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by hvs 15y ago
To clarify, the modified HIV virus in this case was used as a vector to deliver an antibody specific to the cancer onto a T-cell. The T-cell then goes on to destroy the cancer. HIV is one of the most efficient vectors for genes. http://en.
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Tech Blogger Won't Be Charged In Apple iPhone Case(npr.org)
1 points by hvs 15y ago|0 comments
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by hvs 15y ago
It's actually closer to 92^8 (printable ASCII) or even 62^8 (if they only allow letters and numbers).
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by hvs 15y ago
The differences are that 1) Amazon was selling a tangible commodity and 2) they weren't doing it at the expense of the other side of the transaction (i.e. the companies Groupon is selling coupons for). That isn't to say that they won't find
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by hvs 15y ago
I'm no longer a customer of Groupon. The plural of "anecdote" isn't "data", but I don't know of any company where customer acquisition isn't a major cost. The traditional business school number touted is that is costs 10 times as much to ac
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by hvs 15y ago
When PG is talking about the strength of the team, he's not just talking about programming. He's talking about business skills, technical skills, personality, the whole package. Technology is only one small part of what makes a company suc
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by hvs 15y ago
So, does that make Google offering to buy Groupon also one of the dumbest things you've ever seen a company do?
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by hvs 15y ago
No worries: We exclude those costs because, unlike our other marketing expenses, they are an up-front investment to acquire new subscribers that we expect to end when this period of rapid expansion in our subscriber base concludes See? On
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by hvs 15y ago
As to your second point, people like me can only dream of a day when Americans didn't mix politics with faux-religiosity. (I refuse to call the way that many Americans use religion in such a public manner as having anything to do with true
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by hvs 15y ago
It may not be represented to the level that you would like it, but that isn't to say that isn't represented in any meaningful way. In much the same way, George W. Bush is considered a "conservative", but there are many on the right that d
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by hvs 15y ago
I guess that you are raising another important point that "liberal" means different things in Europe and the U.S. "Liberal," in the classical meaning of the term, would most appropriately be applied to libertarians and to the social policie
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by hvs 15y ago
I can understand Germany's aversion to anything "right-wing", but since they have even more recently dealt with the extreme left of Communism, I'm curious as to how you label your more centrist parties. You are correct that right-wing gener
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by hvs 15y ago
To make a statement like "the right-wing IS actually equal with the extreme right-wing" is to invalidate your entire argument and show that you can't differentiate people that you disagree with.
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by hvs 15y ago
And are usually adult, white, heterosexual males in technology (like me). It wasn't until I got married that I realized how naive some of the beliefs that I had held my whole life.
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by hvs 15y ago
And everyone looking for money from the government makes the same argument about their own field being in the "general interest". "Science and Engineering" isn't looking for funding, it's a specific group (universities) looking for funding
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by hvs 15y ago
When I'm not hearing about how PhDs are a racket or a ponzi scheme, I'm hearing about how if we don't have more of them the world will come to an end. I realize that this article is about the UK, but these actions would cause the same react
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by hvs 15y ago
Considering his ability to write OS kernels and RCSs, I'm guessing that his user interface design abilities are not very strong. Yes, it's a generalization, and maybe he's awesome at it, but they are very different skills.
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by hvs 15y ago
Which is why everyone should just drop out of college. That's the point of the article, right? Oh, it's linkbait? Gotcha.
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by hvs 15y ago
Either Win32 or MFC.
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by hvs 15y ago
I'm not sure what you mean by "rot". Microsoft is supporting C++0x and has created Microsoft AMP. Visual Studio is still the best development environment available, bar none. How is it not "efficient" or "modern"?
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by hvs 15y ago
Wow. What an amazing consolidation of uninformed opinions. It's as if none of them have ever actually used C# and the .NET platform. Oh wait, it's Slashdot. They haven't.
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by hvs 15y ago
I agree with you that the claim that this is some sort of "productivity enhancement" is a bit weak, but as an actual feature, it is pretty impressive. The productivity side of it is immaterial, IMO.
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by hvs 15y ago
I'm not going to argue for or against the usefulness of drug patents, but I think the article was referring to opting out of the software patent system.
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by hvs 15y ago
S-1's require an almost pessimistic outlook for the company. It is not the place for padding your image or trying to make yourself look good. The SEC is pretty strict about that.
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FBI Arrests Alleged Anonymous Hackers(npr.org)
2 points by hvs 15y ago|0 comments
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by hvs 15y ago
It's compiled into Node.
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by hvs 15y ago
There's also something called "killing the golden goose." If they had more reasonable pricing, they may have been able to extract money from more clients for a longer period. I'm not sure what they current profits look like, but gouging you
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AntiSec target learns the hard way that whitelists > blacklists(arstechnica.com)
3 points by hvs 15y ago|0 comments
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by hvs 15y ago
Academic philosophy barely pays as well.
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by hvs 15y ago
It's an intellectual exercise if you want to learn how git works. One of the best ways to learn something is to attempt porting it.

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