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by toufka 13y ago
>What if the doctors were all linked in a group through Facebook Fortunately, other professions hold privacy in high enough regard not to sell their clients' information to the highest bidder. And this is precisely why this announc
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by toufka 13y ago
Pretty clearly in communication for at least a month.
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by toufka 13y ago
Sadly true. I'd have paid $20-30 for a real life loaf of bread that you couldn't roll into a golf-ball sized nugget between your palms.
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by toufka 13y ago
Those higher orbits are significantly more expensive to achieve.
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by toufka 13y ago
I am not him and I'm not qualified to speak with any kind of authority about this particular event. However the use of the word 'invasion' is pretty loaded. Keep in mind that the entire area was once a larger whole - the USSR
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by toufka 13y ago
Anyone want to create a Privacy Service that keeps, collates & updates these reports as they change? It could be useful for the companies themselves so that they could update language to 'industry standards' and otherwise wat
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by toufka 13y ago
In hard science, the null hypothesis is often 'straw-man-like', and that's usually just fine. Because, oftentimes the straw-man haunts by being kind of true, sometimes. Reality is so strange that doing en experiment that con
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by toufka 13y ago
As I recall, part of the rationale, was that even if there was an issue, there was literally zero way for it to be fixed. So now you spend the next 2-3 days in the shuttle, "doing your job" knowing that you will not return alive.
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by toufka 13y ago
It's curious - in biology here we see similar problems solved in 3D, but it's not always clear how it's solved. Take the first few divisions during gastrulation [1] and notice that every cell divides synchronously for the
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by toufka 13y ago
It's interesting to see where Apple has done visible product collaborations before. Rarely have they been effective. In the post-clone (Jobs.2) era I can recall the HP-iPod [1], and the Motorola RAZR with iTunes [2]. Both (different
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by toufka 13y ago
The most interesting part of the above tool is not its ability to knock out a specific gene, but its ability to knock out a specific gene. The key word is 'specificity'. Knocking out is just the easiest proof of principle th
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by toufka 13y ago
As a researcher in the field, it's a big question. There are lots of answers. Most of the time, the answer will be, 'maybe, and maybe more if we can get it to the right place at the right time - but it's often hard to know
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by toufka 13y ago
What happens when a GPS satellite fails? Or if you have an earthquake? Seems like precisely in those times of national need that one's most sophisticated technologies might be sorely out of commission. A seemingly pretty nice way to i
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by toufka 13y ago
And as a spur to kick scientists in their own rear, I'd also link to their own lab websites. It might be a bit of a shit-show at first, but we/they really need to get with the times, and this is a good place to start.
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by toufka 13y ago
I don't think this is a serious question here . On the other hand, I think it's an intriguing question in general. There is nearly no way for a PI (head scientist) to cite everything that they say. Knowledge at the forefront is
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by toufka 13y ago
Said hearing can be watched here [1]. The industry speaks around the 30min mark. [1] http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/MarketingC
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by toufka 13y ago
Definitely a much better resource. Kinda weird - I really didn't know how to find such a resource. After the weird link above, I actually spent a good bit of effort digging around. It's not easy. And as others noted as well, it
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by toufka 13y ago
I kinda hesitate to link here, it seems like a pretty non-authoritative site, but it does point out that this law did a bad job of that standard gradation [1]. They wrote in 'cliffs'. Justified in the article ridiculously: >T
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by toufka 13y ago
A jail is different from a prison. I would expect such searches to work quite well, and to (possibly) be a reasonable part of jailing someone.
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by toufka 13y ago
Having lived in the US, and then having encountered 'servants' in other countries, a striking difference is the respect for the person when they are not 'on duty'. In the US, when I go to a restaurant, I am being '
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by toufka 13y ago
The talk show mentioned in the last paragraph is here [1]. The quote comes at the end, ~45:30. Pretty terrible moderation - it's hard to watch, though it might at least bring out some of the points from another perspective. The focus
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by toufka 13y ago
Except it wasn't and isn't. And that is the problem. Generally should be always, but we now know it's not. And then to add to the list. "Collect" should mean "obtain" and not "use", and &quo
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by toufka 13y ago
At this point, it's just a matter of how tediously you want to do the work to become famous: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycoplasma_laboratorium Venter's doing it right now.
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by toufka 13y ago
As someone who has a DNA synthesizer in lab, who works on manipulating DNA daily to make various synthetic proteins, who lives and works in the bay area, and who knows enough coding to have understood the language of the OP - I'd love
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by toufka 13y ago
I think you missed the parent's critique. The saying is not 'back of the napkin', it's 'back of the envelope', or 'on a napkin'. No one uses an old wadded up napkin that had a drink on it - but plen
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by toufka 13y ago
Having to have signed one such waiver, it's treated much like a standard 'oh sign this so they'll get moving on your paper'. Again, because it's only for the 'nicer' journals, the 5% number is a bit misle
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by toufka 13y ago
A significant portion is doled out in 5-7 figure grants to research laboratories for a particular research project with a 2-5 year time-horizon. The projects are proposed by a PI (a researcher), and conducted by students, postdocs, or othe
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by toufka 13y ago
It is, and those are great examples. But it's only accessible to the most sexy, most accessible, most 'fun' disciplines. The harder stuff just cannot be crowd-sourced right now. Biomedical research is expensive, dull, and
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by toufka 13y ago
"His" journal was established with an ideology in mind, not to enrich or empower Sheckman himself. He's promoting his journal because he's the only one around 'doing anything about it'. And I accept that kind
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by toufka 13y ago
> an HIV+ patient may have multiple strains of the virus in their body at any one time It's even crazier - an infected person has enough virus, and it mutates readily enough, that somewhere in their body is a single viral particle w

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