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Dude, I retired like ten years ago. Since then, I've written and published two books, a metric crapton of software, learned 3D graphics and embedded systems, built a YouTube channel with a million subscribers, restored two cars, sent three kids off to college, learned to drive a race car, and now I'm a public speaker for fun.
I don't have a garden. No chill needed.
@Carnage2469 I think it would be better to have castration as the punishment for reoffending on most S.offences,
However, judges should be allowed to order physical castration with blunt instruments and no anaesthetic for the very worst offences, with an intact S.offender cellmate.
@Handicappadonna@FinancialPhys The company that made the 25-year fridge was bought out by the 2-year fridge company in an LBO.
To pay the debt down, they had to make cost savings and take "other measures" to increase sales.
Now they all last 2 years, but have Wi-Fi.
@Sandra_Cole44@DailyMail@officialsammyuk@recusant_raja The two-tier is much worse than you can imagine.
This is the definition for the crime she was convicted with, Misconduct in Public Office.
Surely a police officer who doesn't just turn a blind eye but is actively involved in these crimes should be in the dock.
Oh man.
This one hurts.
I raced Craig on the human genome project. It was Epic.
Although he was vilified by many of my peers.
I was young and bought into some of the vilification at the time.
I got to know him more personally after ABI purchased ApG.
Our team in Beverly even sequenced his genome, HuREF.
I came to learn my earlier perspectives on him were really flaws in my own world perspective at the time.
It was the Public vs Private science debate and I no longer look at tax funded science the way I did back then.
The C19 pandemic really emphasized this as I witnessed Craig’s arch rival turn personalized medicine into herd medicine.
After a reckless abuse of PCR-amplified pandemic fear, all the public sales pitches on precision medicine and personalized treatments went up in smoke.
The moment some of the virtuous public genome project leaders saw a window for immature genomic tools to save the world (and cover up their own lab leak), plans behind closed doors fell into place.
The transparency promised in the Bermuda accords turned into burner phones and FOIA evasion.
Suddenly the public sector displayed a whole level of unaccountability and subterfuge once garnished on Celera for the mere crime of being privately funded.
Craig was an entrepreneur who had no patience for red tape. He ruffled feathers but in the end he pushed everyone to run faster.
Some argue it came at the cost of quality but in reality, we now know we didn’t have the tools to 100% close the genome in 2000.
The last 8% took another 20 years as we had to wait for 2 generations of new sequencers to finally deliver 20-100kb reads.
We would have burned infinite money holding our breath for the last 8%.
But without that fast first 92%, 454, Solexa and SOLID would have matured later. These sequencers all relied on a human reference genome.
Sometimes we need the impatient private sector urgency spending their own money to create the price signal. What is the fastest path to a result the market will pay for?
For gov labs, this calculus departs from ROI decisions and it becomes easy to spend other people’s money in the pursuit of perfection. Public Scientists after-all are in a circular firing squad yelling perfection and , as long as someone else pays the bills, you can’t afford to compromise on perfection or the PubSmear mob will wreck you.
Pricing signals matter to get ROI decisions properly calibrated and avoiding asymtoptic costs for marginal gains.
Many will claim that Craig was out for shelf interest and was patenting 300 genes.
Public was giving it away for free.
That’s the story but it’s not true.
In the end the NIH ended up with more gene patents than Craig.
Not from their genome centers but from their funding streams. Jim Watson quit the genome project over it and some of the patents were from NIH funding Craigs EST projects.
I have a whole paper in Nature methods on Gene Patents and how to evade them with DREAM PCR.
If you were morally opposed to this, you didn’t have to buy Celera stock. Your tax dollars had no such veto right and in the end your tax dollars were used to patent genes, charge you again as those were licensed to CDX companies and raised pricing.
Suddenly the good guy vs villain story blurs into a story about human nature and poor incentive structures.
.@zarahsultana I assume this is a different Zarah Sultana MP to the one who was recently filmed clapping along to loudspeaker chants for intifada, on a street in Surrey.
https://t.co/J9nLlYtw59
@CartlandDavid As far as I know there's no reporting restrictions (but check a better source than me).
There's also troll accounts being mobilised. So obvious.
Check the comments on posts about this case.
Somebody's getting accounts spun up to manage public opinion.
Plus a total MSM blackout.
Not their first rodeo, obviously.
Today at 1030, Court 2 at the Old Bailey will see the trial of the two Ukrainian men and one Romanian man for their arson attack on Keir Starmer’s properties and car.
The judge is Sir Neil Garnham.
Let’s talk about Sir Neil for a minute: he was the lawyer for the Met Police in the Leveson Inquiry. Starmer was the Director of Public Prosecutions at the time.
Sir Neil acted for the government in the Litvinenko poisoning case.
It must be difficult to find a judge that is not linked to Starmer and I suspect that this case will be closely scrutinised.