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by toufka 14y ago
The artist has 100% control for the first 2(?) years (and he has been vehemently anti-advertising - there have been numerous offers already). It will need to be reevaluated in 5 years when the bridge needs to be painted - as the lights wil
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by toufka 14y ago
There is always an other side. In general, I think you want fuzzy laws, as there are fairly universally agreed 'bad' things, though not a single person has a good definition of 'bad'. A computer 'crime' or 'fraud' can easily be understood
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by toufka 14y ago
Didn't know what Hopper was: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopper_%28DVR%29#Hopper >A DVR with three tuners and 2 TB of space, half of which can be used to record television, the other half is for video on demand. A Hopper feature, cal
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by toufka 14y ago
Well at least another feels similarly. The woed firewall works fine for the concept without the load.
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by toufka 14y ago
Higher resolution requires better materials - but most additive 3D printing has a max resolution of a few fractions of millimeters (hundreds of microns). A good record has a groove resolution on the order of single micron units - if not sm
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by toufka 14y ago
Entirely anecdotal, but I was told that there are some commercial patents regarding air circulation (keeping a stable chamber is absolutely necessary for high-resolution) that are blocking some of the open projects as well.
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by toufka 14y ago
No one is asking for a free service. But businesses are giving it. I don't see why businesses deserve to monetize my private information. I'd gladly pay for a feature-rich gmail or facebook where my privacy was guaranteed. But no busine
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by toufka 14y ago
I think this has very much to do with culture, and very little to do with 'science'. As a scientist, I've been in institutions where this single-mindedness tends to be the case. Currently I'm at an institution where this is far from the c
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by toufka 14y ago
No he didn't. He understood the science - and wrote a highly-public letter to the president arguing it would be better for the US to build one than to have it dropped on them by the Germans - already at work. But he had no hand in buildin
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by toufka 14y ago
If you have to search for it - you have to know what it is. This reminds me of DOS. I've used Macs forever - but without animosity I use Windows a lot at work. I needed to paste some raw text from my program into a text file. Um. How? I
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by toufka 14y ago
There's an interesting line of thought that a fragmented and diverse set of technologies and policies is more robust than a consolidated 'council'. You might be able to mess up any given district - but if you corrupt the council then you st
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by toufka 14y ago
Search this article - it explains much of the original rationale: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qt-epr/
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by toufka 14y ago
Philosophically (as written by Einstein, Heisenberg, etc.) there are three assumptions about the world - of which one is broken by the quantum world. We do not know which one. Depending on your interpretation of the Schrodinger equation y
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by toufka 14y ago
nope - because once you have the (open-sourced) recipes it will be QUITE cheap. Do you really think your Phusion master mix is expensive because it has a lot of material in it? You do realize you can purify your own polymerase for thousand
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by toufka 14y ago
That's simply not true. I do it in the laboratory every day. It requires the sterility of a good commercial kitchen. It requires some sugar, some water and some vitamins. It requires some very specific conditions and specific strands of
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by toufka 14y ago
It's a DNA printer. It can print vaccines. In the same way your printer at home can print a recipe. But the printer can also print a book, or a google map, or a photo. The DNA printer can print DNA - for vaccines, for antibiotics, for i
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by toufka 14y ago
yep - wouldn't work on my locked-down Firefox, but did fine on my vanilla Safari.
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by toufka 14y ago
And it's aborted; 'Gusty winds'.
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by toufka 14y ago
and the average Tesla customer is likely to consume much coffee and internet...
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by toufka 14y ago
There are of course ways to argue about the accuracy of these techniques. What's fun is that it doesn't matter which technique you use - the numbers turn up the same no matter what. That's why this 'science' thing is so cool. Measure the e
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by toufka 14y ago
wha, 10% cliff-drop isn't good enough for you? http://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ:FB
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by toufka 14y ago
any way to do this for -80C freezers? Many sensors used don't work at such cold temps - but it'd be really useful to build a similar (cheap) device to monitor freezers.
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by toufka 14y ago
I think the problem is that there are too many suppliers. Everyone wants to be a middle-man. If the government asks for domestic parts from it's big contractors, the big ones ask their small ones, and they ask theirs and so on. But at th
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by toufka 15y ago
This is true, to an extent. However, as a good scientist I try to frame my questions so that the answer cannot be 'no'. Instead of asking, "does this object do this?" I ask, "what does this object do?" or, "I've logically deduced that thi
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by toufka 15y ago
I believe you are missing the point. It is not about who provides a better service, or fraud. It is about long-term stability. Goldman has made extraordinary profits. And done well for their customers. But it is becoming increasingly clea
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by toufka 15y ago
I guarantee that the best open-source plasmid editor/viewer will become a ubiquitous piece of software in every university. And eventually, even, homes. http://www.mekentosj.com/science/enzymex - guys who made papers made part of it. Ni
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by toufka 15y ago
biochemist here... I would love to release my data in an open format. But the software I'm using is proprietary - and the format is therefore closed. Here's the problem: Scientific software sucks. It's stuck 20 years ago. Usually a pain