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by toufka 12y ago
Most of the papers used in this study were published between 1990 and 2010. The data is likely older than that.
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by toufka 12y ago
You do realize water is a chemical? And sunlight is probably the largest 'genetic tamperer' around? There is so much grey space between what you think you mean, and what you are actually saying that the terms you use are entirely
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by toufka 12y ago
Moved to SF in 2008 - stayed with a friend in Berkeley over a long weekend and found a place to rent on craigslist by the time I left. Was 'expensive' compared to my midwestern rents - but still within reason. Literally impossib
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by toufka 12y ago
>What is the legal status of the investments promoted by your platform? How will they be treated by the Securities and Exchange Commission? >Just like bitcoin, we’re launching it entirely outside the system. That's very naive. T
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by toufka 12y ago
In their summary there's a pretty massive gap in their lack of obtaining informed consent and how dangerous that might be: "Significance: We show, via a massive (N=689,003) experiment on Facebook, that emotional states can be tran
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by toufka 12y ago
It seems likely that it simply wasn't given any thought. Not so much that they did trust them, but that they didn't comprehend what could have been done, and so it never really bothered them that much. Once it was made apparent
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by toufka 12y ago
This separation is entirely how US citizens invest powers into their own government. It's not so much that certain people have rights that others do not, rather, US citizens will permit certain parts of their own government to carry o
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by toufka 12y ago
You left off the better part of the story! On the drink [finely pulverized, dense coffee, cold and anhydrous, consumed on an empty stomach] mentioned above. "I recommended this way of drinking coffee to a friend of mine, who absolutely
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by toufka 12y ago
Figure out what is actually being done. What I found was that a single enzyme found in a closely related species was being imported into this species. It is a more efficient enzyme than a very similar enzyme that is already present. So h
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by toufka 12y ago
Not just 'show excellence' but actually know enough to contribute to the field meaningfully. For better or worse, one can learn programming and some basic math in order to contribute to the market in the span of a few years. Tra
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by toufka 12y ago
However, it's being done from within the DEA - and actually erodes the DEA's long-term powers. Likely, governments will no longer allow DEA involvement if they know it now comes with the 'full-take' capabilities of the
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by toufka 12y ago
It seems to me, like the parent said, he's just simplifying a normal process. Sure, if his code was a few lines, and someone deleted a few you could use version control to get them back. On the other hand, if his code was a full fled
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by toufka 12y ago
> Because they don't consistently follow any rules whatsoever they're dangerous and the majority of them have an holier than thou attitude because they're not ruining the environment. They're just ruining every driver
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by toufka 12y ago
Honestly, it actually is a pretty good example, but you need to be creative. If I tell you that your book can only have 26 characters, you'll say, 'great, who cares, that's the whole alphabet'. But imagine the books you
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by toufka 12y ago
Keep in mind, life has been trying to 'runaway' since it was made. We're really good at biological warfare. A species from much earlier in our evolutionary history wouldn't stand a chance against a modern organism. We
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by toufka 12y ago
This is the 'spot' where you put the ink in your 3D atom printer. Life had used its entire 'ANSI-code' for its own purposes, (naturally (literally)). But if we want to insert our own stuff, we need a place to put it. S
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by toufka 12y ago
Though 3 shocks per wheel hits a very different price-point than 2 shocks per vehicle.
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by toufka 12y ago
It's pretty much the very edge of modern synthetic biology. Repurposing biological materials and tools to entirely designed uses. A much more realistic approach to atomic-resolution engineering than shrinking our metallic macro world.
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by toufka 13y ago
The flip side is that if you're in an exotic/expensive car people will pay for you to get help. The rental car companies will help you, the dealers will help you, and when you find someone finally willing to take their money, the
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by toufka 13y ago
The military still use bolts! And screws! And I bet if you look really hard you can find a copper wire! Some of these things are hundreds of years old! If it works, why change it? So long as they can find a supplier of new floppy disks f
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by toufka 13y ago
Reminds me of trying to get access to an old Hotline server. "The login is the eight word after 'summertime' on the last page of this link. Then, register for this service and the final word of the last paragraph of text is
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by toufka 13y ago
They are very different in nature; first vs productive. In terms of literal impact on the future, this particular event is likely greater. In terms of name recognition, the Apollo missions certainly were greater. You probably know of the
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by toufka 13y ago
It's not even just the 'Japanese pronunciation', but the original name of that monster was ゴジラ - 'gojira' (gorilla/kujira (whale)) - which was anglicized into 'godzilla'. There's nothing racist
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by toufka 13y ago
I've got it right here:
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by toufka 13y ago
That would be a reasonable conclusion if time wasn't a factor. Imagine if Joe Taxi Driver moved in when he could afford rent, and then the price of housing tripled in two years. Now, Joe's new roommates expect to pay 3x what Joe
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by toufka 13y ago
It's curious, because there's no reason to think the 'actual landlord' has a right to that additional income. They signed a lease at a given price for a given term. They could have signed that lease at dramatically hig
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by toufka 13y ago
At least in this case, it appears to be a law that is being violated, rather than a clause in a lease. The clause in the lease that is getting people evicted states, "any illegal activity". So just reading your lease is insuffic
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by toufka 13y ago
What then happens when the site ages significantly? Pulling a Yahoo is pretty scary in my mind. I'm still curious about how those with common, re-purposed emails have fared since yahoo reset all their unused accounts.
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by toufka 13y ago
High Fidelity [1] (Second Life v2) does this already. It's still early beta, but they've got the ability to map a user's face in real time with enough data-density to transmit emotion, and facial characteristics good enough
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by toufka 13y ago
VR is powerful precisely because it is communication. And communication with Facebook in the middle is such bad communication. No sane teacher, lawyer, doctor, CEO, judge, politician, etc. would permit facebook to be a third party to im

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