kanzure

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by kanzure 14y ago
> You seem to be saying to contradictory things: No, they are not contradictory statements. Equity is one way to see upside in a startup, but that upside can be completely destroyed for employees. For example, common stock or when found
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by kanzure 14y ago
Here you go: http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/irc/fbi/foipa/response.html
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by kanzure 14y ago
So why would I not receive a bill/invoice for a brush-off?
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by kanzure 14y ago
I am traveling at the moment, but I could type them up when I get back. Shoot me an email reminder.
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by kanzure 14y ago
While we're talking about it... I sent in a FOIA request recently, and it came back a few days ago as 404 File Not Found. I previously sent in requests in 2009 and 2010 and never received replies. From talking with others, they claim that t
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by kanzure 14y ago
Now, why isn't that in the ln man pages?
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by kanzure 14y ago
> We are just talking about how oneday we might have the freedom to take such a decision for ourselves. Unfortunately, watchdog groups like to argue that having that option is detrimental. They usually conflate it with claims of "ethnic
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by kanzure 14y ago
android-x86 is already very usable in qemu.
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by kanzure 14y ago
I would like to meet this person. We need more people building electron microscopes in their garages. Could you hook me up?
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Simulating the impact of patent law on innovation (2011)(archive.mises.org)
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by kanzure 14y ago
Here are some metrics and simulations: http://archive.mises.org/18812/andrew-torrance-patents-and-t... """ Patent systems are often justified by an assumption that innovation will be spurred by the prospect of patent protection, leading t
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by kanzure 14y ago
Voxlap is how I got my sister interested in programming. She really liked the cave blasting demo. http://advsys.net/ken/voxlap.htm http://advsys.net/ken/voxlap/cave.zip
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by kanzure 14y ago
> TreeStyle Tabs is basically my #1 reason why I'm sticking with Firefox. Tree Style Tabs is, of course, one of the greatest things ever to happen to Firefox. It's on the list immediately after FireBug. These days, I have been switching
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by kanzure 14y ago
I wrote a wrapper around httpretty called httpetrified, which uses a python-requests serialization format. Instead of writing multiple lines inside the unit test describing the mocks, you can just record an actual response into a file and r
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by kanzure 14y ago
There are many complicated licensing relationships in this ecosystem.. do you mean a particular ToS? a college's license with Elsevier/JSTOR/IEEE? a scholar's use of library resources, presumably governed by some honor code or something set
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by kanzure 14y ago
Author here (btw, like you I am not a part of the world of academia either). These watermarks include your name, institution, and ip address on every page. This is a huge privacy violation, especially when sharing research with colleagues.
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by kanzure 14y ago
How exactly do you sell a vulnerability to the US Federal Government?
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Remove watermarks from PDFs/papers with pdfparanoia(github.com)
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by kanzure 14y ago
> When you download a paper from JSTOR or ScienceDirect, it > is quite easy for them to add various watermarks to the > PDF, and they already do (mildly). You can strip the watermarks with a tool called pdfparanoia.
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by kanzure 14y ago
> Most university libraries offer subscriptions to externals, too (mine does for less than 50 USD a year). Can you show me one that does? You're saying as a non-institutionally affiliated individual, I can pay a university library $50/y
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by kanzure 14y ago
Regarding surrogacy, do you have any links you can drop? Also, if I have some modified embryos will any of the services accept these?
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by kanzure 14y ago
The robots.txt limit in Google's Webmasterpanelthing is 100,000 characters. Googlebot has been said to stop parsing robots.txt after 500,000 characters. I don't know if that's bytes or characters.
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by kanzure 14y ago
I forget the name, but there is at least one project doing that. In the mean time, here's an abandoned project doing something similar (not the one that works): https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Specs/AndroidExecutionEnvironment
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by kanzure 14y ago
Someone else was manipulating Google Scholar search results by automatically generating papers from LaTeX on his site, then citing the other generated papers with fake bibliographies. Unfortunately, I can't remember any of the identifying d
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by kanzure 14y ago
I think it's a big jump to say that what I said is the same as saying (as you put your interpretation of my comment) "there are no new things to talk about". Besides, if you were to just assume that there's no details available, then you wi
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by kanzure 14y ago
> imperfect neural abstraction hoping that it will automatically become concious. Consciousness is not the goal. What if your idea of consciousness is wrong? Even Wikipedia admits that nobody knows what consciousness is.
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by kanzure 14y ago
> we know nothing about the firmware (pre-wiring given by ... Huh? That's what they are studying.
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Affordable injection molding transforms tinkerers into tycoons (Protomold)(wired.com)
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Being outside of academia, I am not privy to the historical reasons that modeldb is the way it is. Something about it has always bothered me.. why on earth are all of these models in different languages? I mean, these aren't exactly CPAN mo
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by kanzure 14y ago
> identical to creating Strong AI One of the wonderful joys of brain emulation is that you don't have to worry about "designing intelligence into it". Your goal is different; your goal is the human brain itself, without our historical b

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