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by larubbio 13y ago
I think it's type 1a. There was a discussion on this recently after a new supernova observation. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7104056 Basically it's unknown if it is a two star system where the neutron co
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by larubbio 13y ago
Correct, I called out the provision that patents must be licensed at a reasonable rate in the attempt to draw the parallel with the reasonable market rate compensation for eminent domain, but left that portion out by accident. Thank you fo
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by larubbio 13y ago
No, I'm not kidding, I was simply pointing out that there are other incentives besides financial. I never said intellectual curiosity would pay the bills just that I felt claiming 0 incentive wasn't completely correct. Something
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by larubbio 13y ago
Governments can take your land through Eminent Domain if it is shown to benefit society as a whole. Also is the government "taking" the drug, or just not extending monopoly patent rights for it? Also even patents (in the US) have
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by larubbio 13y ago
Although I'm sure there has to be more to this story. If Bayer wasn't going to sell the drug in India (since it wasn't made for Indians) has that 'privilege' been taken from them? They still have monopoly rights e
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by larubbio 13y ago
I'm sure I'm being very pedantic here, but the "no incentive" argument has always bothered me. Saving a life is an incentive. Satisfying intellectual curiosity is an incentive. So the company does in fact have incentiv
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by larubbio 13y ago
What affect would expansion of the universe have on the bullet? Would it just be a little longer and pointier?
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CES 2014: The Knightscope K5 Robot Redefines Security Industry(forbes.com)
1 points by larubbio 13y ago|0 comments
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by larubbio 13y ago
I thought the same thing as you and had the same reservations when a marketing exec asked me to put one on the purchase page for a startup I used to work for. I was shocked when the A/B test we ran showed a lift. I wish I had more de
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by larubbio 13y ago
I wished the article went into more detail about how it could form. My hazy memory of astronomy from college, I thought matter falling onto a neutron star from a companion star was how a type IIa supernova occurred. How would the neutron
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by larubbio 13y ago
So when Obama's term is up and a new president is elected will the problem go away? Labeling it as "Barack Obama's NSA" incorrectly boxes the issue into the typical left/right categories we use in American politics.
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The 124 states of America(washingtonpost.com)
5 points by larubbio 13y ago|0 comments
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The NSA Reportedly Has Total Access To The Apple iPhone(forbes.com)
342 points by larubbio 13y ago|201 comments
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by larubbio 13y ago
What kind of beef cattle do you raise? I'm trying to track down heritage breeds but having some trouble. If you have any leads please contact me through the email address in my profile.
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by larubbio 13y ago
for #1 I was wondering if you could build a messaging system where the sending system didn't know the location of the recipient. It also would mask the connection between sender and recipient. Basically you would send a message to a
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by larubbio 13y ago
I personally can't stand smoke detectors and would love for someone to improve on them. My house has very high ceilings, so dealing with any issue with the detectors is a pain. I change the batteries yearly (even though all my detecto
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by larubbio 13y ago
I work at Grameen Foundation, and we do that in developing countries. The system we are developing, called MOTECH, is a modular application that can be used for Pill Reminders, tracking appointments or sending periodic educational messages
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by larubbio 13y ago
Would some of the issues around pharmacies being required to sell birth control or plan b medications fall into the same category?
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by larubbio 13y ago
Vittana already does that. http://www.vittana.org/
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by larubbio 13y ago
Do you really think an autonomous car will seek out and join a traffic jam? How many times do you think an owner of an autonomous car will have to be left stranded because their car intentionally got itself stuck in a traffic jam and could
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by larubbio 13y ago
Are the streets really free? Don't property and gas taxes pay for them? Is it really that hard to imagine a system that charges per-mile for driving on them? I don't think the three options you list are the only three and I als
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by larubbio 13y ago
Couldn't that "location" be a parking lot? The article did mention that some 25 - 30% of a city is devoted to the car today. Some of that is the street, street parking and parking lots. Why would the car circle instead of
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by larubbio 13y ago
I think you are confusing "demand for cars" with "demand for what a car provides", i.e. transportation from one location to another. A driverless car isn't necessarily "making cars better" but rather makin
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by larubbio 13y ago
I don't think he said it would reduce the demand for cars, instead his theory is that it would reduce the demand for individual ownership of cars. The demand would probably increase, but be serviced by fewer cars because of more effic
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by larubbio 13y ago
I don't think the situations you put forward and the conclusions you are drawing from them necessarily follow. In the first example, how often is it that you must communicate with someone far away in an hour without any prior coordinat
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by larubbio 13y ago
While this is off topic from the NSA story, and the article I'm linking to is from 2009, the conditions for tomato pickers in Florida could be described as slavery with slave masters in the United States. I don't believe things h
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At Grameen Foundation, an international nonprofit becomes a software developer(washingtonpost.com)
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by larubbio 13y ago
While I didn't work directly on this project, I do work at Grameen Foundation on the open source maternal health system mentioned at the end of the article. ( https://code.google.com/p/motech/ and http://www.motechsuite.org/ ) I think it
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Google Mobile Sex Advice Boosted Cheating in Uganda(bloomberg.com)
2 points by larubbio 13y ago|1 comments
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by larubbio 13y ago
Vittana works in a very similar way except they are focused exclusively on helping to fund education. http://www.vittana.org/

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