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by onewaystreet 10y ago
> I guess to be rewarded in science you have to be a master in your field and intensely concerned with IP deadlines. Dr. Zhang and MIT proved that the Crispr technique would work in plant, animal and human cells. The value of the patents
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by onewaystreet 10y ago
Both those quotes are opinions. You disagreeing with them doesn't make them uninformed.
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by onewaystreet 10y ago
I've seen comments like this posted on HN for the past 3 years. Bitcoin's "bubble" has already popped many times but it has rebounded each time. Maybe the next time will be the last, but a lot of people have been wrong a
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by onewaystreet 10y ago
> If Facebook were only gathering information necessary to improve the experience of its users, and were not selling that information or lying about it, I don't think you'd see the same backlash. Facebook doesn't sell info
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by onewaystreet 10y ago
> It's easy to say he's a "visionary" now but the markets facebook has ridden its growth on were not a result of it being amazing. Facebook's growth over the last few years is a direct result of Zuckerberg's
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by onewaystreet 10y ago
Beyond the actual security of the voting machines, the other challenge in any hack is making it match the demographic make up of a state. People talk about "red" and "blue" states but the reality is that states are not h
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by onewaystreet 10y ago
There will be deeper analysis done in the months to come as more data is gathered but it's clear from the initial data that economic anxiety did play a role in the election outcome: http://fivethirtyeight.com/features&#
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by onewaystreet 10y ago
This fear is rooted in a continued misunderstanding of the election result by people in tech. Voters didn't vote for Trump because they read some fake news story on Facebook, they voted for him out of economic desperation. They weren&#
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by onewaystreet 10y ago
> Add in cross browser compatibility and it's all just one big headache. Cross browser compatibility is one of the reasons why these tools exist.
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by onewaystreet 10y ago
> However as Javascript is maturing and branching out to server-side programming and at the same time the client side becomes more complex, you can't keep re-writing all your tools every couple of years, or even every 5 years. The c
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by onewaystreet 10y ago
> You have a right to pick and choose who you want in your home You don't if you are renting your home. Whether Airbnb hosts legally classify as renters is something that each state is dealing with. Airbnb is choosing to get ahead o
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by onewaystreet 10y ago
Most people don't give honest feedback to others. I don't think that is a recent occurrence.
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by onewaystreet 10y ago
It's better to raise more than you need when you are in a position of strength.
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by onewaystreet 10y ago
> Not everything we do is for the monetary incentive. It is when a private company is doing it.
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by onewaystreet 10y ago
The Switch uses a custom Nvidia Tegra processor which would give it at minimum the performance of the PS4, likely better: https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2016/10/20/nintendo-switch/
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by onewaystreet 10y ago
Copy editor
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by onewaystreet 10y ago
Authors for major news sites don't write their own headlines which is why there is often a disconnect with the actual content of the article.
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by onewaystreet 10y ago
Mark Zuckerberg said those things when he was 19 over a decade ago. He's now a father, the CEO of a global company with over 12,000 employees and one of the richest people in the world. Maybe he has matured since then?
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by onewaystreet 10y ago
They have 3,860 employees.
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by onewaystreet 10y ago
But why do you care if Musk and SpaceX have a reality-distortion field? Worst case (or best case for you) is that he fails and you get to gloat.
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by onewaystreet 10y ago
Your two advanced questions are answered on SO: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6246719/what-is-a-higher-... http://stackoverflow.com/questions/27190934/implementation-f... These are
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by onewaystreet 10y ago
> But they haven't turned a profit, which after 10 years is a strong indicator that they can't turn a profit. In those 10 years Twitter has changed leaderships multiple times. Twitter has never had stable and competent manageme
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by onewaystreet 10y ago
> I suspect it would have been much better for them to simply partner with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Based on what? The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has plenty of money. Better for the Zuckerbergs to focus on other a
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by onewaystreet 10y ago
That investment and this announcement aren't the same thing.
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by onewaystreet 10y ago
What actual wrongdoing did Snowden blow the whistle on? The collection of phone metadata was ruled unconstitutional, but that was after the fact.
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by onewaystreet 10y ago
The corner store and Snapchat are both businesses but they aren't the same. Saying this isn't the same as saying that startups are better , just that they are different .
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by onewaystreet 10y ago
It's irrational for someone running a startup to be categorically against raising money. It's not for someone running a lifestyle business. A lifestyle business is not a startup.
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by onewaystreet 10y ago
Unless med companies start paying these security companies to find bugs (which they don't) they will need to find other ways to make money or stop looking all together.
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by onewaystreet 10y ago
Game developers are fine with streaming/youtube. They see it as advertising. These days it's common for streamers and youtubers to be sponsored by major developers. Nintendo is the only company that tried to stop it and they backe
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by onewaystreet 10y ago
The how already exists (genetic engineering) but it will probably never be done due to political reasons.

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