I was a graduate student under a very famous biologist and he often remarked, of all the physicists who have gone into biology, only one or two have made a substantial contribution - their minds don't work the right way True, we need math for clinical trials, and omics, but for biology you need a feeling for the organism
sigh what do you mean QE is fed, independent of potus what did obama do, stave off a second great recession ? you have gone to st louis fred data base downloaded private sector job growth for obama vs reagan (yeah population is larger, but older)
you know that ted cruz and a republican rep from, iirc, WA, posted onfacebook, send in your ocare horror stories ? and they got back no horror stories, but hundreds of posts along the line of thank god for ocare, i can now afford medicine for me or my family and have money for food ????? is that really so awful (ps cost ocare much less cost of trump tax cuts to 1%) ???
hillary is corrupt but trump is as corrupt and sleazy ? you do know that most of corrupt liar is gop fantasy (benghazi, vince foster) ? Do you think the NIH (war on cancer), NTSB, National Parks are good ? Trump tax cuts, goodbye to all that There are about 10 million people on ocare, many of whom no doubt are on chemo you stop ocare day one, who pays for the chemo ? we just let them die ?
but lets stipulate to your ideas about clinton; is the man who goes on a 3am rant about ms universe really better ? really ? look at argentina: they voted in a trump (peron) and they went from nearly a 1st world country to nearly 3rd world
Trump U targets grieving army war widow: The sales pitches seeking to separate Cheryl Lankford from her money began during the recession as she struggled to get back on her feet after the death of her husband, an American soldier serving in Iraq. Two of them were from companies that have boasted the Trump name. One was Trump University, the real estate sales seminar that Donald J. Trump promoted as a way for average people to profit from opportunities in the housing market. Ms. Lankford said she spent $35,000 from an Army insurance payment to learn Mr. Trump’s secrets.
so, your argument is that Trump is okay cause he isn't a worse sleaze then hillary like you kid comes home from school and says i cheated on a test, but the other kids cheated more
and you say, well, if the other kids cheated more, then it is okay that you cheated ?
trump supporters - I know most of you, no the vast majority are neither stupid nor racist yet whenever we point out trumnp flaws, the answer is always hillary !! benghazi !!! how about addressing trumps issues for once ?
1) look at how he was unable, totally unable to resist clintons needling him in the debate and his ballistics wierdness on ms universe is he gonna go ballistic if putin dumps on him ? is that really what you want next to the nuclear button ?
2) Trump lies constantly (I really shouldn't have to provide a url for this), he is a sleaze who stiffs small businessmen (a) and he is a con artist (a)
3) he draws the support of the small number of people who are crazy (c) or racist (read alt ride blogs)
4) his policies are stupid: there are fewer coal jobs cause of *technology* (same amt of coal today, fewer workers); the oil companies didn't bid on gulf cause fracking is cheaper; 20 years ago, trade and offshoring were issues; today the issue is robots and automation
5) he is really gonna round up 11 (no, not 20) million illegals ? what if all the us born kids file lawsuits demanding to stay and demanding care as orphans ? can you imagine the clusterf ? mass deportation - the lawyers employment act
6) his economic plans, to the extent he has any, are huge tax cuts for the rich do you like national parks ? the FDA ? the nih, NTSB, ? they are in for huge cuts
7) as pointed out in ny times editorial, his infrastructure program proposal is based on double dip accounting, it is a stupid proposal
8) virtually every GOP economist who served with bush I, bush II, mccain or romney thinks trump is stupid nearly every one
9) you all seem to distrust the mainstream media, but far as i can tell, benghazi and vince foster are gop delusions; no there there okay, the email thing was stupid, but i bet dollars to donuts that if a gop person did the same, the right wing meme would be, the gov't classifies way to much stuff,mainly to hide govt errors !! and i bet you can probably find wall str journal or national review articles to that effect !!
10) when ever he looses, he whines. is that a winner ? is that really what you want as commander in chief ?
11) trashing the constitution and banning muslims (who are, this is true, *one percent us population*!!) ain't gonna help terrorism (why don't we ban ex soldiers - after all, T McVeigh ???) Terrorism is either quasi state actors (ISIL) which requires stronger democratic states , or lone wolf teen guys - and teenage males are always with us and some are wierd; i bet if you track killings by teen age men, it is constant, what changes is their motivation whih is solely driven by wht they read in the news; if terror is big in the news, the teenager fantasizes about terror; if going postal is big, he fantasizes about terror answer is jobs a http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06...
