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by hn_submit 2mo ago
You cannot patent gene repair with CRISPR-CAS because that's long been patented (and also disputed by multiple entities). If several genes are faulty and I repair them what would be the innovation? The detection of a specific set of fa
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by hn_submit 2mo ago
Because they don't develop medicines themselves. And there's huge political pressure to keep out of Big Pharma's backyard.
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by hn_submit 2mo ago
You can call it anything you like but it's still the repairing of DNA. It will be contested in Court and the patent holder will lose.
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by hn_submit 2mo ago
https://refractor.io/cancer/cancer-cells-normal/
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by hn_submit 2mo ago
Repairing cannot be patented. It will be rejected as "trivial" by the Patent Office. Yes, I know someone patented a "cure" for hemophilia which repairs the DNA of said patient. But that's just because no other pharm
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by hn_submit 2mo ago
It's fairly easy to cure cancer by repairing DNA, but Big Pharma isn't interested because they can't patent it. They want to sell us some kind of "miracle cure" medicine that earns them trillions. The future is bein
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by hn_submit 2mo ago
The x86 only caught up because of process technology, less so due to technological innovation (RISCifying x86 architecture). DEC, HP and MIPS simply couldn't keep up with Intel, which had its own fabs. And this was at a time when fabs-
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by hn_submit 2mo ago
Grinberg's article is highly technical and compares RISC-V to other ISAs like MIPS, x86 and ARM. This article is more about the freedom RISC-V offers, both in licensing, availability, flexibility and cost. RISC-V has put enormous pric
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by hn_submit 2mo ago
Operating systems should work like Android currently does. Assuming all installed apps are potentially malicious and isolates each of them from the others and the OS. So even if an app is compromised there's not much it can do when it&
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by hn_submit 2mo ago
Are they connected to the sewer system? Or do they discharge their effluence into the lake?
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by hn_submit 2mo ago
Could something like this be used to design speakers?
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by hn_submit 2mo ago
I believe it was a mistake to approve anti-amyloid drugs like Aducanumab. Big Pharma threatened to stop research on Alzheimer if they couldn't sell this drug and make bumper profits from it. The FDA should never allow itself to be blac
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by hn_submit 2mo ago
Like I've said in earlier posts: tracking cannot be solved through technological means. It has to be solved through legislation. The only thing you get is an arms race which Big Tech will always win because they have infinite budgets t
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by hn_submit 2mo ago
x86 is basically one big cabinet of horrors, but people seem to put up with it because it's "the standard." Then why not with RISC-V? Which is much if not infinitely better.
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by hn_submit 2mo ago
Because it's in stuff where you don't see it: in your vacuum cleaner, your toaster oven, your microwave or your electric kettle. Do you really think Chinese manufacturers are going to buy ARM MCUs when their budget for a controlle
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by hn_submit 2mo ago
It's used widely in Chinese stuff (which is basically everything) so in terms of volume it's probably already dominant. In terms of dollar volume ARM is still the leader, especially for higher-end (application level MCUs) stuff. R
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by hn_submit 2mo ago
Then why haven't I see any difference in ad blocking with uBlock Origin Lite on Edge?
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by hn_submit 2mo ago
If the product manager isn't an engineer he shouldn't be making these kinds of decisions.
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by hn_submit 2mo ago
In the short time I've used it I haven't noticed any appreciable difference.
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by hn_submit 2mo ago
Because selling "bits" is very lucrative, whilst actual hardware can lead to huge losses if it doesn't sell. Just ask Microsoft. It's no wonder Microsoft is pulling out of the game console market and handing it over to P
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by hn_submit 2mo ago
He has good points, except he misses the goal posts completely.
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by hn_submit 2mo ago
So you write software for a platform you know nothing about?
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by hn_submit 2mo ago
I believe the market will standardize on certain extensions for specific solutions. No one is going to make a mobile phone with only RV32I, for example.
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by hn_submit 2mo ago
You don't need to probe what hardware you're running on because you know being the manufacturer. The code is bespoke for your solution and nothing more. No foreign code is going to run on it. Different problems require different s
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by hn_submit 2mo ago
Why is he complaining about everything being optional in RISC-V? Isn't that the whole idea of RISC-V? The market can sort it out for themselves. RISC-V is already dominant in the MCU space despite its flaws, and many of them will be so
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by hn_submit 2mo ago
Does it really make a huge difference to keep supporting Manifest Version 2? I've installed uBlock Origin Lite in my Edge browser and I don't see any ads there either.
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by hn_submit 2mo ago
It's only natural that countries with an abundance of sunlight will switch over to solar and batteries, especially if the price of the latter comes down. In the not so distant future, LFP and sodium batteries will become very cheap, no
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by hn_submit 2mo ago
I predicted a long time ago that if computers become unhackable LEA and intelligence agencies will push for laws that require backdoors to be built into hard- and software. It will be interesting to see if my prophecy becomes reality. BTW I
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by hn_submit 2mo ago
Yes, I've worked on software projects with large numbers of developers. And it's feasible if the work is split up in independent projects that only require the API to be agreed on. Exactly the type of work seen in a web browser, w
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by hn_submit 2mo ago
Then they'll go bust. Having all those side projects won't make any difference in that sense because they can't even pay the rent. But it does make a difference in their focus on improving their main product: the Firefox we

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