I'd be interested to see any variances from mitochondria... but really, there might be all kinds of epigentic effects that we currently have no way of tracking. We tend to obsess a lot about DNA as such, but it's becoming more and more clear that transcriptional regulation happens at many levels, and we don't understand all of them.
Well, no, he's looking at using recovered DNA to create a hybrid with a modern species - which is indeed a genetically modified organism. (And is pretty much what was being discussed in Jurassic Park, stripped of the sensational and thriller elements. Well, and the mosquitos preserved in amber.)
It's not really that far from how I feel about Rand Paul - I really support his discussion of drones and a number of other civil liberties issues. And disagree with him pretty strongly at least as many.
I'd be pretty happy to work with social conservatives in support of civil liberties... or to at least try to. (I mean, if they can't shut up about my body and my sexual preferences, it's just not going to work.)
I stopped buying Card new after he did his homosexuality should be illegal but the laws should be selectively enforced ranting, ahem, rather some time ago. I was also shocked - I'd attended one of his secular humanist revivals not that many years before, and this was really not the impression I'd gotten of him. I stopped buying him used because I found his writing to be increasingly tedious. There was a period in which it was interesting, in a horrific, tortured sort of way, to read his writing, especially regarding sexuality and religion. Gnnggh!
I don't see this as about putting on blinders and not exposing myself to other people's views, I see this as first a matter of not giving money to someone who actively advocates against me, my friends, and family. (Money, and indeed, is likely to in part eventually be used against me, my friends and family.) And even more deeply, telling a comic company that I find it deeply offensive that someone who has advocated so strongly against people like me should be putting words in the mouth of the comic book character probably best known in all of the world as a representative of justice.
Tell me, if we were dealing instead with a hypothetical author, and one who had written extensively on white superiority... wouldn't the thought of him writing for Superman kind of creep you out?
Do you understand what an anti-gay witch hunt looks like?
A bunch of people saying, in effect, "We are so deeply uncomfortable with the loudly expressed policial views of this author that we won't buy work written by him," is not it. Not even if they do so in an organized fashion.
I did find that one of the more interesting assertions was that the prosecutors could not use a search engine. Is this true? Did they really not have the document? Dear gods, what a bunch of incompetents if they did not. I mean, seriously, it wasn't exactly a secret. (A horrible guilt trip, now, but hardly a secret.)
I think it is entirely possible to think that the prosecutorial overreach was dreadful, that the way the grand jury was handled was wildly inappropriate without thinking that suicide was the logical solution. I doubt logic had much to do with his suicide, but that's a separate point. I am sick of both judicial and extra judicial harassment. I am tired of how little our legal system does to protect people. (I could say "the innocent" and buy into a rather falsely dyadic view of "the innocent" as being distinct from "the guilty". But I think that's stupid, and I think the article does a good job of describing why its stupid. Certainly, I want guilt in our legal system to mean more than having pissed off the wrong people.)
I am also fucking sick of suicide. I have lost friends to suicide, and I have lost many more members of my community to suicide. I don't think the prosecutors in this case caused Aaron's suicide - though I think they were irresponsible, inappropriate, and possibly negligent. That's different.
And considering that we have only a few places in the world with the right conditions to eventually produce petroleum, we need to engage in active research how to bury tons of dead bodies to get a big ball rolling a bit more quickly!
Behind this is the larger problem that we have no particular way of resolving international disputes on the internet. The net maps poorly to international boundaries. And if national law on hacking is young, clunky and often pretty awful, effect international action is pretty much nonexistent.
And, for that matter, that "bad policy" is a gloss - I was responding to the "typical femine perspective" of the last commenter, and wasn't digging in to the policy implications. That being said, I do think forcing people into a single work mode, rather than working to accomodate individual styles is bad policy - and to change such arrangements on short notice even worse. Unless you're trying to undercut morale and reduce staffing. (I've been a manager, and this approach worked for me.)
The problem with statements such as "Women value in-person interaction more than men do," is that they often create the false impression that these statements of probability can be applied willy-nilly to any particular men and women. In general, when looking at gender specific behavior patters, you have two gaussian distributions that are slightly offset from eachother. Which is to say that while there are in fact statistically significant differences between population, people are about as likely to be different from members of their own gender as they are any given member of the other gender. (Note, assuming two clearly distinct genders is also a gloss, I'm just being lazy.) To assume she does this because she's a woman is pretty ridiculous, even if women are slightly more likely to value in-person interaction.
