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931.
by cft 7y ago
Where is the best place to meet the right people? I talked to my friend (PhD) and she explained the process of conversion from Illumina file formats all the way to numpy , but I would love to know more.
932.
by cft 7y ago
But here's the question: maybe you can become a provider of highly optimized big data processing or data visualization software, without deep knowledge in biology?
933.
by cft 7y ago
There's a certain smell of absurdity in the air in California. Ban on plastic straws - garbage on highway shoulders on 280 and 101 in San Francisco county Strictest car emission laws in the Union - fires poison the air to the extent th
934.
by cft 7y ago
> Lack of testosterone because they already have a mate. Testesterone decline begins at 30, regardless of the marital status. https://www.menshormonalhealth.com/normal-testosterone-level... This corroborates (in the corr
935.
by cft 7y ago
People's cognitive decline statistically starts as early as 40. You can see that from the age distribution of biggest discoveries in physics and mathematics. You can also see that from the HR policies of the software companies.
936.
by cft 7y ago
My company (user generated content, user profile pages) reached $10k/mo in 2010 with AdSense. As soon as we crossed that threshold, we started getting automated threats asking to check "all other pages" (we had about 20m user
937.
by cft 7y ago
"The high severity and acreage fires commonly seen today are driven by more extreme weather and build-up of fuel from our ongoing fire suppression activities." If you watch this video https://youtu.be/nb2m8KKuwxk
938.
by cft 7y ago
For anything not technical, I use DDG or Bing (If I need recency). Google results omit anything politically controversial.
939.
by cft 7y ago
> Develop apps For locked down duopoly (85% and growing Google actually) walled garden, that has telemetry for every app launch, install, uninstall, access to every single push notification in plain text and can boot your "niche&quo
940.
by cft 7y ago
The quarter when Trump abandons Twitter I am going to short it. The reversal of Twitter stock was due to Trump popularizing it.
941.
by cft 7y ago
Switching to Gitlab from GitHub. I wish they added a stackoverflow-like product too.
942.
by cft 7y ago
Usually custom, that needs to be reverse engineered (with some help of usually minified JavaScript)
943.
by cft 7y ago
Binary WS data inspector with an ASCII decoder would be useful: the current trend is to use binary WS socket data to obfuscate/prevent scraping (e.g. NYSE.com real time quotes)
944.
by cft 7y ago
I read somewhere that Adobe could not opensource Flash Player due to some library codecs licensing issues. It was unfortunate however, that Adobe bought Macromedia. Macromedia Flash would not have caused wrath from Steve Jobs and Macromedia
945.
by cft 7y ago
I think he meant www. Apps/phones are closed ecosystems that are in the middle between cable TV run by megacorps and the www of the early 00s with some tail of indy aps and remaining independent websites
946.
by cft 7y ago
Not the worst. I was recently in Juticalpa, Honduras, and we did not have light for three days more or less. It's a capital of a state. Same thing in Rio Dulce, Guatemala: I was looking for candles since many shops ran out of batteries
947.
by cft 7y ago
Fail as in it won't compile, not as a runtime error
948.
by cft 7y ago
Not really: I was recently in Juticalpa, Honduras (it's a major city, like SF) and we did not have light for three days. Similar experience in Rio Dulce, Guatemala. In the third world, doing science is very difficult, because the infr
949.
by cft 7y ago
Not above any foreign currency. Transactions below $200 would be exempt from capital gains. When they made that decision, the implication was that it cannot be used for liquid payments, i.e. be a "currency".
950.
by cft 7y ago
I think it's the decision to treat it as property (and not its scalability) that killed the use of crypto in the US as payment mechanism, and limited its use only to store of value, speculation, and illicit payments.
951.
by cft 7y ago
Summary from the article: "1940: City takes over the private subways"
952.
by cft 7y ago
That structure is called Republic, as opposed to Democracy. https://youtu.be/rgUs5wtXgL4 (the video is a bit dated unfortunately)
953.
by cft 7y ago
Are there US companies that are listed on mainland Chinese exchanges?
954.
by cft 7y ago
I think IPO empowered Matthew Prince with his benevolent extrajuditial internet court is becoming a real threat for the open web.
955.
by cft 7y ago
Banning and kicking offline is different. I would love to sue them if say I attempted to build a search engine and they attacked me.
956.
by cft 7y ago
I understand the requirements to clearly disclose, so that a user can make an informed decision, but deciding for the user is hubris.
957.
by cft 7y ago
As they get more and more funding, their content moderation is converging with Facebook. This is from May: https://www.reddit.com/r/asktrp/comments/bn5gse/what_happene...
958.
by cft 7y ago
Absolutely not. You can ignore a defective DMCA notices and see if the claimant files a lawsuit. Google routinely does this [1]. It is a business risk choosing between losing a client vs getting sued. If you value your clients, you should h
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“Hello World” from Scratch on 6502 [video](youtube.com)
3 points by cft 7y ago|0 comments
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Fry’s tries to quell rumors of its demise as customers worry about empty shelves(mercurynews.com)
1 points by cft 7y ago|0 comments

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