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by kneel 10y ago
James Clapper's job is to worry about everything, of course he would say that. The common flu is a lot more dangerous than CRISPR/cas9. The CRISPR/cas9 system has potential for existential threat in the same way that AI does
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by kneel 10y ago
First time I've heard of this practice, it's a very very large percent of the pie. Makes me wonder why they don't just mine?
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by kneel 10y ago
Can't take zcash seriously. The entire currency is programmed to give 10% of all zcash to the developers.
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by kneel 10y ago
Excuse my naivety but I don't follow. You need 2^100 water molecules to do what? DNA has 4 bases, so any strand of 100 pairs can be encoded 4^100 ways. Granted DNA weighs a lot more than water. I'm having a hard time understanding
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by kneel 10y ago
I don't understand this. How is the DNA encoding the computation? I understand base complementing but how exactly does this result in an answer. If it were possible why didn't they do an experiment?
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by kneel 10y ago
Amazon echo just earned it's name.
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by kneel 10y ago
Curious where do you view total volume? I'm guessing blockchain.info but which chart are you referring to?
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by kneel 10y ago
Both although it's hard to tell how much is success and how much is speculation. Bitcoin's dirty little secret: Illegal drugs/services.
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by kneel 10y ago
Bitcoin is living up to it's reputation as digital gold. The Chinese are running away from RMB and buying bitcoin, Venezuelans are running away from Bolivares into Bitcoin. And to a lesser extent some Indians are escaping the Rupee. It
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by kneel 10y ago
If they can beat all the other lunch spots on price they wouldn't be so empty. Especially in college towns. I hope this isn't a preview of the food industry's 'disruptive automation' Everything cheaper for the resta
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by kneel 10y ago
Tried it once, I was excited about the idea of a quick take out meal. They've eliminated waitstaff, cashiers, meat and tables yet their prices are on par with all the other take out joints. The meal was small and I was still hungry aft
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by kneel 10y ago
Oooh, this makes sense now. He skimped hard on the details.
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by kneel 10y ago
These night vision glasses don't exist and the use of the phrase 'allow direct vision' is misleading seeing as they're using high powered lasers to see the blue shift. This lab has only made a nanocrystal that might enab
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by kneel 10y ago
More electric cars on the road means that oil will be cheaper for everyone else. The fossil fuels industry has massive infrastructure that isn't going away anytime soon, I'd guess their growth period is over though. There is going
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by kneel 10y ago
I've been reading it everyday for hours (its free!) for the last week. No paywall.
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by kneel 10y ago
That's interesting. I've been checking it for days now on all my devices, work and home. No paywall.
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by kneel 10y ago
I'm really curious how long NYTimes will keep their paywall down. They announced that they would take down the paywall for 72 hours leading up to the election, they haven't put it back up since. I would guess their eroding relatio
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by kneel 10y ago
Why don't they just mine then? Bitcoin worked just fine without Satoshi programming rewards for himself.
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by kneel 10y ago
https://z.cash/blog/funding.html ctrl-f 'founders reward'
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by kneel 10y ago
It seems crazy but these people lived their entire lives on small islands and had nothing else to do but master what little information surrounded them. I've heard stories of Islanders that could detect different types of fish from sur
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by kneel 10y ago
>the majority of software/engineering jobs out there are not doing "something more beneficial to society" ... other things need to get done. And the majority of people have bills to pay. This is a big problem in itself.
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by kneel 10y ago
Just because you can't mod the car's software? It doesn't take much thought to realize what a terrible idea it would be to let people tinker with a telsa's self driving software.
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by kneel 10y ago
Tesla has been recording driving data, sensor data, and GPS data for years. They already have a system in place for machine learning driving data. This combined with their sensors is IMO a great basis for fully autonomous cars. Tesla is pla
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by kneel 10y ago
Features on phones seem to have plateaued. I can't justify spending $650 on the newest phone for a slightly better camera. My current iphone 6 is just fine, the battery is waning but not unbearably so. Does the pixel offer anything tha
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by kneel 10y ago
It's a real shame how the recession has hit STEM funding. There are a lot of really exciting new technologies that are simply not funded. The private sector cannot innovate until monetization is in sight and the public sector is increa
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by kneel 10y ago
My personal remedy If I ever get a notification on my phone that isn't a human trying to interact with me I immediately disable the notification and/or app. With email I often (daily) unsubscribe from whatever impersonal newslette
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by kneel 10y ago
>Alex Garden. Garden, 41, is the former president of Zynga Studios. Before that, he was a general manager of Microsoft's Xbox Live. Xbox? Zynga? This company will have us buying $10 pizza-points for pies that cost $7. Also you could
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by kneel 10y ago
>the author provides plenty of reasons for why Wright might not want to sign a message even if he could, and they're interesting and layered reasons that require going into detail into the warped psychology of a man who appears just
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by kneel 10y ago
I think Satoshi disappeared b/c he was concerned about his privacy after wikileaks blowup. This is his 3rd to last post ever, it was concerning an article in PC World about bitcoin. >"It would have been nice to get this attenti
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by kneel 10y ago
I'm sure Satoshi has coins that others don't know about, the early blocks were all Satoshi but later blocks were mined by dozens of enthusiasts. Satoshi could have easily made an anonymous fortune in the early days. I imagine Sato

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