jbermudes

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by jbermudes 14y ago
We already did. S. mutans has been genetically modified to excrete water instead of the acid that normally wears away enamel. http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Dental/story?id=98080&page=...
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by jbermudes 15y ago
While not a specific claim to prediction of form X will happen in the year Y, it is a bit unsettling how since its original publication in 1997, RMS's "Right to Read" [1] has almost served as a playbook for the intellectual property lobby (
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by jbermudes 15y ago
It's pretty much impossible to completely stop it. You can only choose how you will attempt to delay it or discourage it. Consider the war on drugs: at least there you have the advantage that you have a tangible object that you're seeking t
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by jbermudes 15y ago
I would assume it's the former, but in the case where there's multiple thermostats hooked up to the same shared IP it might show you a list of all unowned devices and then ask you for which one you want to activate, and then telling you to
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by jbermudes 15y ago
Unfortunately the "difficulty" of the ML class assignments was not in the material application of the things learned in the lecture but instead in the gotchas of Matlab/Octave vectorization. Most of the assignments were in the format of: "H
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by jbermudes 15y ago
While I agree with your general sentiment, note that at least in ML-class, you can resubmit quizzes as many times as you want for full credit. Thus over the course of an hour you can retake the quiz enough times to brute force a perfect sco
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by jbermudes 15y ago
IANAECE but to me there's 2 issues: 1. FCC Licensing: There is an issue with FCC licensing in that you have to make sure your equipment has proper shielding, broadcasts in the right frequencies, etc. As long as the thing is considered one u
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by jbermudes 15y ago
In regards to the ethics of profiting from the poor, while everyone has their own definition, one if the biggest issues I could see is if one is trying to leverage the common lack of education to make people get into situations they don't u
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by jbermudes 15y ago
Education.
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by jbermudes 15y ago
It's possible that just as pencils have erasers, that in the future were the stylus more ubiquitous pens might have their opposite side designed to be a touchscreen stylus
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by jbermudes 15y ago
If I may ask, what is your credential in? There seems to be quite a mess in regards to how to get in to the field since there doesn't seem to be a computer science credential, and coming in with a math credential will almost certainly get y
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by jbermudes 15y ago
Sonic Retro has a writeup of the physics behind Sonic 2. Check it out, it's exactly what you're looking for and would be a good template to follow for other games. http://info.sonicretro.org/Sonic_Physics_Guide
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by jbermudes 15y ago
It's interesting that you mention a "C with classes" as the worst of both worlds. There's a large group of people that are perfectly happy with C, and there's a large group of people that like the OOP that C++ offers, but there's a lot of a
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by jbermudes 15y ago
I wonder if it's almost as if in some cases Americans subsidize medical innovation for the rest of the world. We pay the price for the new tech and while our system for whatever reasons keeps prices high, when it's time to sell the tech to
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by jbermudes 15y ago
I see a lot of work done in making 3D printers accessible to the point of having one in every home, but I wonder if any home improvement stores have considered having them on-site and using it to gain foot-traffic to buy the additional part
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by jbermudes 15y ago
> people keeping their possessions longer simply because they don't have the money to buy new This is already the case for most of the developing world. However, with increasing automation and outsourcing, it looks as if that is a futur
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by jbermudes 15y ago
What about an easier way for the public to file prior art? If there was a public database of patents under review and anybody could upload things that appear to be prior art to help the reviewers in the process?
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by jbermudes 15y ago
So there's a camera at every spot? Seems like overkill when a simple sensor (IR/magnetic) would have gotten pretty much the same information. Instead of letting a camera guess your tag, just number each spot and send the number of the spot
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by jbermudes 15y ago
The underlying issue is that some agencies can't for some odd reason or another give out their data. There is either some archaic policy in place or for some historical/contractual reason the data isn't actually owned by the agency but inst
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by jbermudes 15y ago
HTTP is an inherently request-based protocol. The HTML file that I request from the server has links to ads. A stock browser will request those ad links. Ad block tells the browser not to. So it's more like if someone asks you "hey, I have
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by jbermudes 15y ago
How is removing something that was given to you in a package stealing? If someone gave me a free magazine, but the magazine had ads, you're saying it'd be stealing to rip those pages out?
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by jbermudes 15y ago
The "99 cent only" stores are still true to their word (nothing is over a dollar), but they recently had to raise their prices to 99.99 cents, heh.
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by jbermudes 15y ago
Unless I'm mistaken, a default only happens if we don't pay our creditors that service our debt. For August that's supposed to be around $29billion [1]. We have more than enough to cover that (the article predicts ~$150 billion in revenue).
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by jbermudes 15y ago
Yes. I have a Sylvania tablet with USB host and plugging in a mouse causes a pointer to pop up.
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by jbermudes 15y ago
you are granting no such license Yeah, that's the dirty trick. Turnitin hides behind the fact that your professors are the ones that force you to use it, and to use Turnitin you have to register and agree to their terms, which includes le
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by jbermudes 15y ago
I couldn't have worded it better myself :)
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by jbermudes 15y ago
Yes! I've been trying to tell people this since high school almost 10 years ago. Many educators force students to submit their papres to Turnitin or else take a failing grade on the assignment (which is often a final project which can cause
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by jbermudes 15y ago
It only hurts the monitor makers as much as any other competitor would. Even though they are competing against a competitor with a price of $0, that just means they need to make their product worth its price with extra features or specializ
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by jbermudes 15y ago
Actually, Stallman is pretty clear in his stance. He doesn't care what kind of monetization scheme you use, but your customers have a right to see the source code. You could ostensibly only give the source out to paying customers. You might
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by jbermudes 15y ago
Well, at least until the Steam authentication servers go offline if Valve ever shuts down. While Gabe Newell has been quoted as saying that if that were to happen they would unlock everyone's games, it bugs me that there has been no officia

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