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by toufka 6y ago
There is a Pandemic going on. This fully online WWDC certainly affected the feeling as much as the content.
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by toufka 6y ago
“Cheap” biotech. Where yesterday’s billion dollar tools are applied to $10M problems. Starting with food and materials and industrial commodities, but rapidly altering the industrial and commercial and even consumer landscapes once one demo
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by toufka 6y ago
Yep. Article does not understand it's immunology. https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/hbzm1d/antibodies_...
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by toufka 6y ago
Looks like both? (I'm not qualified to really assess...) https://www.reddit.com/r/Starlink/comments/gr284b/satellite_... https://www.microwaves101.com/encyclopedias/phased-arra
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by toufka 6y ago
These are _not_ geostationary orbits. Starlink's network is of a fast/low/hand-off variety rather than a high/stationary/single-satellite->communications variety. Their satellites are MUCH closer and are constan
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by toufka 6y ago
The open letter from biophysicists at UCSF _at the time_ outlined many of these concerns [1]. It was clear that the way these machines were being assessed was not scientifically rigorous, and were likely dangerous. The DHS Secretary Michael
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by toufka 6y ago
Would the use of the Adenovirus vector used here foreclose future gene therapies delivered with a similar vector? If so, that could devastate in one go a lot of people’s ability to get specific therapies as they start to come online in the
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by toufka 6y ago
But it's also much more than that - he's not just a guy, he's one of just a few guys that put in the effort to do their job well and honestly. And that positive daily effort had profound effects on the lives of people he care
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by toufka 6y ago
There also appears to be a difference in the strains. The NYC strain seems to mostly come from the European branch, while the CA infection comes directly from China (and likely much earlier in 2020). There appears to be some difference in
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by toufka 7y ago
I think the current argument is that the fastest, easiest, simplest way to help employees, is to make sure they don't get fired. And the easiest way to do that is to make sure the businesses don't feel the need to fire them (to e
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by toufka 7y ago
Except that is not happening - and test kits are not around or in supply. At some point you push past what's possible to manage, and I think we're there at this point. It is technically reasonable to test everyone once a day, and
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by toufka 7y ago
Foam ≠ good soap. Almost all commercial soaps are decent soaps (for the purpose of killing organisms/viruses) that vary only in how nice they treat your hands, and how they smell. Consumer soaps add foaming agents specifically so peop
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by toufka 7y ago
There are 'sufficient' soaps, 'dilute' soaps, and 'specific' soaps. Most soaps are some concentration of SDS/SLS - with various additives to make it smell good, be nicer on your skin, but are otherwise the
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by toufka 7y ago
Here's the substance of the criticism written up: http://virological.org/t/response-to-on-the-origin-and-conti... "An analysis of genetic data from the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak was recently published in the
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by toufka 7y ago
Suppliers of baby products...
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by toufka 7y ago
Honestly, that would be pretty cool. And, in an interesting version of this world, a company like Facebook could have enabled such a self-awareness. And done it with the intent of allowing people that kind of self-growth. It's odd tha
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by toufka 7y ago
Isn't that exactly what the federal government has done to extrodinary success with the interstate system? The interstates follow very strict and powerful standards that make us all so much safer. https://en.wikipedia.org&
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by toufka 7y ago
And this is another semantic issue here. The article (and my experience) both deal with the "Science" part of STEM, and specifically in biology/biochemistry, and specifically in academia (professorships at universities in har
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by toufka 7y ago
There is an unfortunate distinction between those other professions - STEM fields rarely pay even close to what consulting, law and medicine pay. Peers of equivalent talent in those 3 professions are generally making double to triple (if n
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by toufka 7y ago
It does happen, but generally in environments that are different from the 'normal' workplace - environments that contain a sense of community, where breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and sometimes evenings and sleeping are part of the
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by toufka 7y ago
Quinn is 32bit! Oh no! Best macOS Tetris-like game around.
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by toufka 7y ago
Those exist, and that's actually what's kind of fun about the watch - you can play with the strap structure: https://www.bucardo.com/collections/pocket-watch
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by toufka 7y ago
Or make them independent of the phone. It looks like iOS 13 takes some steps towards that independence. I’d honestly like to have a watch instead of my phone.
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by toufka 7y ago
Doesn't this end up implying that a city that was made entirely of dead-end roads would in some sense be very 'good' as it would lack all congestion? Portland seems intent on trying to prove that argument, but just because th
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by toufka 7y ago
Many Swadesh lists are micro-etched on the Rosetta Disk made by the Long Now's "Rosetta Project" - an effort to preserve and document as many languages as possible. https://blog.longnow.org/02010/09/
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by toufka 7y ago
A "remote hack" generally relies on a stack of exploits. From what I recall when the last jailbreaks came about, that stack was at least 5 or so exploits deep. So $1M/exploit is priced significantly ahead of the $2M/hac
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by toufka 7y ago
Nope. Not enough. We don’t just need to get to negative flux, we’ve already put too much CO2 in the atmosphere. We need to actively reduce it - fast. And then once we get back to a baseline, then keep it there. https://s3.amazona
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by toufka 7y ago
The most important part of CRISPR (Cas9) is its ability to colocalize with specific, arbitrary DNA sequences. It has a second function, which exists is many many other proteins and is not special at all - to cut double-stranded DNA. And in
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by toufka 7y ago
Your, even brief, description is interpretable by your clients and some customers - and is actually really informative. It helps estimate the magnitude of the issue, and the types of downstream problems to expect or avoid. Knowing an astroi
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by toufka 7y ago
Except in this case, Einstein very much was a philosopher in addition to a physicist. His philosophical writings weren’t as stand-out as his physics, but they weren’t shabby either. He was offered the job of the first leader of Israel, no

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