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by toufka 10y ago
Interesting. It's unclear to me if it's even possible outside of very rare circumstances that a country would want to cease trade with another country because their laws didn't align well. What would the incentive be to sto
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by toufka 10y ago
You better hope the laws (and those who make them) in the strongest economic coalition agree with your moral judgement. The idea that one culture can decide the laws of another or else the weaker capitulates its economic will is a very tric
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by toufka 10y ago
It actually is likely the opposite. Many viruses deliberately avoid checksumming and error correcting, as that's how it generates better modular parts - through errors and variation. Some viruses like HPV actively shut down their hos
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by toufka 10y ago
I don't think the bar is just nation-states. The bar also includes those with any of the following: - $1M Cash - skilled working knowledge of Apple's software and hardware - fast reflexes to quickly react and apply a newly-public
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by toufka 10y ago
There is a frustration, as a user, that as the value of the iOS exploits increase, they become more and more 'underground'. The time between OS release and public jailbreak is continually growing - and it doesn't seem to only
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by toufka 10y ago
>and destroy it after use... And then recreate, and redestroy it for each of the >100 law enforcement requests in NY alone. Etc. Etc. Though the FBI says that, Apple pointed out in their brief that the reality of what that kind of s
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by toufka 10y ago
The bouncing sound: took a platic bat (used for working out 'disagreements') and hit an alumimum garage door while digitizing the interior sound of the garage with an apple II, and masaging the digital data to play on the Amiga.
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by toufka 10y ago
That actually seems quite reasonable. How else can the stock be valued?
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by toufka 10y ago
The law seems to indicate otherwise.
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by toufka 10y ago
The (yet unpublished) documents obtained by Snowden had the same string as found in the sample files. The documents were not available to the publisher of the files to use.
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by toufka 10y ago
The many dollars the DOD has funding these projects eventually flow into the hands of (many) people with actual jobs. They have the culture to read HN, but cannot click the link, much less upvote the story for fear of losing their careers.
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by toufka 10y ago
Image analysis [1] [2]. Statistical packages. Rewriting old, but powerful algorithms into modern languages. APIs to access databases such as Entrez, Uniprot, etc. Stupid parsers to parse still-used god-awful ancient data-formats into sta
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by toufka 10y ago
Well, Apple tried for the iPhone, and I do believe the watch actually does have a synthetic sapphire screen.. Apple purchased a major stake in a sapphire-making business [1]. But it seems that it still was a bit on the tricky side compare
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by toufka 10y ago
Anyone care to explain what a 'standup' is for those of us (lucky enough?) to not have heard the term outside of the context of a comedy club?
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by toufka 10y ago
Exactly. Most 'good science' start with premises A, B, and C from their respective papers, and go on to show that X is likely true because of this new data. In general, it would be impossible to propose X if A, B, and C were not
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by toufka 10y ago
The conclusion (from pg 95), tldr; Yes: ----------- Based on this work, Election Justice USA has established an upper estimate of 184 pledged delegates lost by Senator Bernie Sanders as a consequence of specific irregularities and instances
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by toufka 10y ago
Check out Erowid[1] and see how people dealt with those 'scary chemicals'. People were being their own chemist & pharmacy at much higher doses, for much longer periods than any doctor had ever prescribed. There are certainly
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by toufka 10y ago
I don't know the android ecosystem well. Can any random app ask for and be granted full access without informing the user of that elevated access request?
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by toufka 10y ago
Well then that is a strange security lapse on Google's part. A spin-off company that had internal high-level access privileges, is spun off, and can still retains those high-level access privileges? That seems like a mistake somewher
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by toufka 10y ago
Isn't Niantic actually affiliated with (part of?) Google in some way? So it would seem natural, if odd, that it doesn't ask for full permissions for the account is actually already has full permissions to. In the same way google
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by toufka 10y ago
But it can. Philosophy can clear the brush between two competing paths. If we take path A, that leads to X, Y, Z, whereas if we take path B, that leads to J, K, L. Philosophy has done nothing to say whether reality is more A-like, or mor
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by toufka 10y ago
Government grants usually have pretty direct and explicit incentives that really have no connection with 'helping the government'. With many of the SBIR grants (NSF, NIH, etc.) the incentive is to either 'create jobs' o
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by toufka 10y ago
The emergence of coding is interesting and an active field of study but still not entirely found a consensus yet. One of the most interesting ideas is of an 'RNA World' [1]. Many of the oldest, first, most essential protein-like
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by toufka 10y ago
It's also super click-baity. The idea that a protein coding region of DNA can also have regulatory function is not new or a revolutionary idea. The science behind it is certainly useful and interesting, but not worth deceptively proc
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by toufka 10y ago
Very hard. Why would I click on a notification dialog to produce/obtain something? This workflow makes no sense.
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by toufka 10y ago
Yep Sarah Jeong @sarahjeong, and Parker Higgins @xor (of EFF) both did great jobs in communicating about the trial. They both provided an account along with some context. Sarah's reporting: https://storify.com/sarahjeon
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by toufka 10y ago
Exactly. Provide a 'Gene list' similar to an ingredients list. It lists a gene identifier, and a percent regulation (+/-, up down). And a QR/link to more info. That way the public can both be informed about what is go
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by toufka 10y ago
Very much a chicken/egg problem. >The effectiveness of screening for a given disease before signs and symptoms appear depends on a host of conditions... including whether there’s an effective treatment for whatever is found... There
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by toufka 10y ago
Man, two Freudian slips before coffeetime... I need to better proof my posts. I even went to the wikipedia page to make sure I remember the name of 'The Machine' correctly.
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by toufka 10y ago
I think your point is accurate, but jaded. Much as the above posters point out, there was no sudden 'click' where an individual discovered something and made genomics possible. And to the extent that's what we mean by &#x27

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