And I might mention, I'm a woman. Even a relatively extroverted one, at least by geek standards. Certainly there are things I prefer to do face to face (*grin* and let's face it, there are some things you only want to do face to face) but arbitrary work things? Not generally.
I am embarrassed - I was running late when I posted this, but I usually make at least half an effort at checking for typos. (Though I'll admit to being far more careful about my code than I am posting on random web sites.)
And in fact... well, I used to have a programming job as such. These days I do neurobiological research, usually splitting wet lab work and writing computational models about half and half.
What I've been doing recently is running it in user space, and yeah, that's great.
Is it possible to run it directly while preserving screen use, power management, and so on? It's been a while since I looked, but I seem to recall it being more than a little dodgy.
My tablet-ish thing is an Asus transformer, and while I'm happy enough with Cyanogenmod, I have it set up to run linux in user space because sometimes I want it to be just a bit more of a real computer.
If Ubuntu for tablet could give me a reasonable front end and still let me write code (we're not talking serious compiling here, just hacking together a bit of python here and there, mostly) and give me cleaner access to system underpinnings, I'd be happy to switch. Well, okay, and reasonable functionality in other ways - power management, etc. I've yet to meet an Android distro that really lets me do what I'd like.
I know people who've gotten good stuff out of informatics. Though I've also seen a lot of really lightweight informatics courses - I'd take a few electives over there, asking around a lot about class and instructor quality first. And that only if your school has a good program.
(I turned down an informatics fellowship because I'd already spent years in industry and I wanted biology that really went squish instead of simulations and a goddamned database to follow me around for the rest of my days. And now I work on sea slugs - be careful what you wish for!)
"Most reviled"... but also among the most defended (though the former lead to the latter).
Not that I'm particular thrilled with the idea of kings in general, but most everything bad about him was written by people with a vested interest in running him down.
But the wavelength and penetrance is substantially different - we know an awful lot about the radiation exposure associated with flying. We know less about the effects of the radiation exposure from the backscatter scanners, and TSA fudged their numbers in icky misleading ways (calculating exposure as if it were spread throughout the body, etc). That TSA presented the radiation from flying and radiation from backscatter as equivalent also seemed quite misleading - though, of course, incompetence is also always a possibility.
We don't know what the actual risk is. Neither does TSA.
It sounds like our experiences are similar. I'm on a Thinkpad 530w, with the dual intel invidia cards. I went through the hassle of setting up bumblebee when I first got it (and pulled down the latest intel drivers as it was too new for the repository to have support) but have been just using the intell drivers since the latest rebuild as they haven't been a problem for anything I'm doing.*...but more to the point, what molecular modelling? I'm off in neurobio these days (and have been doing softbodied biomechanical models) but I spent a couple of years in the Daggett lab, and kind of miss protein dynamics.
* Mind you, that my tf700t has the same resolution on a much smaller screen kind of hurts. But it was the best option in a Thinkpad, and Thinkpads have reliable outperformed any other laptop I've worked with.
Whatever one may think of the editing of the blurb, or the chances of a particular company bringing a particular product to market, the idea behind the device looks interesting because it's aimed at addressing two otherwise contradictory needs - how do you get a larger screen size combined with a smaller device? Because large screens are awkward... and small screens are awkward. Just differently awkward. I can't be the only person here who has spent a fair bit of time debating over better total resolution versus larger screen size when buying a phone. (And... went for a phone with a hard keyboard. Even if the community OS for it is still pre-alpha.)
There are often - maybe usually - a number of failed tech pioneers (the more successful of which leave their own cults) before someone comes up with a good combintion. iPhone certainly wasn't the first smart phone. Amiga still has quite a few followers, at least last I checked. Maybe this particular conundrum will be worked out via of pico projectors. Or heads up displays. But it's certainly is a good thought to have in the mix, whether or not it was a winning combination.
Well, I suppose by recent nomenclature one could say I have a prostate - though classically they would be called Skene's glands. But it seems unlikely, on any number of levels.
(The extent to which prison rape is considered to be both acceptable and a great topic for jokes is pretty sad, really.)
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I'd be interested to see any variances from mitochondria... but really, there might be all kinds of epigentic effects that we currently have no way of tracking. We tend to obsess a lot about DNA as such, but it's becoming more and more clear that transcriptional regulation happens at many levels, and we don't understand all of them.
Well, no, he's looking at using recovered DNA to create a hybrid with a modern species - which is indeed a genetically modified organism. (And is pretty much what was being discussed in Jurassic Park, stripped of the sensational and thriller elements. Well, and the mosquitos preserved in amber.)
