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by pilom 13y ago
Why is ignoring a government agency when they ask you to follow the law praiseworthy? The law says you cant market a diagnostic test without testing to know the accuracy of the test. I don't want to praise the snake oil salesmen who wo
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by pilom 13y ago
The issue isn't them saying "you have a higher likelyhood of disease." The problem the FDA has is 23andMe saying "you have the gene variation XYZ." If you take your 23andMe results to a doctor, the doctor should at
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by pilom 13y ago
Miners earn bitcoin from 2 sources when they find a block. One source is the award. This award is halved periodically so each block is worth fewer and fewer bitcoin. Theoretically, these awards will continue to decrease until the awards are
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by pilom 13y ago
No the FDA is saying that they need to see proof that the test has a high level of accuracy and isn't just snake oil. 23andMe tried saying "you shouldn't actually use our test for diagnosing disease" to which the FDA sai
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by pilom 13y ago
Summary: 5 years ago, 23andMe started marketing a test for among other things a BCRA indicator July and Sept 2012 - 23andMe submits a form to the FDA saying "our test isn't really useful for diagnosis and thus shouldn't fall
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by pilom 13y ago
I'm a big Udall supporter and I have to say that I wish you were right about them trying to capitalize on this but its as if Senator Udall makes a point of NOT mentioning his positions on this issue in his reelection campaigning. He pr
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by pilom 13y ago
An CFL bulb has less mercury in it than a can of tuna: http://www.lamprecycle.org/public/images/docs/LD+A%20August%...
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by pilom 13y ago
One CFL bulb has less mercury in it than a can of tuna: http://www.lamprecycle.org/public/images/docs/LD+A%20August%...
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by pilom 13y ago
I'm reminded of a course I took which was co-taught by the CTO at the Department of Homeland Security. He once said that "The criminals will always be better at using cryptography than the people who use them in positive ways.&quo
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by pilom 13y ago
They discussed this before but I can't find the link. Priceonomics has started consulting on data analysis and visualization and make significantly more money doing that than they do with their price search tools.
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by pilom 13y ago
This is the biggest downside in my opinion. Theoretically any merchant should deny any card without a signature, End of Story. In the merchant agreement they sign with Visa and MasterCard, they agree that any fraudulent charges where they d
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by pilom 13y ago
Looking at the bitcoincharts link, why is the going rate a MtGox (~440) so much higher than BitStamp (399)?
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by pilom 13y ago
I'm looking for a link, but in the meantime, I was working on a product where we had to map every connection between 2 routers to a new connection between 2 boxes (imagine having 2 boxes MITMing 2 routers and remapping every TCP sessio
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by pilom 13y ago
Just be sure to turn off iptables because that doesn't support more than ~64K connections.
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by pilom 13y ago
The actual cluster is hosting the site at: http://raspberrywebserver.com/
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by pilom 13y ago
I've worked with a lot of engineers. Most of us aren't really that smart and usually we make problems much more complicated than they need to be. I'd trust a unique and fairly original monetary system run by good engineers. B
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by pilom 13y ago
Its not like he has to buy the MBA or the iPad every year. Also cell phones in the US are way less than $50/month if you don't go with ATT, Verizon, Sprint, or T-mobile. I get Unlimited everything (with no data caps) for $20/
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by pilom 13y ago
It wasn't by choice. We only had $100 in our pockets because we didn't know. In most countries I had been to, its easier to use a card to pay for stuff rather than exchange cash. I figured it would be the same way in Venezuela, I
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by pilom 13y ago
I took a trip there in 2011 and 1/5 sounds a little off for what tourists could get. Officially at the time $1 would get about 4.5 bolivars. Unofficially, we could get around 7-9 bolivars per $1. We were pissed because we didn't k
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by pilom 13y ago
Why is it easier to transmit from the moon to earth? Here we have more power and larger/better/faster/more tuned lasers than the space vehicle does. Seems like getting earth's transmit rate way up would be relatively eas
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by pilom 13y ago
The biggest impact that many people see is that over time, a minimum income gives people a disincentive to work. So if Switzerland starts giving every citizen $2800 a month, will tons of people stop working because they realize they can liv
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by pilom 13y ago
You can't do it with Ethernet over copper but you can with fiber.
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by pilom 13y ago
Sounds like standard operating procedure for Classified programs. Everything is either printed and brought in, or burned to a CD-R and virus scanned and then brought in.
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by pilom 13y ago
Nowadays the poor mans 1-way data diode is a fiber link with the bad transmit connector physically obstructed. So you're using fiber where transmit is on one fiber and receive is on the other but the receive is blocked. Then only use 1
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by pilom 13y ago
I think you're using "wealth" to mean "assets" which I don't think is a useful number for any of these comparisons. In the example you give where a person has a house which declined in value and some student lo
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by pilom 13y ago
Generally buying a house should not by itself give you a negative net worth. Net worth = Assets - Debts, so when you buy a house you generally get an asset of $X (your house) and a Debt of 80% of X (your mortgage). You 20% of equity will si
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by pilom 13y ago
Later on the government submits an "Appendix B" which actually gets it right. The lawyers for both sides made technical mistakes while in court.
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by pilom 13y ago
"Only this time the request was effectively for unwarranted access to everything" Yes it was. Access to everything _for that user_. Which they are explicitly allowed to request with a warrant (which they had) under US law. Just be
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by pilom 13y ago
They explicitly state in the court proceedings that if it were possible to give a key which only decrypted the data of the unnamed party, then they would accept that instead of the master private key. Unfortunately such a key did not exist
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by pilom 13y ago
In the court transcript the judge says something to the effect of "lavabit is an email provider and email providers in the US are required to comply with US laws. The government has requested information which it is legally entitled to

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