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Comment Re:Eww? (Score 1) 445

That was my first thought, I thought vegetarians would avoid it. But I run a science club at a university, and my Indian and Pakistani students who were raised vegetarian cannot get enough of the new meat. WE have a club outing every semester and I have to limit the number of spots. Maybe it is because they are more into the ecology and biotechnology aspects of it.

Comment Re:Why is there so much focus on Soy? (Score 1) 445

If I were you I would probably still not try it (too risky), but I doubt you would have any allergic reaction. The soy plant is not involved in the process. They took the protein DNA sequence from soy and inserted it into yeast, so really it is a yeast product not soy. Other ingredients include coconut and potato.

Much like human insulin is produced by yeast, but we do not have to worry about the blood type of the insulin sequence that came from human.

Comment Protein called heme (Score 4, Informative) 445

soy leghemoglobin, releases a protein called heme that gives the meat substitute its distinctive blood-like color and taste

Oh my god, so much wrong with this sentence:

  • leghemoglobin is the protein
  • heme is an organic molecule
  • leghemoglobin does not RELEASE heme, it holds the molecule inside
  • when the heme molecule in the protein binds oxygen it provides the red color.

source: I am a biochemistry lecturer and wikipedia

Comment Re:And just to be sure (Score 1) 136

they "found" some kiddie-porn oh his computer.

from the article:

His personal computer [..] held more than 10,000 images and videos of such material, protected under three layers of passwords.

maybe they planted it in some conspiracy, but the quote seems so specific that Schulte must have known it was there and was hiding it.

Comment peer-to-peer package delivery (Score 1) 493

It is hard to crunch the exact numbers, but I am in the camp that Amazon helps the USPS stay afloat, by giving them something to do. The way the USPS is structured government control but technically independent, there is not way there they can turn a profit.

That said, this is just going to push Bezos to implement his Uber/Lyft delivery even quicker. I've seen those white van of Amazon, tossing packages on my door stop, taking a picture, sprinting back to their van, and speeding off to their next drop.

What do we call this new delivery service: peer-to-peer package delivery?

Comment Really an organ? (Score 1) 208

Common definitions of an organ, Webster:
> a. differentiated structure (such as a heart, kidney, leaf, or stem) consisting of cells and tissues and performing some specific function in an organism.
> b. bodily parts performing a function or cooperating in an activity the eyes and related structures that make up the visual organs.

Wikipedia:
> Organs are collections of tissues with a similar function.

Britannica:
> a group of tissues in a living organism that have been adapted to perform a specific function.

Oxford:
> part of an organism which is typically self-contained and has a specific vital function.

These newly discovered channels, do not seem to consist of either cells or tissues and does not appear to be self-contained. I just feel like the authors thought, "if we say it might be a new organ we'll get bigger headlines."

Comment Extensions killed the beast (Score 3, Interesting) 104

I have been using Firefox since when it was only part of mozilla, but I have since moved to Waterfox, because I have not been able to replace my old extensions. And the newer version of my old extensions, e.g. noscript, really slow down the new firefox browser.

https://www.waterfoxproject.or...

Comment phone-home software in the navy (Score 1) 121

For some reason, I seem more concerned that the navy would allow some piece of software to phone-home to the company than the fact that they installed the software on multiple machines. I assume that is how they know the navy had 100,000 installs of their software.

Could the company then release an update that would essentially create a bot net of navy computers?

Comment Re:Lololololol (Score 1) 203

I like to see machine learning fail and how it fails. Based on the assumption of an all or nothing training set, neural networks will be 100% confident in their choice and also wrong.

This .gif shows three different hand positions that all communicate the number three:

https://imgur.com/a/KFR2M

Comment Firefox runs my machine at high load (Score 1) 178

I doubt the fixed it, but the new Quantum "faster" Firefox was really dragging down my system. At first, I thought some malicious add-on was mining cryptocurrency on my machine. But it turns out Firefox was just spawning orphan processes. I found the fix at the link below, which is basically to disable multi-threading in Firefox.

Multiple Firefoxes in the background, exiting the program doesn't clear them up. They persist.

I am still missing a few of my favorite add-ons as well. The bulk download manager DownThemAll was great, but it sounds like Firefox does not want that functionality, so no add-on has yet to be as useful.

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