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Require diversity in the interview pool, not when making hiring decisions. e.g. in a male majority profession, for every two male applicants selected to interview, select at least …

I bounced off Midnight’s Children the first time I tried to read it, but that was probably 10 or 15 years ago now. I’m in between books at the moment, so your comment will push me …

Three Booker prize winners I’m particularly fond of: The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro Girl, Woman, Other - Bernardine Evaristo Pachin…

It has been possible to print double-sided since at least Lion/2008…

100% agree, and it's wonderful to see Snakemake on the top of HN. Snakemake is an invaluable tool in bioinformatics analysis. It's a testament to Johannes' talent and dedication th…

Yes, it's a DSL. Here's a simple scatter-gather example. Let's say you want to count the number of lines in each file for a list of samples, and report a table of counts collected …

> I’d have directed an institute to run a report on theoretic safety and then a trial on volunteers. Commonly known as “pre-clinical development” and “clinical trials”

High-risk populations such as the immunocompromised are tested in a Phase 4 trial.

> Once automated/easy/rapid sample prep comes, there will be mass adoption in the space. Sounds like Elon calling biology a “software problem”. Not saying that you’re wrong, just s…