stopcodon

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by stopcodon 12y ago
And they do this while putting out a doublespeak public statement saying they don't do things like banning subreddits (but reserve the right to), and were not legally required to in this case. Read it here: http://www.reddit
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by stopcodon 12y ago
MetaFilter at least has the advantage of being old and respected enough in tech circles to get the attention of Hacker News and Matt Cutts himself when something like this happens. For the vast majority of legitimate websites who see their
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by stopcodon 13y ago
This will come off as a strawman, but the same could be said for every drug ever prescribed. There's absolutely no way to quantify the effects an "unnatural" molecule will have on a human body, since everyone will have physio
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by stopcodon 13y ago
I noticed when I uploaded an image a few days ago, the "direct link to image" field was missing entirely. I figured it was meant to curb direct hotlinking.
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by stopcodon 13y ago
In addition to the PLOS series of journals, there are also other modern open-access journals popping up like PeerJ (peerj.com) and elife (elife.elifesciences.org). Anyone can go on and download the papers, and usually the datasets used in t
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by stopcodon 13y ago
I played Diablo 1 and 2 for many years, and pre-ordered Diablo 3 like you. I ended up playing for a few weeks and haven't touched it since for the following reasons: The auction systems - didn't like them for the exact reason the
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by stopcodon 13y ago
>tried I waited 2 hours for an email yesterday only to find it hidden in a new "Promotions" tab instead of my inbox, which meant it didn't get pushed to my phone for some reason.
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by stopcodon 13y ago
This is probably one of my largest complaints about a google product at the moment. It feels like they're trying to trick me in to doing it with that invasive pop-up I get every week. I don't even use YouTube for uploading or comm
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by stopcodon 13y ago
Exactly, I'm not sure why this suddenly became news. Did nobody bother to tap a name in their friends list in the last 6 months?
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by stopcodon 13y ago
That's why ab initio protein structure prediction is such a sought-after tool in bioinformatics. You can have an incredibly high degree of nucleotide/amino acid substitution between two proteins with the same structure, function and evoluti
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BlueHost/HostMonster/FastDomain sites down due to 2 simultaneous DDOS attacks(twitter.com)
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by stopcodon 14y ago
The "consumers hate us because of homosexuality in our games" is a PR move from EA to cover the fact they were voted worst company in America for reasons that have nothing to do with sexuality. They were voted worst company because of their
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by stopcodon 14y ago
I was just having a conversation with my supervisor yesterday about how amazing the PLINK project is, and how much easier it makes my work. I use it every day and I can't count the number of times it's saved me from writing embarrassingly m