Naming two specific issues is stereotyping?
It's not really that far from how I feel about Rand Paul - I really support his discussion of drones and a number of other civil liberties issues. And disagree with him pretty strongly at least as many.
I'd be pretty happy to work with social conservatives in support of civil liberties... or to at least try to. (I mean, if they can't shut up about my body and my sexual preferences, it's just not going to work.)
First you're incredibly regressive (say, dealing with reproductive rights) and then you do something pretty cool.
Well, this is the parent post author. But hey.
I stopped buying Card new after he did his homosexuality should be illegal but the laws should be selectively enforced ranting, ahem, rather some time ago. I was also shocked - I'd attended one of his secular humanist revivals not that many years before, and this was really not the impression I'd gotten of him. I stopped buying him used because I found his writing to be increasingly tedious. There was a period in which it was interesting, in a horrific, tortured sort of way, to read his writing, especially regarding sexuality and religion. Gnnggh!
I don't see this as about putting on blinders and not exposing myself to other people's views, I see this as first a matter of not giving money to someone who actively advocates against me, my friends, and family. (Money, and indeed, is likely to in part eventually be used against me, my friends and family.) And even more deeply, telling a comic company that I find it deeply offensive that someone who has advocated so strongly against people like me should be putting words in the mouth of the comic book character probably best known in all of the world as a representative of justice.
Tell me, if we were dealing instead with a hypothetical author, and one who had written extensively on white superiority... wouldn't the thought of him writing for Superman kind of creep you out?
Do you really see this as making him unpublishable in any larger sense? He's been a very successful author. It seems likely he will continue to do so.
Just not putting words in the mouth of that particular American icon.
Do you understand what an anti-gay witch hunt looks like?
A bunch of people saying, in effect, "We are so deeply uncomfortable with the loudly expressed policial views of this author that we won't buy work written by him," is not it. Not even if they do so in an organized fashion.
What a bunch of pathetic Monday morning quarterbacks. I have a lot of trouble believing you could walk a mile in her moccasins.
I did find that one of the more interesting assertions was that the prosecutors could not use a search engine. Is this true? Did they really not have the document? Dear gods, what a bunch of incompetents if they did not. I mean, seriously, it wasn't exactly a secret. (A horrible guilt trip, now, but hardly a secret.)
I think it is entirely possible to think that the prosecutorial overreach was dreadful, that the way the grand jury was handled was wildly inappropriate without thinking that suicide was the logical solution. I doubt logic had much to do with his suicide, but that's a separate point. I am sick of both judicial and extra judicial harassment. I am tired of how little our legal system does to protect people. (I could say "the innocent" and buy into a rather falsely dyadic view of "the innocent" as being distinct from "the guilty". But I think that's stupid, and I think the article does a good job of describing why its stupid. Certainly, I want guilt in our legal system to mean more than having pissed off the wrong people.)
I am also fucking sick of suicide. I have lost friends to suicide, and I have lost many more members of my community to suicide. I don't think the prosecutors in this case caused Aaron's suicide - though I think they were irresponsible, inappropriate, and possibly negligent. That's different.
And considering that we have only a few places in the world with the right conditions to eventually produce petroleum, we need to engage in active research how to bury tons of dead bodies to get a big ball rolling a bit more quickly!
Behind this is the larger problem that we have no particular way of resolving international disputes on the internet. The net maps poorly to international boundaries. And if national law on hacking is young, clunky and often pretty awful, effect international action is pretty much nonexistent.
New CEO I'll grant you.
And, for that matter, that "bad policy" is a gloss - I was responding to the "typical femine perspective" of the last commenter, and wasn't digging in to the policy implications. That being said, I do think forcing people into a single work mode, rather than working to accomodate individual styles is bad policy - and to change such arrangements on short notice even worse. Unless you're trying to undercut morale and reduce staffing. (I've been a manager, and this approach worked for me.)
The problem with statements such as "Women value in-person interaction more than men do," is that they often create the false impression that these statements of probability can be applied willy-nilly to any particular men and women. In general, when looking at gender specific behavior patters, you have two gaussian distributions that are slightly offset from eachother. Which is to say that while there are in fact statistically significant differences between population, people are about as likely to be different from members of their own gender as they are any given member of the other gender. (Note, assuming two clearly distinct genders is also a gloss, I'm just being lazy.) To assume she does this because she's a woman is pretty ridiculous, even if women are slightly more likely to value in-person interaction.
