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by toufka 12y ago
You would be correct. Errors are not the same as cancer. Cancer is generally a cell that can replicate uncontrollably on its own (most cells would die if extracted from their very particular environment). Your body has trillions of cells. M
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by toufka 12y ago
Here's the deal - we know it's 'chance' (not really luck) which part of your DNA is damaged by any given environmental effect. However, some DNA is more important than others. In general, a little damage is not a probl
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by toufka 12y ago
We know quite clearly that cancer is (generally) caused by a set of mutations - not necessarily in an order, but some orders are not successful. There are four or five genes which keep social order amongst the other genes. If you silenc
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by toufka 12y ago
The PDB format is an agreed-upon format that most fields don't have the luxury of using. And its implicit units keep it from being significantly more useful - outside of its own particular field. But you are correct, it has units - a
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by toufka 12y ago
The idea that you can export a csv file or excel worksheet full of unitless numbers is scientifically whacky. In the same way most would scoff at an graph without axis labels why too don't we scoff at a data file without units.
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by toufka 12y ago
Units. I'd love so much for a standard fileformat/interpreter/concept that contained SI units as a requirement for most datatypes. Much to be learned from my TI-89.
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by toufka 12y ago
And academically the prestige is poor. One is not granted 'research time' to develop software, but to 'get things done' (see u/Danso's comment). As such there's no one to take the first step in actually
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by toufka 12y ago
I wouldn't go that far - there's still utility to be had in generating the theories. What is a practical problem though, is that other less sexy fields of physics are losing funding to the string theorists. Give them their own di
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by toufka 12y ago
An open-source data collection system (census, health, economic, anything...) using apps on the ubiquitous non-smart phones: https://opendatakit.org/
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by toufka 12y ago
And another which is encouraging pellet stoves as safer and cleaner than paraffin or energy-hungry charcoal: http://www.africancleanenergy.com/
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by toufka 12y ago
If you know what you're looking for, you just need a couple of enzymes and one of these OpenPCRs [1]. [1] http://openpcr.org/
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by toufka 12y ago
The argument was an odd one to begin with. The government argued that it was not stifling speech because you could say, "I have received between 0 and 249 NSLs, and here's what I think about NSLs..." You could not, however s
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by toufka 12y ago
>...the victim was NetLock[1], a “certificate authority” in Hungary... The logs showed that the attackers had signed into one of the command servers in Germany in November 2009, two years before Duqu was discovered. Professionals stealin
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by toufka 12y ago
Granting one understands, generally, how these vulnerabilities work (read up on that site) - what would then be a good next step? Oftentimes these small companies are focused on getting the data-flow to work and have not coded in all the e
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by toufka 12y ago
Or different in the other way - where had they launched with the boat there and it still had exploded. Then ORB/NASA would have to deal with a lot more than simply economic consequences.
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by toufka 12y ago
For the sake of information, Blackwater changed its name to Xe, and then changed it again to Academi. Academi is the name you should rub in the dirt.
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by toufka 12y ago
Classic capture. Would the government's decisions be biased by knowing that the financial decisions it makes will directly affect its old (and future) colleagues? The bureaucracy can buy product A from a random company, or product B
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by toufka 12y ago
Primarily because they were 'first'. Part of the Nobel was awarded to Betzig & Moerner who helped make single particles identifiable. They developed some of the chemistries and molecules to make the microscopy possible. Hell
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by toufka 12y ago
Here's a pretty nice simulation/explanation of what makes STED work [1]. There are similar competing technologies that do essentially the same thing in order to arrive at sub-difraction-limited images including STORM & Struct
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by toufka 12y ago
When buying a phone in China, part of the cost is the service and installation of software that you'd like. As the price differential is so great and the international boundaries so weird, oftentimes the store you buy your phone from
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by toufka 12y ago
The answer is mostly, we don't know. However, we do know that most of your cells in your body are not really capable of becoming cancerous. In general (again, generalities here - we don't have enough data), only dividing tissue
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by toufka 12y ago
See this letter by UCSF biophysicists & oncologists written to the Whitehouse with concern for these scanners.[1] Their point is that the 'overall' dose is, not only unknown, but measured in a non-meaningful way. "Garbag
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by toufka 12y ago
A major issue with paying more is the scientists themselves. We tend to be a self-righteous group who insist our vow of poverty actually improves our work. And that by increasing our pay you'll tempt us into distraction. It's a
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by toufka 12y ago
The process is entirely different. Old-school drug companies have a very formulaic approach: 1) find lucrative disease, 2) find small molecule that abates disease, 3) get it through FDA, 4) market & sell. A much more modern approach is
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by toufka 12y ago
It's entirely likely that the dark patterns mentioned above are part of the driver in the context of the article. Knowing and avoiding those dark patterns likely tip the sociological balance of the network towards a less fulfilling pl
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by toufka 12y ago
And on that point, there are philosophers who do get the physics, and who are making material contributions. However they are significantly marginalized by their predecessors and often must directly compete with those who do not understand
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by toufka 12y ago
An in-flight bomb, though tragic, is much less of a threat, economic, social or otherwise, than an 'airplane-as-missile' into a populated area. So long as there is no access to the cockpit, the maximum effect of a terrorist'
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by toufka 12y ago
Millimeter wave scanners are of an entirely different kind of 'radiation' than backscatter X-rays in the same way 'red light' is of a different kind of radiation from 'alpha particles'. Yes, technically they a
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by toufka 12y ago
I read the article when it came out - remembered it, and then searched for it using the bottom search bar. Took a few different search terms to find the article - but it came up relatively quickly. Not too complicated - but does require m
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by toufka 12y ago
Reminds me of when Facebook did this with Papers[1] too. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7171724

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