Trump U targets grieving army war widow: The sales pitches seeking to separate Cheryl Lankford from her money began during the recession as she struggled to get back on her feet after the death of her husband, an American soldier serving in Iraq. Two of them were from companies that have boasted the Trump name. One was Trump University, the real estate sales seminar that Donald J. Trump promoted as a way for average people to profit from opportunities in the housing market. Ms. Lankford said she spent $35,000 from an Army insurance payment to learn Mr. Trump’s secrets.
has to be the stupidest slogan of all time information doesn't want anything by 2nd law, it costs something to produce, analyze, store, organize and deliver information what the slogan means is I, the speaker, want something that cost someone else money, but I don't want to pay for it, and I don't have the guts to say I want it for free, so I am hiding behind this slogan, where an abstract idea (information) takes my place
1) Fusion powered airplanes; right anytime anyone on/. makes a comment about how some other group of people are stupidly wasting time on some idiotic idea....
2) Garbage patent to secure a patent,the invention has to be "enabled"
3)counterpunch is the absolute bottom of the barrel in webcrap if you can't write, and you have a particularly stupid piece of inane word salad you want on the web, counterpunch is where you would go after your essay was rejected by everyone else (ok National Review on line and Mark Levin are worse, but they are both pathological)
they bring up Benghazi, a non story (1) there are some minor scandals, like travelgate (2) there are some deranged fantasy arguments like vince foster suicide (3) that all you got ?
maybe she has some small skeletons, but you compare her to the crazys (T Cruz , R Paul) the right wing guys who want us all to be underpaid slaves (S Walker) the retread of the past (J Bush)...HIllary stands head and shoulders over these midgets
1) the republicans in congress *created their own committee* which they *ran* and the committee investigated and found....zilch
2) ok, innuendo aside, someone fired a few timeservers in the whitehouse. Bush started a war for no reason that killed 4,000 americans, cost well north of a trillion, and destabilized the mideast...
3) If you think this is an issue, I have a special white jacket for you
can someone explain to a non programmer, as you look back over the last 20 years or so, what is the real cost/benefit of new languages I mean, i read constantly of hip new languages; but there is a cost that no one seems to talk about, eg you need new libraries, maintenance of a new language. etc
are we, the users really that much better off ? am i, a user, really getting more for my dollar from all these new languages ? as a user, i care about cost/performance; curly braces, indents, static typing - totally irrelevant
surely you remember alta vista and the pathetic northern light (the internet in folders, extra clicks that you don't need)
and why does google get such praise ? the gmail interface is screwed up ; their flagship - the search engine - is horrible (you think google is a good search engine ? are you not understanding that in the absence of competition it is hard to understadn what a good SE looks like)
here in Boston, where I live Narrow twisty roads, and when the snowbank gets high, narrower roads non highway routes are often circuitous Dark at 5PM much of the year (and add in the snowy, narrow twisty roads...) Potholes Did I mention potholes ? Rain snow sleet weather down to teens to single digits many days of the year lack of decent bike racks (some day, some smart person will write a n y times op ed about how bad bike racks are) no showers, or cruddy showers not so good when you have to go pick up your kid at school, or dance recital, or...
maybe inside Cambridge or Boston itself, a bike might work For much of MA, no so good
the problem is NOT that we need easier to use bikes the problem is that we have a car suburban orientation; change tax laws and zoning so people are packed into citys, and bikes will take care of themselves
Dear Sir: please tell us who you are; I have some ocean front Miami real estate I can let you have for 5 dollars an acre..min purchase, 1,000 acres... I mean seriously, you short exxon cause of this garbage ? are you a troll or merely insane ?
in particular, the history of perpetual motion machines: "inventors", aka charlatans, were unbelievably clever in designing what appeared to be Perp Mot Machines the idea that you can fuse H and Ni to form Cu at less then, roughly, 10^7 deg C is absurd
it is like someone claiming that they can run a mile in 10 seconds; it is just not credible; even if you see someone do that with your own eyes, you know there is trickery involved
is this the same montagnier who claimed he could do immunology over the telephone ? (twisted pair, back in the day)' if you are a troll, congrats , you have gotten a lot of people riled up about your nonsense; if you are serious, politely, let me say that you are barking up the wrong tree here the nature article is about neuronal membranes, nothing to do with DNAassembly
you might consider that people spend hours inside MRIs, where the magnetic field is ~~ 10,000 times that of the earth (oh, wait, now you have MRI magnetoresponsive DNA induced tumorigenisis....)
