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by ef4 14y ago
I don't understand how that fits with the existence of X-linked-recessive diseases. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_disorder#X-linked_rece... ) These seem to be well-known cases in which you really do get a phenotype that's a functi
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by ef4 14y ago
A replacement LCD and digitizer for an iPhone 5 currently sells for a few hundred dollars: https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&tbm=shop&q=iphon...
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by ef4 14y ago
Bureaucracy's strength is in getting repeatable results out of large numbers of unreliable human beings. There are places where that's the best strategy. But as soon as you're trying to do something unique or one-off or under-specified, bur
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by ef4 14y ago
I agree completely that happiness comes from within. And yet there is a duality that has always struck me as important, though hard to explain: it's easiest to be happy when you're striving toward a goal you believe in. But you need to keep
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by ef4 14y ago
If your wrists are in contact with the front edge, your desk is probably too high and you might be much more comfortable at a lower height (even beyond the sharp-edge issue, your shoulders may thank you). Or to quote Steve Jobs, "you're hol
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by ef4 14y ago
I used Password Gorilla for a long time and it's ok. But I like KeePassX better. Mostly because Gorilla can be absurdly slow sometimes.
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by ef4 14y ago
Heh, I probably should have said it's not an endorsement. Just another example of a (dubious) attempt at a distributed social network.
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by ef4 14y ago
While we're at it, don't bill phone calls like phone calls either.
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by ef4 14y ago
https://github.com/diaspora/diaspora
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by ef4 14y ago
> But anthropology shows clearly that premodern societies had more free time, greater material and economic equality. I already disagreed with the grandparent comment, but I need to criticize this too: those metrics are terrible, and we
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by ef4 14y ago
Your argument is a non sequitur: states are necessary, therefore states are not systems through which coercive force flows. If you want to argue that states are necessary, fine. But call a spade a spade. Can you imagine a state that doesn't
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by ef4 14y ago
Producing great documentation requires the same kind of judgement as designing the system in the first place: if you can consistently put yourself in the mind of your reader, then your code, your APIs, and your documentation will all be muc
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by ef4 14y ago
Local police departments do gun buybacks all the time in the US. https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&gl=us&tbm=nws&#3... Sometimes with amusing results: http://www.ammoland.com/2011/03/29/pro-gun-activists-outbid-...
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by ef4 14y ago
On the contrary, the cheap solution is "assume there's a way to make guns hard to get in America. See, isn't that better?" Yes, maybe it would be better, but you assumed away the hard part. There are already 300 million guns in America, and
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by ef4 14y ago
https://www.torproject.org/eff/tor-legal-faq.html.en
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by ef4 14y ago
The legal theory here is that he should have common carrier status, like an ISP. ISPs aren't generally liable for the things that their customers do over their network.
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by ef4 14y ago
That's a pretty unsubstantiated claim, considering the tens of millions of people murdered by governments in the 20th century.
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by ef4 14y ago
> That's literally what the "public" part in "public transportation" means That's not really true. There are counter-examples of privately-owned public transportation systems. Tokyo's subways for one. Greyhound bus lines for another. Th
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by ef4 14y ago
I can heartily recommend this library. I've been using it extensively both in the browser and in node.
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by ef4 14y ago
If someone is giving out bad DNS records, you can just choose to use a different DNS server. But in this case the problem was bad routes. You can certainly force your own routers to use fixed routes instead, but that doesn't help you unless
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by ef4 14y ago
BGP runs on top of TCP, which runs on top of IP. DNS runs on top of UDP (or sometimes TCP), which runs on top of IP. Edited to elaborate: most computers on the internet don't need to know anything about BGP. It's not directly involved when
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by ef4 14y ago
It sounds like maybe what you really want to learn is the basics of Linux system administration. If you start with that, it will become much clearer how you can use EC2 to host your applications.
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by ef4 14y ago
> Doing it at the rate you can mine gold isn't really any more sensible than doing it at the rate the Fed decides to. Ah, but you're making the false assumption that somebody needs to make this decision, from the top down. But the rea
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by ef4 14y ago
You're hitting on one of the important facts that both supporters and detractors of economic liberty often get wrong. When people think "free markets", they think "competition". And competition is one important ingredient. But it misses the
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by ef4 14y ago
Here's the difference: as a developer I don't feel the least bit threatened by the existence of spec work. I know that it's not a substitute for what I do. Designers claim to know this too, but then they get really defensive. So which is it
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by ef4 14y ago
I can almost guarantee that it would be easier to fix whatever it is you don't like about vim than to start from scratch. Too many developers have this conceit that it's easier to start from scratch. Sometimes that's true, but usually not
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by ef4 14y ago
The first item, long single page designs, has always been a favorite of skilled marketers. It goes back even to pre-web snailmail marketing. In comparison tests, longer copy almost always wins. You keep offering more and more reasons to b
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by ef4 14y ago
I've noticed weird cultural differences between the UK and US in terms of how programmers are perceived by businesses. I interviewed with a major UK software consulting business that was trying to open their first US office, and it was imme
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by ef4 14y ago
We can already assemble arbitrary DNA up to a few kilobases long, and that tech is improving rapidly. So I don't think Venter's biological printer is as far away you think. It doesn't require general manufacture of complex molecules -- just
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by ef4 14y ago
Especially considering that they already have a massive government enforcement apparatus defending their turf (the FDA and friends).

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