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by toufka 5y ago
Uh, gold _is_ backed by chemistry. If gold were to change nearly any of its chemical properties, it would instantly lose its value. It is stable, generally non-reactive, non-toxic, lustrous, and of generally low abundance - all properties
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by toufka 5y ago
It's also much more complicated to define "silent" in the context of a virus. In a larger-genomed organism there is a relatively clear (though still not completely clear) function of a coding region, where the change of a n
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by toufka 5y ago
I think their point is that the leak has a plausible route - and whatever protections we would institute were that to have been true - we still should implement - precisely because they could have been true. In many safety contexts, the str
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by toufka 5y ago
Are rollups generally expected to be 'native' to etherium, or orthogonal - but packaged in a way that becomes well-integrated with L1? Or said another way, it seems like there are L2 rollup 'providers' - are these 3rd p
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by toufka 5y ago
Patagonia made a little short (13m) about Jeju. Definitely worth watching: https://youtu.be/r4jLplyxXqI
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by toufka 5y ago
But an increasingly large number of trades are actually done by the market makers themselves, "off exchange" or in "dark pools". And when more and more transactions are not done on "lit" exchanges, especially
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by toufka 5y ago
Given some of the podcast interviews, it appears the show-runners don’t actually care about the consistency of the scope of the world they’ve made. They have multi-orders-of-magnitude inconsistencies about the size of the empire in both num
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by toufka 5y ago
Of course speed is related to safety. See page 2 for the actual data: https://www.littlerock.gov/media/2484/the-relation-between-s...
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by toufka 5y ago
The (now open) secret is the NSA possess those records on hard drives and in a database, but that those records are (via a legal fiction) "uncollected" until a query is made that returns those records. And if the NSA wants to ret
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by toufka 5y ago
And they often provide technical walkthroughs for how they go from satellite imagery (often from Planet) to their geopolitical conclusions. https://www.planet.com/
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by toufka 5y ago
The medium-confidence predictions are great for grounding or sourcing intuition. If you're trying to divide up a protein for an experiment and you have to choose where to divy it up - you'd like to use even a bad prediction to he
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by toufka 5y ago
Is it? I can move all sorts of distances, in different directions, at all sorts of rates. It's surely harder to go certain speeds than others, and in certain directions than others. But to move 1 year in time - I only have one speed
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by toufka 5y ago
Is there anything a shareholder can do to encourage the LTSE? Or said another way, is there a mechanism for a shareholder to specify which exchange they are buying stock on? And would traffic on the LTSE help the LTSE? Or is most of the su
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by toufka 5y ago
In very few of those use-cases does the entity 1) _retain_ any of that data, 2) posses an internet-scale database of identities. And as we've all come to know the distinction between "able to surveil" and "collect it all
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by toufka 6y ago
The video [1] on your page is a well-designed demo. It's self-evident, gets to the point, and shows off what the app does in a clear and practical way, in 1.5min. Cool work! [1] https://vimeo.com/516043699
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by toufka 6y ago
http://zoo1.galaxyzoo.org/ - looks like it's now been archived. The newer version is here: https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/zookeeper/galaxy-zoo/
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by toufka 6y ago
WMAP went from the cosmic microwave background downwards. So looking only at the largest structures. The patterns it sees are real, and very cool. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilkinson_Microwave_Anisotropy...
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by toufka 6y ago
And so there must have been an additional interest for the seller, in addition to making only a massive amount of cash off of the past week. I am curious about what other incentives they might have been offered to offload now, as opposed to
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by toufka 6y ago
These are good questions. Proteins are chemical compositions - useful machines. Each one (especially outside the context of a cell) requires custom environments to be kept stable. And the processes to manufacture them require other organism
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by toufka 6y ago
It's pretty near Moab, UT - which is an adult kid's playground. The area is abundant with trails. Much of that land is regularly explored with various 4x4s for sport, even (and especially) off the trails. And Moab would also be
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by toufka 6y ago
Very cool! Thanks!
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by toufka 6y ago
RNA is fragile. DNA is pretty stable. Proteins are somewhere in between but can be engineered to be very stable. Most vaccines are a protein (originally a fragment from the (inactivated) virus, now more often a synthetically manufactured
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by toufka 6y ago
Is there a library out there that allows you to make some of these manipulations in code? Like: translateX(svg, 10px), scale(svg, 10%), ConvertToRelative(svg), AutoBounds(svg), etc. There are many that allow you to generate an svg, but it&#
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by toufka 6y ago
Not only this, but play talk seems “silly” to adults and is not widely seen as acceptable. Trying to learn new vocabulary during a hearing or negotiation just isn’t going to happen. I recall being overseas and hanging out with 1st and secon
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by toufka 6y ago
I think the companies can be traded on any exchange - it's not really a function of stock price. The LTSE kind of venn-diagrams around the requirements of the other exchanges (for now). So a company is then held to different (greater
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by toufka 6y ago
I think part of the idea is between reporting requirements & articulated statements about what goes into that reporting, by failing to report or failing to live up to those goals, you get to use the existing teeth (and defenses) associa
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by toufka 6y ago
"The Rise & Fall of the Dinosaurs" by Steve Brusatte is a great book that describes chronologically the beginning of dinosaurs through their end - by means of a young scientist telling about his various digs in his own (non-ch
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by toufka 6y ago
Seems like this would be part of the reason the Mac Pro launch was such a teeth-pulling exercise. It crunched them on both sides. It was just too long of a wait from the old design (which couldn't be refreshed for thermal reasons).
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by toufka 6y ago
This is a good assessment. And Dr. Smolke (the author) is actually at the very forefront of combining and mixing up many pathways in one system to create a new compound. Her skill at engineering multiple pathways at the same time is at th
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by toufka 6y ago
Yes? But you also left off the rest of her bio: ", professor of bioengineering at Stanford University, and a member of the National Academies’ Committee on Science and Innovation Leadership for the 21st Century." She is an accomp

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