronicle, and am <25 for another 6 months.
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by rflrob 16y ago
While the article has pretty clearly outlined what the problem is, it's not obvious to me what the proposal is for how to fix it, other than "staffing labs with permanent career employees". As a PhD student myself, one of the attractions w
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by rflrob 16y ago
I keep my Finder windows in Column view, and usually navigate around by typing (the first few letters of) its name, not dissimilar to how I use the Awesome bar.
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by rflrob 16y ago
Right-click on Portal in the Library, then select Properties. Should be obvious from there.
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Apollo 11 Saturn V Launch (HD) Camera(vimeo.com)
1 points by rflrob 17y ago|0 comments

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