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by sradman 6y ago
RegData: A numerical database on industry‐specific regulations for all United States industries and federal regulations [1] [1] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/rego.12107
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by sradman 6y ago
> In effect the company has a royalty on a communication stream that can do nothing but grow. In hindsight, the desktop OS business reached saturation and it started to look like the automobile industry which is sensitive to the replacem
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by sradman 6y ago
The Younger Dryas (YD) delta-O-18 changes are most extreme in the Greenland ice core values; the result of precipitation from Atlantic surface evaporation. There are multiple variables that influence this value like 1. Sea Surface Temperatu
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by sradman 6y ago
Project Skara appears to consider this a two step process [1]: > The goal of this Project is to investigate alternative SCM and code review options for the JDK source code, including options based upon Git rather than Mercurial, and incl
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by sradman 6y ago
Ungated Web Archive [1] of The hunt for the origins of SARS-CoV-2 will look beyond China . Horseshoe bats in Yunnan Province are found near the Lancang River, the northern section of the Mekong [2] in Southeast Asia. Some horseshoe bats pr
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Searching for SARS-CoV-2 Along Mekong/Lancang R. Basin(economist.com)
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From the Methods section of the paper [1]. > For vitamin C experiments, mice undergoing standard feeding or at the last day of the first FMD cycle started to be treated with vitamin C (4 g/kg in saline) via intraperitoneal injection
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by sradman 6y ago
> seals are available in many places that don't support ruminants. My point about shellfish subsistence is that, compared to the island hopping along the Malay Archipelago, any hypothesis about a migration along Beringia has to cons
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by sradman 6y ago
> There are certainly programmers nearly as skilful as Gates who nonetheless failed to become the richest person on Earth. In competitive contexts, many have merit, but few succeed. What separates the two is luck. I think Marc Andreessen
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by sradman 6y ago
AFAIK, the best (first?) popular science book that tackles this question is Before the Dawn [1] by Nicholas Wade. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Before_the_Dawn_(book)
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by sradman 6y ago
Interesting. MIS5e [1] would be a parallel to our current interglacial period. I think the evidence for 50-60 kya out-of-africa event for Homo sapiens is solid so I'm assuming this site would support the global reach of another Homo sp
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by sradman 6y ago
Paper by Peter Daszak et al: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/369/6502/379
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Ecology and Economics for Pandemic Prevention(ecohealthalliance.org)
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TECHNIQUE: use the proprietary HTTP Request headers available through CDN/Cloud providers like Cloudflare Workers' cf-country [1], Amazon CloudFront's CloudFront-Viewer-Country [2], and Google App Engine's X-Appengine-Co
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by sradman 6y ago
> There is no reason to assume they stayed at one place on a coast that had shellfish everywhere along it. Food is important but so is shelter from the elements. Prior to the development of textiles, an ample supply of animal skins and f
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by sradman 6y ago
All models are simplifications of real-world phenomena, the question is how useful they are. Taleb’s Ludic Fallacy is a useful prod to remind us to consider our core assumptions.
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by sradman 6y ago
From the linked Wikipedia article on Beringia [1]: > Today, the average water depth of the Bering Strait is 40–50 m (130–160 ft), therefore the land bridge opened when the sea level dropped more than 50 m (160 ft) below the current level
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by sradman 6y ago
China and North Korea appear to have a side-deal for fishing rights which violates U.N. economic sanctions against North Korea.
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> what the heck is .CSV doing on an incline?! It is still the most common interchange format for tabular data. Tabular data is too verbose/unreadable when represented in standard JSON. Databases and Data Science are also on the rise
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by sradman 6y ago
gww and patall both point out that this is related to cfDNA [1]: > Circulating free DNA (cfDNA) are degraded DNA fragments released to the blood plasma. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circulating_free_DNA
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by sradman 6y ago
> That's because Facebook obviously does not care. I seem to lack the ability to see what you find obvious. Perhaps we differ in what counts as supporting evidence or maybe our starting assumptions are drastically different.
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by sradman 6y ago
The article falsifies your assumption about Facebook’s strategy and tactics in Bangladesh: > The wording was intended to circumvent a Facebook algorithm that, to prevent wildlife trafficking, automatically takes down posts with “buy” or
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by sradman 6y ago
This is about startup Reef Technology [1] that provides software and logistics for standing-up food preparation/pickup in locations such as parking lots that lack the required utilities: > The Power of Proximity™.... We are creatin
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Stomach cancer, for one, is easy to remove surgically if detected early but it does not exhibit symptoms until it is often too late. I suspect that early warnings would trigger targeted endoscopy procedures. The pathogenesis of prostate can
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Original paper [1]: > Here we report the preliminary results of PanSeer, a noninvasive blood test based on circulating tumor DNA methylation... I’m very surprised that parts of the methylome, the per-cell state-machine that controls what
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by sradman 6y ago
Recent HN thread Palm – The best small phone for minimalists, athletes, and kids [1]. The phone was released in late 2018 by a Chinese manufacturer known for releasing malware [2] in the past: > The app, named "Weather Forecast-Wo
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by sradman 6y ago
The use cases demonstrated are compelling but there seems to be an underlying assumption that current syntax highlighting techniques are broken. After reading the article I'd argue that there is a case to be made for enhanced but tempo
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by sradman 6y ago
Very true, I've edited my comment. Some GROUP BY queries are inexpensive and are fine in an OLTP system if the WHERE clause restriction limits the result set size, most however, are meant to scan a large number of rows.
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Self-Hosted Go backend with BoltDB, Preact front-end. There is no built-in spam filter.
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> What kind of query would you have to write to bring down a production db? Scans and Sorts, seen in a query plan, are relatively expensive to run in a production row store. OLAP queries (GROUP BY with aggregate functions like COUNT, SUM

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