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by rflrob 8y ago
But the title “if you want to cross the Amazon by bridge, you’ll first need to build one” isn’t nearly as snappy.
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The greater a country’s inequality, the likelier parents are to push kids(washingtonpost.com)
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I wonder if tikz/LaTeX is the best output format for this. When I'm making figures it has been fastest for me to have code that generates 90% the right thing, then tweak as necessary in Illustrator/Inkscape to get different
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As an American, I’m not particularly aware of the details of the Copyright Directive, but this article didn’t go into much _detail_ on why it is good or why arguments that it is bad are wrong. Sure, it briefly mentioned that it helps journa
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I think it’s hard for someone who isn’t homeless to appreciate how important it is to have a home you can rely on. I can’t imagine how much harder it would be to kick an addiction if you have the extra stress of knowing that if you fail to
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> But we are too afraid to talk about anything beyond these few topics[...] I’ll grant that serious scientists are cautious about this, but what’s your evidence that the caution has gone too far? We know that traits like intelligence are
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by rflrob 8y ago
The developer seems to agree, “The law defaults to letting them get away unless you can pay several year worth of salaries and wait several months”. But when you’re out of other options, you do what you can.
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Coming Soon to a police department near you: the DNA Magic Box(nytimes.com)
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There are plenty of good stories—the product works as intended and never happens to face a determined adversary. It’s just not a remarkable story, and the potential upsides are pretty minimal compared to the downsides in the horror stories
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I have no particular insight, but I would guess the price will be a dollar or two per pound more than you would pay at Whole Foods for an organic ground beef with roughly comparable fat percentage. Any more than that and I would think they
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Are routing and account numbers considered “secret”? Potentially any one of the handful of people I still write checks to could be unscrupulous and write checks, debit my account, etc., right?
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I used AutoCAD, but that's mainly because I was already moderately familiar with it, and thanks to my university affiliation it was free. Gotta respect the "hook 'em while they're young" business model.
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I designed our wedding rings and had them 3D printed by Shapeways (they use a lost wax casting process for precious metal objects). It's pretty cool having a one-of-a-kind piece, plus knowing that if anything ever does happen to the ri
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In all likelihood, the authors are aware of this irony. Journals can be very rigid organizations.
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Kary Mullis waited 9 years after PCR to win a Nobel, but the recognition (for both PCR and CRISPR) came much faster.
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Is that documented somewhere? I can’t find it on their website, but searching on mobile means the issue is just as likely to be me as the documentation.
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I haven’t tried my hand at any machine learning, but I’m impressed that it could work with only 60 hours of training data. Perhaps the input clips were fairly short, which would increase the total number of videos.
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In fact, there’s more to it than that. While there are large collaborations, that’s basically the first thing they filter out. There are a significant number of people who seem to collaborate a lot (and, they note, don’t sleep much), withou
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The title here (“The long night that will last centuries...”, in case a mod changes it) is the last sentence of the essay.
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> There wasn't room in the budget for comfort items like food on the plane, which back then was free. I can't go full grumpy old man mode cause I'm only 27, but damn does it feel like it will only get shittier and shittier
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There is a belief, with a number of associated caveats, that "Today's luxury apartment's are tomorrow's affordable housing" [1]. They are one piece of the puzzle, and I don't think it's helpful to block t
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So for one thing, which doesn't directly address the question, voter ID laws are being pushed for the most part from one side of the political spectrum, and some of those have acknowledged that they are doing it with a partisan goal [1
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$2100/month is literally more than my partner’s pre-tax stipend as a grad student at UC Berkeley.
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The article does obliquely reference the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA), but then says it can be changed. This law was passed in 2008, for the most part before the rise of consumer ancestry tests. It seems unlikely to me t
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Or 5) let you out on no cash bail, while still pursuing charges. I’m sympathetic to the no-cash bail movement, though I’ll admit that there are a lot of edge cases to worry about. Plus, it may unfairly distort the calculation of who truly i
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It also seems to be missing (or hugely over-estimating the travel time over) some bridges in the San Francisco Bay Area. oalley.net/map/b8h, for instance, has a ton of weird sectors.
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> What’s the negative impact of the recent discovery of a non-quantum recommendation algorithm on the field of quantum computing? Should the young researcher have spent time considering and detailing that? If we consider the goal of rese
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Versailles Palace has a number of rooms with trompe l’oeil marble. Authenticity has always been something to fake.
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If Dan Brown sells 80 million copies of The Da Vinci Code, he has probably worked something out with his publisher that he gets some amount of money per book sold. If Michael Jackson sells 45 million copies of Thriller, he probably gets a c
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Assuming here that you mean "Do the authors own the IP for their journal articles ". The answer is that it depends on the journal, but in a lot of cases, you sign over copyright to the article itself to the journal [1]. Howeve

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