PaulAJ

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by PaulAJ 8y ago
The parasite theory is that transposons are rather like early computer viruses that replicated by embedding themselves in other executables: they exist only to make copies of themselves in their host genome. This theory is not incompatible
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by PaulAJ 8y ago
Sounds like the main take-away from this is that you should stick to "whole" vegetables, and avoid bags of chopped and sliced veg.
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by PaulAJ 8y ago
I'd take a guess that the recent problems with the TSB migration are down to something like this. (Google it if you haven't heard). They tried to replace lots of ancient systems with a big new one and ... it didn't work. Root
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by PaulAJ 9y ago
The article talks about analytics, but under GDPR you will have to have a sign-up wall before you can do any analytics. If someone comes on to your site without signing up then you are not allowed to track their IP address or any other iden
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by PaulAJ 9y ago
Back in 1990 the novel "Earth" by David Brin predicted this.
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Device that can hear your “inner voice”(theguardian.com)
22 points by PaulAJ 9y ago|14 comments
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by PaulAJ 9y ago
Two problems: First, you won't be able to get insurance for this case, because it predates your policy. A bit like getting fire insurance when your house is already on fire. Second, an insurance company won't just write you a blan
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by PaulAJ 9y ago
This is an effective threat because it means they lose the whole patent, not just the case against you.
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by PaulAJ 9y ago
How did this pilot estimate distance? In clear air with nothing to give you perspective an object can be close, small and slow, or big, fast and distant; there is simply no way to tell the difference visually.
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by PaulAJ 9y ago
A joke I heard as a child had a salesman explaining that a jacket was made of wool from a rare breed of mountain sheep, hand spun by artisans in their homes, and then woven into this cloth. "It is a beautiful yarn." he finished. &
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by PaulAJ 9y ago
Wow! Steam-punk psycho-history. How cool can you get?
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by PaulAJ 9y ago
The trouble with formal specification is that for a lot of systems the specification is a substantial fraction of the length of the program it is meant to be specifying. In fact if you code in a high level language like Haskell it is actual
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by PaulAJ 9y ago
But presumably if you are burning 10 of these every second the price is going to go down.
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by PaulAJ 9y ago
Burglary clean up rates were never high because the only ways to detect a burglar are to catch them in the act, forensics, and catching them with stolen property. Once the burglar has left the property they might, if they are sufficiently c
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by PaulAJ 9y ago
I once attended a lecture he gave to an international audience. However the Americans in the room complained that they couldn't understand anything he said.
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by PaulAJ 9y ago
Also, comments are considered to be lexemes for this purpose.
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by PaulAJ 9y ago
The price swings are probably driven by people with future positions on one chain or the other.
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by PaulAJ 9y ago
Ultimately this is still legally undecided, and will remain so until a court decides it. Given that cryptocurrency exchanges have operated in a legal and straightforward way by treating cryptocurrencies as money, I suspect that courts will
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by PaulAJ 9y ago
No it doesn't. That is the difference with money. If you acquire a $10 note in good faith as payment for something, the history of the note doesn't matter.
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by PaulAJ 9y ago
A bitcoin is just an entry in the BTC blockchain ledger. And I think you are misunderstanding the concepts in what you call "layer 2". The idea of the Lightning Network (which I assume you are referring to) is that you can execute
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by PaulAJ 9y ago
Today I learned that the tulip mania wasn't real. http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/T/bo5414939...
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by PaulAJ 9y ago
Because sometimes this is a win, but sometimes the overhead of forking off a separate thread and synchronising on the result costs more than the benefit. Compilers are very bad at figuring out which is which. Haskell lets you add parallelis
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by PaulAJ 9y ago
Getting a patent is an expensive business. Patentability of methods of manipulating numbers is variable around the world, but in most places its not going to work. You might have managed it in the US a few years ago, but not now. Seriously
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by PaulAJ 9y ago
You guys have the most bonkers health system anyone could imagine. 1/6 of your economy goes on "health care", but most of that doesn't actually contribute to your health, it gets skimmed off by insurers, drug companies,
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The real logic behind the War on Drugs(medium.com)
1 points by PaulAJ 9y ago|0 comments
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by PaulAJ 9y ago
The quote in this article is dubious at best. There is no other evidence that Erlichman said this, and no evidence in the Nixon archives to back up allgation made in the quote, even if Erlichman had said it. Erlichman served time in prison
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by PaulAJ 9y ago
TL;DR: An academic referee wants to check out a paper referenced by a paper under review. This may cost $39.95. By doing this work he adds value to the paper being refereed, and hence enables the publisher to sell that paper back to the Uni
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University may have to pay to review a paper that will be sold back to them(academia.stackexchange.com)
3 points by PaulAJ 9y ago|1 comments
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by PaulAJ 9y ago
How about "secure against spying by governments and criminals".
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by PaulAJ 9y ago
You might be running a business and not want to let your competitors know how much you are spending on advertising, R&D, and such like.

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