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by el_cujo 7y ago
No offense intended, but maybe you're not thinking broadly enough? It's a breakthrough technology for biological labs now, sure, but a lab using this to get a bunch of papers or grants or patents really doesn't matter for the
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by el_cujo 7y ago
I agree that every analogy has its weak points, but Crispr's actual function in cells is the exact opposite of malware, so it just seems like a very odd analogy to pick. It also creates a sense of fear and distrust that is bad to assoc
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by el_cujo 7y ago
Yeah I don't think the problem is the metaphor for Crispr, the problem is that we don't really understand most of the stuff it's supposed to be able to cure some day. Crispr is at the end of the day just a tool. If we don&#x2
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by el_cujo 7y ago
>Half the people here are discussing the headline not the article This often happens with articles that have really snappy title. If the title was just "Using refactoring instead of loops" it would probably generate more on top
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by el_cujo 7y ago
Zach's games are great, I'd heartily recommend TIS-100, Shenzhen I/O, and Exapunks to anyone. Despite his ratings on the site, I actually found Infinifactory the most difficult of the bunch for me, but maybe that just means I
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by el_cujo 7y ago
>the 2018 one I have right now since they can't be opened with a screwdriver and the internal SSD is soldered. I'm going a little offtopic, but I cannot believe this. I haven't owned a Mac since having a 2010 MBP (which I
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by el_cujo 7y ago
The point you were making is that a single rabid IRC fan was trying to steer the rest of the company, so actually I'd say the typo certainly does affect the point.
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by el_cujo 7y ago
I think they may have left off the "s" from developers, based on context it seems like there must have been multiple people who liked it enough to build plugins. Sounds more like a "developers vs. management" kind of thi
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by el_cujo 7y ago
I'm glad the Original Night Stalker was caught, but I found it very disturbing he was caught based on another family member doing one of those ancestory DNA things. Also, offtopic, but that dendrogram in the first picture is a very inc
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by el_cujo 7y ago
I like the idea of getting rid of my smart phone, and I don't really have the "addiction" a lot of people seem to have, but every time I think about getting rid of it, I'm stopped because: 1) Maps/GPS for driving 2)
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by el_cujo 7y ago
I can't argue with the data for the population, but just anecdotally I definitely am more active during DST. The fact that it's warmer during this period definitely helps some, but I mostly go to an indoor gym so it's not as
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by el_cujo 7y ago
Not sure about a Mozilla-run VPN. I'd trust them to have a competent-enough service, but I would definitely not expect them to try resisting any western government getting hold of their logs (though I guess the claim of any VPN to actu
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by el_cujo 7y ago
To be fair, most of these points are just asking them to NOT include a feature by default, rather than demanding they build something new before paying up.
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by el_cujo 7y ago
In fifteen minutes the permit to organize expires, lets hope this remains (mostly) peaceful.
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by el_cujo 7y ago
I glanced at their history and it seems that, yes, they are Russian, and a lot of their posts seem to have some anti-US sentiment, but automatically saying that makes them a member of the troll farm is a stretch. I see plenty of other Europ
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by el_cujo 7y ago
It's interesting seeing this the same week Apple announces it's cutting out of the box Python.
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by el_cujo 7y ago
This is the type of thing that is easy to police other people, but I wonder if the author has an instagram herself filled with pictures from Italy or France.
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by el_cujo 7y ago
I clicked on a couple of other articles from the side bar and they all seemed to have the same "skip line after ever sentence" style, but yeah this article does seem especially simplistic and would probably be easy to run through
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by el_cujo 7y ago
"It all started when we received information that led us to finding a TorGuard server configuration file lying in the open on the internet... We hoped that after providing this vital assistance towards securing TorGuard’s infrastructur
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by el_cujo 7y ago
"If you start censoring too much, then people lose interest in the platform." It's interesting to hear them say that. I usually see moderators/administrators on the internet characterized as being quick to wield the ban
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by el_cujo 7y ago
Those risks are present in the market in general, independent of robinhood. Should a platform be discouraged because its benefits don't discriminate between fools and people who know what they're doing?
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by el_cujo 7y ago
"a 7 billion dollar market cap is not insane" is already a soft statement, I think enough info is present that you can say the valuation isn't impossible.
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by el_cujo 7y ago
Hopefully it will balance out the crazy optimism so many other posters are having over this announcement because they think they'll make money off of it.
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by el_cujo 7y ago
Agree with everything you're saying, I really am surprised at how overwhelmingly positive the response has been for the most part on hacker news. I really don't see 99% of OSS project contributors making money from this, let alone
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by el_cujo 7y ago
Doesn't really present anything terribly surprising. Bigger cities have crazier cost of living and wages for the degree-less are, no surprise, not keeping up. I don't think anyone here will be shocked to find out working at mcdona
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by el_cujo 7y ago
I think "don't take other's advice" is just good advice in general, or at the very least "be skeptical of other's advice". I work in academic science where a lot of people of varying career stages are squi
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by el_cujo 7y ago
Unless you've got tools on the level of what the CIA or NSA has, you're probably not cracking the encryption, but I agree it's bad to mislead your clients (and also creates some conflict of interest concerns). It kind of remi
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by el_cujo 7y ago
The research is interesting without the hyperbole the media puts on it for clicks.
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by el_cujo 7y ago
The article did mention the cells grow more slowly, maybe this explains why. They framed the impetus for this experiment as being "why do we have so many redundancies in codons", maybe the answer is that evolution favored generati
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by el_cujo 7y ago
It kind of reminds me a lot of the discussion of fast food jobs and raising the minimum wage. On the one hand, yeah, it sucks if you're trying to support a family of four on 7.25/hour. But at the same time, its great as a summer j

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