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by searine 11y ago
Its makes many more organisms tractable, more accurately. Previously, transgenics was tough mostly because of the difficulty in inserting sequence in the right place doing the right thing. It would take decades to develop the specific organ
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by searine 11y ago
>it's not THAT hard. No, not hard, just crazy expensive. >Biology usually works Under the most basic circumstances. Most startups won't have a business model based on doing PCRs with a master-mix. >For example I have done
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by searine 11y ago
Yes there are "bio-hacker spaces" and yes, you can outsource a lot of the more delicate methods, but we won't see software-level start-ups for biotech for several decades for three reasons. 1. Biology usually doesn't wor
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by searine 11y ago
/r/Science is gone too. Reddit is biting the hand that feeds it...
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by searine 11y ago
Is there like a government class on how to make incredibly shitty powerpoints?
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by searine 11y ago
And less dead poor people! But we don't care about those. Your hipster sugar is more important.
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by searine 11y ago
Also ripping off all his fans (including myself) on his failed kickstarter. Stick to books Neal.
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by searine 11y ago
Adding on this. Trey Parker and Matt Stone's rule for story telling : "Every new plot point should be connected to the last with either a "but" or a "therefore"." Eg: Cartman wanted to go to Casa Bonita BU
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by searine 11y ago
Who likes heavy metals with their steak?
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by searine 12y ago
But wouldn't that be the natural evolution of a credit rating? A CR is a single metric to evaluate trustworthiness. I can easily imagine a future where credit rating takes into account all of your quantifiable life qualities.
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by searine 12y ago
The most fun I had in wow was running a scripted bot to power-level myself. It added a whole level of meta-gaming and risk. It also made me ungodly rich in gold. Then I hit the level cap and stopped playing. Oh well.
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by searine 12y ago
What a cluster fuck of a product.
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by searine 12y ago
This might be the big one folks. Daytime launch with good weather, and calm seas. If things go right, we might see the first rocket landing in the next hour.
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by searine 12y ago
> I skipped Anathema You my friend, have missed out big time.
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by searine 12y ago
After the discovery of the higgs, CERN shut down the LHC and doubled its operating power. For finer detail of discovery, we need more and more power in the accelerator.
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by searine 12y ago
> I highly doubt tuition is reimbursed, and that still doesn't cover living expenses in a major metropolitan area. I went to a top school. Never paid a dime in tuition, and was paid 28K a year. > I mean, if you can name a Top 25
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by searine 12y ago
> people who took out loans to achieve a PhD in a true STEM field Most graduate STEM students have tuition reimbursed and are paid a stipend. There is still a glut of post-docs though, and 42K isn't a living wage for a 30 year old p
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by searine 12y ago
>"I floated through life and got a few lucky breaks which led me into a relatively comfortable career that I enjoy". Show HN: I Am A Dull And Replaceable Administrative Cog In A Bureacratic Machine
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by searine 12y ago
Well if you buy into the idea that an authors work is part of "one big universe" then Enoch Root is obviously an "incanter" who practices polycosmic manipulation.
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by searine 12y ago
Oh that's nice.
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by searine 12y ago
This reads like a shitty distopian novel.
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by searine 12y ago
Except this is totally reinventing the wheel. If I want to do fast genome alignment, I'll use lastz which is already blazing fast and written in C. If I want to just look for homology, I'll use blast. There isn't much need fo
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by searine 12y ago
One of the few books I've ever re-read more than once was Neal Stephenson's Anathem. I've read it four or five times now. There is always something new to find in it.
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by searine 12y ago
>to help fix the giant living machine we've been slowly breaking for decades. It is a fallacy to assume that the machine was ever working properly.
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by searine 12y ago
Wow this is finally hitting the maintstream. I've been following this case for awhile now. Retraction Watch http://retractionwatch.com/ has been detailing each of the retractions of his studies. It's been enterta
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by searine 12y ago
I don't believe for a second that the Sony hack was North Korea. It was a made up story to cover up their shitty security.
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by searine 12y ago
A kickstarter scam by Stephenson.
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by searine 12y ago
Yeah, and I'd like to see what the average salary for VFX artists are.
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by searine 12y ago
Orly. I only scrolled through the startup portion and then said fuck it. I'll have to give it another shot.
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by searine 12y ago
Too few categories. I don't want to meet venture captialists. I want to meet other marketers, authors, and artists.

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