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by searine 6y ago
>There's no reason we have to make farm work unsafe or low-paying. Okay. Who is paying for it? Farming is razor thin margins already. Most people aren't on techie salaries that can afford organic food. Raising the price is just
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by searine 6y ago
>Food is, as a percentage of people's budgets, cheaper than it has ever been This is a good thing. Let's not screw it up, but rather improve on it. >where we shift to more labor-intensive practices Who is going to do the wor
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by searine 6y ago
Yeah that "crowded" cell picture is iconic. I remember my biochemistry teacher showing it several times in undergrad years ago, and really trying to hammer home the density of the cytoplasm. Sometimes we have to reset our natural
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by searine 6y ago
I do something similar. Typing isn't bad but it's sometimes tough to get your fingers at the right starting positions for touch typing. I put a few tactile stickers on the keyboard to help. Otherwise it is very comfortable. In my
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by searine 6y ago
>It says they used Oak Ridge's Summit supercomputer, the second fastest in the world. The shovel had racing stripes. Got it. The job doesn't change based on what hardware it is run on.
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by searine 6y ago
>I can't really see why you would need a supercomputer to do the analysis they did The article is fluff. 98% of all bioinformatics is done on "supercomputers" or 'high performance computing environments" saying t
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by searine 6y ago
>If not by unit tests, code review or formal logic, then what? Cross referencing independent experiments and external datasets. Science doesn't work like software. The code can be perfect and still not give results that reflect real
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by searine 6y ago
>I am interested to know the distinction between "production-ready" and "science-ready" code. In general, scientists don't care how long it takes or how many resources the code uses. It is not a big deal to run a
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by searine 6y ago
>Can anyone with domain knowledge chime in on this? Due to the age of the genomes, C's deaminate and are recorded erroneously as T's. The solution is usually to throw out those sites from the sequencing results (which account f
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by searine 6y ago
>This seems like the most logical way to combat issue, as opposed to hiding and hoping it goes away. Logical if all that matters to you is numbers and money. Lets not hide behind words. This logic mean death. You are conducting a blood s
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by searine 6y ago
Transmission is largely by aerosol over long periods of time, not fomites. Store workers are relatively distant and contact with any one person is brief. With teachers, every surface is constantly touched and they spend all day with the chi
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by searine 6y ago
In both those cases exposure is much different. Nurses largely have the PPE needed to deal with covid and have been trained to do so. Store workers have far less exposure than a teacher trying to wrangle 30 kids for 8 hours a day.
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by searine 6y ago
>So the side effects are huge Those side effects are very mild. Headache. Myalgia. etc. How many times in your life has your arm been sore after a flu shot? These need to be measured but are not 'huge side effects'. No observed
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by searine 6y ago
The test from March 2019 wasn't even consistent for a positive result. It found only two of five proteins searched for. Clearly a false positive.
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by searine 6y ago
This is also a common stumble in an Art School setting. Art school is about giving you the time and materials to create art, not how to learn art from scratch. The same is true for STEM. University is an opportunity to do rather than just
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by searine 6y ago
I've used AWS snowballs fairly frequently and it is definitely a specialty product. For our use case it was genome sequencing. Each individual genome was a terabyte or so depending on what types of data we sent. We can crank out a few
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by searine 6y ago
The idea is modularity. This is just for seed planting, but you can swap out screens for different tools attached to the back. Also a lot of the screens can be attached to different machines, and or carried mobile which is useful.
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by searine 6y ago
If you want a more indepth explanation of what is happening in the cab and in the seed planter, check out Dodge Brothers Farm on youtube. He does a really great job of going through the details. https://www.youtube.com/watch
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by searine 7y ago
This is a fascinating article. To retrospectively test attendees might shed a lot of light on the early spread.
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by searine 7y ago
This isn't clear yet. It is a reasonable assumption based on the biology but not verified.
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by searine 7y ago
This was true of stocks, but if you are holding options or other derivatives which are time-dependent then a market being closed is worse case scenario. RH is largely known for their options trading after all. Not being able to exit these h
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by searine 7y ago
That is just the abstract as indexed by pubmed. NIH has no oversight on the content.
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by searine 7y ago
>You imagine healthy companies just having 17% of total investment I imagine healthy companies keep enough manufacturing parts to be able to repair/replace/scale as needed. Particularly a company like tesla which is well known
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by searine 7y ago
This seems like kind of a 'gotcha' article. "One out of every $6 spent on machinery for the Tesla factory is now unused." I'd imagine most healthy large companies operate this way. Utilizing the majority of their eq
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by searine 7y ago
The simple answer is "because it'd be a hassle". Just look at He Jiankui post-crispr babies. Sentenced to 3 years in prison. 3 million dollar fine. Ostracized from the scientific community. It's just not worth it.
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by searine 7y ago
You develop antibodies to the virus. However if that virus mutates seasonally (like influenza does for example) a different strain may still infect you at a later date. Thus far that doesn't seem to be the case but who knows what will
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by searine 7y ago
>My complaint is that I pay some of the highest taxes in the country for some of the lowest benefits. And my argument is that you are undervaluing the cost of the benefits it provides. Particularly in a cosmopolitan city, there are layer
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by searine 7y ago
WA and Oregon are not comparable in terms of population or demographics. They have different needs which are met with different tax burdens. If you want the luxury of living in CA, then you need to pay your share.
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by searine 7y ago
>Again, I ask, what for? You live in the most expensive real-estate in the country and complain that it costs money to maintain. Pay your fair share.
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by searine 7y ago
>For what? Schools. Roads. Sewers. Water. Clean air. Power. Safety. Just to name a few. Nothing important really.

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