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by eggie 11y ago
It will go into the giants, for whom the zero interest rate regime provided exactly the right conditions to monopolize by buying up their competitors. Things will only get more extreme in this regard until we accept that change is beneficia
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by eggie 11y ago
We are not going _ever_ to solve this politically. What about educating those who need to think in global time about the existence of UTC. This would let us use UTC for coordinating inter-TZ events. As an example, say I'm in Tokyo and
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by eggie 11y ago
Your experience is exactly like mine was 10 years ago, but ... we didn't have facebook. We had icq, then AIM, and SMS. We could call each other. We went to hang out places and lived solidly in the moment. People were also in constant c
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by eggie 11y ago
Agreed. That's 121 hours a year. You've saved more than 600 hours in 5 years!
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by eggie 11y ago
> Since no one understands how general unsupervised learning actually works, we're quite a ways off from building the general AIs you see in movies. Is this really the case? I thought the field had a pretty good handle on the theore
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by eggie 11y ago
> Lifespan, disease and the human race is at stake. CRISPR is just one tiny replaceable part of any therapy-driving genome editing technique. The frenzy around it overstates its importance. Cas9 is significant as the first RNA-guided nuc
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by eggie 11y ago
I enjoy this one: http://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/R1FS0OYG08O1UD/ref... > This book was a huge disappointment. The authors try to draw parallels between the current high-tech/Internet phenom
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by eggie 11y ago
I hope that scientists who have their reputations bound up in its history don't waste their time trying to stake claim to it. They will, but there are lessons to be had. For instance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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by eggie 11y ago
How does it fail for you? I persisted and find that although the results are different, they are often just different. Once I became used to DDG it's started to seem like Google is the broken one. It did take a while for me to switch,
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by eggie 11y ago
> First of all, it doesn't matter. Facebook is not your competitor, so you're not harming yourself. You start by saying that Facebook is not a competitor, but in taking over part of your core business--- keeping track of potent
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by eggie 11y ago
> Some people so badly want for this to be 2000 all over again they they have to make things up. Why do you think this is the case?
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by eggie 11y ago
If storage is cheap enough, and abstract, we can expect there to be a thriving ecosystem of tools to apply to it. They don't even need to be embedded in a single platform, but could be distributed, streaming, and on-demand. Here are tw
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by eggie 11y ago
This isn't like the free AOL discs, but as if AOL were free but never allowed people to access anything other than a free encyclopedia, medical information, and their own content and services. A major reason Facebook is doing this is t
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by eggie 11y ago
> AOL's walled garden didn't stop people exploring the big wide world, it was a gateway drug. For many it may have been a gateway to facebook ;)
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by eggie 11y ago
Lovely. Are you a Lao Tzu quote bot ;) ?
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by eggie 11y ago
witty_username may have been exaggerating, but it's worth pointing out that this is substantially cheaper than prepaid internet access is available in the US. I pay $10/GB/week, which works out to something like $30/GB a
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by eggie 11y ago
> look at all the downvotes. Does it make the cognitive dissonance go away? There are some folks on here who don't like hearing this kind of stuff but can't (or can't be bothered to) articulate why. Is the idea that your c
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by eggie 11y ago
> I don't think that GA4GH is literally using CORBA. It's not literally CORBA, but people who spent time implementing literal CORBA in a bioinformatics context (for instance, the original author of https://github.com
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by eggie 11y ago
The global alliance for genomics and health is a similar idea but not designed to be completely open nor linked. They don't acknowledge the semantic web. Practically, it is implemented as CORBA using JSON. Everything is an API and afte
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by eggie 11y ago
I'm curious if the author knows about DisGeNET: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DisGeNET . The whole idea of the semantic web is exactly what the author is getting at. I'm curious why this is rarely regarded a
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by eggie 11y ago
Is there a description of this somewhere? (Such as in public filings.) Is the advertising so coarse as to ignore the content of what people say? Are they only propagating information about purchasing and browsing history through the metadat
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by eggie 11y ago
Is the android telegram client not open: https://github.com/DrKLO/Telegram ? I may be missing something. It seems to me that we could just fork the app and add in any ETE encryption we want. I get that everyone is anno
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by eggie 11y ago
Why would they use ETE? Isn't the whole point of WA/FB to sell user-created data to third parties? Edit: Given the down vote(s), I guess I'm missing something obvious. What I'm getting at is this: If our activities were
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by eggie 11y ago
The DNA does vary cell by cell. How does cancer come about if not?
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by eggie 11y ago
> Those of you who disagree are invited to imagine the world repeating the most misconstruable thing you said when you were 19. Having known him at the time, I will assert that this is not some random cherry-picked chat fragment of him b
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by eggie 11y ago
> I thought that was capitalism and I thought we all agreed that that was good. Hacker != capitalist !
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by eggie 11y ago
> In (1), it clearly hasn't worked then given all of the comments around here. Is it not highly likely that he would have considered this backlash that he received? If I was in his position and wanted to achieve (1), I would make a
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by eggie 11y ago
In the US at least, Congressional approval ratings would suggest otherwise. Currently they clock in at a hot 13% "approve": http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/congressional_...
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by eggie 11y ago
> What he's doing is smart if he wants to have the maximum impart on the world. I like how he's found a way to give his money away while keeping it. He uses an LLC instead of a charity. This is some smart stuff. It's also
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Linked Data Fragments: using client side intelligence to query the web of data(linkeddatafragments.org)
28 points by eggie 11y ago|2 comments

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