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by brfox 1y ago
Your comment reminded me of this Asimov short story: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Question
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by brfox 1y ago
That's from Indeed. And, Indeed has fewer job postings overall [ https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/IHLIDXUS ]. Should we normalize the software jobs with the total number of Indeed postings? Is Indeed getting less
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by brfox 2y ago
Manhattenhenge: https://shademap.app/@40.75481,-73.98696,14.82042z,171702794... https://www.amnh.org/research/hayden-planetarium/manhattanhe...
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by brfox 2y ago
I've seen articles saying that it would be hard to find any large enough investors to buy it who also don't cause a monopoly. Can ByteDance spin off TikTok to a separate company which would have an IPO and go public and in the pro
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by brfox 3y ago
Anthropic's Claude summarized this, too (the article was too long for ChatGPT): In April 1993, Don Calhoun made a miraculous full-court shot during a Chicago Bulls game to win $1 million. He was an average office supply salesman
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by brfox 4y ago
I have a deck of these cards from the 80s in very good condition (except the box is not in good shape). Let me know if you want it and if you live in Seattle I'll give it to you (or I can mail it if you want to pay shipping).
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by brfox 6y ago
Woops, I guess I was thinking more about ordering online and picking up the food myself. I usually just call the restaurants to place my take out order, but tend to prefer places where I can order on their own app or website, pull up and re
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by brfox 6y ago
It seems like this area is ripe for a non-profit, open source platform to help out. What options are out there along these lines?
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by brfox 8y ago
See here: http://www.counsyl.com/ But, about 30 genomic mutations are spontaneous every generation. I have one that causes brittle bone disease. So, just knowing the parents' genomic profile and screening out with IV
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by brfox 8y ago
That paper is a mini review of this paper which actually has the data in it: http://emboj.embopress.org/content/37/14/e98597 In there, they did work on A549 cell lines and showed that removing nutrients from
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by brfox 8y ago
If I am European and I ask Facebook to remove my data, will they also remove pictures of me which are owned by my family? I doubt it, and that's also the problem with providing consent on these DNA databases - they don't require t
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by brfox 8y ago
From their blog: "In the US, there is one automotive fatality every 86 million miles across all vehicles from all manufacturers. For Tesla, there is one fatality, including known pedestrian fatalities, every 320 million miles in vehicl
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by brfox 9y ago
Last paragraph: The University of California, Los Angeles, owns a U.S. patent (6,274,119) entitled “Methods for Labeling ß-Amyloid Plaques and Neurofibrillary Tangles”, which has been licensed to TauMark, LLC. Drs. Small, Satyamurthy, Huang
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by brfox 9y ago
And real tumors are quite heterogeneous, so maybe experiments done with contaminated cell lines are more realistic than those done with pure cell lines.
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by brfox 9y ago
I totally agree. I just wonder if there is some way to take that open space, visual programming which so many people do with Excel and make it more robust. Well, actually, lots of people are working on making a better spreadsheet or putting
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by brfox 9y ago
The article didn't mention it, but I think that Excel is a great example of where "the masses" have learned to do programming. It is visual and the effects of changes are immediate.
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by brfox 9y ago
A few points not yet mentioned: - Increasing the diversity of the Amazon culture by having an HQ in a new city will help Amazon understand the customer better... the last election has shown how little we all understand each other. - Could A
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by brfox 9y ago
If you are skeptical of the company's future, and the CEO is not to be trusted (and it is clear he is trying to take advantage of you), then ask yourself if you had 100k, would you invest it in this company? If the answer is no, then m
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by brfox 10y ago
I really like this idea! No one else mentioned it on the comments (and I saw this post too late for too many others to notice), but if we got more companies to do this, then it could have an impact on bringing more tech jobs to red states t
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by brfox 11y ago
This is a very important question - many employers get mad when you have side projects. Tread carefully or at least work on something clearly unrelated to the business of your employer.
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by brfox 11y ago
What about enormous sunspots or some type of variable star - why is there no mention of this as a possibility?
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by brfox 11y ago
ditto that, I just read the whole thing! I knew some of those tricks and others were new. Thanks!
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by brfox 12y ago
Australian journalist does not agree with this story: http://blogs.crikey.com.au/planetalking/2015/02/24/was-mh370...
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by brfox 12y ago
That seems like an important fact which should have been in the main story! Thanks for pulling it out.
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by brfox 12y ago
It would be interesting to read how these handicaps are calculated. Seems like a game-able system.
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Near death, explained(salon.com)
17 points by brfox 12y ago|11 comments
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by brfox 13y ago
Or maybe they overspent and built something too good. They could have had a much smaller budget if they really wanted a 90 day mission.
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Here’s the World’s Best Paper Plane Maker(wired.com)
2 points by brfox 13y ago|0 comments
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A Field Guide to Genomics Research - with caricatures (plosbiology.org)
1 points by brfox 13y ago|0 comments
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by brfox 13y ago
Its better (for the environment) than mining for diamonds or gold.

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