And I might mention, I'm a woman. Even a relatively extroverted one, at least by geek standards. Certainly there are things I prefer to do face to face (*grin* and let's face it, there are some things you only want to do face to face) but arbitrary work things? Not generally.
*laughs*
I am embarrassed - I was running late when I posted this, but I usually make at least half an effort at checking for typos. (Though I'll admit to being far more careful about my code than I am posting on random web sites.)
And in fact... well, I used to have a programming job as such. These days I do neurobiological research, usually splitting wet lab work and writing computational models about half and half.
No, really, it's bad policy because it's bad policy - not because she's a woman.
https://xkcd.com/385/
Because face time is so much more important that actual work.
What I've been doing recently is running it in user space, and yeah, that's great.
Is it possible to run it directly while preserving screen use, power management, and so on? It's been a while since I looked, but I seem to recall it being more than a little dodgy.
My tablet-ish thing is an Asus transformer, and while I'm happy enough with Cyanogenmod, I have it set up to run linux in user space because sometimes I want it to be just a bit more of a real computer.
If Ubuntu for tablet could give me a reasonable front end and still let me write code (we're not talking serious compiling here, just hacking together a bit of python here and there, mostly) and give me cleaner access to system underpinnings, I'd be happy to switch. Well, okay, and reasonable functionality in other ways - power management, etc. I've yet to meet an Android distro that really lets me do what I'd like.
I know people who've gotten good stuff out of informatics. Though I've also seen a lot of really lightweight informatics courses - I'd take a few electives over there, asking around a lot about class and instructor quality first. And that only if your school has a good program.
(I turned down an informatics fellowship because I'd already spent years in industry and I wanted biology that really went squish instead of simulations and a goddamned database to follow me around for the rest of my days. And now I work on sea slugs - be careful what you wish for!)
"Most reviled"... but also among the most defended (though the former lead to the latter).
Not that I'm particular thrilled with the idea of kings in general, but most everything bad about him was written by people with a vested interest in running him down.
But the wavelength and penetrance is substantially different - we know an awful lot about the radiation exposure associated with flying. We know less about the effects of the radiation exposure from the backscatter scanners, and TSA fudged their numbers in icky misleading ways (calculating exposure as if it were spread throughout the body, etc). That TSA presented the radiation from flying and radiation from backscatter as equivalent also seemed quite misleading - though, of course, incompetence is also always a possibility.
We don't know what the actual risk is. Neither does TSA.
+1 (This would be posted right after I'd been inactive due to flu, and therefore without mod points.)
It sounds like our experiences are similar. I'm on a Thinkpad 530w, with the dual intel invidia cards. I went through the hassle of setting up bumblebee when I first got it (and pulled down the latest intel drivers as it was too new for the repository to have support) but have been just using the intell drivers since the latest rebuild as they haven't been a problem for anything I'm doing.* ...but more to the point, what molecular modelling? I'm off in neurobio these days (and have been doing softbodied biomechanical models) but I spent a couple of years in the Daggett lab, and kind of miss protein dynamics.
* Mind you, that my tf700t has the same resolution on a much smaller screen kind of hurts. But it was the best option in a Thinkpad, and Thinkpads have reliable outperformed any other laptop I've worked with.
Whatever one may think of the editing of the blurb, or the chances of a particular company bringing a particular product to market, the idea behind the device looks interesting because it's aimed at addressing two otherwise contradictory needs - how do you get a larger screen size combined with a smaller device? Because large screens are awkward... and small screens are awkward. Just differently awkward. I can't be the only person here who has spent a fair bit of time debating over better total resolution versus larger screen size when buying a phone. (And... went for a phone with a hard keyboard. Even if the community OS for it is still pre-alpha.)
There are often - maybe usually - a number of failed tech pioneers (the more successful of which leave their own cults) before someone comes up with a good combintion. iPhone certainly wasn't the first smart phone. Amiga still has quite a few followers, at least last I checked. Maybe this particular conundrum will be worked out via of pico projectors. Or heads up displays. But it's certainly is a good thought to have in the mix, whether or not it was a winning combination.
Running a Tor node only helps a tiny bit.
Taking the issue through the courts has the potential to be much more useful. It would be nice for a right to privacy to mean something again, y'know?
Well, I suppose by recent nomenclature one could say I have a prostate - though classically they would be called Skene's glands. But it seems unlikely, on any number of levels.
(The extent to which prison rape is considered to be both acceptable and a great topic for jokes is pretty sad, really.)