and the idea of a lambda/M13 hybrid is cute, I bet dollars to donuts that this is not an industrial scale process by any means; long DNA (>10,000) is hard to work with and unstable (wild type lambda DNA from, say, N E Biolabs, is about 250 dollars a *milligram*) anything priced in milligrams is not, imo, an industrial process
it is true that much shorter DNA is sold for, afaik, macular degeneration, and whole virus particles are also used; this is not the same as origami things
anyway, DNA is temperature and pH sensitive, needs to be kept wet, and is attacked by numerous microorganisms, which secrete enzymes that chew up DNA, a good source of valuable, scarce nutrients like Phosphorus and reduced Nitrogen
Phage lambda and M13 propagate in E coli, a gram neg organism that makes pyrogen; purification of injection grade material from gram negatives is not a trivial task The idea that DNA will be useful for almost anything but niche markets is absurd
there is something about bio stuff (DNA, cancer, stem cells) that just acerbates the buck rodgers teen ager in every slashdotter
Global GDP is about 85 trillion dollars 0.1% - 1penney on ten dollars - is 85 billion dollars a year you know what they say, 85 billion here, 85 bn there, pretty soon it adds up to real money..
glad to see someone is up on the latest news. however, if you read those storage papers, they usually conclude with something like, extra warming when the storage stops...
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I was a graduate student under a very famous biologist
and he often remarked, of all the physicists who have gone into biology, only one or two have made a substantial contribution - their minds don't work the right way
True, we need math for clinical trials, and omics, but for biology you need a feeling for the organism
he lost (lost) a billion dollars and you and i are paying for it
super moocher
sigh
what do you mean
QE is fed, independent of potus
what did obama do, stave off a second great recession ?
you have gone to st louis fred data base downloaded private sector job growth for obama vs reagan (yeah population is larger, but older)
you know that ted cruz and a republican rep from, iirc, WA, posted onfacebook, send in your ocare horror stories ?
and they got back no horror stories, but hundreds of posts along the line of thank god for ocare, i can now afford medicine for me or my family and have money for food ?????
is that really so awful (ps cost ocare much less cost of trump tax cuts to 1%)
???
hillary is corrupt
but trump is as corrupt and sleazy ?
you do know that most of corrupt liar is gop fantasy (benghazi, vince foster) ?
Do you think the NIH (war on cancer), NTSB, National Parks are good ? Trump tax cuts, goodbye to all that
There are about 10 million people on ocare, many of whom no doubt are on chemo
you stop ocare day one, who pays for the chemo ? we just let them die ?
but lets stipulate to your ideas about clinton; is the man who goes on a 3am rant about ms universe really better ?
really ?
look at argentina: they voted in a trump (peron) and they went from nearly a 1st world country to nearly 3rd world
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06...
Trump U targets grieving army war widow:
The sales pitches seeking to separate Cheryl Lankford from her money began during the recession as she struggled to get back on her feet after the death of her husband, an American soldier serving in Iraq.
Two of them were from companies that have boasted the Trump name.
One was Trump University, the real estate sales seminar that Donald J. Trump promoted as a way for average people to profit from opportunities in the housing market. Ms. Lankford said she spent $35,000 from an Army insurance payment to learn Mr. Trump’s secrets.
also
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06...
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08...
so, your argument is that Trump is okay cause he isn't a worse sleaze then hillary
like you kid comes home from school and says i cheated on a test, but the other kids cheated more
and you say, well, if the other kids cheated more, then it is okay that you cheated ?
that is your argument ?
trump supporters - I know most of you, no the vast majority are neither stupid nor racist
yet whenever we point out trumnp flaws, the answer is always hillary !! benghazi !!!
how about addressing trumps issues for once ?
1) look at how he was unable, totally unable to resist clintons needling him in the debate and his ballistics wierdness on ms universe
is he gonna go ballistic if putin dumps on him ? is that really what you want next to the nuclear button ?
