sadly, the totality of data on a longitudinal basis means if you have any of the keys you can fairly accurately identify. some trials ran into that problem with people with certain rare disorders. the existence of the allelles mean we know it's one of maybe 200 people in the world, so any of the other data deanonymizes it. had to remove data submissions in certain cases, as that would go against protocol.
It's a problem only recently realized, and partly brought on by the nature of people who become cases and unknown disease status. people with disorders or relatives of these people tend to volunteer for studies, so you get overrepresentation without realizing it, and rare disorders make for a very high probability match.
Additionally, you can't share the data gathered from living subjects or even deceased individuals when the data includes their DNA and detailed medical history.
There are strict protocols about this.
Which is why I laugh when vendors try to sell me "cloud solutions".
They want you to get a "cure" that keeps you functional but doesn't cure you. Very few scientists want that. They want to both cure it and find out how to turn off the triggers or ameliorate them.
Idiot...the way we despose of nuclear waste in modern times using modern reactors is a lot different from 50 years ago....if you don't understand that then stfu.
I read energy research papers. I've invested in nuclear fission plants. And here at the UW we have a working fusion power plant.
And we use nuclear fission reactors to create tracer medical materials and do NMR. Which was part of a project we did that provided the basic science underpinnings of all the malarial cures and even the understanding of how TB infects human cells.
So, yes, I know a lot about this. And you obviously are a corporate shill.
Having consistent power to refrigerate vaccines and medicines, and sterilize needles is critical to curing diseases worldwide.
Moving to a more decentralized approach of clean power generation allows areas with major health problems from disease to leapfrog past other countries. And because they're not that useful in warfare, if done on a mass produced level and inexpensively, it makes it easy enough to maintain (just train people to fix them and install them, and set them on resupply and maintenance runs, with text messages for "out of supplies" or "power running low" or "diagnostic error code physical problem") using burst relay communications.
Same goes for water. The Gates Foundation has demonstrated they could mass produce clean water supplies from... basically sewage (human wastes). They just need power supplies to run those. If you roll out solar worldwide in mass quantities you drop the cost to maintain and install low enough. And you can use such devices to charge phones that use low energy communications. Most diseases in poor nations involve lack of clean drinking water. If you can't get clean drinking water locally but you can get it free from one of these devices, you'll use that. Nobody wants their babies to die.
Doesn't matter if it won't charge your phone at night when it needs power to run the fridges, so long as you make it modular.
Most modern data centers run on DC nowadays. The efficiency losses from AC and the cooling and bulk of AC transformers for systems that are literally DC mean we can save from 10-25 percent of our total power usage by running DC. It takes a lot of power to cool down the excess heat from AC transformers.
Pretty much every day I get sales agents trying to sell me on converting our data centers to DC. There's a lot of money in that.
But that's a data center. A kitchen and household appliances tends to be more work than it's worth. But if you're in a remote area and all your power inputs are DC (solar, for example), then it might make some sense.
AC just gets transformed. Look at your store bought computer, it has two switches. One is for 110V AC or 220V AC. The other is for AC or DC. The internal circuits all run 6V or 12V DC. If you bypass the transformer, you can run direct DC, provided it's at 6V DC or 12V DC.
Even the plug for your iPhone works that way. It's why it's so big.
In the event of a major quake that takes down your electric grid power, you just have to turn all your key appliances to DC, add up the resistance, make sure the physical wires don't connect to anything AC, and plug your solar panels into the circuit. Hook up some batteries, or use the DC input for your electric car, to balance the load and you can run without a grid. It's not that difficult. We used to wire S100 bus computers from direct DC, we only added AC later.
The major problem with DC is sending it long distances. That doesn't work so well.
(yes, this is overly simplified, but let's not get into that)
My university alone holds many dozens of patents on solar energy and battery technology, and the license fees are much cheaper than they would be if held by a private firm.
Not true in Washington State. We have strong constitutional protections in our state constitution for privacy, and you need a specific and individual warrant for that.
Actually, this is a very insightful comment. One of the easiest things to do would be alter the electrical and construction codes to include both passive solar (windows, really, but triple pane and placed correctly) and active solar (structural support and access for solar panels in optimal locations and pitch) which would drive the cost down from $7000 a panel to around $300 a panel.
As an example of how this works, look at the LEEDS standards. Are they overly complicated? Yes. If you build using that, can you improve energy efficiency dramatically? Yes. Can trained architects and builders and their contractors, with experience, use them to reduce energy costs dramatically? Yes.
I just finished paying for four solar units (each is a panel, basically) in large-scale urban buildings. Cost around $150 each. If I had installed them myself using a contractor and the current permit and building codes, it would have cost me $7000 each. But because they were part of a building from the ground up and as a large project, the cost dropped markedly. (yes, I used to build houses with my dad and took EE so I could have installed them myself for probably $600 each, but you get the point).
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Palpatine uses vim.
I for one welcome our well documented Libre Office code overlords.
But mostly because some of them are friends.
sadly, the totality of data on a longitudinal basis means if you have any of the keys you can fairly accurately identify. some trials ran into that problem with people with certain rare disorders. the existence of the allelles mean we know it's one of maybe 200 people in the world, so any of the other data deanonymizes it. had to remove data submissions in certain cases, as that would go against protocol.
It's a problem only recently realized, and partly brought on by the nature of people who become cases and unknown disease status. people with disorders or relatives of these people tend to volunteer for studies, so you get overrepresentation without realizing it, and rare disorders make for a very high probability match.
But will settle for Hyundai.
Additionally, you can't share the data gathered from living subjects or even deceased individuals when the data includes their DNA and detailed medical history.
There are strict protocols about this.
Which is why I laugh when vendors try to sell me "cloud solutions".
