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by Paul-ish 11y ago
This will give Twitter an potentially useful combination of data and streaming rights. Imagine watching the game on twitter, and you see an amazing play happen. You would be able to tweet about the play right away, because there is a text b
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by Paul-ish 11y ago
> I'd love to have an at-home kit, so I could check the contents of my DNA against a database of known facts. I think sequencing at home would be difficult. What we would need is for them to sequence your DNA, then send that data to
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by Paul-ish 11y ago
> The Sorenson Molecular Genealogy Foundation was launched by billionaire Utah businessman James LeVoy Sorenson with the backing of the church. The foundation's goal was finding a "genetic blueprint" for humans, and it ama
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by Paul-ish 11y ago
Sure, but I can trust Valve not to mess with my machine more than I can trust a random indie game not to mess something up. There is still trust, but I think one can make a case that the trust is not misplaced in Valve.
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by Paul-ish 11y ago
It may remind you, because the original page links to the Wikipedia page for that phenomenon. [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typoglycemia
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by Paul-ish 11y ago
As dumb as it sounds, it is probably easier that way. Sometimes in LANs it is easier to get data out then back in. For example, a lot of dorm networks don't support Chromecast devices because chromecasts tries to multicast on the LAN f
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by Paul-ish 11y ago
I have been waiting a long time for someone to use lessons learned from recommender systems to build a social media site like reddit, but rather than having users group themselves up, they would be shown posts algorithmically, based on how
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by Paul-ish 11y ago
This appears to be similar to a Lemons market [1]. There is probably a better term for it in this case, but basically the consumer doesn't know what they are getting. They see a price point and maybe a fat %, but they don't know h
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by Paul-ish 11y ago
It isn't easy to deidentidy a dataset. It isn't as simple as removing the names. You don't know in advanced what features in a dataset, when combined with a second dataset, will allow an adversary to reidentify data points. I
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by Paul-ish 11y ago
> Nobody is forced to work for Uber. Some people have invested themselves in Uber based on the pay, which has since dropped. This has happened to people such as Mr. Creery from the article. Imagine you get hired for a job for some amount
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by Paul-ish 11y ago
Google could eventually use this information to determine your eligibility for a home loan. They have already dipped their toes in this area [1]. With all this data, we have to ensure that it is used fairly (or not at all). There is enough
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by Paul-ish 11y ago
Could the issue be caused by bad peering between your ISPs?
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by Paul-ish 11y ago
Those filters could be in place to block the Piwik cloud service: https://piwik.pro/cloud/?pk_source=Piwik.org&pk_medium=Cloud...
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by Paul-ish 11y ago
Will the lab grown meats have the same nutritional value as meat from animals?
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by Paul-ish 11y ago
What's the worst that could happen?
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by Paul-ish 11y ago
It is not clear how one would synchronize the cameras on such fine time scales either.
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by Paul-ish 11y ago
SNPs may be more identifying than fingerprints because they are correlated across related individuals.
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by Paul-ish 11y ago
It appears there were at least some insiders who agreed that there was a lot of dead weight [1]. What I wonder is who's budgets these people were on? Shouldn't it be in some organizational unit's interest to cut people who ar
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by Paul-ish 11y ago
How do they ever know if you have an indoor antenna? Is this just a tax that everyone pays?
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by Paul-ish 11y ago
As a heads up, Linux users should check and make sure tuner they buy has a Linux driver. I once got really excited when I saw a really good deal on a tuner, only to find out it had no Linux driver. I had to cancel my order.
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by Paul-ish 11y ago
This makes sense. Would it be sufficient to just see how the content (eg new <ul> elements or something along those lines) on the page changes when JS is executed, without actually rendering anything?
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by Paul-ish 11y ago
The cost of a transaction on bitcoin is likely to go up over time, especially if the block size doesn't increase. The micropayments protocol for cryptocurrencies doesn't really cover the use case of using many website, unless you
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by Paul-ish 11y ago
There may be short lived websites that exist only scam a large number of people out of small amounts of money. What makes this worse is that most people would (rationally) not consider it worth pursuing the website operator unless recourse
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by Paul-ish 11y ago
It may be in the interest of content providers to provide refunds. Although I don't have any studies that say so, I suspect users will more willing to purchase content if they know they can get a refund. Perhaps optional refunds can be
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by Paul-ish 11y ago
Are there studies that show people would not like a micropayment model? As a counter example to what you say, there are plenty of free to play games on mobile that have small in app purchases.
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by Paul-ish 11y ago
>Like you said is few. Let them be? It's likely they generate word of mouth and other value being invested enough to go thru the hassle. This sounds a lot like the arguments piracy apologists use. A lot like the arguments people loo
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by Paul-ish 11y ago
Also, don't most people graduate law school up to their eyeballs in debt? They might not have much choice. At 74 Larvadain probably has more freedom in the cases he can take on.
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by Paul-ish 11y ago
I think Andresen's O(1) block propagation proposal[0] requires exactly that. I'm not sure if he has worked out the details though. [0]: https://gist.github.com/gavinandresen/e20c3b5a1d4b97f79ac2
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by Paul-ish 11y ago
I don't think there would be reason to, except in protest perhaps. 750Kb size block is 750Kb no matter what transactions make up the block; whos transactions go into a block wouldn't change propagation time. Miners would rather ta
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by Paul-ish 11y ago
Although perhaps more constraining, why not use a website that uses WebRTC data channels to transfer the files? Then you can be more sure the data isn't persisting in a datacenter somewhere. Plus, it is more plausible that the service

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