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by whyenot 9y ago
We have gotten pretty good at getting DNA from dried samples (for example herbarium sheets). Cloning doesn't always work. You might be able to get to a callus (undifferentiated mass of cells), but moving from that point to a something
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by whyenot 9y ago
What is interesting to me is that according to the article, the five largest companies in the world (by market cap) are all now companies headquartered on the west coast of the US. What a remarkable shift in the world from the way it was ju
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by whyenot 9y ago
You already have to pay capital gains tax when you sell. Adding on to the state's cut at sale with even more taxes would be exceedingly unpopular.
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by whyenot 9y ago
Tuition at a California State University is only $5,472 a year. That is pretty darn close to free. Many other state schools have low tuition. Nearly 500,000 students in California attend a CSU. Almost twice as many students as attend a UC s
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by whyenot 9y ago
Macintosh Common Lisp is another one. It was so much fun to use and worked so well with MacOS. Echoing etchalon's comment, sometimes I miss OS 8 (also 9). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_Common_Lisp
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by whyenot 9y ago
I found the memoir class frustrating to use when I was writing a technical manuscript (a botanical flora). It's great if you are willing to accept the defaults, but if you want to change things, the documentation is actually pretty spa
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by whyenot 9y ago
There aren't a lot of good places to put them, at least in the Bay Area.
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by whyenot 9y ago
I went back to school and got a doctorate in botany. Now I am a staff scientist at a large state university. Working in tech gave me a lot of financial success, but it wasn't something I was passionate about.
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by whyenot 9y ago
I've been on HN for years and have never seen "people" make such a debunking. But of course, in the abstract, "people" say lots of things...
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by whyenot 9y ago
Levandowski is extremely talented. See this video of the autonomous motorcycle he and his team built for the DARPA grand challenge: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOgkNh_IPjU I can see why Uber would want to protect him an
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by whyenot 9y ago
On a bail skipper "hiding" in plain sight in the middle of London? Absolutely. Why is how much money "they" spend even relevant? He skipped bail. He should be arrested and face the consequences just like anyone else in t
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by whyenot 9y ago
Well, duh. It's a great job. I have a small lab. I have some limited funding to pursue my own research projects. I don't have to teach classes except for an occasional guest lecture. I don't have to serve on committees, or ma
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by whyenot 9y ago
I have what would appear to be a good middle class job at a state university but because I live in the Bay Area, half my paycheck goes to rent. Many of my coworkers are now working weekend jobs just to stay ahead. Positions remain unfilled
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by whyenot 10y ago
This is true of a lot of nature films as well. I got first hand experience of this working as a field biologist in Panama. We had several well known film crews come through where I worked. Trapped animals (temporarily captured for research
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by whyenot 10y ago
So essentially he's another Brian Chesky, or Anne Wojcicki who was willing to break the rules. This is not a characteristic unique to Kalanick and I don't see why something like Uber wouldn't have come along eventually withou
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by whyenot 10y ago
> this would never have happened without him How can you be so sure of this? The person who came up with the concept behind Uber was not Kalanick, it was Garrett Camp. http://www.businessinsider.com/uber-travis-kalanick-b
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by whyenot 10y ago
This is just a Tuff Shed with a higher price tag. None of the more difficult problems (running water and septic, for example) have been solved.
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by whyenot 10y ago
Most plants are nitrogen limited not CO2 limited.
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by whyenot 10y ago
It's sort of weird to blame the New York Times when the articles that prompted the change in YouTube advertising were not published by the NYT. They were published by the Wall Street Journal and the Times of London.
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by whyenot 10y ago
Lets just take resolution. IF you assume 4000 pixels per inch (which as far as I can tell is a reasonable estimate), then it is about (4000 * 4) * (4000 * 5) = 320MP for 4x5 film and (4000 * 8) * (4000 * 10) = 1280MP for 8x10. It's a v
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by whyenot 10y ago
I can understand this is a very strong belief that you hold, but it's the same kind of story that was used to link vaccines and autism. In the middle ages, similar appearingly non-random connections were used to convict people of witch
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by whyenot 10y ago
> The pay is not the problem in most districts. It seems like it is less of a problem than it used to be. The biggest issue is that the districts with failing schools (who need the best, most experienced teachers) tend to be the district
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by whyenot 10y ago
So are dogs, depending on who you ask.
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There is absolutely no reason to pay so much for a BA. For example, annual tuition for an BA from a California State University is $5,742 (2017-2018; there are some fees on top of this). Many "working class" public universities ha
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move fast and irradiate things
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by whyenot 10y ago
In college I bought an HP42S. It was a wonderful calculator that like the 15C had RPN and could do statistics and matrices. It also had a display with two lines instead of just one. According to wikipedia, it's still highly in demand w
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by whyenot 10y ago
California has the initiative system that means ultimately the voters can make changes to the system without involving a recalcitrant or corrupt legislature. For better or worse, many of the big changes in government in the state were ena
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by whyenot 10y ago
Here is a link without a paywall: http://news.morningstar.com/all/dow-jones/us-markets/2017032...
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by whyenot 10y ago
These points are unsourced "DDT Trivia" in the position paper (which is being generous) that you cite. There is no question that DDT helped with eradicating malaria from the US, but to give it all the credit to DDT seems a little
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> For example, could DDT prevent the hundreds of microcephaly cases in Brazilian babies attributed to the recent Zika virus outbreak? Maybe, but there is no evidence that it would work better than a more targeted approach. DDT kills a lo

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