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by drakaal 13y ago
This is the reason that our site. http://plexisearch.com uses Google App Engine. Google has allowed us to run "Code" rather than worry about infrastructure. Because it is an "Engine" we don't have to con
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by drakaal 13y ago
And the FDA has been in talks with them since 2009, and with out notice changed its position.
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Transparency In Search: All the Secrets Google Keeps(bizoftech.com)
2 points by drakaal 13y ago|0 comments
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by drakaal 13y ago
The back story is 23andMe declined a federal request for a customers DNA. This was the government backlash as a result of protecting user privacy.
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by drakaal 13y ago
It doesn't have any porn, or music... Guess Google Didn't like advertising a competitor?
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by drakaal 13y ago
Google Now and Siri are two different things. Now is a push system with minimal pull ability. It really sucks at commands, and it doesn't do well with things like "hotel in springfield with a pool". Siri is a voice interface
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by drakaal 13y ago
What if I create a female account, then Rate myself? Can social hacking get me laid?
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by drakaal 13y ago
http://xkcd.com/1279/ Why not just do searches for the person's name, and @company.com ? That won't work for Gmail, but the XKCD explains where this Automation breaks down.
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by drakaal 13y ago
The "summaries" are just bullets. Use a better summary API. https://www.mashape.com/stremor
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by drakaal 13y ago
Complex and won't work. Assumes none of your "insurers" are bad neighbors. If one of your washers is a government shill you are caught.
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by drakaal 13y ago
Painfully inaccurate. This appears to assume all coins were valued at Today numbers, not the numbers on the days they occurred. PayPal does $44B a year in transactions. https://www.paypal-media.com/about Today there are $1
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by drakaal 13y ago
Code doesn't come with a business model. A product does. Code doesn't come with User Feedback and refinements based on real world testing. A Product does.
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by drakaal 13y ago
What do you think Factors are? Do you know what a Prime is? Do you know what a Factor Is? I am skipping the rest of your arguments since. "What, Yes" is more correct.
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by drakaal 13y ago
They Demoed on October 5th. That is before the 25th. #notadoctorwhoepisode
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by drakaal 13y ago
Which questions did they address? Doesn't seem like they said anything. The comment that teams could use existing code, but not use products that were already released or in development seems in conflict with the allegation that the wi
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by drakaal 13y ago
I'd like this one. I sell Facebook likes. If you were offering a $1M prize I'd "sell" you a lot of Facebook likes. It would be like if all of England liked me. Which they probably do even if they don't want to admit
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by drakaal 13y ago
Not even close. Anytime you buy low and sell high you owe taxes on the difference. This applies to everything from antiques to livestock. It doesn't matter if the stuff is tangible or imaginary. You would owe taxes for mining World Of
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by drakaal 13y ago
People are always telling me why I should jump from Python to Node. This is basically my argument against doing so. Python, Matlab, Fortran, Cobol, will be around for a VERY long time because so many of the smartest people THINK in these la
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by drakaal 13y ago
The bigger implication is that if you know the frequency of prime numbers and have a way to calculate when to expect them the difficulty in calculating new large primes is greatly reduced. In effect the strength of all encryption based on P
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by drakaal 13y ago
I am a long time SEO. I do a lot less consulting than I used to because truthfully I can make more money SEOing my own content than what most companies would pay me. Commodity SEO outsourced to India hurt the reputation of the industry. The
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Transparency in Search Results: See Page Signals Influence Search Results(noegenic.com)
3 points by drakaal 13y ago|0 comments
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by drakaal 13y ago
I really love that they had the strength of will to do science before they did philanthropy. Often when trying to solve a hard social problem we just do what we think is intuitive. Raise the Minimum wage, cause the problem is people don&#x2
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To Solve a Social Problem, You Need More Than a Theory(wired.com)
1 points by drakaal 13y ago|1 comments
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by drakaal 13y ago
I know the OnlyCoin guys, so maybe I am biased, but for me this is about reducing the risk that I don't have a card, or that I leave a card behind. Combine this with the "you can't sniff my card through my pocket" capabi
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by drakaal 13y ago
I read this to say that Piracy is legal if you don't charge for it. There is no difference between putting a full book on line and a full movie. This won't stand for long, MPAA wouldn't have lost this case. Authors are just n
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Launch Hackathon 2013: Not an Experience I Would Repeat(xyhd.tv)
1 points by drakaal 13y ago|0 comments
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Putting something that big under your skin can't be good. I would also imagine flying will be a nightmare. Then there is just the risk of infection, and the scars... And I can't see girls thinking the scar from where you had your
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'Biohacker' implants chip in arm(foxnews.com)
1 points by drakaal 13y ago|1 comments
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I see this all the time. JS is slow because of the dom. No. JS is slow because JS is slow. Yes, I know V8 makes it faster than it used to be. Yes I know it is neck and neck for computation, but because of the way memory is handled it is slo
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by drakaal 13y ago
You countered your own argument. If your house stays at $100k but there is 5% deflation. You made 5%. If your house is worth $100k but falls to $95k because of deflation, your networth has dropped, and your buying power has stayed the same.

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