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by toufka 9y ago
Now divide that failure rate from dollars invested in each project to truly see the differences.
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by toufka 9y ago
From my personal interactions, and with my personal perspective of how Facebook has publicly conducted itself over the years, having worked at Facebook would immediately raise red flags in my mind about the philosophical perspective of the
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by toufka 9y ago
Yep. LinkedIn as well. Still without one, and starting strong. Very much realize I must put my data where my mouth is. Similarly, I'll be far less likely to hire one who has Facebook on their resume.
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by toufka 9y ago
It's a shame Theranos poisoned the well so badly. There's a lot of good work to be done in the space. But that kind of science just cannot be done by hyper-secretive overfunded outsiders. For the good of us all, try not to let
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by toufka 9y ago
Yep. If/when the 50M profiles become public, Facebook will be bending over backwards to rebrand this as a breach. However, on the (Twitter) record, their CISO has already said emphatically this was not a breach. He's been demot
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by toufka 9y ago
They also have datasets of 50M user profiles floating around out there filled with Facebook-like data. There still hasn't been a public leak of that kind of data that I can think of. I think a concern for Facebook is also what happen
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by toufka 9y ago
So apparently right now a company that is not contractually bound to Facebook has 50M full profiles from Facebook's API. From Facebook's perspective, what happens when if csv file gets released publicly. Or a government official
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by toufka 9y ago
Has there (yet) been a public leak of millions of private facebook-like or gmail-like profiles? Sure emails, sure PII, but ever 50M people's gender and sexuality linked to their real name leaked to The Pirate Bay? I'm curious if F
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by toufka 9y ago
Senator Wyden's March 19 letter to Mark Zukerburg: https://www.wyden.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/wyden-cambridge-a... Zukerburg has 24 days to answer about his privacy policies, and how they've been be
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by toufka 9y ago
The report monitored "ready-to-drink espresso coffee from 8 cafes and gas stations... purchased in the Copenhagen area." The OP's forum is talking about particular (older) mid-range personal espresso machines which use brass
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by toufka 9y ago
It has started to come up a lot recently in order to produce the above-like click-bait headlines. Here's my standard copy-pasta quoting myself from when it shows up around here: Epigenetics. It's the make-file for your genetic so
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by toufka 9y ago
I think they cost on the order of magnitude of $1M each. As I've heard it been put - "Imagine if there was a pallet of $1M in cash falling from the sky. And you knew where and when it would fall. And you'd expect the rate o
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by toufka 9y ago
That's a great name to add to the stable of Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ships: - Of Course I Still Love You - Just Read the Instructions - A Shortfall of Gravitas (and doubly great for you, u/ZeroGravitas)
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by toufka 9y ago
Read the source code - most of those dialogues ("only X left!") are hard-coded random numbers and are in no way correlated to actual inventory or demand information. Said another way, they are lies [1]. [1] https://news
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by toufka 9y ago
Yep. And silks, and leathers, and therapetics, and biosensors. See: Muufri, Bolt Threads, Modern Meadow, Cell Design Labs, Logic Ink, etc.
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by toufka 9y ago
It is an enzymatic reaction - and comes from fireflies, or similar biological effects. So there's no reason that - at some point - the effect cannot be entirely generated in vivo rather than upon addition of particular ingredients. T
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by toufka 9y ago
Lucifer means 'light-bringing' in Latin, as in the morning star, as in Venus. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucifer
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by toufka 9y ago
Yep. It's just the heavy chain. If it's expressed in vivo (in the right place) it should form properly. And N6 isn't a full cure, but it has shown therapeutic benefit. Details do matter, but the general idea still stands. The
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by toufka 9y ago
It's curious, the hard 'scientific' challenge is finding the N6 antibody sequence. That code/blueprint produces the atomically-precise nanomachine that is capable of neutralizing HIV. That work is done. Here it is: &gt
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by toufka 9y ago
Or as Assange himself has said, they have no Russian speaking staff.
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by toufka 9y ago
The government doesn't regulate the USD or NASDAQ shares, but currencies, income, value, and ownership. Cryptocurrencies are entirely regulated, already.
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by toufka 9y ago
There are also a lot more steps between 'genomic dna' -> 'protein' than was previously appreciated or thought to be of importance. There are a lot of ways to regulate and produce new protiens and variation that is no
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by toufka 9y ago
/u/pas has some good links below. The primer is that a CAR is an engineered protein that is inserted into your immune cells with a kind of 'cellular surgery'. Here proteins are the actual machines that accomplish life&#x
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by toufka 9y ago
I don't think it's our model of 'cancer' that is wrong - we can recreate it in lab, we know quite a bit about it, even though it's extraordinarily disingenuous to call it a single thing. Our model for developing dru
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by toufka 9y ago
Further, in some fields (biomedical) research takes so long, and top-tier journals are so selective, that a lot of work just never gets published. Slowing that process even further would wreak havoc on already way-too-long graduate careers
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by toufka 9y ago
You mean a homebrew kit and some $100 DNA from Twist? https://www.twistbioscience.com/ Why not start with spider-silk dresses: https://boltthreads.com/
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by toufka 9y ago
Is 3nm an actual measure of a distance, or is it entirely a marketing term like 3G cell phone service? I can't quite get a straight answer. As far as I could tell from outside the field it felt like at ~15nm the measure stopped being
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by toufka 9y ago
What kind of label would you like to see in this case, where an 'ingredient' has been removed? In this case a particular gene is being repressed, so that protein will be in less abundance than usual - nothing has been added, but o
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by toufka 9y ago
In my field it often comes down to 'mechanism'. If you see an effect of part X on part Y, via statistics, you could write a paper, and do good science. However, if you have an experiment that pulls X from the system, watches Y fai
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by toufka 9y ago
Certainly, but a well-designed experiment can identify the wedges that differentiate hypothesis A from hypothesis B without requiring a statistical analysis of noisy data. And true, there are certain kinds of experiments that can only be do

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