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by kanzure 4y ago
Major corporations have entire strategies built around open-source, with many household names that you know (Facebook, Microsoft, Google, ...). According to random estimates on the internet, open-source software is a $50 billion annual mark
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by kanzure 4y ago
Maybe it is time to enshrine open-source software development into law, and out of the realm of merely relying on an old copyright hack. It was a very clever hack, of course, but maybe the software industry has outgrown it and needs more le
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by kanzure 4y ago
I wish it was a joke: "Biomedical ethicist Ronald Michael Green reports that Gattaca 'lives on in bioethics classrooms around the country as the epitome of what is bad about human gene interventions' [...] Like Brave New Worl
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by kanzure 4y ago
Bingo. It's mostly a story about discrimination. Unfortunately it is mistakenly used as a cautionary tale to slow down or prevent progress on genetics.
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by kanzure 4y ago
yeah let's hope parents don't get to choose a better life for their kids, watch out?
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by kanzure 4y ago
We can do some editing of some of the somatic cells in adults, and those edits have some effect. Reaching all of the somatic cells is actually quite difficult. We have had significantly better results with germline genetic engineering
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by kanzure 4y ago
Gattaca set the field of biotech back by decades. Countless hours have been wasted pointing to the movie for why we should not go down the slippery slope of genetic choice. Cool movie though, that's part of the problem. "If the au
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by kanzure 4y ago
... do inmates get free access to LexisNexis?
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by kanzure 4y ago
> Honestly I hate touch controls just about anywhere. On a smartphone they make sense. https://store.planetcom.co.uk/products/astro-slide
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by kanzure 4y ago
It's the absolute number of cortical neurons, not the size of the brain. "Brains matter, bodies maybe not: the case for examining neuron numbers irrespective of body size" https://nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com&#
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by kanzure 4y ago
Glad to see progress on this. For those interested in contributing I'd recommend the Silicon Salon workshops https://www.siliconsalon.info/ see https://diyhpl.us/wiki/transcripts/silicon-salon
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by kanzure 4y ago
Is there a cloud desktop product where I can select a development environment and instantly RDP into it pre-configured and ready to compile code with libraries installed etc?
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by kanzure 4y ago
"Murray Gell-Mann was reported to grumble that Feynman "spent a great deal of time and energy generating anecdotes about himself.""
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by kanzure 4y ago
I believe the federally funded research rules are about prohibiting future ongoing publication at venues that are not in compliance with the policy, rather than the government directly compelling private businesses to take down the paywalls
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Webcash: Digital currency, without a blockchain(bitcointalk.org)
3 points by kanzure 4y ago|5 comments
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by kanzure 4y ago
> It doesn’t matter how much you argue with HN crypto haters, it’s always “bUt WhY nOt a SqL DaTaBaSe?” (plug warning) Well.... I tried that, the HN comments seemed somewhat positive to me at least: https://news.ycombinator.co
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by kanzure 4y ago
You might find that Brave New World is not quite the same cautionary tale against genetic enhancement that popular discourse would have you believe (it's more about totalitarianism): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id
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by kanzure 4y ago
"If the audience is supposed to accept that genetic determinism is true in Gattaca, then no amount of Vincent's hard work should make Vincent a hero. He's just a fraud. If the audience is not supposed to believe that in the w
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by kanzure 4y ago
Reposting a comment of mine from 10 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28731696 Extropians are everywhere. Many names come to mind, like Assange, Hal Finney, Jurvetson, Carl Feynman, and many others. I hope th
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by kanzure 4y ago
> If all animation studios use MoonRay, then that advantage gets erased, and the ultimate impact is null. Other studios could also contribute improvements, which the original studio could benefit from. That's one of my motivations f
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by kanzure 4y ago
> We define the notion of one-shot signatures, which are signatures where any secret key can be used to sign only a single message, and then self-destructs. While such signatures are of course impossible classically, we construct one-sho
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by kanzure 4y ago
The system mostly relies on the central server staying online. Technically, though, users make payments by copy/pasting webcash to each other, which can still happen even if the server is offline. When the server is offline they won&
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by kanzure 4y ago
Yes, the server is a wrapper around a database. That's the point of this project. :)
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by kanzure 4y ago
> Security: The centralized server is an open invitation to hackers. There are many centralized web services that operate around the world with high security. There's a large array of conventional techniques for securing servers. Ad
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by kanzure 4y ago
With a blockchain, a client downloads all the blocks and runs a local query to see if there has been any double spending of a coin (roughly). Here, a webcash wallet queries the webcash server for double spending protection instead. It asks
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Webcash: Peer-to-peer electronic cash with no blockchain(webcash.org)
24 points by kanzure 4y ago|15 comments
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by kanzure 4y ago
Well, if you need more proof that you don't always need a blockchain, Webcash ( https://webcash.org ) might be it because Webcash just uses a central database for double spending detection. A few of the early users were com
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by kanzure 4y ago
> We often believe the point of school is the academics, but I would argue it's the social. Studies indicate social skills are more important to future success than academics. How much socialization do kids really get in school anyw
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by kanzure 4y ago
backlink to a related recent discussion: https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2022...
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by kanzure 4y ago
Curious to know if there are any very opposite recent results for some different population..?

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