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by munfred 2y ago
Indeed, a fantastically written article!
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by munfred 5y ago
1) What are the differences between Scispot and Benchling? 2) What are the things you offer that nobody else does? 3) How long have you been developing the product? 4) If it is only three people, why would a lab choose you over established
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by munfred 5y ago
Strongly agree on the archival concerns. The reason scientific publishing is nowadays built upon 2D PDFs is that those are the digital analogue of paper. Distill used a new medium and media, with all the good and bad that comes with it. In
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by munfred 5y ago
> Another significant risk factor is having unachievable goals. We set extremely high standards for ourselves: with early articles, volunteer editors would often spend 50 or more hours improving articles that were submitted to Distill an
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The explosion of pasta shapes was fueled by modern technology(popsci.com)
1 points by munfred 5y ago|1 comments
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by munfred 6y ago
You can use the public matrix server that offers an interface to it with the Element web client and is maintained by Element the company (used to be called New Vector): https://app.element.io/ If you do want to set up your
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by munfred 6y ago
I have a suggestion to make on this regard, not related to body language. In scientific conferences, typically at the end of the day (e.g. after dinner, with drinks) you have "poster presentations". These presentations look pretty
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by munfred 6y ago
The author of this post raises valid points about some avenues for publishing scientific results. Journals have high barriers, rigid formats, paywall, and sometimes exclusionary reviewers. Twitter and blogs are fringe because they are not f
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by munfred 6y ago
If you open the text and look at section 2 of bill S.2658, you will see the definition of "Large Communications Platform Providers": (7) LARGE COMMUNICATIONS PLATFORM.—The term “large communications platform” means a product o
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by munfred 6y ago
There is actually another bill that aims to legislate over assessing the value of user data: S.1951 - DASHBOARD act, introduced 2019-06-25. Full text: https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/1
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by munfred 6y ago
Having professional standards bodies for interfaces has actually been proposed - in another bill! S.1084 - DETOUR Act, introduced 2019-04-09. Full text (only 1800 words!): https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress&#x
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by munfred 6y ago
I find this idea really interesting! Do you have any reference on studies that have looked into the idea or places that have implemented it?
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by munfred 6y ago
If you look at section 2 of bill S.2658[0], you will see that the bill only applies to "Large Communications Platform Providers". You bank is not that. Spotify and Netflix are not that. The bill doesn't apply to them. And not
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by munfred 6y ago
As pointed out, in section 4 of S.2658 this is explicitly prohibited: C) PROHIBITED CHANGES TO INTERFACES.—A change to an interoperability interface or terms of use made with the purpose, or substantial effect, of unreasonably denying acces
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by munfred 6y ago
As the bill S.2658 text currently stands [0], if iMessage has more than 100M monthly active users, then yes. It is hard to find such statistics on a quick search, but the surest way to make sure it applies to iMessage is to call your repres
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by munfred 6y ago
No it doesn't, you need to impersonate an user and login with your password in order to relay messages outside of FB messenger. That said, it has been done: https://github.com/tulir/mautrix-facebook
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by munfred 6y ago
This has actually also be proposed by Mark Warner in 2018 on a whitepaper titled “Potential Policy Proposals for Regulation of Social Media and Technology Firms”: https://www.warner.senate.gov/public/_cache/files
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by munfred 6y ago
Those are good questions. My take is that it would be similar in spirit to the way government can act to prevent price gouging with drug patents. Notice that platforms are allowed to charge and regulate access to the API, but it has to be &
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by munfred 6y ago
I'm every bit as surprised as you. I don't think it's a significant fraction of congress though, I think it's specifically senator Mark Warner. He did work with tech before, and my take is that he knows what he is talkin
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by munfred 6y ago
Here is the full text of the ACCESS Act of 2019 bill: https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/265... I highly recommend that everyone reads it - it is extremely short, well written, and proba
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by munfred 6y ago
I have installed trillium twice before, when trying to find a better alternative to a bunch of google docs, but didn't end up using it. The reason is that you cannot readily share an editable copy of a document with a link, which ends
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by munfred 6y ago
I have installed trillium twice before, when trying to find a better alternative to a bunch of google docs, but didn't end up using it. The reason is that you cannot readily share an editable copy of a document with a link, which ends
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by munfred 6y ago
Nice to see this here, I spent the last weekend reading about quadratic voting/funding. The core idea is that in order to decide how much "endorsement" each project amongst many receives, you take the square root of how much
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Youneedawiki.com – add tree navigation to Google docs(youneedawiki.com)
2 points by munfred 6y ago|0 comments
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by munfred 7y ago
Well actually that's more like Unicode Art ;)
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by munfred 7y ago
Agreed (I'm a matrix user myself). When I saw the thread I was confused about what exactly (if anything) he wanted to achieve that couldn't be done with matrix. I'd be surprised if he wasn't familiar with it already. Per
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Ask HN: Thoughts on the 4 tech bills making the rounds on the US senate?
7 points by munfred 7y ago|2 comments
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by munfred 7y ago
Please note that this article makes a crucial omission: this bill only applies to communication platforms With more than 100M users in the United States . To my knowledge, only Facebook and Facebook messenger meet that threshold (please li
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by munfred 7y ago
Same. I have this fantasy where I wonder: what if all software became public domain, and you reward creators based on the GitHub stars a repo has, weighted by something like page rank? Then I realized this could be extended to anything wher
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Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by munfred 7y ago|0 comments

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