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What do you define as successful? Purely by financial success or does it include a good work/family life balance with kids etc?

As with most things, humans are generally predictable. People in every generation will feel like their own society threatened in one form or another.

I'm not afraid of change - i grew up around technology during the 90s where we played outside every day and consider myself "up to date" wrt the current zeitgeist. I firmly believe technology (especially space tech) is the way forward but i still have reservations about the current sate of social media due to the effects on the psyche i see in people in my life. But that's just my experience.

I normally don't post here but i just wanted to say that i've noticed the same thing around me and have also felt the crushing depression that comes with the realisation that everyone is addicted to something that's destroying the very fabric of our society.

And your point about fixing loneliness through a painful but personal journey is spot on. If it doesn't hurt, you're not really doing it properly.

Go out and meet new people, talk about new ideas and remember that all storms will pass.

You mean Marlboro Red Long and die?

I'm not sure how many they've actually sold but i do know that they have a loan/test program where you can pay a relatively small amount (around $2000 or less) to get set up with a MinION kit. The main recurring cost is the flow cell. I'm currently trying to figure out how to join together short multiplexed samples (150bp - 200bp) and get it sequenced on the MinION. Current short-read sequencers from Illumina or ThermoFisher cost orders of magnitude more than Oxford Nanopore's offering. Hopefully someone else is trying to use the platform for short reads.

Then maybe remove and replace the special characters?

There are too many, rarely understood processes involved in fertilisation and subsequent embryogenesis. I don't think we can fully create a human (or even other complex life forms) fully synthetically. Rather, i think scientists would just exploit tried and tested natural mechanisms such as embedding half of the synthetic genome into the spermatazoon with the other half residing in the oocyte and letting "nature" take its course.

There's just too much knowledge we're missing right now (even the calcium signalling cascade initiated by the sperm fusing with the egg isn't fully understood). Of course, who knows where we'd be in 10, 20, 50 or 100 years?

Am i correct in assuming that getting peer reviewed binds you to their terms, one of which must be to disallow other means of distribution?

I know at uni, our tutors told us to politely email researchers for a copy in case our subscription didn't cover their research. I didn't bother with this as booksc (libgen) and sci-hub are faster.

Reminds me of the pre-netflix era.

Is it possible for you to release a PDF/LaTeX source via other means?

Anyone else reminded of the Metal Gear Solid series? The cutscenes (especially in MGSV) had the same exact shaky cam and overall feel in this clip.

It gives you directions to Hollywood, Worcestershire (UK).

>Why do you care about spyware if games are more important?

I use my Windows machine for gaming only, whereas the rest of my computing is split between my MacBook and iPad.

Okay, tell me how i can play all my Steam games then (no, not just the Source Engine ones).

Not to mention the auto playing video ad that played in full screen on my iPhone.

>Do you ask for a refund when you bought a newspaper and, after reading it, you don't like what you read?

No, because i know what to expect from different newspapers and in the very very rare cases where i buy them, i do that only after skimming the front and relevant pages.

>Do you ask for a refund when you bought an app on the app store and you stop using it after 1 hour because it doesn't fit your need?

Yes, all the time.

What's your point?