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Earth BioGenome Project: Sequencing life for the future of life(pnas.org)
1 points by richardw 8y ago|0 comments
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All Rulers of Europe Over the Past 2,400 Years Presented in a Timelapse Map(openculture.com)
45 points by richardw 8y ago|2 comments
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by richardw 8y ago
Might be causal during pregnancy. There's a chance it's simply an expression of genetics as parents might be shut-ins but this sounds legit to my latching tendencies: "Vitamin D is necessary for cell growth and communication
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by richardw 9y ago
> to your knowledge Well yeah but good luck proving PARC was a secret defense contractor. We can cherry pick examples of tech or benefits all day. A few good defense ones doesn't mean defense is good. You can have an oppressive gove
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by richardw 9y ago
Neither Ford nor the Right Brothers were military. Xerox PARC wasn't. Tesla isn't. Innovation doesn't need defense support, innovation will come anyway. We just choose to allocate much of our resources to the military so that
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by richardw 9y ago
And on Netflix South Africa
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by richardw 9y ago
I recommend not stealing from people willing to pay for murder
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by richardw 9y ago
Not a list but: "UN’s World Food Programme Builds on Ethereum Blockchain Money Transfers" https://www.ccn.com/banks-begone-uns-world-food-programme-bu... "The pilot alone is said to save the agency $150,000 a
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by richardw 9y ago
Bryan Cox is great. Young (um...not old, maybe), knows how to be real, has proper cred as a scientist. Edit: I mean come on! Dude played keyboard in a couple bands. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Cox_(physicist)
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by richardw 9y ago
Not if it's an equivalent amount of gold. Nobody has time to deal with a couple bucks worth of precious metal
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by richardw 9y ago
Is developing or producing the vaccine the costly bit? If producing, then what about creating more and patchworking them? It might reduce the monoculture type issue. I.e. everyone gets the worst two, then two of the next 8/16, whatever
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by richardw 9y ago
I suspect that you're right and possibly because of the following reason: they've had a lifetime of outsize results. They were always the fastest, strongest, got the girl. Now comes along either a normal ETF with average returns,
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by richardw 9y ago
Even less of an investment then. As an investment it's a greater fool one. If you buy it for non-investment purposes then the investment definition doesn't apply. Same as art or classic cars. If you buy it to resell, that's w
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by richardw 9y ago
Gold is a greater-fool asset, just like Bitcoin. We buy it hoping a greater fool will pay us more for it later. Most of the value is what we ascribe to it. Close on 80% is used in jewelry. It doesn't actually make you money, there&#x27
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Road map to clean energy using laser beam ignition of boron-hydrogen fusion(cambridge.org)
146 points by richardw 9y ago|55 comments
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by richardw 9y ago
If air is free, how worthwhile is it? Typically, value is entirely the realm of the receiver. Many things are free and incalculably valuable. Start reading the book and see if you value it. Did not downvote. You asked a valid question that
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by richardw 9y ago
I guess we're entering the time of mutually assured cable destruction. Cheapest way to defend is to ensure the Russians know you can cut all their comms immediately. Of course Russia could be doing that in response to US activity.
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by richardw 9y ago
I can see trouble in the political arena when "recordings" are generated. Not for legal reasons but some voters might be easily duped.
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by richardw 9y ago
> Is 11% not a huge time value premium for something that expires in a month? Not for Bitcoin. You can hit that in a day. I'd be happy to bet we move 11% in one direction or another within 30 days
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by richardw 9y ago
All indications were that volume and liquidity would be low initially. Give it a month to settle.
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by richardw 9y ago
Is Forbes part of the propaganda conspiracy? https://www.forbes.com/sites/kionasmith/2017/11/29/afghanist... There are multiple angles on this story and your border is the least relevant part of it.
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by richardw 9y ago
Eek. Add leverage to BTC? Now fortunes can be made and lost on micro movements. Prefer buy and ignore for a decade. Still a trade rather than an investment but at least you can only lose what you put in. BTC moved 20% down in the last 24 ho
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by richardw 9y ago
Came here to say this. But then realised my wife. She did a year of com sci. She learned SQL at work. She can Excel with the best at her bank, with some VBA here and there. Still I had to coax her into learning Python for some bigger-than-E
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by richardw 9y ago
Lots of negative comments here, which is understandable given the problem. There's a company that has demonstrated success in one of these areas and is working on another. The trick is using behavioural economics to get customers to ch
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by richardw 9y ago
Incontrovertible is hard, especially when many make a living from not seeing the evidence. That's why the tobacco industry was able to hang on for so long. This is more important but we'll waste decades convincing the holdouts.
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by richardw 9y ago
I think it's better to have fewer medals but have the majority of the population receive the above-mentioned benefits.
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by richardw 9y ago
I can't remember which game it was that took 9 minutes to load on my 464. And typing out listing from mags to get eg an assembly graphics routine! Life was slower back then :) It was really hard to buy one in Johannesburg. I found one
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by richardw 9y ago
The fed stopped buying but still has to start unwinding the bulk: http://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/the-fed-a-decade-afte...
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by richardw 9y ago
It seems the split created value. The derivative is worth what the original was worth not that long ago. Great in the short term but possibly means the combined value is less trustworthy. Derivatives of magic money I guess. So what's t
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by richardw 9y ago
So if I have btc I don't necessarily have BCH unless I did something? I didn't know there was a time window.

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