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by frisco 15y ago
Ok, so it could be considered illegal in the US -- but it's not in the US, nor has anything to do with the US. If someone is running an accurate name server outside the US, with no ties to the US, that does no business with the US, the US
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by frisco 15y ago
Is this true even if they're not hosted on a US-controlled TLD such as .com? If they use the .es TLD, then shouldn't anyone with access to a name server that accurately mirrors the zones for that domain have access? I don't see how it's i
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by frisco 15y ago
I'd bet that the belief of likelihood of prosecution for a drug crime is about the same as being sued by the RIAA or MPAA for most people. They're aware they could get in trouble, but it's unevenly enforced and unlikely to actually happen t
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by frisco 15y ago
I don't think the same thing can't happen here at all. I agree with you that if they really wanted to pursue that path, the human cost could be enormous. However, we're also saying that if you really wanted some weed, there remain many aven
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by frisco 15y ago
I actually don't think so here. You're basically up against the laws of physics. Information is fundamentally unlike other types of assets, in that there's no cost associated with copying it and it can be very quickly and easily be dissem
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by frisco 15y ago
There are certainly dangers associated with synthetic biology and the spread of low-cost at-home biology tools, but this is a ridiculous fluff piece devoid of any real scientific content. Even if a low-cost "DNA printer" could be used by i
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by frisco 15y ago
One thing I've always wondered about was what the President's clearance consists of. Are there things he doesn't have access to? Does he know he doesn't have access? Can he see a list of every secret program, but perhaps not get details?
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by frisco 15y ago
Not in general. Notice that our friend is a throwaway account.
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by frisco 15y ago
Top Secret SCI ("secret compartmentalized information") isn't one clearance: each SCI has a codeword, and you get cleared individually for each one. That's probably what Ellsberg means by about to receive "15 or 20 special clearances", and
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by frisco 15y ago
According to Wikipedia, Erasmus Medical Center (or, for that matter, all of Rotterdam) only has labs rated up to Biosafety Level 3. This sounds like it should be the definition of BSL4. I wonder whether the research was conducted elsewh
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Scientists Brace for Media Storm Around Controversial Flu Studies(news.sciencemag.org)
2 points by frisco 15y ago|1 comments
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by frisco 15y ago
(Yes, Rentech being in finance is what I was referring to.)
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by frisco 15y ago
> Zweig now works for Renaissance Technologies on Long Island, NY. [Wikipedia] That's depressing.
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by frisco 15y ago
I love the Uzbekistan conspiracy.
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by frisco 15y ago
Neither the G-V nor C-X are rated for single-pilot operation... :(
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by frisco 15y ago
I guess I don't really care if it's a jet or a turboprop. The point about the relationship between surface area and volume and drag is a good one. It'd be really cool if your VLJ was supersonic, in which case you win a lot for being reall
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by frisco 15y ago
Hah. Also, the US won't sell you a U2 spy plane (and, even if they would, you might as well get a Gulfstream for that kind of money). I once saw a quote for an old NASA supersonic trainer (a T-38 Talon) at around $300k, and the civilian ve
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by frisco 15y ago
One thing I've been waiting a long time for someone to announce -- and realize I probably have a long time to keep waiting -- is a light, subsonic jet that can do NY-SF without refueling, in about 6 hours. The current VLJ projects (Cirrus,
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by frisco 15y ago
Wolfram Alpha might be the most advanced piece of web technology nobody needs.
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by frisco 15y ago
I don't see how that relates to this.
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by frisco 15y ago
The title should be cropped to, "Lesser Known Ways to Persuade People".
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by frisco 15y ago
I realize it's runnable -- that's what I mean by it's not clear what the console that appears underneath refers to. Is that "echoed" out to the page? Or something different?
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by frisco 15y ago
The "hello world" example is incredibly uninformative. What does that have to do with "structured web programming"? Where is this printed out on a web page? Does the console output there correspond to the html output? Or some other cons
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Ask HN: Why did I just get a new password emailed to me?
1 points by frisco 15y ago|1 comments
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by frisco 15y ago
You always have to work with the information available at the time, and personal tolerances for risk, but Heroku has become a case study in selling too early.
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by frisco 15y ago
This line means this study is much less interesting than it sounds at first. Basically, it sounds like they used the fMRI voxel data to build a classifier that predicted which frames from the videos were showing, and composited each frame
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Sean Parker, Agent of Disruption(forbes.com)
1 points by frisco 15y ago|0 comments
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by frisco 15y ago
How are they measuring users here? Is this all-time-registrations? Or "actives"? Because if this is registrations, I thought they were a lot bigger already. Regardless, awesome!
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by frisco 15y ago
Yes, my mistake.
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by frisco 15y ago
This is awesome, but I just want to point out one thing: twitter.util and Finagle are traps. Twitter's libraries are awesome, but won't build on scala 1.9 (or even 1.8.2), yet, and it's not clear if they will anytime soon. This rules out

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