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by new299 9y ago
It makes it... less than ideal. And I don't believe we have good massively parallel synthesis approaches currently. Overall writing is problematic (reading also, but is getting cheaper/easier).
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by new299 9y ago
I'm not sure if you're kidding of not but... Our ability to write DNA is quite limited (single fragments of ~1000bp at most) and expensive. The largest completely synthetic fragments that have been made would be able to store a fe
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by new299 9y ago
It would be interesting to be able to pick a company and then track the flow of goods to/from that company. For example, I was interested in a particular company so I looked them up, found shipments, searched another table for the ship
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by new299 9y ago
huh... is touchID more useful? Is a PIN more useful? I'm honestly curious, what's the difference between "I refuse to look at my phone" and "I refuse to enter my PIN" when being detained?
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by new299 9y ago
yes, I imagine if you are interested in masking this information it's absolutely possible but requires some effort. Still interesting to have this as a tool when investigating companies.
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by new299 9y ago
Wow... I had no idea this kind of manifest information was publicly available. I'm kind of unreasonably excited by this. Using the Enigma datadata I was able to figure find at least one major vendor another player in my industry uses.
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by new299 9y ago
It doesn't activate unless you look at the lock screen, so you can just refuse to look at it? https://www.wired.com/story/iphone-x-faceid-security/
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by new299 9y ago
> They don't talk about it on blogs on the Internet because that's not where the audience is. But they do talk about this. It's a real shame. I love reading about other disciplines and knowing about the practical trade off
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by new299 9y ago
Mostly I'd guess they don't have the fabrication capability to do this. Nikon as far as I can tell doesn't make any of their own sensors. Canon doesn't make the sensors in their cheaper cameras (from what I can tell from
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by new299 9y ago
> We're really arguing value systems here, so I don't see what a study is going to bring to the table. As far as I can tell, mostly we're arguing at cross purposes. I'm arguing that saying people who buy a single bott
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by new299 9y ago
Here's the full text, it's very short. The first part is a blockquote incase that's not clear... Alan Kay says, "...this was just like two years before going to PARC. I finished my PhD. I started thinking about this. I
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by new299 9y ago
I'd need a peer reviewed study yes. To understand it in the context of all the other things we waste gas and plastic on. A single plane flight uses more energy than all the bottles of water I'm likely to consume in a lifetime (man
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by new299 9y ago
> I did not accuse anyone of being apathetic or lazy (nether word is in my comment) but I do question the behavior because it is drastically less efficient than tap water. This thread, and my comments, are directed toward a commenter who
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by new299 9y ago
> I don't think the "treadmill experts" at treadmillreviews.net are any more reputable than Good Housekeeping's youtube channel. Can you find a better reference? Or one suggesting that cups/bottles do not requir
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by new299 9y ago
> Of course you can take your water bottles on the plane In terms of energy, that plane flight likely used 1000s to millions of times more energy than that used to create a bottle of water. Running the numbers from [1] and [2], I came up
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by new299 9y ago
Ah, if that's the case I guess I didn't make my point clearly. Absolutely, it's fine and I personally feel, a great idea to use reusable bags (and water bottles). The difficulty comes if people apply social pressure and say &
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by new299 9y ago
Hmmm, well there's this small study: http://www.treadmillreviews.net/water-bottle-germs-revealed/ So it seems likely that there's bacterial buildup. But I'd be interested in further reviews, more data. &
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by new299 9y ago
Did you read the article? It suggests that rinsing with water only does not sufficiently remove germs, you should wash with soap. What you consider wasteful is a personal view. You might consider buying a new mobile phone or computer to be
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by new299 9y ago
If I'm going to be downvoted... some kind of counterpoint or explanation would help progress the discussion, and avoid my making similar errors in the future.
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by new299 9y ago
> It makes me sad to see the waste created in the environment due to ignorance. It's common practice to use re-usable drinking containers.. and you can do this while traveling as well. It's like bringing your own shopping bag,
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by new299 9y ago
> B/c of above reason. Just fill a bottle. If that's too much - then this is an indicator of mental decline. That a pretty heavy handed value judgment, made seemingly without any consideration that people have differing require
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by new299 9y ago
They can decrypt, and provide access to law enforcement (and do under warrant): https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/law-enforcement-guidelin...
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by new299 9y ago
> a) Anyone who keeps tabs on the news doesn't need a peer-reviewed article to understand that bottling-companies-gone-wild is indeed an issue. These stories are fairly common. I'm pretty sure not everyone reads the same news s
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by new299 9y ago
> If people were only buying it as a convenience, it would be a non-issue. But it is an issue. You say this as if it were a fact, but no evidence has been provided to support this. This is a general issue with online communities, lowers
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by new299 9y ago
There is another reason for buying bottled water, and that's because tap water in a convenient container is not available... I have no data on the reasons people purchase bottled water. But every time I've purchased bottled water
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by new299 9y ago
Hmm that page is pretty unclear. Because while it says the data is encrypted serverside. What it doesn't say is which data is encrypted with a key that Apple has access to. Much of the data listed as encrypted on server is available to
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by new299 9y ago
I think "can't" is "wont" in this case. Apple law enforcement guidelines state: "All iCloud content data stored by Apple is encrypted at the location of the server. When third-party vendors are used to
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by new299 9y ago
Right, but if the product is on the market, doesn't that make the whole trade secret thing kind of void anyway? Because it most likely can be reverse engineered? If it's provided to users only as a service, then I can see they cou
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by new299 9y ago
I can find no reference to this, and I've not heard anything about this happening in the past. Issues with iOS include: * iCloud not encrypting data securely serverside (i.e. they can potentially get at the data). You can avoid this by
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by new299 9y ago
Isn't the worry then that someone else comes up with the invention independently and patents it? (and does the US being a first-to-file patent system have an impact on this)

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