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This is pretty cool, and the first I've heard of the SOS Fund. Was this something that you actively sought out, or did they come to you?

If you want to go direct to the publication: "Conceptual Design of a Universal Donor Screening Approach for Vaginal Microbiota Transplant", https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.…

I had some trouble accessing the site; if anyone needs a mirror: https://web.archive.org/web/20190917180019/https://cosmoteer...

It seems so: https://github.com/lunaroyster/LaTeX-search

This seems like it would be related to a broader shift (among tech parents, at least [0]) from digital to analog. From my perspective, it seems like a pendulum. On the whole, baby …

> Apple users seem far more willing to pay for small useful applications from indie developers so more indie developers put more effort into producing small useful and beautiful ap…

> If it fails, you know they aren't. And if it succeeds, well, then you know they are. This problem is solved in an interesting way by Keybase Chat, in which messages sent to non-e…

When I was running hiring at a previous startup, we ran into this issue often. When I proposed adding FizzBuzz to our screening process, I got a fair amount of pushback from the te…

If you replace "punish" with "control" I think that's an easily-extensible template, because isn't that ultimately tied to the personal ethics of the employee? : hey dude want to w…

> This is a horrible idea that breaks the idea of secret ballot and opens up all sorts of vote buying, coercion and intimidation. Not at all; the parent said "taken into account in…

From the article, it seems they're dealing with demand fluctuations of 1000-3000 MW within a given hour (2PM was the example), so I think it's really working on a totally different…

I think this is a natural outcome of the peer review process; you're not targeting research papers at statistical models, you're targeting them at human reviewers. This kind of beh…

Agreed. I don't object to company or founder exposés such as these, but I do find the article's focus on the founders' age to be misplaced and distasteful. I also think that these …

In case anyone else was curious, it seems the penalties for being so labelled are enforced through the imposition of tariffs [0]. If the IMF / WTO agree with the Fed's characteriza…

FIOS wasn't actually why that market segment died; it was due to the FCC decision to re-classify DSL [0]. This was in response to a lawsuit resolved a few months earlier that did t…

> i've always wondered how companies get away with decrypting certain sites, i.e. Healthcare. Often, through some kind of employee code of conduct; think along the lines of "I agre…

> At best you have someone who is basically an idiot savant. At worst, you have someone who has forgotten basic life functions, but handles being a soldier like the best of them. F…

> PCs made a lot of fast progress until sometime in the 90s and then things stagnated. Transistor densities increased 2 orders of magnitude (~100x) between 1995 and 2005. Integer o…

In this case, I think that's especially true, but maybe not from the perspective you intended: they were sold on the idea of reduced costs, and they're marketing the changes to the…

Pollution is a commonly-used example of a negative externality [0], or a way to shift business costs onto a third party. In the parent example, the implication is that rather than …

From the comment guidelines: > Be kind. Don't be snarky. Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive. > Please respond to the stron…

Yep, that's pretty accurate. It also drives degree inflation in the job market: "Why would I hire a BS student when I can get an MS or even PhD for the same price?"

If you're interested, you can find a more comprehensive cast of cryptographic characters on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_and_Bob#Cast_of_characte...

Carol is also commonly used as the 'C' when a third agent is necessary.

If you dig into the documentation they've released so far, you'll find that it explicitly addresses this (I also am in the "No Facebook-owned Services" camp, so I went digging for …