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by toufka 9y ago
Curious your thoughts on the rate of acceleration of: - the technology required to utilize stem cells for therapies vs - the technology required to generate stem cells from somatic cells To my mind those two technologies likely overlap sign
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by toufka 9y ago
(given that the site is down...) Here's a great (if slightly sobering) podcast from last week by foreign policy professionals about the global relationship with North Korea [1]. They give a pretty nuanced, if dire, look at the NK situ
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by toufka 9y ago
And the page doesn't even come back from the flash in my semi-locked down firefox. It flashes content, then back to a white page without an empty <body>: DOMException [SecurityError:"The operation is insecure." Cod
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by toufka 9y ago
That's not really how food/biology works. In this case the leghemoglobin is a protein that will be destroyed during digestion, come nowhere near the bloodstream, and is a protein not a small molecule (there can't be altern
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by toufka 9y ago
Does it work off-cloud? Can I firewall it entirely behind my own LAN? If so, sold. I've spent so much time screwing around with generic Chinese hardware that's, well, sometimes great (and sometimes truly worthless). Most generic
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by toufka 9y ago
I do think you are being harsh here, or at least too particular to your own experience. My experience differs. As a practicing scientist who also did a thesis on the concept of Causality, with projects on Time, I did in fact have to interac
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by toufka 9y ago
And not only do I have to give them personal information to check, I have to use google's sign-reading I'm-not-a-robot captcha - feeding a little of my intellectual capability to their self-driving car companies. They keep taking.
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by toufka 9y ago
Precisely. In no way was Alice's identity stolen - that's tautologically impossible. Rather, the bank was defrauded by the criminal - Alice is of not a party to whether or not the bank recovers from its own loss. Alice's o
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FDA Approves Gene Modification Treatment for Children with Leukemia(ibtimes.com)
3 points by toufka 9y ago|0 comments
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by toufka 9y ago
Similar to tobacco - which has a bunch of regulations associated with growing it for sale.
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by toufka 9y ago
>Showtime executive vice president Stephen Espinoza told ESPN's Sal Paolantonio, "Due to the overwhelming demand, capacity of cable systems around the country are being overwhelmed. They are shutting down and rebooting some of
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UFC’s Fight Pass experiencing issues ahead of McGregor v Mayweather fight(nydailynews.com)
2 points by toufka 9y ago|2 comments
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by toufka 9y ago
This was apparently a very light payload, so there was lots of room for experimentation - attempts at recovering the fairings, and further speculation at playing with the second stage, and just playing with tolerances and approach angles gi
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by toufka 9y ago
Cherenkov Radiation [1]. It's not because the particles are going faster than 300M m/s, but because light in the medium is going less than 300M m/s. The unbreakable "speed of light" is actually, the "speed
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by toufka 9y ago
Multiple US diplomats being sent home from Cuba with unexplained hearing loss...
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by toufka 9y ago
Many places consider the land below the high-water line of navigable waterways to be public (in midwest US at least). So if you're canoeing down the river and eat lunch on the bank, you're generally not trespassing. Smaller lakes
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by toufka 9y ago
Please be more civil and careful with your language. You just called another member of your community a bigot for being a member of a particular political party, not even for their particular beliefs. A bigot is precisely, "a person w
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by toufka 9y ago
At least one California lawyer thinks that this kind of firing over a call for a change in labor practices is illegal: https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/07/it-may-be-illegal-for-google... > First, federal labor
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by toufka 9y ago
That precisely is the chilling effect. The discussions are so treacherous and devoid of social etiquette that arguments cannot be made without risking career suicide, literally. And if for no other reason, irrespective of the topic, that ch
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by toufka 9y ago
Written by Rick Ledgett, the Deputy Director of the NSA from January 2014 through April 2017. > Such disclosure would be tantamount to unilateral disarmament in an area where the U.S. cannot afford to be unarmed... It is no exaggeration
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No, the US Government Should Not Disclose All Vulnerabilities in Its Possession(lawfareblog.com)
2 points by toufka 9y ago|1 comments
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by toufka 9y ago
Reading is the 10 hour version of the above multi-year exercise - as all books are. Instead of deriving Newton's laws, you read what Newton spent a lifetime to come up with. Instead of deriving the implications of a situation where s
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by toufka 9y ago
The concept of legality gets awkward when talking about the military force of a nation, but even in the United States there are limits to what the military (NSA, DOD, etc.) are authorized to do. Though the matter at hand could be framed as
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by toufka 9y ago
It provides and then remembers sane choices pretty well. It's easier if you have enough background to understand 'port', 'dns', and 'application', but once you spend a day or two teaching it your habits,
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by toufka 9y ago
The reason given for collecting such data is often, "for your protection" or a variant of, "to verify who you are." And invariably, I hear about that exact data becoming exposed a few months later. It's extraordina
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by toufka 9y ago
Yep.
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by toufka 9y ago
Most publishers dont put supplements behind thier paywall. Scroll down for the supplement.
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by toufka 9y ago
Discussion of how best to achieve equity is a 'dilemma', and to frame any answer to the dilemma as 'correct' is not helpful. Starting off a discussion by saying, "As painful as it is, we have to accentuate and p
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by toufka 9y ago
I think there is no argument that the ragged edge will bump around the ideal line - and that in a reasonable expectation of how society works. The question is more of policy and strategy in how to arrive there. And in that it is unclear th
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by toufka 9y ago
There's no credit being given other than a mention of where it was heard. He said it recently, I remembered it, I said as much. It's not a profound or difficult concept, but interesting to have articulated.

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