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by toufka 12y ago
Scanning is still fairly invasive (w.r.t. radiation/dosages). And in general, the better the resolution, the more damaging. The bigger reason we don't continually scan people is that everyone has all sorts of little cancerous grow
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by toufka 12y ago
It's being run backwards and looks great that way. Imagine playing a couple of pool games and then singling out that one really cool shot you made, and start by saying, "that pool shot is how I play pool." The parasites did
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by toufka 12y ago
If you think that biotech = pharma, you're about 2 decades behind. Biotech = fabrics, materials, health, food, chemicals, etc. Perfumes, flavors, spider silk, biosensors, glowing plants, etc. are all biotechnology that require the one
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by toufka 12y ago
Exactly. It'd be great to be able to do with Stripe what we can do with POs. Here are Three POs for three vendors associated with this purchase (80%, 10% & 10% respectively). And then directly push the funds to each with separate t
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by toufka 12y ago
Open Chopin is nearly done as well, and will be hosted at musopen too. http://www.openculture.com/2013/09/set-chopin-free.html
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by toufka 12y ago
Curious, as I'm not sure when that would actually happen in real life (in Chinese). Generally in mainland China , the ROC would always be rendered with 国, even officially [1]. And in Taiwan the PRC would be rendered with 國 [2]. It ge
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by toufka 12y ago
This seems again to be a perfect place for rendering rather than encoding. The english letter 'a' can be rendered as a ring with a tail (the way I handwrite), or a ring with a cap and a tail (the way the font usually renders). Bo
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by toufka 12y ago
There seems to be a significant distinction between staples and "food supply" and the high-value specialty fruits/vegetables grown in the central valley. The US will never need to rely on other nations for their corn, rice, w
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by toufka 12y ago
Except when it's inconsistent with its environment in the first place. All the government subsidies in the world can't make water be where it isn't.
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by toufka 12y ago
Just to clarify some science. The link between HPV and cancer is direct, strong and without dispute. It's one of the rare cases where we can pinpoint exactly how a disease/cancer works. HPV wants its own DNA to be replicated pr
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by toufka 12y ago
In particular here - this is very real work, published in a very good journal (if brand new (One of the very few excellent Open Access Journals)). In regards to your question about how to get a gut feeling - it's not easy. Reputation
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by toufka 12y ago
Couldn't you then be using the monitor's power source to charge the laptop? Presumably the monitor is plugged into the wall and can transmit power to the laptop while the laptop transmits data to it.
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by toufka 12y ago
I asked about this yesterday [1], and I found this article[2]. I can't speak to the validity, but it appears that the 'distances' used in these marketing concepts are not the same distances that are used to measure things.
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by toufka 12y ago
This article proposes that the naming convention of using feature size is becoming more and more marketing and less and less connected with an actual distance. [1] Does anyone around here know what the state of the resolution of these chip
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by toufka 12y ago
The mutations themselves are random. Generally it's reasonable to think of mutations as movement across an energetic landscape. And like in physics, nearly anything is possible if you give it enough time/energy. However, if con
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by toufka 12y ago
And the cells are commanded to do their birth-given duty. Any cells that choose to act otherwise, or take part in any activity they were not given access to, including unlawfully reproduce, shall be sentenced to suicide. And if not commit
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by toufka 12y ago
Some reasons come to my mind. Continual production. Cheap. Proof of principle for gene therapy. Methodology across in vitro -> animals is identical. Having the 'drug' produced by its host means it costs pennies to administer
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by toufka 12y ago
Curiously enough, oftentimes the delivery mechanism for many of these genetic tools is the HIV scaffolding itself. It's very good at what it does - and delivering genetic payloads is one of them. Strip it entirely of its ability to b
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by toufka 12y ago
This is what synthetic biology can do. Instead of taking on challenging chemistry routes to produce ever more exotic small molecules [1] which we then bathe an entire organism in, in the hopes it rubs against the HIV proteins in a way that
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by toufka 12y ago
Gotta say from an outsider's perspective, Seed [1] and Plaid [2] are pretty hard to distinguish from each other... [1] The world's first business banking API [2] The API for banking data [1] https://seed.co/images&
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by toufka 12y ago
I suspect if you actually speak to a scientist, you'll find they really do not ignore the complexity of their subjects. However, the public starts at such a base level, that it's impossible to even engage at the limits of their r
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by toufka 12y ago
There are enough (good) browsers out there, that you can just dedicate one of them to those services which are intent on sucking up all your personal habits. Makes it easy to not confuse the issue as well.
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by toufka 12y ago
Deliberately teeing up for the appellate court? From the judge's perspective, ruling against the government at this stage in the case is very dangerous - but making a ruling like this gets it off his plate and up the food chain (where
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by toufka 12y ago
I was curious how traumatic it can be. Went searching and found this abstract from a paper[1] studying ejections in the German Air Force from 1981-1997: "[86 ejections from 56 aircraft had an] overall success [(survival)] rate of 97.6%
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by toufka 12y ago
What kind of detectors are you working with? Are they of a different kind or just more powerful than what's already up there?
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by toufka 12y ago
That is a very scary argument. To deny education because it could be used in ways you may not like is a very unfortunate position to take. Education is likely the only way a system like North Korea's will ever fall short of a militariz
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by toufka 12y ago
A Romance language thing. In Spanish it's more obvious as it's more commonly used. If you have a plural noun the acronym has double letters. The United States is rendered as EEUU (Estados Unidos, pluraled) or The Olympic Games
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by toufka 12y ago
>"It is Turn’s policy to always honor the consumer opt-out as enacted through either the Turn website or the NAI or DAA." What does this actually mean, and how can I do it?
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by toufka 12y ago
They did manage to get a hold of data though, not just '#twitter'. They had docs for download up on pastebin (/Y2spP7y9) that contained rosters, budget powerpoints, and other briefings:
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by toufka 12y ago
Yep. An entire generation of our society's most educated all in the same boat right now.

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