therzathegza

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by therzathegza 12y ago
Go outside. From my perspective, you're failing to enjoy a successful life because of your fixation on other people's success. Come back and you may find your head clearer.
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by therzathegza 12y ago
http://www.nickbostrom.com/fable/dragon.html This was an interesting read about humanity's perception of mortality.
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by therzathegza 12y ago
Nature is full of interesting goodies. My favorite is the discovery taq polymerase from thermophile bacteria that lives on thermal vents at the bottom of the ocean. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymerase_chain_reacti
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by therzathegza 12y ago
I believe the official term in grant funded kinds of places is "no cost extension" of the project.
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by therzathegza 12y ago
Some companies are willing to that risk and gamble that no one finds out, especially if the legal action in question is cheaper than the fix. :)
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by therzathegza 12y ago
At five figure checks, they can send it via carrier pigeon if they like :).
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by therzathegza 12y ago
Increases the SNR of the internet so high, it's actually worth it. I'd rather spend more on memory and have a less annoying internet :). Consider the technical solution alternatives, and getting people to use them. Now look at how
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by therzathegza 12y ago
That is why academia for hard sciences is still very much a cathedral / ivory tower system. It is nearly a polar opposite to tech, where things are judged solely on merit. I doubt you could argue that a first authorship Nature paper wo
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by therzathegza 12y ago
I think this is also about Nature being listed side by side with free access journals, and knowing that if it says "Nature" you're going to have a bad time. They are trying to change their image a bit here, and rightly so. Re
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by therzathegza 12y ago
For those not in the know, Nature is THE journal to be in if you want to be successful in bioscience. It is peer reviewed, fairly exclusive, and they generally only publish game changer style science. If you are in science, and you get a fi
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by therzathegza 12y ago
Most searching for articles is done via PubMed. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed Nature gets seen side by side with free access journals there, and so now we get to see them for free (regardless of delivery mechanism). It
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by therzathegza 12y ago
That's pretty interesting! I've been told at Walmarts they they don't even match walmart.com as it is "different".
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by therzathegza 12y ago
IRC with an HTTP portal hosted locally would be a bit more friendly to non-IRC expecting types.
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by therzathegza 12y ago
Canada gets this so right with {p|m}aternity leave for either parent, which levels the playing field for both sexes. Disclaimer: I am an American who is a product of the military health care system, and thinks it is a real solution for civi
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by therzathegza 12y ago
Wow, no fun not ever. To author: thanks for the reference to Coda Hale's Metrics talk. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czes-oa0yik
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by therzathegza 12y ago
I thought the 1% figure as encompassing all science. As far as CS is concerned, I don't really know. As far as bioscience, leaps and bounds are made all the time. Electronic technology is a feedback loop that for every innovation you g
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by therzathegza 12y ago
I think the article unfairly bashes rail transport by singling out coal. If you read Warren Buffett's writings, his investment in rail was mostly due to being able to move something 500 miles on one gallon of diesel fuel. Regardless of