Interesting Links for 24-01-2012
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andrewducker- Rare pink elephant is caught on camera
- An interview with Matias Duarte, head of Android User Experience
- Give Gamers the Ignorance They Crave
- Some useful data on abortions.
- Doctor Who's Russell T Davies creates new CBBC TV series Aliens Vs Wizards
- HTML5 Please - a guide to what parts of the spec are ready for use.
- A Better Tax System (some assembly required)
- Germany has the economic strengths America once boasted
- Labour think plans for curbing executive pay don't go far enough
- Say No to ACTA - please read this and then sign the petition
- Conservatives think plans for curbing executive pay go too far.
- Are Men More Likely To Be Homeless?
- A page and a half of reasons I'm glad I'm not playing Skyrim yet.
- Magic mushrooms may help with depression
- Timeline of the first 300ms of a car crash - before the driver notices.
- New Sequencer Brings $1,000 Genome Within Reach
- Good Lord, shareholders successfully stopping high pay in a company!
- Tory MP Nadine Dorries urges reform of 'sexist' BBC.
Yes, I'm baffled too. I didn't think Nadine Dorries went in for that kind of thing.
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Date: 2012-01-24 11:42 am (UTC)The article also claims that Illumina machines (disclaimer: I am an Illumina user) cost upwards of $500,000 and that their new machine will cost $740,000. Which is true only if you ignore the MiSeq, which is Illumina's competitor to the Ion Torrent PGM and costs about $125,000. This is pretty competitive to the Ion Torrent machines, especially if you stop thinking about just the machine and think about the whole cost as the sample preparation for the Ion Torrent machines is different and more complicated.
Also I don't know why they're distinguishing between genome chip and exome chip, unless there's some kind of complicated exome-capture chip I don't know about - the chip only determines how much sequence you get out, not what you actually sequence, so the only difference will be capacity of the chips, and you could easily do an exome prep and stuff it on a genome chip.
In short, I am biased towards Illumina because I use their machines, but that article is slanted towards the Ion Torrent side of things and ultimately it's currently a war of sequencing vapourware until anyone has an Ion Proton or upgraded Illumina device to play with.
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Date: 2012-01-24 05:04 pm (UTC)I do think the general drop in price of the analysis is fantastic. I liked your recent post, and I'm very tempted to get a complete run-down once they get cheap enough.
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Date: 2012-01-25 11:38 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-25 12:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-24 02:44 pm (UTC)A lot of homelessness is caused by mental illness. In that case, I'm betting the male/female ratio would be about equal.
Another section of homelessness is caused by drug addiction. In that case I'm betting there are more male homeless than female homeless, because a woman has more options in terms of trading her body for drugs/a place to sleep.
That said, as far as homeless people with children I'd bet that number sways very highly female, because a lot of them are probably women trying to get themselves and their children away from an abusive relationship.
Then again, I bet homeless teenagers sway heavily male, because a ton of them become homeless after their parents discover they are gay. I'm guessing this would happen less to lesbian teens, because parents would be more apt to dismiss a daughter saying she's gay as a phase then they would a son. (Since that's what society does anyway.)
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Date: 2012-01-25 08:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-24 06:21 pm (UTC)Same with Fallout 1, 2 and 3.
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Date: 2012-01-24 06:35 pm (UTC)-- Steve'd complain more about it save that the content is so damned good when it is running.
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Date: 2012-01-24 09:52 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-24 09:41 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-24 09:43 pm (UTC)I'm 2/3 of the way through Halting State at the moment, and have just reached a car crash, where bubbles inflate smartly in order to keep the person in the drivers seat from hitting the walls, and then contain them entirely. Not far off, I'd say.
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Date: 2012-01-24 10:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-24 09:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-29 03:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-29 03:59 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-30 11:05 am (UTC)I'm all for simplifying the tax system over here, but I'm not sure that globally doing away with reliefs (which are aimed at things the government thinks is desirable, such as donating to charity and making pension contributions) is the best way to do it. I agree that mortgage interest tax relief is not a good idea, and it was sensible for the UK to abandon it.
One reason why our tax system is so complex is that people do abuse reliefs, and therefore rules are introduced to stop them being used in circumstances where the government did not intend them to be used. My opinion is that it's a better thing to have the reliefs than to do away with them on the grounds that it's all too difficult - but then I work in tax.
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Date: 2012-01-30 11:10 am (UTC)Reliefs is something I'm torn on. I do think they're a good way to encourage companies to do good things, but I don't know if their results are checked intermittently to see if we're getting good value for money out of them.
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Date: 2012-01-30 01:14 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-30 01:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-30 01:51 pm (UTC)http://www.cooperativeindividualism.org/lambert-ian_on-adam-smith.html