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by Blahah 13y ago
Thanks! This is our number one priority at the moment. We'll have a new small-task focused design up in a few weeks and are working with project owners to break things down.
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by Blahah 13y ago
I know of two ways currently being tried to address this. The first is to have scientists break their problems down into chunks that can be performed by volunteers but which aren't completely beyond the ability of the scientist to mana
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by Blahah 13y ago
Funding is harder if you're unaffiliated - unless you collaborate with people in academia. There are more ways to do this opening up though, crowd funding ( http://experiment.com ) for example.
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by Blahah 13y ago
If you're interested in doing research without an affiliation, I'm building up a network of collaborators for open research. Have a ton of interesting problems around bioinformatics and computational biology. I've put a coupl
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by Blahah 13y ago
For me, the value of the PhD is in the experience itself. Few get to experience, full time for 4 years, the intellectual freedom that my PhD affords. Even if I never work in academia, or my PhD doesn't help me get a much better job tha
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by Blahah 13y ago
> If you had to pick a tech company to leverage your disruptive new consumer technology, and make sure it kept the 'awesome', and was hacker friendly, who would you go to? google
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by Blahah 13y ago
It depends entirely on his contract - I'd expect most CEOs to have a clause about their conduct causing harm to the organisation. Even if not, it's legal to convince someone to leave, which is what usually happens in public embarr
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by Blahah 13y ago
Perhaps I'm missing something - how could donating to Prop 8 be in support of abolishing the marriage institution? Full text: Section I. Title This measure shall be known and may be cited as the "California Marriage Protection Ac
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by Blahah 13y ago
OK, if you need to picky, something more comparable. Imagine he said: "black people are inferior to white people and don't deserve to be happy".
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by Blahah 13y ago
How is everyone being forced to take a stand? People who don't care don't have to do anything.
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by Blahah 13y ago
> whatever Eich does in his time is irrelevant Of course it isn't. If he was backdooring JS crypto libraries for the NSA, or shooting orphans, or selling crack, that would be seriously inappropriate behaviour and he would lose his
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by Blahah 13y ago
Good point - I came away with the inference that they are seeking to embed the tech. But as you've highlighted, they don't explicitly say that.
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by Blahah 13y ago
I was just providing the application so people could evaluate the technology, not suggesting it was evidence of anything.
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by Blahah 13y ago
if you read the article, you'd see they're working on OEM deals to get the tech into batteries across the board. The Box is just a nice consumer demo so people can get their hands on it now. Actually a pretty smart PR move. Also,
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by Blahah 13y ago
pretty sure it's this one: https://www.google.com/patents/WO2013142964A1 basically the technique involves pulsing the current during (dis)charging, and optimising the length and timing of the pulsing in real-time,
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by Blahah 13y ago
Which country are you in?
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by Blahah 13y ago
Absolutely. Reading it I was thinking that I also want to die without a fight, without the last desperate medical torture. But perhaps it's only the experience of seeing how people suffer in prolonged death that makes doctors brave en
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How Doctors Die(saturdayeveningpost.com)
2 points by Blahah 13y ago|2 comments
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by Blahah 13y ago
I don't really understand how you can think there's a root cause but not be able to say it on HN. Since ggreer says he can't say, can anyone explain what he's getting at?
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by Blahah 13y ago
One of my earliest memories is of Christmas eve, sharing a room at a relative's house with my younger siblings. It was some time after midnight, my siblings were asleep. I heard a rustling outside and, knowing santa was purportedly com
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What You Can't Say (2004)(paulgraham.com)
191 points by Blahah 13y ago|290 comments
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by Blahah 13y ago
that's much better than 'hand crafted in MS Word' or 'broken Wordpress'
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by Blahah 13y ago
That's true, it would actually make them seem less cretinous if they said they had cracked a lost key. I guess the fact that they have to have been so staggeringly incompetent to have 200,000 bitcoins they didn't even know about m
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by Blahah 13y ago
> It seems at least plausible that he attempted to steal them and is now backpedaling since people aren't buying his malleability story. Or that they lost the keys to some wallets and have managed to crack one.
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by Blahah 13y ago
There are already many bacteria (and fungi) that can break down plastics. http://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/green-science...
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by Blahah 13y ago
> the chance to be educated with the help of Bill&Melinda foundation Not just educated, but nourished and relatively healthy. BMF has done a lot to make the world better.
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by Blahah 13y ago
Both Kandan and Unison can be deployed on your own server
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by Blahah 13y ago
it means "stupid and nasty" edit: why did I get downvoted? That's a literal translation, not what I think of the icons.
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by Blahah 13y ago
Is this solving some problem that Hipchat, Campfire, Slack, Kandan, Unison, etc. don't already solve?
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by Blahah 13y ago
Wasn't that always the difference?

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