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The site isn't down. It's censored. Look at the link address.

You don't RENT in that area. You have to buy. Then you can sell it later, and get back all that extra money you were paid for living in a place with high housing costs.

Google and Amazon have, instead of going remote, established branch offices all over the US, in every cool city where hip young non-Republicans live.

If you try to balance speakers racially, you'll run into the problem that we often deliberately discriminate against certain minorities (usually the Chinese) in order to raise the …

Given that this was whole-genome sequencing, is 1700 mutations higher than other tissues? The paper doesn't appear to say that. If they were claiming that this were an unusually hi…

Are you sure you're not counting mitochondrial DNA mutations? A single neuron has about 1000 mitochondria, and would easily have tens of thousands of unique mitochondrial mutations…

It is extremely unlikely that the brain encodes information by introducing controlled mutations into DNA. Random mutations would add noise, not information. It is likely that some …

It says "~1700 mutations per neuron", not "up to 1000 mutations".

Probably. On the other hand, cells which have a shorter lifespan might have more mutations, since some mutations are introduced during replication--several per genome per replicati…

First, you don't score points with me for saying not to use Hadoop when you don't need to use Hadoop. Second, you don't get to pretend you invented shell scripting because you came…

Better get some more servers. newsblur.com and dev.newsblur.com are not responding. "502 · NewsBlur is down"

I never found Google Code Search useful. What I wanted to be able to do was to search for code expressions with Google -- to be able, for instance, to search for the words "C++" or…

Home buyers are systematically better at planning for the long term than bankers, because most bankers don't plan to be working at the same bank 30 years from now - or, if they do,…