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by searine 4y ago
Nothing wrong with paying for style for style's sake. I just don't like when people mistake style for quality, and then lure others into spending too much for it.
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by searine 4y ago
I am throughly convinced that the most you should ever spend on Champagne is 50-80 dollars (ex a normal bottle of veuve clicquot), and only in extra special circumstances go near the 200 dollar price point. Anything above that is just payin
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by searine 4y ago
As it turns out, paleogenomics takes next level cleanliness, far more than anyone expected, particularly when you're trying to sequence something so close to human DNA.
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by searine 4y ago
You're assuming that associations to blocks of linked genotype is the end of the story. Yes, an association to a phenotype using data like that sourced from 23&me only generally points in the direction of the genes and snvs which c
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by searine 4y ago
>The notion that religious stories provide models for decent human behavior is fairly solid, but then so do other forms of literature (be like Frodo, for example). This is called the 'utilitarian' argument, I believe. There are
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by searine 4y ago
>Yes, the original 'conspiracy theory' was religion. Not really. The religious experience tends to operate differently than conspiracy in terms of the psychology and neuroscience at work. As the article describes, conspiracy is
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by searine 4y ago
Thanks for letting me know. Mods couldn't figure out why either and fixed it.
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by searine 4y ago
This type of data is 'old school' molecular biology. Creating those blots is a grind. It takes hundreds of hours to set up those experiments and they often don't work, or go wrong, and you have to do it all over again. The pe
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by searine 4y ago
>In other words, there are thousands of papers supporting beta-amyloid and/or building off the data / theory. It is important to note that the fraud doesn't encompass all of beta-amyloid, but is specific to a subtype calle
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by searine 4y ago
You and the person you were replying to are confusing two kinds of GMO crop: Pest-resistant (kills bugs) and Herbicide-resistant( makes the plant robust to chemicals which kills weeds) You're right about refuges, they only slow things
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by searine 5y ago
>learn to fall properly Falling isn't a polite request by gravity. Telling someone to "fall properly" is empty advice. Falls happen too fast as a beginner for them to take actions to lessen a blow. Wear protective gear. Ta
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by searine 5y ago
This One example is not just due to the FDA, but the larger medical system. Yes they shouldn't cost that much and it is a cartel that overcharges, but also yes medical devices need regulation to prevent hucksters from exploiting people
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by searine 5y ago
> Once the ecosystem has been built there is enough biodiversity that pests problems are minimal. Famous last words.
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by searine 5y ago
Biological resistance is inevitable if there is a mild single mode of action. It doesn't matter if you are organic, permaculture or conventional. If you use a single mode of action that lets some survive, it will be resisted eventually
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by searine 5y ago
Exactly. You can produce a ton of food if you are fretting over every leaf in what amounts to a large garden. Large conventional farms can cover thousands of hectares with the same amount of labor.
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by searine 5y ago
Lots of snarky comments in this thread are missing the point: a lot of academics get tunnel vision. If you've spent 10 years studying ion transporters in mushrooms, it can feel like you are way over specialized and that getting a job o
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by searine 5y ago
FYI There is a great chrome extension that allows you to control playback speed, and it works on just about every video site.
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by searine 5y ago
Non-fiction : The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes A fascinating and intimate history about the people who developed particle physics and how it led to the atomic age. It really highlights what the scientific mindset is like. Fic
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by searine 5y ago
>How long has the pandemic been around for? How long has ivermectin been claimed to have huge benefits for, regardless of the source? Science takes time, the pandemic has been around for less than 2 years. Ivermectin has been a suggested
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by searine 5y ago
> it's a fabulously beautiful and well crafted open world Is it really though? Almost all aspects of it are cloned from other games/media. Gameplay cloned from MMOs. World design cloned from BotW. Character designs cloned from
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by searine 5y ago
It is special because the painting itself, and its hidden elements represent a historical turning point. It shows visually the rise in popularity and importance of natural philosophy. Changing the context of the painting from an aristocrati
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by searine 5y ago
>So these "superstar" meds become memes that are intentionally spread by seriously craven people as part of a pump-and-dump scheme. I don't even think it's that deep. These medications are just memes to fuel a shallow
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by searine 5y ago
The 787 uses additively manufactured titanium parts. I think they are part of the bracket that holds the engine on the wing(?), Norsk describes them as "structural, load-bearing components". Could be those since that is where it w
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by searine 5y ago
This seems like a success story for government science : 1. A shady dude and his business colleagues try to shoe-horn in a preconceived conclusion into a large RCT and co-opt the NIH brand for authenticity. 2. They have some initial success
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by searine 5y ago
Suggesting that Adults must be vaccinated against viruses that disproportionately harm Adults in order to participate in public life is not irrelevant to the question
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by searine 5y ago
That is a hypothesis but there isn't enough data yet to prove that is the definitive truth. We know it's rare, its above the expected mean, but could still be just statistical noise. It would be irresponsible to report that as the
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by searine 5y ago
Oxford nanopore isn't that great for resequencing a human genome. Human DNA is too big and the minIon or flongle is too small and error prone. MinIons are best used for long reads for niche experiments like assembly or for field work,
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by searine 5y ago
This is the unfortunate and unpopular truth. It is a status symbol that twitter uses as a marketing tool, that's it.
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by searine 5y ago
Maybe the reason the lab exists there is because wild coronaviruses appear in that region. Which ever way you frame it, it is correlation, not causation. Poor evidence at best.
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by searine 6y ago
The issue with phage therapy is that it has to be targeted. With antibiotics, they are very broad spectrum so you can throw augmentin at routine infections and it'll usually work. With phages, you have to be much more specific. Phage X

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