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by kevinpet 16y ago
To take trisomy 21 as an example (Down's syndrome cause), this means the fetus has three copies of chromosome 21. After a CVS or amnio, the lab will look at the cells under the microscope and look for two copies of each chromosome. If they
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by kevinpet 16y ago
Bad science journalist draws conclusions not stated in the research reported upon. It's clear to me that scanning for DNA fragments cannot tell you anything about chromosome abnormalities, so I doubt the researchers said any such thing. Thu
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by kevinpet 16y ago
I thought about writing a blog post once because I think I've finally found the key insight to being a successful engineer. Then I realized it isn't long enough for a blog post. Simple rule: if you're the smartest person in the room, go loo
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by kevinpet 16y ago
This article fails to draw enough attention to a key item -- these are enhanced restrictions only for the classified systems. The headline reads like a ham-handed overreaction that's going to make it impossible for people to type up their q
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by kevinpet 16y ago
I agree. If he wants to do some for free, do it for free. There's nothing damaging to your reputation about doing pro-bono work. I suggested my wife redesign some libertarian party websites for free as she was making the transition from pri
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Netflix CFO Barry McCarthy leaving(netflix.mediaroom.com)
1 points by kevinpet 16y ago|0 comments
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Trust, but Remind(eng.wealthfront.com)
3 points by kevinpet 16y ago|0 comments
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by kevinpet 16y ago
You're unlikely to do well generating passive income. The profit is going to go to the person running the WP theme site or whatever. There's plenty of work doing small business websites, though. Certainly it beats helping English majors try
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by kevinpet 16y ago
Excellent point. Instinctively, I assume everything the government and especially DHS does is a fraud to embezzle money from the public, but it would be handy to have numbers to back it up. I think to some extent the point holds regardless
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by kevinpet 16y ago
There are two issues: 1. Will memristors give a performance improvement? Yes, they probably will. Will this be helpful to AI? Yes, it will, because at least some aspects of AI are limited by performance right now. 2. Are memristors particul
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by kevinpet 16y ago
You are incorrect that this is California. From one message at the link: "Thanks for the advice, but I don't work in California." California law is pretty clear, if you do it on your own time, on your own equipment, it's yours. Most other s
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by kevinpet 16y ago
This whole hoopla about AI using memristors seems misguided to me. Memristors are interesting because they can more efficiently do things that currently require collections of transisters and capacitors, but they don't have any particular a
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by kevinpet 16y ago
The correct choice is 2. The CTO is the one who's officially tasked with making those decisions, so that's the channel to go through. I'd approach it as "this code is very hard to work with for new people coming on board, here are some sugg
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by kevinpet 16y ago
"lay off" says it is the fault of the management team. "fire" says it is the fault of employee. In the US, the standard is employment at will, which means you can terminate without cause at any time (unless you are actually terminating fo
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by kevinpet 16y ago
Ideal solution would be for Netflix to offer a discount to users on ISPs that don't do this. Importantly, send an email with "this is what you would pay on the different ISPs serving your area".
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by kevinpet 16y ago
That's very good, it provides a framework whereby support or condemnation is indicated based on empirical grounds.
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by kevinpet 16y ago
If Chrome is "from scratch", then I'm having trouble understanding what making something not from scratch is. It's got to contrast with something to have any meaning. Where to draw the line? 1 Tool written as an Excel spreadsheet. 2 Custom
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by kevinpet 16y ago
I don't see what's so horrible about that. By the time you get to the offer, you have an idea of the current valuation of the company. The price * options = $1000 already tells you if the company can grow 25x, you'll make on the order of $2
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by kevinpet 16y ago
Good thorough article. I think we'll soon need to make "incognito mode" the default and have to explicitly enable "social mode".
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by kevinpet 16y ago
The contrary is that if you are targeting the low end market, you need to price it that way from the start, and stay away from enterprise deals that require custom work.
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by kevinpet 16y ago
Doesn't work for me in chrome. I expect it not to work for the flash half, since i have that turned off, but the HTML 5 is supposed to be, you know, standard.
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by kevinpet 16y ago
Another possibility is that by distributing this incomplete version, it will flood the torrent trackers, making it harder for people to find the full version when that gets posted (which I assume to be about 2 hrs after it opens in theaters
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by kevinpet 16y ago
I believe "oppression under color of law" is the correct term if the TSA supervisor was not correct about him giving up rights by buying a ticket. That claim doesn't hold for a store saying "we reserve the right to search your bag on exit"
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by kevinpet 16y ago
I think we need to chop government worker pay severely, but I don't like the misleading way this headline frames the problem. That is -- I think others may correctly point out that this is a very odd metric to quote, and hence people must n
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by kevinpet 16y ago
If I could point to one thing other states could do to improve their economy, it would be adopt the exact language of California's anti-non-compete and the "you own your own ideas, unless developed as part of your work" law. Not that this i
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by kevinpet 16y ago
I've looked through the IRS site and there are explicit statements that if you have profit from a hobby, that should be reported as "other income". I think the author could have made a very reasonable mistake. It is pretty clear that he sho
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by kevinpet 16y ago
I think you're confused. "Payroll tax" and "self-employment tax" are both informal ways to refer to the employers portion of social security tax (FICA). It sounds like this guy was paying income tax on it, but not social security or medicar
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by kevinpet 16y ago
I think Atwood seriously understates the innovation behind Firesheep. The vulnerabilities are not new. Proof of concept code has been out there. It's all in the execution. Packaging an exploit as a voyeuristic game has made it rise to the t
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by kevinpet 16y ago
I completely agree that a bubble is when you buy based on speculation of the future value rather than expected utility to you. My point is that this is completely impossible if you cannot realize the appreciation in value. As an employer, y
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by kevinpet 16y ago
A bubble exists when people buy something based not on their belief in it's intrinsic underlying value but because people think it will appreciate in price. I.e. tulips, california real estate. You can't have a bubble in something you can't

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