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by tejtm 8y ago
I don't know from what I can tell we are heavily blurring the distinctions, smearing Bio into healthcare (including health IT) I partly work on this project [0] which is not playing by the rules. Case in point. If you are in Bio or He
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by tejtm 8y ago
I could not make it up. Came to me as non fiction via an inhabitant of northern Maine.
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by tejtm 8y ago
You are home, sleeping after another boring day at work. You wake up being beaten back unconscious, extremities broken, ribs kicked in. They dial 911 and leave. When you get back from the hospital they will come take your drugs. Why? Nothin
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by tejtm 8y ago
A more abrupt correct course of action comes to mind followed by seizing all assets even tangentially related as inadequate compensation for horrific damages. ya know, to make an example, like we do with the little people.
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by tejtm 8y ago
you had me at "bad pickup" :)
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by tejtm 8y ago
> if p is prime and p = 2^n-1 then n is also prime for clarity p = (2^n)-1
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by tejtm 8y ago
You can write custom code in llvm IR.[0] I must leave it to you to tell me if you can use it as an operator. My guess is yes, but I will not be getting to play any time soon. [0] https://docs.julialang.org/en/stable&#x
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by tejtm 8y ago
please not that this is not a rhetorical question on my part. down voting statements looking for more information/ clarification seems out of place here
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by tejtm 8y ago
Negligible. Large non corporal entities are structured such the vast majority of any benefit they provide is concentrated in a vanishingly small population and costs distributed over the largest population possible. That is the whole poi
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by tejtm 8y ago
... because they were not home having babies?
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by tejtm 8y ago
In their stomach is a way of transporting the roots/tuber material they forage, back to the hive. Also we do not begrudge bovines for having multiple stomachs to break down cellulose why begrudge the NMRs for just having one but using
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by tejtm 8y ago
Perhaps Alphabet could buy billboards with driving law writ large or direct G to serve recaptchas requiring answerers to driver safety quizzes
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by tejtm 8y ago
I hope they enable it with a bang straight up ! this is exactly what I want then a way to keep it enabled by default
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by tejtm 8y ago
> Why does Facebook think it has the right to remove years of their users' contributions? I'm guessing that since their fleet of lawyers wrote that wall of legalease everyone must have clicked on, they are pretty sure exactly w
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by tejtm 8y ago
User defined types are __no__ different than "native" types. You are talking to the llvm compiler, sure you are talking in Julia most of the time, but if you happen to want to talk in C or FORTRAN or ASM in the middle of your high
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by tejtm 8y ago
sounds like ice nine > Shahsavari referred to the contents as two-dimensional "ice," because the molecules freeze regardless of the temperature.
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by tejtm 8y ago
It is a term to enforce the concept of humans as commodity in a commercial environment by the overhead.
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by tejtm 8y ago
no, it means nothing of that sort, it just means the DNA is five times longer, not that there are five time as many genes encoding five times as many proteins. It is more like there is more DNA padding around the genes as a protection from
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by tejtm 8y ago
I was worried at the beginning they were just doing a gloss but the article is pretty accurate. I have been around these folks for decades. A few memories, first a typical geeky well meaning do gooder buddy build paraboloid soar collec
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by tejtm 8y ago
> Either 2 wheels or 3 wheels (1 front and 2 rear). this is backwards thinking, two wheel in front is the safer design. decelerating shifts center of gravity forward. turning shifts it to the side . having a wheel there to support it let
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by tejtm 8y ago
Ahh yes the old Three Fifths Compromise is still in effect. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-Fifths_Compromise
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by tejtm 8y ago
This is more an example of the human influence of HN than the benevolence of the corporation. Yes, I am absolutely delighted this guy got lucky. No, I have zero confidence that I or any other poor schmuck could duplicate it.
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by tejtm 8y ago
A DOI is a bit different than a standard identifier such as a ISBN in that there are multiple 'registries'[0], and they need to be paid for (it is as good as it gets for persistence aspirations these days) [0] https://w
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by tejtm 8y ago
Where "academic profiteering" is not profiting the academics, they were already paid by us through our governments to do the work and neither see nor expect anything from these fees (if they did they would be going through their i
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by tejtm 8y ago
Monsanto is now Bayer Which (not who) will likely retire the name in a branding whitewash.
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by tejtm 8y ago
It is a quantum computer emulator. Regular binary computers can model quantum computers with a smallish number of q-bits (dozens) by the time we get to a quantum computer with hundreds of q-bits all the regular computers on the planet toge
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by tejtm 8y ago
I am not so sure, of course getting paid to do what you love would be great but so would be winning a lottery. Content that is a by-product of drive and passion is in my estimation largely distinct from passive income / rent seeking co
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by tejtm 8y ago
No,that is most definitely not what I want as a content creator. I do not want just any audience (that is the realm of people who require attention for validation or exploitation). By the time I have created something I have already gotten
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by tejtm 8y ago
And less than a digit per err digit (thumbs included) If I recall there was a Native American base 8 counting system which utilized the space between fingers holding sticks or strings as place holders. Made for a handy octal abacus.
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by tejtm 8y ago
in the context of a lunch container it conveys "nothing special", inexpensive, utilitarian, practical as opposed to fancy , expensive, extravagant "three martini" lunch

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