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by toufka 11y ago
As someone coming from a different discipline, git is tricky. Why would you not want to take away from that tricky experience by having a GUI? I understand the power of git, but it's really hard to use coming from a user's per
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by toufka 11y ago
Yes, the revision between a quick-take and fleshed out article changes the emphasis of the narrative in the story. No, this is not okay if done without a note that it has been done IF you want to be called a document of record. This statem
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by toufka 11y ago
Those edits regarding Mr. Sharif's handsomeness only go one way though. His description never increases in subjectivity. It's not to say the NYT has an agenda here, but rather that there is division, at least between authors and
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by toufka 11y ago
Further, it might be burying the trigger precisely because the trigger itself (firing of Victoria) runs against the tone of the (new) article. The whole reason reddit went into lockdown mode was because one of their most beloved employees
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It's interesting that the log would also reflect internal editorial struggles within the NYT. If you scroll through the future changes since the major change, you see Silicon Valley described "sexist" then "male-dominat
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by toufka 11y ago
'Weiqi' actually works okay too. Or, honestly, just use the character/kanji: 围棋 / 囲碁
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by toufka 11y ago
Mechanically, this tends to be true. I don't know about for electronics. The vehicle engine is a good example - a diesel John Deere from the 70s has a massive block that will last through my grandchildrens' lifetimes. The newer
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by toufka 11y ago
If you're looking for a networked library, Subsonic [1] is a bit more complicated, and a bit uglier, but has the amazing feature of being able to play your music from anywhere, any device, by anyone you allow. [1] http://www
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by toufka 11y ago
Bolt Threads [1] just received $30m in funding. There is nothing therapeutic about their business. [1] http://boltthreads.com/
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by toufka 11y ago
Very much unlike other products, Reddit is a community. It's curious that Pao et al. have not spoken to that community . They spoke to NYT, to TIME, to BBC, but not to reddit. It's really strange.
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by toufka 11y ago
PLoS, the open-access science publication, was putting on an excellent series [1]. Given Victoria's role in that, her loss puts that significant scientific outreach in jeopardy. A sad casualty. It was fantastic to see the front-lines o
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by toufka 11y ago
/r/science /r/gaming /r/movies /r/askreddit /r/iama /r/law /r/history /r/art all closed for now
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by toufka 11y ago
PLoS, the open-access science publication, was putting on an excellent series [1]. Given Victoria's role in that, her loss puts that significant scientific outreach in jeopardy. A sad casualty. It was fantastic to see the front-lines
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by toufka 11y ago
Certainly there are success stories when so much effort is put forward. But look at all the things even Imbruvica does in addition to helping treat cancer [1]. If you want to fix MCL you figure out how to engineer a genetic payload that ta
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This is absolutely correct. Pharma companies are running into a wall and are flailing to figure out what to do. It's quite clear that from first principles bathing the entire body in trillions of little molecules hoping that they on
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To follow up, the papers can sometimes be deliberately vague with respect to actual volumes/masses/materials, as theoretically the concentration, & activity and other state-functions sufficiently describe the system. The exac
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by toufka 11y ago
Though to be fair, I have a pretty high level of respect for 'Ambulance Drivers,' as conveyed by the inarticulate, if descriptive term. It's kinda like saying a 'Aircraft Carrier Steerer', or 'Space Shuttle Dri
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by toufka 11y ago
The commerce with China is just about the only way to effect any of those humanitarian concepts. Given the government's perspective and intentions, there is little other than prosperity itself that would convince them to steer their c
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http://www.reddit.com/r/undelete
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Or, if you're monetizing a website and one of the largest hosts of your content (imgur) is being actively harassed by a minority of your users, you find a way to mend the insult. It's becoming more clear that Reddit took action sp
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by toufka 11y ago
That's not really a response to crisper, rather a response to why humans won't be engineered using crisper any time soon. Crisper itself is very powerful. And like any dual-use technology, that power can be put to ill purposes.
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by toufka 11y ago
And just for the hell of it, let's throw in the (nearly-never cited) 3rd Amendment. It "places restrictions on the quartering of soldiers in private homes without the owner's consent". This explicitly was to prevent cit
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by toufka 11y ago
The fun thing is this is a designed fabric. There are very few other designed materials designed in this way. Kevlar, nylon and those such things come to mind as designed from chemistry up - miracles of the chemistry of the '50s &amp
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by toufka 11y ago
from u/jjwiseman >DOJ/FBI surveillance aircraft often squawk 4414 or 4415 on their transponders. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9508812
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Poor little snitch - 'Firefox is trying to connect to _.__.__.__ over port ____.' Nightmare for connection monitoring - just like bittorrent.
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The DNA itself isn't sufficient. It's not the working system. You'd never know that this protein does X, if you've never seen an animal that can do X. And expression outside of it's original system (the organism)
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Ask around at your local biomedical graduate program. Just got out of one myself. There are LOTS of 'easy' programming tasks that are being undertaken by very bright people with no ability/expertise in programming. It slow
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by toufka 12y ago
John Deere was the Apple of tractors, 20 years before Apple was Apple. It's killed off all the competition [1] for their tractors' ability to "just work" - even at a premium. Deere coupled high quality hardware with hi
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An interesting side effect is that most of the general populous in a larger city has very little contact with children in public. They've been removed from society at large - to the detriment of both the children and society.
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There's a significant school of thought that the structure of biological material helps ensure it works properly, and that an otherwise benign feature might actually become more harmful when their local environment is disturbed (possib

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