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by Snail_Commando 13y ago
> To you and others - i didn't know it's not a drug. It was my opinion, apparently wrong. Thanks for clarifications! Will do beers only on fridays then! But it's not an opinion, it was a factually incorrect statement. Ther
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NUKEMAP3D: A nuclear weapons effects simulator for Google Earth.(nuclearsecrecy.com)
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Synthetic Biology: DIY chromosomes(economist.com)
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Diamond Patterning Technique Could Transform Photonics(technologyreview.com)
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by Snail_Commando 13y ago
I just want to say, I jumped the gun a little with my original response to Dave earlier. I misunderstood what Harlem actually was. I realized you made a capital investment in lab space after I commented. Please see my second response to Dav
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by Snail_Commando 13y ago
> I'd like to point out, however, that there several thriving biotech incubators around the country. Surely the demand must be coming from somewhere when tenants must be found to pay the bills. Indeed, I think the startups that ente
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by Snail_Commando 13y ago
> Pricing aside, I disagree: YC is in part a startup incubator, no? [Update: Before you read this wall 'o text, please consider the comment in the context of the update at the bottom.] I disagree, YC is not an incubator. Well, to be
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Meet Snoopy: The DIY drone that tracks your devices just about anywhere(arstechnica.com)
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by Snail_Commando 13y ago
Hypothetically, if a person still had Bitcoin drawn from a btc faucet (by that person), would that count as a gift, treasure trove [+], or something else? [+] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cesarini_v._United_States
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by Snail_Commando 13y ago
High end laptops are a good place to start when you are selling a ~$140 accessory. I would be shocked if they didn't have plans to expand to other products/devices. My guess is that they are betting that Macbook owners are most li
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by Snail_Commando 13y ago
> How would you do that? Soundproofing? Delay on the mechanical action? What is the fingerprint that allows transcription of a sound sample? Perhaps you could modify key levers in such a fashion that each stroke requires variable pressur
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by Snail_Commando 13y ago
Which dialect of Lisp are you studying? Common Lisp?
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by Snail_Commando 13y ago
> Outside the body, DNA has a half-life of about 500 years. Who said it had to be stored outside the body? :) You could create a modified copy of an organism's genome with the information inserted. But let's assume we mean outs
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by Snail_Commando 13y ago
It might be a few years too early for this to be an easily accessible option, but if you are worried about mega-term storage you can encode your text in DNA. If stored properly, this method is far more persistent than magnetic plate or (cur
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by Snail_Commando 13y ago
Thanks, I think need to gain a better understanding of Clojure and Haskell. Do you mean nothing in the main Clojure distribution? Or nothing, period?
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by Snail_Commando 13y ago
> ...Clojure even though it's less "pure." How so? I was under the impression you had to explicitly go out of your way to break functional purity/ use mutable state in Clojure, just like Haskell. Is it easier/har
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by Snail_Commando 13y ago
That sequence of tweets reads like something out of Snow Crash.
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by Snail_Commando 13y ago
> Most Users Online: 27 (Jun 24, 2013 at 9:48pm) What happened on Jun 24, 2013? Is that the day you found it again?
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by Snail_Commando 13y ago
Check this out: http://www.asterank.com/3d I'm pretty sure the creator of asterank is on HN. For what it's worth, I think the OP JS is obfuscated/minified for load times; not for self-interested reasons.
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by Snail_Commando 13y ago
Asking for a friend, what do you do if you don't have anyone to talk to? I feel like the answer should be obvious, but I have no idea what it is.
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[Ask kogir]: How much did HN grow in 2013?
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by Snail_Commando 13y ago
How could the UI be improved?
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by Snail_Commando 13y ago
If you had to pick, say, three books (or the online equivalent) on quantum computing that are relatively accessible to an educated layman, which ones would you recommend?
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by Snail_Commando 13y ago
Ok thanks, last question and I'll leave you alone. Could you recommend some relatively accessible reading for the layman on how the security world would react to a sudden shift into the post-quantum world? And, in your opinion, how con
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by Snail_Commando 13y ago
I know next to nothing about quantum computing, is such a thing even possible with the current state of QC + billions of dollars? Does the current state of quantum computing excite or keep security researchers awake at night?
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by Snail_Commando 13y ago
What do you think would be the correct order of magnitude of cost to build "a quantum-theoretic machine that could break IFP (RSA) or DLP (DH, DSA) crypto"?
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by Snail_Commando 13y ago
That's pretty harsh, although you may be entirely correct. I'm not smart enough to know. Please remember that the author did this for fun and despite whatever flaws it may have, it is still interesting to think about. Is it imposs
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by Snail_Commando 13y ago
The only thing I disagree with in your comment is the "Which in this case is not true." portion. We cannot make that inference based on the information in the article and the bio that has been linked exhaustively in this comment s
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by Snail_Commando 13y ago
> " But "by courtesy" plainly is used as some form of honorary title - if he had it "by merit" they would not use the term. " You know why the Stanford School of Medicine gave him that title? It wasn't
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by Snail_Commando 13y ago
> "not a genetics prof - a law prof. http://www.law.stanford.edu/profile/hank-greely " From the page you linked: "Greely is also a professor (by courtesy) of genetics at Stanford School of Medicine.&

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