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by virusduck 8y ago
Are you in an area where Kaiser Permenente operates? It has been, on the whole, a great healthcare provider. The level of integration of their centers is great--I can walk downstairs for an MRI or Xray or lab test (no waiting for one doctor
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While it is a concern that formulation of cell culture media has been static, as you point out, it's not really the greatest concern, nor is it a new concern. For a lot of fields, culture medium is not that important as long as you c
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by virusduck 8y ago
Also, at least in the US, you can't have a 1 or 0 in the leading digit, so subtract another 2e9.
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by virusduck 8y ago
I mentioned in another comment that ages ago I used to be cool and host my own photo sharing using Gallery [0]. I went by the website, and turns out they put the project to bed in 2014. The codebase for the latest version (which I never lik
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Yeah, that is a good solution too. I have tried to avoid Google Photos for some of the same reasons I avoid FB, but I think it is still a huge improvement over FB. Although Gphotos is not too hard to set up, I was compelled when my 82 year
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The main use case some of my family members use it for is sharing pictures. I'm not keen on putting my children's pictures on a pseudo-public social network, so we make very ample use of Apple Photos. It won't work for everyo
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by virusduck 8y ago
Check out the third season of Twin Peaks from Showtime. It's more or less an 18 hour movie, with slow, seemingly-deliberate (or not!) pacing. A truly fascinating work for this age.
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I hate to say it, but Outlook is actually really nice.
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Maybe they're sacks of nickels!
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by virusduck 8y ago
But why would they simulate an image if the phone camera can produce the image they need??
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by virusduck 8y ago
Oh man Stuffit really takes me back....
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by virusduck 8y ago
That is a potential approach. However, the things that cause cancer are typically dysregulation of self proteins. These are usually things that stop and start cell growth and replication. In these cases, it is not totally clear in these cas
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In a way, sure. A major roll of the immune system (especially T cells) is to monitor for unusual cells. Some pre-cancerous cells display unusual markers that are recognized and killed by T cells. Those that evade T cell recognition go on to
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The enzyme commonly used for gene editing is from a bacteria that is a common human pathogen. Bits of these bacteria (including their Cas9 protein) are recognized as foreign. Unfortunately, when gene-edited cells are expressing the Cas9 pro
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Actual article: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-018-0204-6 This is perhaps not surprising, but still very disheartening news
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Keep scrolling!
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You can get it replaced for $29, which is cheaper than doing it yourself in most cases: https://www.apple.com/iphone-battery-and-performance/ If it is a 6S, you may be able to get it replaced for free: https:/&#x
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by virusduck 8y ago
Weird. UPS has always been the worst. I'd say about 50% of UPS packages either get misdelivered or marked as undeliverable for me. The numbers on my street are a little odd, but it's not that hard to actually find my house, and it
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by virusduck 8y ago
While not really the same, how about HBO? I think HBO is a stunning example, as they were an early leader in (invented?) a dedicated movie-delivery method. I'd argue that their original lifeblood (cable movie channel) is largely dead,
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AmEx sends notifications for any use of my card. It is really a great thing.
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What happens when there isn't a conda recipe for some package or inexplicably some dependency? Do I go back to pip? sudo pip ;) ? Use virtualenv?? Nothing is ever solved.......
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I'd view this as a way of adding support for Windows and Linux. One of the most irritating things about iCloud Keychain is that on my work computer (linux) I have to whip out my phone and look up passwords in keychain. Migrating to 1Pa
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by virusduck 8y ago
We have the pay-as-you-throw waste model in my city in GA. I think it works very well. We also have a very liberal recycling policy. I think these things really changed my family's trash habits for the better.
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by virusduck 8y ago
True, but keep in mind: It is a normal part of all herpesviruses to be quiescent. They have the capacity to reactivate from nothing but their genome into a fully functional virus. Ebola is a negative-stranded RNA virus, and it is unlikely t
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by virusduck 8y ago
Don't forget Cytomegalovirus (CMV, or HHV-5)! (Also, the zoster/chickenpox virus is calle Varicella-zoster virus (VZV or HHV-3). Since there is no proposed mechanism for how the virus may be involved, there is no way to know if ac
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by virusduck 8y ago
This is more difficult than is sounds. Herpesviruses are quiescent (latent) for much of their lives and exist only as DNA, with no virions being produced. There are different latency "programs"--during some of these, there may be
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I only have internet service from Comcast. I snagged this on amazon (although it was $35 at the time): https://www.amazon.com/D-Link-DCM-301-Compatible-Comcast-Cab...
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This is not surprising. At least one study [1] showed 85% of people's brains are PCR-positive for at least HHV-6. It is also important to keep in mind that herpesviruses have evolved with us (and many other species) and in some ways ar
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Whew! I thought this was going to be a link to tvtropes!
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It would be heartening if someone from Apple at least said they were hearing the complaints. Number one, IMO, being this idiotic keyboard. Then the ports, then the touchbar fiasco. Stagnation is not nearly as big an issue as those issues. A

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