2) Trump lies constantly (I really shouldn't have to provide a url for this), he is a sleaze who stiffs small businessmen (a) and he is a con artist (a)
3) he draws the support of the small number of people who are crazy (c) or racist (read alt ride blogs)
4) his policies are stupid: there are fewer coal jobs cause of *technology* (same amt of coal today, fewer workers); the oil companies didn't bid on gulf cause fracking is cheaper; 20 years ago, trade and offshoring were issues; today the issue is robots and automation
5) he is really gonna round up 11 (no, not 20) million illegals ? what if all the us born kids file lawsuits demanding to stay and demanding care as orphans ? can you imagine the clusterf ? mass deportation - the lawyers employment act
6) his economic plans, to the extent he has any, are huge tax cuts for the rich
do you like national parks ? the FDA ? the nih, NTSB, ? they are in for huge cuts
7) as pointed out in ny times editorial, his infrastructure program proposal is based on double dip accounting, it is a stupid proposal
8) virtually every GOP economist who served with bush I, bush II, mccain or romney thinks trump is stupid
nearly every one
9) you all seem to distrust the mainstream media, but far as i can tell, benghazi and vince foster are gop delusions; no there there ,mainly to hide govt errors !! and i bet you can probably find wall str journal or national review articles to that effect !!
okay, the email thing was stupid, but i bet dollars to donuts that if a gop person did the same, the right wing meme would be, the gov't classifies way to much stuff
10) when ever he looses, he whines. is that a winner ? is that really what you want as commander in chief ?
11) trashing the constitution and banning muslims (who are, this is true, *one percent us population*!!) ain't gonna help terrorism (why don't we ban ex soldiers - after all, T McVeigh ???)
Terrorism is either quasi state actors (ISIL) which requires stronger democratic states , or lone wolf teen guys - and teenage males are always with us and some are wierd; i bet if you track killings by teen age men, it is constant, what changes is their motivation whih is solely driven by wht they read in the news; if terror is big in the news, the teenager fantasizes about terror; if going postal is big, he fantasizes about terror
answer is jobs
a
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06...
Trump U targets grieving army war widow:
The sales pitches seeking to separate Cheryl Lankford from her money began during the recession as she struggled to get back on her feet after the death of her husband, an American soldier serving in Iraq.
Two of them were from companies that have boasted the Trump name.
One was Trump University, the real estate sales seminar that Donald J. Trump promoted as a way for average people to profit from opportunities in the housing market. Ms. Lankford said she spent $35,000 from an Army insurance payment to learn Mr. Trump’s secrets.
also this one
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06...
and
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08...
b
why don't you stop talking about stuff you don't know about
many journals require the author to sign a document to not distribute copies for some period of time
has to be the stupidest slogan of all time
information doesn't want anything
by 2nd law, it costs something to produce, analyze, store, organize and deliver information
what the slogan means is I, the speaker, want something that cost someone else money, but I don't want to pay for it, and I don't have the guts to say I want it for free, so I am hiding behind this slogan, where an abstract idea (information) takes my place
l
Fiorina shafts vendor to senate campaign
cause in the old days, people would just tell you how great apple is
at least now we have an element of realism: apple sucks just like everyone else
a few years from now...people will recall those horrid power connector plugs, and say, typical apple crappo hardware...
am i the only one thinking this ?
1) Fusion powered airplanes; right /. makes a comment about how some other group of people are stupidly wasting time on some idiotic idea....
anytime anyone on
2) Garbage patent
to secure a patent,the invention has to be "enabled"
3)counterpunch is the absolute bottom of the barrel in webcrap
if you can't write, and you have a particularly stupid piece of inane word salad you want on the web, counterpunch is where you would go after your essay was rejected by everyone else (ok National Review on line and Mark Levin are worse, but they are both pathological)
they bring up Benghazi, a non story (1)
there are some minor scandals, like travelgate (2)
there are some deranged fantasy arguments like vince foster suicide (3)
that all you got ?
maybe she has some small skeletons, but you compare her to the crazys (T Cruz , R Paul) the right wing guys who want us all to be underpaid slaves (S Walker) the retread of the past (J Bush)...HIllary stands head and shoulders over these midgets
1) the republicans in congress *created their own committee* which they *ran* ....zilch
and the committee investigated and found
2) ok, innuendo aside, someone fired a few timeservers in the whitehouse. Bush started a war for no reason that killed 4,000 americans, cost well north of a trillion, and destabilized the mideast...
