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by crusso 11y ago
I agree. There's a lot to be criticized in the cryogenic movement. They're selling something that they just don't have (eternal life) to people who are desperate. But this article was an obvious smear piece that didn't
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by crusso 11y ago
On #2, they're lengthening telomeres, not disabling the telomere mechanism. I'd think that one of the first mutations a cell needs to undergo on the road to being considered "cancerous" is to completely disable the telo
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by crusso 11y ago
I didn't know that Randi had retired and that the prize had been withdrawn. Very sad. It's the end of an era.
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by crusso 11y ago
I'm not up on every instance of "replication" -- but so far, the ones I've read about have been really shoddily performed. http://io9.gizmodo.com/no-german-scientists-have-not-confirm... I'd love fo
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by crusso 11y ago
Much to the detriment of my grades, I beat the game in college.
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by crusso 11y ago
If the FBI get what they want, then the back door will be installed and the next-generation payments infrastructure will be just as prone to fraud as the last-generation card infrastructure, with its card skimmers and identity theft. How
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by crusso 11y ago
how are you supposed to know what the code is supposed to do? That's the beauty of TDD. It forces you to sit and work out, "What is this code supposed to do from the client perspective?" It battles the all-too-prevalent de
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by crusso 11y ago
From the article: I deliberately decided to experiment with test-first development a few months ago. and the programs I am writing are my own personal projects If you have no real experience with TDD and you're hacking away at pers
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by crusso 11y ago
The assumption behind this statement is that the list from the article is "Spike Lee's Top Films" It's not an assumption. Watch the video where Spike Lee says, "On this list is what I consider the greatest films
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by crusso 11y ago
At that point, you can always transpile from Typescript to javascript or maybe even from Typescript to the new language.
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by crusso 11y ago
Earlier, you said: you might live for 1000 years in the body of a 25 year old, but if you age and then get the treatments, even though you might have the body of a 25 year old, you might have some scarring or other effects left over I fee
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by crusso 11y ago
Because your comment was regarding our having the technology needed to allow someone to live 1000+ years. In order to allow that, we'll need to have mastered manipulation of literally every cell in the body. By the time we can go in a
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by crusso 11y ago
Meh, you say "within 2+ years", but I've learned the hard way that you have to think further ahead than that. I'd say that by the time my eldest turned 12, it was way too late to think about moving short of a job crisis
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by crusso 11y ago
I've found over the years that my children's worst teachers were the ones who assigned the most homework. Invariably, they supplemented their poor focus on conveying concepts with lots and lots of homework. A ton of homework is a
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by crusso 11y ago
We have many examples whereby societies that become "comfortable" see decreasing birth rates leading to negative population growth. As mortality pressure decreases, the urgency and drive to hurry up and have children decreases. T
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by crusso 11y ago
Why would you think that you'd have to tolerate scarring in a world that could fix DNA and implant it as easily as we run shell scripts to change our UNIX environments?
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by crusso 11y ago
Yeah, I'm almost your age. When I was in high school, I had naive confidence that medical science would advance quickly enough to prevent my getting "old". I even remember a speech from a principal when I was in middle scho
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by crusso 11y ago
I remember when I was a kid how people said the same thing about the ability to own computers.
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by crusso 11y ago
We are way too far from really understanding our own biology to be able to predict such an over-the-horizon end result. I don't even know if we'll be able to reliably cure toenail fungus in the next 20 years - much less be able to
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by crusso 11y ago
That skill endorsement interface is like a videogame that I play every few months. I hit the affirmative button on people I like without really looking at the skills too closely. I have to have a really low regard for someone to not just
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by crusso 11y ago
but do you think they did it on purpose That's why you look at track record to assess behavior. If it happens once, you can forgive it as optimism or somesuch. If it's a pattern, you would then need to assume it's deliber
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by crusso 11y ago
I'm sure it was a misclick. ;^)
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by crusso 11y ago
Why don't you try to proxy it by setting up an interview with him. Come to HN with the story of "I'm going to interview the Minister of Telecom in Somalia: What should I ask him?" Collect the questions and then later po
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by crusso 11y ago
Your analysis indicates that you're stuck on the dimension of individuality vs collectivism whereby libertarian solutions would somehow be inferior to socialist ones. The real problems in Somalia lie along dimensions of corruption and
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by crusso 11y ago
Either that or take a look at Elixir. All the 9 9's reliability and distributability of Erlang with a more Ruby-like syntax.
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by crusso 11y ago
The FBI doesn't just want to unlock one phone. They want a system to unlock all iPhones. This case is just a convenient way for the FBI to force Apple to comply with their greater goal.
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by crusso 11y ago
"that entity didn't think of every imaginable and unimaginable way one could circumvent a law" That is factually untrue of the loopholes exploited. Many of these loopholes were put in place explicitly to benefit the cronyist
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by crusso 11y ago
Go for a dictionary that defines dodge wrt to taxation: http://www.macmillandictionary.com/us/dictionary/american/ta... It's a technique that can be illegal. That's not what Google has done. Googl
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by crusso 11y ago
It's not a weird corner case for the female co-worker with whom I was discussing self-driving cars. I'm generally very optimistic about the positive impact SDCs will have upon society and I was surprised when my enthusiasm was me
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by crusso 11y ago
I'm more worried about what you do when your self-driving car takes you through a shady neighborhood late at night and a couple of robbers step out in front of you. If you're in a Google car and they have their way about "no

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