LordKeren

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by LordKeren 3y ago
Most people view ISPs as a utility provider, so it should be expected that people would be annoyed at the idea that they get to double dip in the profit. I pay my electric company (the ones that create the infrastructure to make an ISP poss
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by LordKeren 3y ago
One of the strangest aspects of patents is that it is much easier to get a patent than it is to defend that patent in court. Many patents are granted by the patent office then revoked by judges.
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by LordKeren 3y ago
Coke’s recipe is protected by Trade Secret, not patents. If you can figure out how to reverse engineer Coke 1:1 on your own, you can sell the resulting product. Coke is only protected from people selling their recipe to competitors.
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by LordKeren 3y ago
AFAIK the DMA specifically allows this to protect the operating system, so Apple is always going to be involved in the process to ensure basic security. Whether you agree with that or take Apple’s word on what is a valid security concern is
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by LordKeren 3y ago
I use ChatGPT and Copilot embedded my IDE every day. I can review my commits from the past year objectively say that these tools have increased my code output and quality. So reading that AI is useless seems like a stark denial of plain fac
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by LordKeren 3y ago
Unlike crypto, AI already has very strong real world use cases and has been wholly embraced by the public. It’s an unfortunate reality that one of crypto’s long term side effects is instilling a strong tech-cynicism in a large amount of peo
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by LordKeren 3y ago
DNA sequencing and CRISPR tag generation is not the bottle neck of this process. It’s so cheap and easy that undergraduate lab students can learn the process and do it in an afternoon.
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by LordKeren 3y ago
Loading up a multicellular eukaryotic organism with the CRISPR mechanisms wouldn’t work. Bacteria, as single cell organisms, have an entirely different immune system than animals. Mammal immune systems are much more complex with dedicated c
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by LordKeren 3y ago
Antibiotics are more abundant because bacteria are much more complicated than viruses, giving us significantly vectors to act on them. We are no where near an antiviral that could be as ubiquitous as antibiotics.
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by LordKeren 3y ago
Apple and Google absolutely saw this coming and both have come to the conclusion that the outcome of this lawsuit will be less costly than trying to preemptively deal with the issue — and risk overshooting the target, leaving money on the t
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by LordKeren 3y ago
I inherited a legacy code base that suddenly had a lot more attention on it and had to be rapidly overhauled. Deptry was invaluable for quickly removing a large amount of unused dependencies. The newest update was a delightful surprise sinc
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by LordKeren 3y ago
I’m not sure changing capitalism is a very viable solution to malfunctioning ice cream machines
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by LordKeren 3y ago
It could definitely use a strong revision / overhaul. But it is also the reason many sites can exist without being sued in to the ground over hosting copyright infringing material. DRM itself seems like the most pointed issue with the
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by LordKeren 3y ago
Given that this passed by a wide margin and largely bipartisan support, it is very unlikely that litigation challenges would be able to stop the ban.
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by LordKeren 3y ago
China has banned YouTube, twitch, wordpress, medium, etc.
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by LordKeren 3y ago
You shouldn’t let people’s decisions around phone purchases bother you
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by LordKeren 3y ago
The front runners for doing this would probably be Google and Meta. Large companies that publish several ad-supported apps. Side stepping the App Store would let them revert Apple’s privacy protections for tracking However, I believe anothe
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by LordKeren 3y ago
I have an extremely hard time buying into the idea that that the reason for making glucose monitors available over the counter is simply to increase the profit margins of drug stores.
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by LordKeren 3y ago
Infertility rates are extremely high for individuals with Down’s syndrome, so it’s very uncommon to pass on Downs Syndrome from an adult with Down’s to a child
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by LordKeren 3y ago
I think the only feasible outcome of the NYT winning would be a royalty structure that would have OpenAI paying the NYT to access their work, including back payments
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by LordKeren 3y ago
The Sackler family owned Purdue Pharma, which created OxyContin and heavily marketed the drug. Many Americans see the family as partially responsible for kickstarting the opioid epidemic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S
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by LordKeren 3y ago
The application process to many universities has been dramatically streamlined. It is in a students best interest to cast the widest net of applications for suitable schools— so naturally rates go down as the volume of applications per stud
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by LordKeren 3y ago
Most of the cells in the nervous system (including the brain), as well as muscle cells, last your entire life time
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by LordKeren 3y ago
What law do you think Apple is breaking by preventing beeper usage?
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by LordKeren 3y ago
My takeaway from this is that this issue is not something that can be efficiently solved at the agricultural level if the root cause truly is the increased yields of modern farming. Is there an issue with taking a daily multivitamin that I
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by LordKeren 3y ago
NHSTA needs to reevaluate the usage of “recall” in situations where nothing is being physically recalled to the manufacturer’s facilities. It is only confusing people. There are much clearer ways to phrase what has occurred like “Regulators
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by LordKeren 3y ago
Yeah, but it is plainly obvious that “recall” is a loaded term here. Yes, it is strictly true that it is the name for the thing that regulators are saying— But nothing is getting “recalled” in the literal meaning of the word. “Tesla ships m
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by LordKeren 3y ago
So simply put, the food costs 15% more than it says on the menu?
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by LordKeren 3y ago
Part of the issue is pressure from the employees themselves to implement these kinds of systems— because what sane employee wouldn’t want more money? I think we’re going to see the practices around tipping only expand in the future and perm
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by LordKeren 3y ago
I think it’s tough to guess what would have happened if Google had been more proactive about locking down some parts of android earlier. Though I will speculate that android would have seen much less widespread adoption if they had been mo

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