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by sanj 5y ago
This article reminded me of one I’ve been trying to find. Many years ago I read a story of how a (lowly) grad student watched the battle between private industry sequencing the genome and the university/research team doing so. He was w
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by sanj 5y ago
We have been here before: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02921-w
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by sanj 5y ago
737-MAX
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by sanj 5y ago
I’ll note that the head of UX at Tesla during this design’s testing window had a very short tenure there. Though it is unclear is they were at fault or just fallguy.
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by sanj 5y ago
I fit it into my 2009 Corolla and a 2010 RAV4. Ping me if you want more info.
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How Many Decimals of Pi Do We Really Need?(jpl.nasa.gov)
26 points by sanj 5y ago|10 comments
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by sanj 5y ago
Maybe I'm missing something but this doesn't appear have anything to do with PoW beyond adding salt to a hash.
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by sanj 5y ago
My understanding is that vaccines never claimed immunity. Ever. They claimed milder symptoms, less complications, and less hospitalizations.
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by sanj 5y ago
Rocket engine binning!
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by sanj 5y ago
You lost an order of magnitude in your math: 4% of $10M is $400k. There is $400k/year to spend per year.
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by sanj 5y ago
That piece was done by my (then) neighbor. It was a little unnerving to come home to a dozen black Suburban SUVs parked in front of my house.
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Palantir CEO on Paternity Leave(twitter.com)
7 points by sanj 5y ago|2 comments
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Buying Slow, Selling Fast(npr.org)
4 points by sanj 5y ago|1 comments
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Physical Mute Button for Zoom Meetings(elliotmade.com)
1 points by sanj 5y ago|0 comments
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by sanj 5y ago
The maintainer, Steve Summit, lives up to his name. He’s self-described as “five foot twenty-two”.
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by sanj 5y ago
Any idea why you’d want two layers of drywall?
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by sanj 5y ago
I regularly throw the dough directly onto the grill. It works well!
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by sanj 5y ago
That article doesn't support your assertion: In a secondary analysis that was adjusted for the number of patients per resident physician as a potential confounder, intervention schedules were no longer associated with an increase in e
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by sanj 5y ago
Almost always work. My M3 ended up on a flatbed after the bank of chargers failed.
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A Playlist for Your Weather(leemartin.dev)
1 points by sanj 5y ago|0 comments
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by sanj 5y ago
I spent a while in London and the cinema theater experience there was worth going out: - couches - beer - good food Sure it was expensive, but it was a far far cry from my experience in the US.
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by sanj 5y ago
This is very close to 10% per year.
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Cultivated Truffle Breakthrough(smithsonianmag.com)
5 points by sanj 5y ago|0 comments
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by sanj 5y ago
That’s clever, but not what I’m suggesting. I’m looking for a mechanism which apes existing cloud APIs directly.
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by sanj 5y ago
This may be a naive question, but... Given that interactions to the cloud are through a relatively small set of known APIs, I'm surprised that there isn't there a service which replicates the APIs but with the endpoints being on &
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Why all new US apartment buildings look similar(bloomberg.com)
3 points by sanj 5y ago|1 comments
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by sanj 5y ago
University of Toronto had a research reactor back ~20 years ago: a "slowpoke" reactor. I don't believe it generated incremental energy, but it was used for irradiation. I worked there one summer and enjoyed it immensely!
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by sanj 5y ago
The very fact that RMS has 15 honorary doctorates undermines his argument: if they were at all equivalent, there would be individuals with a comparable number of earned doctorates. But the latter don’t get offered for the same body of work,
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by sanj 6y ago
Deeper in the article, there's an estimate of a 19 year lifespan. So ~20k alive at any point in time, assuming a flat distribution during that 2.5B year window.
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Roaring Bitmaps(roaringbitmap.org)
3 points by sanj 6y ago|0 comments

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