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by pdkl95 8y ago
Reaching a large audience can be useful, but it might not be worth the cost of using an established medium. From the forward - which was probably written by Marshall McLuhan - to Edmund Snow Carpenter's book "They became what they
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by pdkl95 8y ago
> “But we also follow the rule of law in every country,” No. you probably make a good effort to follow the letter of the law in the jurisdictions you work in. I'm sure you employ many talented lawyers to minimize your legal risks.
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by pdkl95 8y ago
Using radio at all is probably always going to be a terrible design choice for any medical device that relies on a non-rechargeable internal battery. Last year's pacemaker security alerts included the usual braindead protocols and brok
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by pdkl95 8y ago
Re: the Mandelbrot set as a map of the connected Julia sets. This means the Mandelbrot and Julia sets can be seen as different slices of a higher dimensional structure. Recently I found a video[1] with very high quality render of both set
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by pdkl95 8y ago
They already return different results based on the user agent header; they could easily be returning different results based on other HTTP headers, IP headers, etc . Arguments that implicitly assume everyone receives the same data from a s
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by pdkl95 8y ago
That's right - the Huffman tree was built based on the base frequency of use, which actually varies depending on what type of organism you're sequencing[1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GC-content#Among-g
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by pdkl95 8y ago
At a minimum there were two additional symbols: "N" for uNknown, where the raw sensor information - which should be a series of nice Gaussians[1 top] - was too ambiguous/low-quality for a useful basecall, but the presence of
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by pdkl95 8y ago
> "barrage of 12 patents from GenomSys" Based on the patent titles (I'll see if I can read some of them in detail tomorrow), most of these sounds almost exactly like the code I wrote while working at the JGI[1][2][3] in th
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by pdkl95 8y ago
> while the security argument is true The security argument is mostly orthogonal to the benefits of carrying cash. Obviously there is wisdom in having multiple options for moving money, which will inevitably have different strengths an
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How to report on an aircraft accident(youtube.com)
1 points by pdkl95 8y ago|0 comments
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by pdkl95 8y ago
https://theintercept.com/2014/02/24/jtrig-manipulation/
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by pdkl95 8y ago
That's been available in popular adblockers for almost as long as adblockers have existed[1]. https://adblockplus.org/filters#elemhide https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Procedural-co
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Leaked video reveals Amazon's union-busting playbook(boingboing.net)
62 points by pdkl95 8y ago|4 comments
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by pdkl95 8y ago
Bills of attainder (laws that target a specific person or group of people) have always been unconstitutional. The are explicitly prohibited federally in Article 1, Section 9: No Bill of Attainder ... shall be passed. States are exp
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by pdkl95 8y ago
Even worse than undermining expectations about the price of software, since google's general use apps (gmail, docs, etc.) are Service as a Software Substitute (SaaSS[1]), Google is also undermining the basic concept of buying a copy of
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by pdkl95 8y ago
That GA feature does NOT provide any useful anonymity, and I doubt it meet the requirements of the GDPR. re the aip=1 feature: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17167346 why masking the least interesting byte isn'
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by pdkl95 8y ago
> a browser that simply CAN'T send info about you back to home base Unfortunatly that requires a large sacrifice: no Turing complete languages. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15708099
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by pdkl95 8y ago
> I just don't think most people care. Every single person I've explained how much data Google et al 's regularly collect has cared a lot . My mother's first comment after hearing what Android and Chrome collect w
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by pdkl95 8y ago
> The User Agent is just software that happens to be called that This is impressive rationalization. It's the User Agent because it's the software the user is running as their agent on their own computer . The only "m
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by pdkl95 8y ago
> while every other network that offers potential competition suffers. Good, that's the goal. > And yet again this only makes the duopoly of Facebook and Google trackers even stronger. It takes time to break entrenched monopolies
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by pdkl95 8y ago
> the author seems to be under the somewhat common misapprehension that the Planck scale is some kind of limit on quantization The Planck length may not limit quantization, but it is a hard limit on measurement . Due to Heisenberg unc
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by pdkl95 8y ago
> This measurement will not include a client identifier That cannot be correct unless they have figured out a way to transfer the user's data without using IP. The Source Address and other fields in the IP header can easily be eno
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by pdkl95 8y ago
> that doesn't mean you can't have consistent philosophies Social structures and politics are not philosophically or logically consistent! Philosophies are, at best, a useful set of guide, but it isn't hard to find patho
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by pdkl95 8y ago
> the FISA court is that it's not about surveillance for the purpose of normal criminal prosecutions It is used for domestic criminal purposes, as long as the court only sees a parallel construction [1] that conceals that the evi
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by pdkl95 8y ago
Bruce Sterling's book Schismatris , when the technologically advanced decedents of humanity returned to earth: > "Do you see the cable system? The mausoleum has an information line, the only one in the village. Whoever lives
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by pdkl95 8y ago
> We don't collect and store IPs. First, "IPs" might be confusing; "IP addresses" would be more accurate. More importantly, you have to collect IP addresses (or any other value in the packet headers[1][2]) - ev
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by pdkl95 8y ago
> Removing the last octet of IPv4 addresses before storing them should provide better privacy. That doesn't provide any practical amount of privacy. For a longer discussion of why this is at best a placebo, see: https:/&#x2F
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by pdkl95 8y ago
> unnecessarily track users without their consent Regardless of your intentions, you are collecting enough data to track users. > I am transparent about what I collect ([URL]) That page doesn't mention that you are also collect
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by pdkl95 8y ago
"100ms" probably comes from the long distance telephony investigations into round-trip time. If I remember correctly, 100-ish ms RTT was when people would start to notice the delay, and conversations became very difficult above ~2
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by pdkl95 8y ago
Cheaply made products that break easily are always a problem; there are certainly a lot of terrible headphones on the market, with or without wires. However, the problem you are describing: > One side of the headphones stops playing soun

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