3) If you think this is an issue, I have a special white jacket for you
can someone explain to a non programmer, as you look back over the last 20 years or so, what is the real cost/benefit of new languages
I mean, i read constantly of hip new languages; but there is a cost that no one seems to talk about, eg you need new libraries, maintenance of a new language. etc
are we, the users really that much better off ?
am i, a user, really getting more for my dollar from all these new languages ?
as a user, i care about cost/performance; curly braces, indents, static typing - totally irrelevant
Mel, I thought you were dead - or at least still using drum memory instead of that new fangled core stuff
surely you remember alta vista and the pathetic northern light (the internet in folders, extra clicks that you don't need)
and why does google get such praise ?
the gmail interface is screwed up ; their flagship - the search engine - is horrible (you think google is a good search engine ? are you not understanding that in the absence of competition it is hard to understadn what a good SE looks like)
here in Boston, where I live
Narrow twisty roads, and when the snowbank gets high, narrower roads
non highway routes are often circuitous
Dark at 5PM much of the year (and add in the snowy, narrow twisty roads...)
Potholes
Did I mention potholes ?
Rain snow sleet
weather down to teens to single digits many days of the year
lack of decent bike racks (some day, some smart person will write a n y times op ed about how bad bike racks are)
no showers, or cruddy showers
not so good when you have to go pick up your kid at school, or dance recital, or...
maybe inside Cambridge or Boston itself, a bike might work
For much of MA, no so good
the problem is NOT that we need easier to use bikes
the problem is that we have a car suburban orientation; change tax laws and zoning so people are packed into citys, and bikes will take care of themselves
Dear Sir:
please tell us who you are; I have some ocean front Miami real estate I can let you have for 5 dollars an acre..min purchase, 1,000 acres...
I mean seriously, you short exxon cause of this garbage ?
are you a troll or merely insane ?
in particular, the history of perpetual motion machines: "inventors", aka charlatans, were unbelievably clever in designing what appeared to be Perp Mot Machines
the idea that you can fuse H and Ni to form Cu at less then, roughly, 10^7 deg C is absurd
it is like someone claiming that they can run a mile in 10 seconds; it is just not credible; even if you see someone do that with your own eyes, you know there is trickery involved
uh, aren't these usually bp conserved, so they are iso energetic ?
if the net number of bp is reduced, where is the deltaG to make this go ?
is this the same montagnier who claimed he could do immunology over the telephone ? (twisted pair, back in the day)'
if you are a troll, congrats , you have gotten a lot of people riled up about your nonsense; if you are serious, politely, let me say that you are barking up the wrong tree here
the nature article is about neuronal membranes, nothing to do with DNAassembly
you might consider that people spend hours inside MRIs, where the magnetic field is ~~ 10,000 times that of the earth
(oh, wait, now you have MRI magnetoresponsive DNA induced tumorigenisis....)
and the idea of a lambda/M13 hybrid is cute, I bet dollars to donuts that this is not an industrial scale process by any means; long DNA (>10,000) is hard to work with and unstable
(wild type lambda DNA from, say, N E Biolabs, is about 250 dollars a *milligram*)
anything priced in milligrams is not, imo, an industrial process
it is true that much shorter DNA is sold for, afaik, macular degeneration, and whole virus particles are also used; this is not the same as origami things
anyway, DNA is temperature and pH sensitive, needs to be kept wet, and is attacked by numerous microorganisms, which secrete enzymes that chew up DNA, a good source of valuable, scarce nutrients like Phosphorus and reduced Nitrogen
Phage lambda and M13 propagate in E coli, a gram neg organism that makes pyrogen; purification of injection grade material from gram negatives is not a trivial task
The idea that DNA will be useful for almost anything but niche markets is absurd
there is something about bio stuff (DNA, cancer, stem cells) that just acerbates the buck rodgers teen ager in every slashdotter
Global GDP is about 85 trillion dollars
0.1% - 1penney on ten dollars - is 85 billion dollars a year
you know what they say, 85 billion here, 85 bn there, pretty soon it adds up to real money..
glad to see someone is up on the latest news.
however, if you read those storage papers, they usually conclude with something like, extra warming when the storage stops...