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by quasque 13y ago
It could never work (to make animal research obsolete) because there is no human substitute for these: http://www.understandinganimalresearch.org.uk/how/areas-of-r... And unless it becomes ethically acceptable to genet
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by quasque 13y ago
I understand that you must have invested a lot of your time and energy into this idea, so it may be difficult to accept criticism of its base concept. However by posting about it on a public discussion board you are implicitly inviting othe
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by quasque 13y ago
You'll never make animal testing obsolete, nor would it be a good idea to do so as the benefits from using animals in research are so immense, and most such experiments are not transferable to humans (e.g. genetically modifying humans
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by quasque 13y ago
I'm baffled as to why anyone would want to live off what is essentially tube-fed hospital food. But without even the benefit of medical expertise and monitoring to ensure safety.
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by quasque 13y ago
He probably confused cellular respiration with physiological respiration, and thus incorrectly conflated the primary purpose of the mitochondria with the physical act of breathing.
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by quasque 13y ago
You wouldn't just have to verify if it produces the same encrypted output, but also if all the steps along the way are carried out in precisely the same manner. A compromised version of TC may correctly encrypt the volume as expected,
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by quasque 13y ago
Also 0xCC is the breakpoint opcode (INT3) on x86 architecture, so if the program were to start executing at that point, the debugger would be notified (or probably an immediate application crash if no debugger attached).
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by quasque 13y ago
It's because that URL erroneously has the left-to-right control character[1] at the end, which encodes as https://cloudant.com/%E2%80%8E - a missing page on that website. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wik
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by quasque 13y ago
Could you please elaborate on these techniques? I'd be most interested in any relevant papers. Thanks!
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by quasque 13y ago
This used to happen a lot to a friend of mine. We eventually worked out, through some rather underhand methods, that it was a stalker from her home town. Fortunately she lived thousands of miles away from there so there was no physical dang
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by quasque 13y ago
The way it's usually set up is that collective funding through taxation ensures that providers of these basic necessities are duly compensated. Unless your notion of individual rights includes "the right to not pay tax" it&#x
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by quasque 13y ago
> FBI basically generated a shit-load of Tor nodes ( https://blog.torproject.org/blog/how-to-handle-millions-new-... ) for some while to increase their chances of intercepting traffic. The blog post you link to was ab
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by quasque 13y ago
The idea the author is illustrating reminds me of this even simpler, no-distractions, plain text editor http://writer.bighugelabs.com/ It works really well for me when just trying to get thoughts out into words. Then it&#x2
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by quasque 13y ago
Probably the closest to organic wheels are organisms that form a wheel-like shape in order to roll http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmLS2WXZQxU
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by quasque 13y ago
> I wouldn't have guessed the NSA had people smart enough to break Windows Update's encryption using a brand-new cryptographic technique that also required several hundred thousand dollars of machine time to execute, but it ha
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by quasque 13y ago
Nice concept and experiment! In a similar vein, reminds me of this curious JPEG glitch http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3937885/cross-browser-inc...
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by quasque 13y ago
> Maybe what this approach needs is someone like Craig Venter to sequence all the bacteria found in generally healthy people and people with specific problems. There are quite a few well-funded projects doing this on a large scale, see
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Quantum Levitation(quantumlevitation.com)
4 points by quasque 13y ago|0 comments
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by quasque 13y ago
All the Tor relay nodes (except for bridges) are publicly listed in the directory, how do you mean map out the network?
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by quasque 13y ago
Some smaller VPS companies [1] have this model, giving each VPS public IPv6 addresses only as standard (sometimes with outbound IPv4 going through a NAT), and then charging a premium for a public IPv4. [1] Examples: http://vds6.n
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by quasque 13y ago
The paper mentions mixing services but suggests that they are unsuitable for large-scale laundering due to their relatively low volume. That is, if someone wanted to cash out thousands of bitcoins, it would not be possible to disconnect the
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by quasque 13y ago
I guess the resynchronisation time is taken up mostly by Dropbox reading and hashing all 5 GB to detect changes? Just that it considers each file as a series of contiguous chunks and should only transfer those chunks that have changed. A bi
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by quasque 13y ago
It does raise the bar slightly though, so is still worth doing. Instead of simply running the pyc files through a decompiler as would be the case without obfuscation, one has to reverse engineer their modified Python binary to figure out th
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Why your startup's culture is secretly awful(fastcolabs.com)
3 points by quasque 13y ago|0 comments
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by quasque 13y ago
Not that I agree with the connotations of "fix" as used in this piece - but why do you want to fix people in the first place? It's not your responsibility. If certain people bother you, then the best you can do is try to chan
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by quasque 13y ago
No, the gold/silver colloids would have been made chemically. I suspect the use of "ground down" in the article was either a metaphor or the author taking a wild guess as to the technique.
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by quasque 13y ago
It could well be true, though distinguishing the cause of her symptoms - whether it is an allergic reaction (i.e. the immune system inappropriately overreacting), problems in absorbing or metabolising fructose (so primarily related to intes
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by quasque 13y ago
Pasteurisation, if done correctly, will destroy the toxin but may not get rid of the bacterium - this is because the spores are resistant to heat. The risk is that infants in the first few months of life have not fully developed their gut d
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by quasque 13y ago
Also, $12 million for an electron microscope seems somewhat on the expensive side, by an order of magnitude.
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by quasque 13y ago
Rather hypocritical of Microsoft to complain. They're doing the same kind of thing to Google Mail users [1,2]. [1] http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!msg/gmail/ILHhp40ze4... [2] http://an

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