Eigenstate | 2 years ago | on: Stanford Graduate Students Won Their Union Vote
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Eigenstate | 2 years ago | on: Stanford Graduate Students Won Their Union Vote
Because higher education shouldn't be something reserved for the independently wealthy?
Eigenstate | 2 years ago | on: Show HN: PFAS.report – Measure the forever chemicals in your blood via Quest
That's hardly an apples to apples comparison. A typical American has around 100 ng/mL selenium in their blood. By your logic, that's a toxic heavy metal that's ten times as bad as PFAS in terms of concentration. It's actually an essential cofactor in many biological processes. I'm not implying PFAS is harmless, but the dose makes the poison and it depends what biological processes are being interfered with.
Eigenstate | 3 years ago | on: EPA orders Norfolk Southern to conduct all cleanup actions related to derailment
> the combustion products are relatively benign
If you consider phosgene and HCl to be "benign" based on their half life sure, but this assumes complete combustion. The cloud of visible black smoke emitted shows that clearly didn't happen. Partially combusted vinyl chloride monomer is some horrible mix of carcinogens that will contaminate the area for years.
Eigenstate | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: What can you realistically manufacture in your garage?
It's only profitable if your time is worth nothing, but you can build a kit plane like the Vans RV-7 in a garage for around that startup cost.
Eigenstate | 3 years ago | on: How to Not Get Hit by Cars
How do protected cycle lanes mitigate the crash types in the article? I see how they may prevent getting rear ended or doored, but all the intersection conflict points remain and in many cases are exacerbated by the "protection." I've seen lane designs that force cyclists to pass right turning cars on the right at intersections. Often the barriers reduce visibility and tell drivers they don't have to be aware of bikes, increasing the chances for conflict. While infrastructure does need to be improved, I don't think this is a complete solution.
Eigenstate | 3 years ago | on: I'm making drugs for cats
This guy didn't do a lot of research when he picked chronic spontaneous urticaria as the target human indication. There already is an effective biologic, omalizumab, that works on the majority of patients and has no side effects (source: I have CSU/pressure urticaria). Cyclosporine is a heavy duty immunosuppressant with side effects that are worse than hives, imo, so I'm not sure what the target market would be. Personally I'd rather not take the risks of being seriously immunosuppressed, even if it meant getting hives. And, it was the drug my immunologist wanted me to try next if the biologic didn't work, so it's already being prescribed off label.
Eigenstate | 8 years ago | on: Dilution of whisky – the molecular perspective
I use Amber to do similar calculations. It's distributed as a free set of analysis and preparatory programs called AmberTools, which is the V15 software cited, and a licensed simulation program, which is v10. Interestingly, that is a super old version (usually it's released every other year or so with the number corresponding to the year)
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> A Stanford postdoctoral scholar is a non-matriculated trainee, in graduate student status, in residence at Stanford University pursuing advanced studies beyond the doctoral level in preparation for an independent career.
This makes doing taxes as a postdoc extremely irritating as the stipend is not earned income, which of course benefits Stanford's tax situation considerably.