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541.
by lvs 8y ago
It's just marketing spin on what incubators and many early venture firms typically do, except your goal is particularly to exploit people from around the world who may not yet be savvy to how the SV system "works." And before
542.
by lvs 8y ago
And you learned a lesson in how reporting works.
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by lvs 8y ago
But the hash of health data isn't informative. It doesn't make sense for a doctor to view, for example, the hash of a blood test result. They need to see the actual result, not its hash. The same thing is true of DNA sequencing re
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by lvs 8y ago
Not pretending to favor one buzzword bubble over another, but the author seems to think that it's particularly blockchain technology that's being irrationally pursued, not AI. No doubt, blockchains are being completely inappropria
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by lvs 8y ago
Yes, something is wrong at Tronc, other than their name. I noticed if you make the URL https:// manually, it works.
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by lvs 8y ago
... currently.
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by lvs 9y ago
No. ACS is a publisher for a large number of journals. As a nonprofit, their financials are fully available online. Member dues are a tiny slice of their revenues. https://www.acs.org/content/dam/acsorg/about&
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by lvs 9y ago
>What if tPA worked like the starter motor that turns on a car, and urokinase was the gasoline that ran it? No comment on the underlying science, but I will express my continued frustration with popsci writers and their counterproductive
549.
by lvs 9y ago
Just a brief note of support here. It's really moving to see the younger generation taking this on. Great work, and keep on fighting the good fight.
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by lvs 9y ago
> ... if the startup goes south The startup is a snake oil scam. It is by definition "south." It is not "unclear if the upload is feasible." It is simply NOT feasible.
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by lvs 9y ago
OK, the headline and press release basically have nothing to do with the underlying paper. The paper itself is a small sample size (24) trial that looks at tolerance. There are no statistically significant physiological effects of dosing wi
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by lvs 9y ago
Well, the research and the researchers are all almost entirely funded with public funds from around the world. The fact that they are forced for professional reasons to funnel all their work into a for-profit publishing industry for distrib
553.
by lvs 9y ago
Well, the typical story is that the money is going to an overabundance of administrators, construction boondoggles, and institutional vendors. There's a lot of profit-taking that happens in academics, and administration is always going
554.
by lvs 9y ago
This piece refers to a NEJM article from 2007, whereas the link above refers to unpublished work that seems to have solely a press release. (I wish press offices would stop this practice. It's terribly corrosive.)
555.
by lvs 9y ago
> At the end of the day, universities are businesses trying to retain customers. This matter-of-fact claim -- and the mindset it engenders -- encapsulates perhaps the vast majority of what's gone wrong in higher education in the pas
556.
by lvs 9y ago
It is dramatically different -- so different, in fact, that I suspect you haven't even attempted to think about it. Maybe willfully so. You are a person entitled to rights. A company is not a person. Border searches are warrantless, ar
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by lvs 9y ago
It's by definition. If you fail to comply with a court ordered search, you're in contempt of court. You go to jail.
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by lvs 9y ago
Oh come off it. This is a company, not a person. Uber has an official and public business model that relies on breaking the law. Laws that constrain anti-citizen business practices like tax evasion and labor violations should be highly enfo
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by lvs 9y ago
I don't think you know how Signal or the underlying protocol works based on this comment, so I'll just leave the discussion there. Feel free to read the specification. It's quite comprehensible and well-written.
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by lvs 9y ago
An individual server-to-server communication occurs in milliseconds, so the fact that messages do not arrive frequently is completely irrelevant. It's simply because Moxie -- someone likely to be immune to your kind of negativism -- ha
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by lvs 9y ago
OK, so implement a Double-Ratchet protocol for email clients and call it a day. Don't say that no engineering is possible on this problem, as if that isn't a farcical statement.
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by lvs 9y ago
I've seen you as the top commenter on almost every topic of email security, pitching the same arguments. There is significant demand for content-encrypted asynchronous messaging for all routine purposes. Chat apps do not provide the ap
563.
by lvs 9y ago
If your allegation is true, that would seem to be very illegal.
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by lvs 9y ago
I suppose you could set up a VPN that supports two-factor, then put the server behind it.
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by lvs 9y ago
I think this is a dramatic difference of opinion between coders and everyone else in science, if you excuse the generalization. I say that because of the large number of tools to try to one-up the PDF for academic scholarship (e.g. Readcube
566.
by lvs 9y ago
It's not so hard to figure out. The euphemism everyone's apparently accepted is "native advertising."
567.
by lvs 9y ago
You know exactly the point he's trying to make, since you made a counterargument to that point. The point is obviously that there is a conflict-of-interest when a publication reports on its owner's business activities. Not much to
568.
by lvs 9y ago
This work was done years ago at MIT, and MIT holds the patent. Look up Zahn and Hatton. https://news.mit.edu/2012/how-to-clean-up-oil-spills-0912
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by lvs 10y ago
No, and that's ridiculous. Your rule says, "Please don't bait other users by inviting them to downvote you or proclaim that you expect to get downvoted." I didn't bait anyone nor did I say I expected it. I said I w

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