Pharmakon

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by Pharmakon 7y ago
were able to efficiently degrade n-alkanes under conditions simulating the deep sea, as did a reference Oleibacter strain cultured at atmospheric pressure. So yes, it seems at least some of them can.
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Tesla Shakes Up Model 3 Lineup(thedrive.com)
95 points by Pharmakon 7y ago|181 comments
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by Pharmakon 7y ago
Better build quality for one. The experience of actually driving a Tesla is undeniably sweet, but the panel gaps, the feeling of cheap half-assedness about details is not (especially at the Tesla price). More broadly price and range need to
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by Pharmakon 7y ago
The manifold is well-behaved and continuous at r=1, and mass is one of the few characteristics a black hole has other than spin and charge. Gravitons from within the event horizon won’t escape, but the event horizon itself can be thought of
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by Pharmakon 7y ago
Have you ever read the Financial Times? More broadly, in addition to FT I try to get a multitude of perspectives without straying too far into extremes (so no Fox News, no CNN) and I try to rely on single-topic sites. FT, NYT, Jerusalem Pos
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by Pharmakon 7y ago
It’s important to realize that Brexit is a bit more complicated than the rhetoric would have you believe. First it began with a combination of simple populism/nationalism/jingoism in the form of UKIP and at the same time a section
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by Pharmakon 7y ago
It’s not that interesting unfortunately, although I liked your approach. A graviton would be just another boson like a photon, and like a photon would be unable to escape. All of the worldlines of a graviton within the event horizon would l
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The Logic of Political Survival (2002) [pdf](projects.iq.harvard.edu)
30 points by Pharmakon 7y ago|6 comments
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by Pharmakon 7y ago
My wife got her start as an attorney in the U.S. and her first criminal cases as defense counsel were for drunk divers. It ended up driving (no pun) her away from defense work, because these guys were inveterate offenders and never got more
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by Pharmakon 7y ago
Taleb calling someone else an entertainer is a bit rich, sort of like a clown telling someone to have dignity. I have no opinion on Silver whatsoever, but Taleb is a bloviating ass who has gone from popular milquetoast observations, to clim
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Tesla Has Been Giving Some of Its Most Loyal Customers the Runaround(arstechnica.com)
18 points by Pharmakon 7y ago|1 comments
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by Pharmakon 7y ago
Maybe they work as an app or web dev?
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by Pharmakon 7y ago
We should have sympathy for victims, without letting them be in charge of policy decisions. That pain leads to the opposite of rationality. It’s up there with “think of the children” arguments in terms of harm that can be done.
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by Pharmakon 7y ago
Maybe “despite” was a typo for “as a direct result of,” in the article? Or maybe it’s just the usual Bloomberg nonsense. The whole interview reads like apologia. Oh it’s the legal teams of the pharmaceutical industry, rather than their lobb
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by Pharmakon 7y ago
Generally speaking in the context of meth as a street drug “crystal” meth is the purer form of meth, compared to other illicit preparations. It is called “crystal” because of the formation of large Meth HCl crystals, which only form when th
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by Pharmakon 7y ago
That’s accurate. Metric expansion only dominates loosely bound structures on a scale beyond individual galalxies. The yardstick, solar system, and Milky Way are all on scales too small, and are too strongly bound, for metric expansion to ha
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by Pharmakon 7y ago
You have to hunt here too, unless you like seeing the same people get into the same fights every week. I’ve found many of the best comments nearer the bottom than the top. Meanwhile Reddits like /history, /compsci, /science,
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by Pharmakon 7y ago
I’ve come to accept in a pretty short time that when it comes to subject matter experts in narrow fields, especially in IT and mathematics, this site has a lot to offer. Where almost everything else is concerned it’s just Reddit with more p
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by Pharmakon 7y ago
There are a few circumstances that lend themselves to observation, such as looking for characteristic concentric circles in the CMB, but they’ve never been observed. Beyond the few limited cases, you’re right it’s not observable even in pri
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Fecal Transplants Could Help Patients on Cancer Immunotherapy Drugs(sciencemag.org)
2 points by Pharmakon 7y ago|0 comments
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by Pharmakon 7y ago
I think you’ll find that multiverse interpretations of quantum mechanics, like all interpretations, are far more popular and important in the press and places like this this in science. Very very few astronomers, cosmologists and physicis
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by Pharmakon 7y ago
That’s true, but it’s also true that hypothesis is preferred because of the abject failure or other theories and hypotheses to match those observations. The window for something other than DM is exceedingly narrow and only MOND has a hope o
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by Pharmakon 7y ago
The existence of dark matter in galactic halos is inferred from the velocity dispersion of stars in a galaxy (sigma). It’s important to realize that this is a very rough kind of estimate because every aspect of it (as in the case of the M-s
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by Pharmakon 7y ago
They do this under the rubric of “bleeding the beast” as they put it. The FLDS did this too, and it’s a pretty common, and massively self-serving tactic of many fringe groups. Personally I like it, because it opens a path for legal sanction
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by Pharmakon 7y ago
Tindr blog post about this, posted two days ago. https://blog.gotinder.com/introducing-height-verification/ Oh, and by the way? Only 14.5% of the U.S. male population is actually 6’ and beyond. So, we’re expecting to
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Watch a Desert Kangaroo Rat Drop-Kick a Rattlesnake(sciencenews.org)
13 points by Pharmakon 7y ago|0 comments
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by Pharmakon 7y ago
You asked me a question and because I answered it, that’s a problem? I was trying to be polite, and you could do the same by respecting my choice and not using your (I assumed) honest question as bait.
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by Pharmakon 7y ago
Marketing isn’t an obligation, it’s bullshit believed by middle managers and gullible people. I don’t believe that you’re either, or that you make a habit out of buying into this kind of thing.
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by Pharmakon 7y ago
There’s no way this group of all groups of people takes mission statements and marketing seriously, unless of course it’s convenient.
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by Pharmakon 7y ago
They are! In fact shellfish being filter feeders are often used to clean aquatic ecosystems and then maintain them. If done responsibly it’s a massive boon, and doin git responsibly is feasible and done at present. Farming shellfish is one

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