Can't they just settle this with a football game?
Most of us like soccer more than football. It's a West Coast thing.
Additionally, any copyrights and patents usually derive to the actual research university which first worked on it. Not the PI.
I think you mean the pharmas.
They want you to get a "cure" that keeps you functional but doesn't cure you. Very few scientists want that. They want to both cure it and find out how to turn off the triggers or ameliorate them.
Very sad.
Most ADRCs use drive to drive backups btw. With multiple site locations. We get quakes here.
Part of object which fell in giant ocean found in other part of giant ocean.
Excessive CNN coverage at 24/7!
Idiot...the way we despose of nuclear waste in modern times using modern reactors is a lot different from 50 years ago....if you don't understand that then stfu.
I read energy research papers. I've invested in nuclear fission plants. And here at the UW we have a working fusion power plant.
And we use nuclear fission reactors to create tracer medical materials and do NMR. Which was part of a project we did that provided the basic science underpinnings of all the malarial cures and even the understanding of how TB infects human cells.
So, yes, I know a lot about this. And you obviously are a corporate shill.
I mean, I'm perfectly comfortable here in my suit and waistcoat. ...
Actually, I'm working in shorts and a t-shirt. It's summer, for gosh darned sakes!
2000? That's ages. Solar is cheaper than oil, and even cheaper than coal now.
Are you still running Windows 95? Or have you upgraded to Win2K yet?
Except nuclear waste takes 100 thousand times as long to go away.
Thanks for playing!
Having consistent power to refrigerate vaccines and medicines, and sterilize needles is critical to curing diseases worldwide.
Moving to a more decentralized approach of clean power generation allows areas with major health problems from disease to leapfrog past other countries. And because they're not that useful in warfare, if done on a mass produced level and inexpensively, it makes it easy enough to maintain (just train people to fix them and install them, and set them on resupply and maintenance runs, with text messages for "out of supplies" or "power running low" or "diagnostic error code physical problem") using burst relay communications.
Same goes for water. The Gates Foundation has demonstrated they could mass produce clean water supplies from ... basically sewage (human wastes). They just need power supplies to run those. If you roll out solar worldwide in mass quantities you drop the cost to maintain and install low enough. And you can use such devices to charge phones that use low energy communications. Most diseases in poor nations involve lack of clean drinking water. If you can't get clean drinking water locally but you can get it free from one of these devices, you'll use that. Nobody wants their babies to die.
Doesn't matter if it won't charge your phone at night when it needs power to run the fridges, so long as you make it modular.
Very good idea.
Most modern data centers run on DC nowadays. The efficiency losses from AC and the cooling and bulk of AC transformers for systems that are literally DC mean we can save from 10-25 percent of our total power usage by running DC. It takes a lot of power to cool down the excess heat from AC transformers.
Pretty much every day I get sales agents trying to sell me on converting our data centers to DC. There's a lot of money in that.
But that's a data center. A kitchen and household appliances tends to be more work than it's worth. But if you're in a remote area and all your power inputs are DC (solar, for example), then it might make some sense.
AC just gets transformed. Look at your store bought computer, it has two switches. One is for 110V AC or 220V AC. The other is for AC or DC. The internal circuits all run 6V or 12V DC. If you bypass the transformer, you can run direct DC, provided it's at 6V DC or 12V DC.
Even the plug for your iPhone works that way. It's why it's so big.
In the event of a major quake that takes down your electric grid power, you just have to turn all your key appliances to DC, add up the resistance, make sure the physical wires don't connect to anything AC, and plug your solar panels into the circuit. Hook up some batteries, or use the DC input for your electric car, to balance the load and you can run without a grid. It's not that difficult. We used to wire S100 bus computers from direct DC, we only added AC later.
The major problem with DC is sending it long distances. That doesn't work so well.
(yes, this is overly simplified, but let's not get into that)
actually bird kill by wind turbines is much lower than bird kill by crop spraying and other pesticide and farm machinery use.
A lot has changed in the last decade.
My university alone holds many dozens of patents on solar energy and battery technology, and the license fees are much cheaper than they would be if held by a private firm.
Not true in Washington State. We have strong constitutional protections in our state constitution for privacy, and you need a specific and individual warrant for that.
It's a good thing.
Actually, this is a very insightful comment. One of the easiest things to do would be alter the electrical and construction codes to include both passive solar (windows, really, but triple pane and placed correctly) and active solar (structural support and access for solar panels in optimal locations and pitch) which would drive the cost down from $7000 a panel to around $300 a panel.
As an example of how this works, look at the LEEDS standards. Are they overly complicated? Yes. If you build using that, can you improve energy efficiency dramatically? Yes. Can trained architects and builders and their contractors, with experience, use them to reduce energy costs dramatically? Yes.
I just finished paying for four solar units (each is a panel, basically) in large-scale urban buildings. Cost around $150 each. If I had installed them myself using a contractor and the current permit and building codes, it would have cost me $7000 each. But because they were part of a building from the ground up and as a large project, the cost dropped markedly. (yes, I used to build houses with my dad and took EE so I could have installed them myself for probably $600 each, but you get the point).
Look, let me be crystal here:
Solar prices have plummetted. Both passive and active.
Wind price have plummetted.
Battery prices have plummetted.
It's obvious you're stuck in the 70s Reagan myths.
It's 2015. Not 1975. The world - and energy capital costs - have changed dramatically.
Ice doesn't cut down solar absorption much. Any physicist knows that.
Pretty sure I'm using an iPhone.
Pretty sure I had to reset privacy setting after iOS upgrades a few times.
Maybe, in your magical world, Apple can do no wrong and none of the apps every do that?
Are there unicorns there, too?