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by wcoenen 6y ago
The article talks about different papers. The newest paper is about the mechanism of the molecular clock, but the one that found the mutation is "Mutation of the Human Circadian Clock Gene CRY1 in Familial Delayed Sleep Phase Disorder&
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by wcoenen 6y ago
> I had a really big problem with acid reflux a while back after I stopped drinking alcohol. Are you implying that cutting back on alcohol can cause acid reflux? That doesn't seem right.
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Perhaps a silly idea: could the constellation satellites act together as something like a phased array?
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Since genetic engineering is necessary to first put light sensitive ion channels in the brain, I don't see how this is "way better" if you're targeting applications in humans like neuralink.
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One vaccine doesn't even trigger the same immune response in different people, so it is not entirely clear to me what you mean. The basic principle of a vaccine is that it contains proteins that are the same as (or similar to) some of
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> We still don't have a button to signal that we intend to speak MS Teams has a "raise hand" feature, is that the type of thing you're thinking about? https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office&#x
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Bitcoin also broke through $12,300 in July 2019 and it went down from there...
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> And if so, how does that differ from what we have now? 1) One important difference is counterparty risk: the balance of your bank account is not really backed by anything, it is only a liability of the bank. If the bank goes bust then
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by wcoenen 6y ago
Some individuals may stay infectious forever. E.g. Typhoid Mary[1] was quarantined twice, and the second time she remained isolated until death. (Thypoid fever is a bacterial infection, but I assume something similar can happen with a virus
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by wcoenen 6y ago
Explanation of the "TLE" acronym: it's a standard data format to describe orbits around Earth. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-line_element_set
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I imagine the tidal forces would not just feel like you're being stretched, but it would also feel like you're hanging upside-down. And this would be independent of whether your head is pointing towards the black hole or away from
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by wcoenen 6y ago
According to the article, Gagarin's 10 page memo never even made it up the chain to Brezhnev, because all the people in between didn't want to bring bad news. How is that a flat hierarchy?
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> I think what the poster is saying is that running a government deficit is printing money. The government borrows the money from bond buyers, so that's also not printing money. (The Fed does buy these bonds, but not directly from t
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by wcoenen 6y ago
I believe he's referring to the fact that someone on a H-1B visa needs to keep the job (or else very quickly find another employer willing to be a H-1B sponsor) in order to remain in the country lawfully. This gives the employer a lot
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by wcoenen 6y ago
The press release does not seem to have a link to the actual seizure documents. Am I missing something?
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> I really wish vimium had some kind of modifier for "send next key to website", so I could have my cake and eat it too. I thought that was what "insert mode" was used for. Hit i to go into insert mode, ESC to get out
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by wcoenen 6y ago
From the 50 page report linked in the post, I have the impression that the constraints and features that they want eliminate most of the advantages of a digital euro. The biggest advantage in my mind would be the elimination of counterparty
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by wcoenen 6y ago
> There are only two types of euros: notes that are physical evidence of said money, and deposits in banks. There are also "bank reserves", which is the money sitting in the accounts that banks have at the central bank. Bank re
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by wcoenen 6y ago
The original 50 page report linked in the post mentions the possibility of offline transactions. It is thought to be in conflict with another possible feature, remuneration (i.e. getting interest on your money), and they even consider a mor
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by wcoenen 6y ago
Just out of curiosity, how do I save one life for $1000?
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Modal realism. A mathematical structure is "real" to its conscious inhabitants (if any), and merely an abstraction from the perspective of those who are not, i.e. the inhabitants of other mathematical structures.
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by wcoenen 6y ago
That's just how wallet backup works, I'm not sure how that is related to taint. Perhaps a better illustration of the taint issue is "change". Whenever you need to send an amount of bitcoin that does not exactly match one
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by wcoenen 6y ago
Did you read it before it was posted? It's a 50 page paper... I skimmed a few parts, and it looked plausible to me. For example, they studied the history of car seat laws in different states and correlated that with fertility data. If
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by wcoenen 6y ago
The literature seems to agree with you on the effect of boiling vs steaming.[1] But that paper is from 2009, and the references are not much older. Older people's cooking habits were formed before this was well known, so I'm not s
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I boil vegetables and tip them into a strainer when cooking at home. I don't see how the same process done at a larger scale would be worse for nutrition.
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I'm not sure I get the whole "processed food" scare. If I cook an egg, have I not "processed" it with a thermal treatment, and made it better and safer than raw egg? What is this "processing" exactly that
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by wcoenen 6y ago
"About 13 percent of the solid waste in Missouri landfills is demolition waste." From page 128 of https://dnr.mo.gov/env/swmp/docs/wcs98constructionwaste.pdf
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Think of it this way: the best picture we have of andromeda (the galaxy closest to us) has 1.5 billion pixels. Compare that to the fact that the andromeda galaxy contains on the order of one trillion stars. So we can't really see indiv
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by wcoenen 6y ago
In the neuralink paper which I linked above, they say at the end of the "Discussion" section that the system is also designed for stimulation on every channel, but that they have indeed not yet demonstrated that capability. Basica
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From the picture of the 9mm by 9mm tile, it looks like it has about 30 electrodes, each something like 0.1 mm wide maybe? (The article says they are "hair-thin"). They are obviously large enough to be somewhat stiff and have a fix

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