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by searine 6y ago
>Wasn't the dust bowl caused by topsoil degradation? No. It was caused by extensive deep tillage as method of pest control. We have better tools and methods now.
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by searine 6y ago
Our institutions are often inept, but only rarely are they malicious. The fact remains that they provide necessary benefits that the free market wont. Healthcare, welfare, infrastructure, law enforcement etc. These systems were always mired
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by searine 6y ago
What is more likely: A. There is a long standing conspiracy between the FDA and ethanol plants to sell adulterated hand sanitizer. B. There is a global pandemic and given that emergency the FDA set aside normal regulations to expedite local
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by searine 6y ago
Agreed, but a sink and soap aren't always available. So I am happy to encourage hygiene by making it more convenient.
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by searine 6y ago
>not transmitted on surfaces. Not transmitted as readily. >And yet the "deep cleaning" "deep sanitizing" is still happening. Every bit helps, and yeah it is mostly theatre but if thats what gets business... Humans
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by searine 6y ago
Stop being dramatic. 2ppm isn't a lot, and it is a temporary measure. Benzene can be absorbed through the skin but most of it evaporates off (as hand sanitizer is intended to do) before it is absorbed. So yeah. The FDA reasonably updat
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by searine 6y ago
>Immigrant outperformance of native-English-speaking students is a complicated topic I wouldn't even say 'outperformance' is an accurate description. I have learned from, taught, and been colleagues with many scientists fr
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by searine 6y ago
There is a reason that scientific research was an aristocratic pastime for most of its history. The idea of a middle-class scientist is an invention of the mid-20th century, and not an enduring one. Even Einstein had to work as a patent cle
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by searine 6y ago
Ivy Leagues aren't special in what they teach or that they have the most exceptional students, and others have none. I've taught across the spectrum, from community colleges to an Ivy League school. The difference is that there is
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by searine 6y ago
>didn't treat them for Varroa. That's fine if they're fine, but if the hive gets infected and you let them fester they can do a lot of damage to other hives. https://www.mprnews.org/story/2016/08&
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by searine 6y ago
>it didn't turn out to be harder than I thought it was going to be. Fair. I've done my as well. Most of the "company" sites don't tell you much, which I think is a legal thing. They aren't cleared to release
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by searine 6y ago
They mean at genome-wide scales. If you are just doing a 410bp the sequence is short enough that the signal of is going crush and noise you get from strands slipping in the pores. The errors nanopores get are gaps, not base pair substitutio
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>What I'm saying is that nobody has delivered on any of the huge claims about the genome which genomicists made for the last 20 years, specifically in terms of actionable human health. I mean. Sure, sequencing the human genome didn&
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by searine 6y ago
It should be noted that the "errors" in this case are gaps in sequence. Sometimes the DNA strand slips through the pore and some bases aren't called. The actual base calling is on par with Hi-seq in my experience. In software
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by searine 6y ago
It's made of plastic, glass, and the special protein pores which split the strand and read the DNA. Reagents and sample are applied to it to make the reaction happen. The flowcell gets contaminated with your sample after one run so the
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by searine 6y ago
They are a fun tool, great for doing molecular work in the field. The error rate is still very high compared to short reads, but if you know this and plan for it going in you should be fine. Flowcells last for one sample. The machine should
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by searine 6y ago
>Frankly I'm surprised the effect was so small It's not over yet! And won't be for a long time. There are a lot of people just scrapping by right now. All it will take is one big financial hit to knock them down into true
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by searine 6y ago
>How are we, the laymen, supposed to trust published, peer-reviewed papers? You are not supposed to. The laymen really isn't the intended audience of academic publications. The literature is always in flux and inherently unreliable
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by searine 6y ago
>did GameStop ever pivot from This stock now has zero to do with the GameStop business. It is traders fighting other traders causing a wild fluctuation in the stock. GME is just the arena for the fight.
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by searine 6y ago
>true UFO reports But what is that? A report of an object, that is unidentified. The only truth is that an observation was made. There are many many mundane things, albeit rare, which can explain these observations. Rare mundane things t
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by searine 6y ago
>This sentence reads like you are casually dismissing all of science.. That sentence is the very essence of science. Most observations are easily explained by existing theory. If you are proposing something new, you need evidence and tim
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by searine 6y ago
Most of the reports of "UFOs" and their characteristics in flight come from untrained, and unreliable sources. It's not stupid to be open minded, but it is stupid to ignore plausible explanations of phenomenon because you are
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by searine 6y ago
This is really not an accurate depiction of the problem. First of all, it may take a 1000 years to naturally create topsoil, but that's not our problem. We have topsoil and can make topsoil much much faster. So how do we preserve, and
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by searine 6y ago
Replace "nap" with any other life maintenance that is an impediment to work. It is much quicker to just pause work for an hour, fix the problem and then get back to it. I'm not trapped in an office twiddling my thumbs while h
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by searine 6y ago
Companies need to get over themselves. Employees, particularly new employees, shouldn't be expected to 'hit the ground running' in every circumstance. It is unfair to the employee to have no expectation of on-the-job training
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by searine 6y ago
>My point is about doing research without PhD as a hobby. And his/her point is that hobbyists aren't a replacement for a class of professional scientists. It's great that it's your hobby, but to made consistent advanc
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Hi. I fit that category.
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Yeah, but for for farther away keys, like / or \ for example, you can loose the registration of your fingertips and mistype. Laying down and typing is at a weird angle so you can't quickly check that your fingers are aligned right
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by searine 6y ago
I just went to a craft store and found some stickers. It doesn't take much, just the smallest sticker can change the feel of a key.
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by searine 6y ago
>Isn't the issue that the arable land gets destroyed using the current practices The changes you are citing are miniscule. A rounding error. Older methods absolutely destroyed arable land because they had no robust method of replaci

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