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I interviewed at Sikorsky back in the day. Sort of wish I had pursued it, because the factory floor was amazing , but the manager reminded me of a guy from The Sopranos, and then I…

Soundgarden’s Black Hole Sun for those of a certain age: https://youtu.be/3mbBbFH9fAg

Actual paper here: https://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/aer.20162015

You should probably read the actual analysis (free, 40+ page paper), they accounted for all sorts of things. https://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/aer.20162015

They’re going to do their version of “Other bets”.

My first job out of college was as a junior engineering officer on a ship. I had taken naval architecture and the daily draft report was part of my job. The fuel king had a spreads…

I believe socialism has a pretty specific definition: government ownership and control of the means of production. Which is easy to grasp for steel mills, power plants, and hospita…

Unfortunately, some people are going to read this wrong. For example: I know some folks who have "second dinner" after 8 pm. Their children are definitively obese, and I can see th…

How do you propose to infect cells deep inside solid tumors?How do you target cells that have lost cell surface markers? Your example, p16, is used in many cells intermittently, or…

You may be interested in the FedRAMP marketplace: https://marketplace.fedramp.gov/#/products?status=FedRAMP%20...

I donated white 2007 to the local Lego robotics team and it's still winning.

There is: they are intertwined with other regimes: * The international banking regime * The US legal regime for corporate purposes * Many other national regimes for operating purpo…

> I can't think of a single other example of a single-purpose CA like this. Department of Defense: http://www.disa.mil/enterprise-services/identity-and-access-...

Look up Sanger sequencing.

There are regions with sparse coverage due to higher concentrations of C-G bases. This can make alignment results less reliable. Plasmids may interfere with alignment or need to be…

Personal opinion based on anecdotal evidence: population mobility has increased career opportunity at the expense of the opportunities afforded to young families through staying cl…

I'd go beyond "general problem-solving skills". Physics gives you high quality math training (albeit somewhat truncated with respect to number theory), coupled with demanding exper…

Theory vs experiment. More data always wins.

Then please cite the better ones...

Matt Cutts now works for Defense Digital Service....

My sense is that the major issue is not the algorithms. The algorithms are plenty fine today. The major issue is data. Not "more" data. Just data. There are vast swaths of the econ…

> also ordering services such as use of the clinic, assistants, supplies, and so forth For things like moles, a big chunk is the pathologist's professional fee, as well as the tech…

The methods of Medicare pricing were established by DeBakey's subordinates when Johnson pushed Medicare through. It's backroom deals all the way down.

Can't vote on those, and it's five hysterical pacifist comments who conveniently forget that the DoD also owns the "homeless missions" by default, and complained when Obama didn't …