tstactplsignore

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by tstactplsignore 2y ago
How do you reconcile these deeply basic facts with your point of view? 1. The US economy was the best in the world in 2024. 2. The NIH, USAID, and NSF budgets make up just a percentage point or two of US spending. 3. These programs consiste
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by tstactplsignore 2y ago
But the scientific community identified this failure. They published the evidence against it. And shed light here. And heck, they did a lot of unrelated great science at the same time. Science is a process that will have failures, mistakes
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by tstactplsignore 2y ago
Voters are overwhelmingly in favor of funding US science. They are overwhelmingly in favor funding US international aid. The public thinks we spend way more on these than we do. The idea that the blatantly illegal actions by the current adm
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by tstactplsignore 2y ago
This is simply a delusion detached from reality. I am a white man in STEM academia. I've never been discriminated against once. None of my white male colleagues have either. They are all successful in academia. And my colleagues who ar
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by tstactplsignore 3y ago
To disagree, I'm a computational biologist and it's my firm belief 99% of the scientifically important stuff happens before the stats and plotting. That's not to say I dismiss those things and haven't done my fair share
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by tstactplsignore 7y ago
Grad student at Berkeley for 3+ years. I've never heard of anyone mention or discuss this before among many people constantly publishing reasonably valuable code under open source licenses.
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Large Scale Study of Curiosity-Driven Learning(pathak22.github.io)
1 points by tstactplsignore 8y ago|0 comments
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by tstactplsignore 8y ago
>And don’t waste time trying to simulate animal products (veggie burgers, faux-turkey, etc.) It’ll never measure up in the end and distract from the really good and tasty vegetarian (or mostly vegetarian) stuff. Man, I hear a lot of vege
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by tstactplsignore 8y ago
Ahh, see, this is the second problem with Facebook alternatives- everyone misunderstands what other people use it for. For a younger demographic Facebook is not about microblogging at all. It's a (a) chat, (b) photo sharing, and (c) ev
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by tstactplsignore 9y ago
Hi! Until quite recently most scientists I know agreed that we did not have conclusive evidence that climate change was directly harming polar bear populations. However, a recent study provided the first empirical evidence of that happening
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by tstactplsignore 9y ago
Oh thank god I'm not the only one who thinks this. It drives me crazy!
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by tstactplsignore 9y ago
The author has a pretty radical and completely unsubstantiated anti-environmental outlook. He claims that California energy prices are so high because of "liberal" policies including extremely important (but honestly still fairly
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Ask HN: What benefits might come with an economy based on a cryptocurrency?
3 points by tstactplsignore 9y ago|1 comments
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by tstactplsignore 9y ago
>Bitcoin's main purpose is and always was to have an alternative to the financial system, crippling regulations, government control and taxes. Does bitcoin really do any of those things? Right now, btc core is not an alternative to
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by tstactplsignore 9y ago
It's a bit of a tricky comparison. Bacterial genomes are jam-packed full of protein-coding genes, while human genomes have genes spread out between much larger regions of both "junk" (viral elements, pseudogenes, and repetiti
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by tstactplsignore 9y ago
Again, this is really just completely incoherent. "Processing" is a word that means thousands of different and completely unrelated processes. The "number of ingredients" in a food is also a completely incoherent metric
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by tstactplsignore 9y ago
This is an incoherent standard, though. Fruits are better than fruit juice because they retain the fruit's fiber, not because they were "processed". What does "processed" even mean? Nothing coherent. We can and shou
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Luna DNA is creating a cryptocurrency for genomic data(medcitynews.com)
2 points by tstactplsignore 9y ago|0 comments
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These Are Not Your Father's GMOs(technologyreview.com)
5 points by tstactplsignore 9y ago|0 comments
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by tstactplsignore 9y ago
Your worldview is common, but doesn't really understand where left-wing, pro-democratic socialists are coming from. Like you, we are driven by a deep mistrust of power. We hate absolute authority, like decentralization, and are especia
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by tstactplsignore 9y ago
I certainly never said that was "my method". I disagree that we can tell most of the time. I think we can't tell most of the time. Most Americans couldn't tell in the 60s- about 33% of the country had a favorable view
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by tstactplsignore 9y ago
I could list off how he treats his purposeful ignorance and anti-intellectualism as a virtue, how he pushed a strange cult-like "persuation" pseudoscience that also celebrates a kind of selfish creepiness as a virtue, his endorsem
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by tstactplsignore 9y ago
I don't think I could convince you of anything. But can I ask: if the other side were right, and some of these views are so abhorrent that the outrage against people who express them is almost entirely justified- would you be able to
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Evolution of a designed protein assembly encapsulating its own RNA genome(nature.com)
1 points by tstactplsignore 9y ago|0 comments
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by tstactplsignore 9y ago
Being against the implementation of specific crop products because you believe they weren't adequately tested, or because there is evidence that they are harmful in some way - that is not anti-science. Here's what is anti-scienc
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by tstactplsignore 9y ago
You can say that about all agriculture ever even more than you can about GMOs. We understand exact, precise genetic changes that have a much higher standards of testing than all of the genetic changes we've made to food using tradition
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by tstactplsignore 9y ago
>Tax the externalities properly and there is no environmental problem here. If the people who always say "tax the externalities" were ever actually leading the political charge to do so, I'd be much more sympathetic. Inste
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by tstactplsignore 9y ago
I strongly disagree, and I think the disagreement probably is because we're in two different fields (biology vs CS). I think journals should be open access and non-profit. However, I also think they exist, and they should be tiered. Th
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by tstactplsignore 9y ago
Isn't that figure just for promoted content on major websites? The vast majority of their propaganda campaign was through the use of bot accounts and fake profiles, and that was almost certainly the most effective content.
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by tstactplsignore 9y ago
>It wasn't some trick pulled on them by corporations or Russians manipulating social media. I realize that may be hard to understand, but it is the truth! Don't we objectively know this is false? You can dispute the size of the

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