rickyconnolly

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The plot to use vaccines to find Osama Bin Laden(scienceblogs.com)
1 points by rickyconnolly 14y ago|0 comments
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by rickyconnolly 14y ago
I have a question for Matt, if you are still here. How did you get in touch with Genzyme? What do they have to gain by helping you? Developing a recombinant therapeutic drug is an exceedingly expensive and technically-difficult undertaking.
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by rickyconnolly 14y ago
Say what you want about America, but anti-government activists are not kept under house arrest. China does not have the moral high-ground to use this kind of ploy.
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In other space news: China launch their first female taikonaut (spaceflightnow.com)
1 points by rickyconnolly 14y ago|0 comments
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by rickyconnolly 14y ago
Whether it's geopolitics, technology, or social changes, it is next to impossible to predict further than 10-20 years down the road with any kind of accuracy. Could people living at the height of the space race realistically predict the col
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by rickyconnolly 14y ago
Those graphs are truely horrible, especially the 3D cone/tower chart for the race vs. intelligence data
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Amazing animations of biomolecules in action(youtube.com)
1 points by rickyconnolly 14y ago|0 comments
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by rickyconnolly 14y ago
That's a pretty silly oversight. Somewhat akin to the supervillain revealing the details of his plan to the captured secret agent.
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by rickyconnolly 14y ago
From a shrewd entrepreneurial point of view, these critters must have all kinds of interesting enzymes and hardware that allow them to operate at such low metabolic rates. Dissecting their repair mechanisms might give us insights into regen
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by rickyconnolly 14y ago
HN's atmosphere of respect and decorum make me feel bad for doing this, but I can't resist >facepalm.jpg
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by rickyconnolly 14y ago
It was called Operation Iraqi Freedom. OIF
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by rickyconnolly 14y ago
This kind of post does not belong on Hacker News. We appreciate data and reason, not conjecture and appeal to emotion.
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by rickyconnolly 14y ago
Page not found. Twitter doesn't seem to like these compilation feeds. A few weeks ago, I compiled together the rss feeds for the websites, facebook event pages and twitter accounts of all the nightclubs in my city together into one twitter
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by rickyconnolly 14y ago
Are there any other HN-relevant bloglists we could use? For example, here is Cryptome's HUGE list of security blogs: http://pastebin.com/F1JcZHLz
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How Tupac, dead since 1996, played live at this years Coachella festival(cbsnews.com)
3 points by rickyconnolly 15y ago|0 comments
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Why build orbital space colonies?(space.alglobus.net)
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What convicts can teach us about branding(davidairey.com)
2 points by rickyconnolly 15y ago|1 comments
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by rickyconnolly 15y ago
"oh noes. Not this poo again. Save money, and do the following. - Get a high res webcam - Open it up and remove the filters. - Hook up the device. - From time to time you'll see random white dots appear. There you have your ultra cheap rand
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Web server offers true random numbers via fluctuations of the quantum vacuum(jwz.org)
73 points by rickyconnolly 15y ago|50 comments
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by rickyconnolly 15y ago
agreed, the two-screen, three-point alignment system is finicky and needlessly complex. All you need is pan, scale, and rotate functions to get the job done. Much more intuitive.
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by rickyconnolly 15y ago
I can't wait for the day I can scoop some of this sand into a lunchbox, shake it up, and then reach in and pull out a fully formed mechanical part
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by rickyconnolly 15y ago
I am always wary of these grand theories people come up with about why great civilisations fall. People tend to project their own values onto history. Conservatives invariably argue that societies fall because they become decadent and value
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by rickyconnolly 15y ago
It seems that DRACO works by binding double-stranded RNA. This will work for many, but not all, viruses. Viruses can also have single stranded RNA genomes, like influenza, as well as single- and double-stranded DNA genomes, like herpes. Opt
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by rickyconnolly 15y ago
The burden has shifted from the bio to the informatics. We need to be able to sort through this much data without needing access to university-scale computer facilities.
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What A 16th Century Guild Teaches Us About Competition (bigthink.com)
1 points by rickyconnolly 15y ago|0 comments
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by rickyconnolly 15y ago
The Human Genome Project wrapped up in 2002-2003. Since it takes about ten years to get a new drug from benchtop research to the doctor's office, we should be only starting to see the first trickle of drugs reaching the market now. The biop
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by rickyconnolly 15y ago
I think 'internet-less' is a doomed technology
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by rickyconnolly 15y ago
But 0*0 is 0
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by rickyconnolly 15y ago
"There isn't much to do besides drink. Food is terrible. I heard it's gotten better but if you've lived in SF or LA and you love food, don't work in Ireland. There were a nice row of Chinese places on Parnell that were pretty good though."
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by rickyconnolly 15y ago
As an Irish individual, I can tell you that the author is overlooking one very crucial downside to operating a startup in Ireland. As you may know, our banking sector was decimated in the financial crisis. This has made it extraordinarily d

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