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by searine 9y ago
Counter counterpoint : When the panic comes and everyone runs for the door, crypto hits a bottleneck of conversion to fiat. Gold is easily exchanged for any kind of goods, service or fiat money (WE BUY GOLD!).
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by searine 9y ago
A $10 shift is a fortune in arbitrage. If you have insider info about the direction of a market, then you have a much reduced risk. You can move in big, take your bite of the change, and then cash out.
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by searine 9y ago
Yes, lawsuits from pesticide drift are common. If you negligently spray your fields and ruin your neighbors field, you're at fault. This kind of thing isn't new, and has little to do with GMOs. Pesticide drift has been a issue for
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by searine 9y ago
More power to you. Hate the company all you want, but the technology and science is sound, and helpful to your (our) cause.
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by searine 9y ago
>but they doesn't preclude the fact that astroturfing absolutely does happen as well, and it's absolutely a problem. Occam's razor. What is more likely : A. This normal person on the internet disagrees with me. B. There is
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by searine 9y ago
>We need to reduce the use of pesticides, maybe even eventually ban all pesticides. You are fighting your own best interests. Roundup ready has reduced harmful pesticide application by millions of tons. Yes, zero pesticide is best, but y
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by searine 9y ago
>Money can make facts go unheard and/or unheeded. For a time. But people get bored, tired, and distracted. Facts are permanent. >What definition says that? Astroturfing can be and is often automated Servers cost money. Bandwidth
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by searine 9y ago
Astroturfing is real, but it is disingenuous to say that an entire side of a debate, particularly a scientific debate, is fake. It has a chilling effect and silences the discussion. An argument should be able to stand on its own regardless
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by searine 9y ago
That's exactly the kind of empty talking point BIG ORGANIC wants you to spew. All carefully calculated to get you to buy their overpriced luxury product! Look, people disagree about things. Get over it.
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by searine 9y ago
Or maybe, juuuust maybe, people have different opinions about things. Imagine that.
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by searine 9y ago
Interesting, I haven't tried it on the newest chemistry but last time I did a flowcell (earlier this year) that was the INDEL error rate we achieve. Substitution error rate was very low, but you should evaluate INDELs specifically, rat
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by searine 9y ago
>The fact is, unfortunately, that Nanopore sequencing (and also, from what I’ve read, PacBio) has a dramatically higher error rate than Illumina sequencing-by-synthesis. This is true, but only for Insertions/Deletions. The substitut
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by searine 9y ago
I got mine as part of the beta almost two years ago. It's been in release since, and seems popular in the community. It's not Illumina HiSeq popular, but the cost is low enough that lots of people are experimenting with it.
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by searine 9y ago
The problem is Oxford Nanopore data has about a 30% insertion and deletion error rate. While PacBio is less than 1% indel and substitution error. Don't get me wrong, the Minion is amazing, but it can't compare to PacBio in terms o
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by searine 9y ago
>A question I've never seen addressed: is one justification for junk DNA to create space for beneficial mutations? Yes, gene/genome duplications can help create raw material for adaptation, or be adaptive by their own right. &g
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by searine 9y ago
>I think some people may have the idea that we can observe whole genomes easily By and large, we can. Yes there are minute aspects which lack perfect resolution, but we are well into the sub-1000 dollar whole-genome age. Particularly in
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by searine 9y ago
Because twitter and Facebook are full of their parents and other angry adults throwing fits about politics that are carved in digital stone. That's not cool. In an age where digital permanence is common, being ephemeral and mysterious
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by searine 9y ago
Exactly. I need this tattoo'd on my forehead.
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by searine 9y ago
>I'm not sure that the results should be intuitive. This is an appeal to complexity fallacy. A result may initially be counterintuitive, but it is the the duty of the experimenter to alter their model to fit the new data. To explain
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by searine 9y ago
>Part of the problem, though, is that scientific results are often counterintuitive The only reason they are counterintuitive is because the current model of intuition is flawed. A good experiment creates new intuition by creating a new
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by searine 9y ago
Only badly designed experiments overrely on p-values. A robustly designed experiment should produce repeatable, intuitive results. Anyone looking at the presented data should be able to reason the result without needing to conduct a statist
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by searine 9y ago
Venter is a celebrity, not a basic scientist. Yes, he contributed greatly to the HGP. Yes he spurred on a lagging public project. Yes, he founded multiple scientific institutes. But the HGP would have been completed without him. He offered
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by searine 9y ago
The difference between an adjunct and a full professor is the difference between a Temp and a rockstar developer. Adjuncts are a cost for the university, their salary is a liability on the budget line. Professors are a net positive. They ha
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by searine 9y ago
Yeah, your portfolio is up now, but when the crash inevitably comes, how are you going to get that money out?
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by searine 9y ago
I am usually the first to quote Hanlon's razor and attribute something like this to incompetence, but in this case it really hard not to see the malice in the actions taken.
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>Um, I distinctly remember reading about insects evolving to adapt to changes brought about by humanity in one generation Literally impossible. Mutations can't magically move to high frequency in one generation. The article you said
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by searine 9y ago
Yes. The only way off the treadmill is to stack as many traits as possible so that evolution doesn't have time to adapt. This was the key to effective treatment of HIV for example. Anti-retroviral cocktails of 3-5 drugs, each with a di
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by searine 9y ago
Speaking as a geneticist, these GM traits are the most important tool in our toolbox, and it needs to be rolled out as fast a possible. It's a matter of evolution, and stopping resistance. Like HIV, cancer, antibiotics, or any other bi
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by searine 9y ago
>"I'm an African-American single mom, so I knew a bank wasn't going to give me a loan, no matter my credit score," Gaines said. I don't have the life experience to comment on this, but my intuition says "bus
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by searine 9y ago
This explains tinder's success. Cut the "matching", just use first impressions as the primary filter. Though, this raises all sorts of new problems in the romantic ecosystem.

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