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by vikramkr 5y ago
Plants have all sorts of defense mechanisms, toxins etc, that they've evolved (since they're sitting ducks). Its a reasonable hypothesis that some energetically intensive to produce toxin could have its production induced, for exa
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by vikramkr 5y ago
At least in tech there's a genuine distinction to be made between people who want to keep progressing as engineers and ICs their whole lives and people who want to move into management type roles.
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by vikramkr 5y ago
The fundamental disconnect seems to be that programming is working with defined languages and environments created by humans with tools created by humans to make further programming by humans easier. Biology is the result of billions of yea
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by vikramkr 5y ago
Putting a layer of robotics over an in vivo organism still has the extreme complexities of an in vivo system at the core. Im not exactly sure what the breakthrough is supposed to be here. I guess I was maybe hoping for a more technical expl
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by vikramkr 5y ago
There is an incentive to see what everyone else is using, so that you can use it too. Choose boring technologies applies to infra as well. Go with a big stable well known can or cloud provider instead of trusting your service to some fly by
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by vikramkr 5y ago
My comment wasn't about the timeline, it was about how those did truly materialize and aren't crying wolf situations
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by vikramkr 5y ago
Sure but the revolutionary cancer treatments and biotech stuff made it to market and now we have a new generation of cell and gene therapies that are incredibly effective send powerful used in patients. And mrna technology deployed to hundr
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by vikramkr 6y ago
It looks like its a build tool? Are you obligated to use that with scala or something?
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by vikramkr 6y ago
I guess thats what something like clojure is supposed to fix? Interop with Java to give you access to that world? Not sure how that plays out in the real world though
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by vikramkr 6y ago
Building up oxygen being something that gave the "kiss of life" is an interesting perspective, considering that oxygenation was responsible for one of the largest mass extinctions ever
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by vikramkr 6y ago
Held back might be the tradeoff we have to pay for letting them exist in the first place. Developing new technologies is not cheap or trivial- especially hardware innovations. I'd rather have a delayed 20 year start to fast e ink innov
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by vikramkr 6y ago
It then takes a step in the wrong direction by presenting the hypothesis as a scientific conclusion. Everyone has a hypothesis. Having a hypothesis doesn't make it special or science based. Every anecdote driven article is presenting a
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by vikramkr 6y ago
Mentioning a couple hypotheses (drying oils make for better seasonings) with a couple hypothesized mechanisms does not make this a science based approach. A science based approach (in this particular chemical context) would involve controll
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by vikramkr 6y ago
Why? Recycling it could be very energy intensive. Recycling is only preferable in particular circumstances, and until you have a specific recycling process to evaluate, you can't make general conclusions about the preferability/en
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by vikramkr 6y ago
Why would that query be censored?
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by vikramkr 6y ago
If he's the first author, he's probably not the lab PI, and the PI usually gets the public credit, not the first author. Lab politics. Thats a complication with the research system as a whole, not with this particular news piece
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by vikramkr 6y ago
Depending on the university that might not cover a semester. Still, within 6 months of making money at that level, your post tax earnings are going to be enough for even the most expensive undergraduate programs
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by vikramkr 6y ago
It looks like this was an attack on the EMA, so that data could have been present there
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by vikramkr 6y ago
Are you sequencing the whole plasmid or just your inserts? The reason I'd never use a nanopore for my plasmid work is because the reason I sequence is to confirm assembly and sequence, especially after cloninf protocols, which is going
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by vikramkr 6y ago
The device is just an oxford nanopore minIon, a commercially available nanopore sequencer
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by vikramkr 6y ago
They might have enough of a PR budget to make the Google version of the story stick. But, its concerning that, if what you say is true, they are hoping to make that work by leveraging the public's ignorance of how the Google specific p
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by vikramkr 6y ago
This is also a competitive market. Aws has to fight against gcp and azure for new customers, and in a competitive market, you don't get a guarantee to make up the money you lose somewhere else.
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by vikramkr 6y ago
You don't grow apples from seed commercially. They are cloned.
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by vikramkr 6y ago
I wonder what information they're after. The RNA vaccines are pretty easy to copy - you wouldn't need to hack anyone to get the sequence, and the data on efficacy is going to be public in order to get approved anyway. Maybe manufa
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by vikramkr 6y ago
I'll just note that the link between amyloid and alzheimers isn't concrete and is actually an incredibly controversial area of research[0]. The most recent attempt at treating alzheimers via amyloid is not going so well[1]. So, th
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by vikramkr 6y ago
By make the problem trivial - do you mean reacts problems are so huge that old problems seem insignificant, or do you mean that react is so good it solves all the problems you faced before?
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by vikramkr 6y ago
What's the point of stealing these? Vanity? You can't exactly melt them down and sell them for scrap - their resale value is basically zero - when the value comes from being unique, doesn't that make it hard to make money off
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by vikramkr 6y ago
Why should I be "ok" with natural? Screw natural. Nature does a lot of terrible things. People dying in hurricanes or at the hands of murderers isn't OK because its "natural" - its just not OK. We have the intellige
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by vikramkr 6y ago
If you take most systems, they're at war with eachother. And that war includes viruses, which do a lot of altering at the fundamental genetic level. You could call it balance - I'd call it stalemate. And of course we don't un
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by vikramkr 6y ago
You're giving nature too much credit. Nature doesn't try and balance life. Nature doesn't care- it throws asteroid impacts and supervolcanos and natural disasters all over the place. Life just happens to be very very resilien

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