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by toufka 7y ago
Still tricky for me to understand, but the generation above me almost seemed to consider “Pong” a genre(?), or a unit of gaming. Somehow more like “Make your own XBox game”. Pong was the example, but it was also the only one - so it seemed
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by toufka 7y ago
Fantastic. It is the asymmetry in information collection that is so frustrating as a consumer. In an ideal marketplace, information flows freely, and informed choices make the market move towards efficient transactions. When no consumers
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by toufka 7y ago
And I'd be right there with you. The plugin system allowed me to dream of making interactive the stories, ships and characters I was reading in 2001, Rama, and all the rest. And the reasonable technical knowledge required to interfac
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by toufka 7y ago
That'd be really fun to have! The elegance in these kinds of complex behaviors can be artistic in their own right.
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by toufka 7y ago
Metabolism is a process with chemical and energetic exhaust that can damage machinery critical to cellular processes. And at some point it becomes evolutionarily favorable to just accept that damage and expend effort starting over again (o
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by toufka 7y ago
Is this only for software engineering roles, or could it be appropriate for roles for YC's other styled companies (synthetic biology, nuclear reactors, etc.)?
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by toufka 7y ago
These new gene-/immuno-therapies tend to be: 1) much more sophisticated/cutting edge in terms of R&D, 2) the R&D is all of a new kind, so there has been little prior amortization of resources from prior successes. 3) _cur
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by toufka 7y ago
+1 for font size options. And don't skimp on the range. I'm not sure you can have a too-small option. HN is textually dense. That's one of the things that makes it nice - no photos, just people talking. Continuing with th
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by toufka 7y ago
When null defaults aren't actually innocuous: > For example, when a child asked a digital voice assistant if it would kill him in his sleep and it said, "I can't answer that," the child was concerned.
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by toufka 7y ago
Pretty harsh: > Last year, the firm's own privacy adviser Dr Ann Cavoukian resigned. "I imagined us creating a smart city of privacy, as opposed to a smart city of surveillance", she said bluntly in her resignation letter.
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by toufka 7y ago
The market is small. And that means, pragmatically, a professional farmer in search of a combine might be caught between a couple of bad choices - but that doesn't mean they endorse the business practices.
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by toufka 7y ago
But "grain farms in the Midwest" is actually is a lot of people. Statistically, soybean farmers have almost the same tonnage output as cattle in the US, and corn is 4x that - so those "grain farmers" are a significant c
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by toufka 7y ago
There is a strong argument I heard, in Japan, that, “everyone should be free to chose their lives, free of a monarch; and that includes the emperor’s family.” Essentially, the emperor is the last unfree person. They must live trapped in t
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by toufka 8y ago
Not sure why this is downvoted - it’s accurate, if jaring to an Anerican’s ears.
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by toufka 8y ago
I think society is okay with some knowledge about individuals. And that information is valuable. But it's still unclear where the line gets drawn that becomes creepy and inverts its value. If you have the corporate structure and po
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by toufka 8y ago
From a biology perspective, the value in DNA synthesis has plateaus. (I’m curious about analogies to other commodities?) If you can build small runs (<50base pairs) you can make small mutations to dna, or read particular sections of dna.
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by toufka 8y ago
I think (please correct me if I’m wrong), the plane’s “type” is fixed, and pilots have certifications for that “type”. So theoretically the plane is simialar enough to not require completely new training if a pilot is certified to the type
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by toufka 8y ago
Here's a pilot describing the MCAS system on the 737 Max: https://youtu.be/zfQW0upkVus?t=220
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by toufka 8y ago
Here's a pilot describing the new MCAS system on the 737 Max, and what a pilot would feel: https://youtu.be/zfQW0upkVus?t=220
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by toufka 8y ago
We have some data from real-time tracking that the "vertical speed was unstable after take off" [1]. And that both crashes are similar in that regard, and both accidents could be explained by a problem with the newly deployed M
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by toufka 8y ago
With the US patent system moving from “first to invent” (notebook timestamps become determining) to “first to file”, this is much less of an issue now (with reapect to IP provenance).
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by toufka 8y ago
10: The Shizuoka Shinbun SBS building: http://www.michaeljohngrist.com/2009/06/shizuoka-shimbun-bui... 11: An "Escape Room" business, Azutoubu Scrap: "アジトオブスクラップ東新宿GUNKAN" https://ru
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by toufka 8y ago
That is absolutely a dark pattern if that dialog box was intended to speak to read/write access of messages. "Access my data at any time" is truly deceptive. The icon is one specifying "time" - a moon in the dark;
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by toufka 8y ago
> I find it hard to believe that Facebook refuses to acknowledge any fault in this. I feel that the distance between their rhetoric and their technical machinations is their liability. And to those who say, "no big deal, everyone
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by toufka 8y ago
And India's ISRO's GSLV is up for launch as well.
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by toufka 8y ago
A Scotch-Egg is a very curious exception to the cube rule. It's a kind of calzone, where edges have been limited, or a kind of 3D toast fepending on your topplogical analysis...
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by toufka 8y ago
A CEO of a phrmaceutical company ought to be able to do diligence on an FDA-trajected company in a way that a former secretary of state would not be able to evaluate a diagnostics company.
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by toufka 8y ago
I think that's a bit cynical of the current round of bio-based funding. It's not wrong, but it's also not the whole picture. It's only just started, but there is now a light at the end of the genetic/gene-therapy t
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by toufka 8y ago
This is not just good advice for a successful programming career, but if you can pull it off, pretty much any field that one is passionate about. As a scientist, if one is a scientist and has abided these ideas, they'd ramp up the food
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by toufka 8y ago
I second their recommendation and add that their podcast is really good and nerdy. They also put to pragmatic social and geopolitical use a lot of tech in a low-budget way: imaging from Planet Labs, machine learning in inage analysis, etc.

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