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by toufka 10y ago
/u/jvoisin on /r/netsec has a writeup: https://hackmd.io/s/r1gLMUUpx He notes that though much is targeted at older systems, a few things that look yet-unpatched.
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by toufka 10y ago
It's really unfortunate that a government official is so blatantly and factually wrong. And that wrong information provides the only rational basis for a dramatic change in policy.
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by toufka 10y ago
This really should be unflagged, and the title should probably indicate the FCC Chairman is the author: "FCC Chairmain: 'No, Republicans didn’t just strip away Internet privacy rights'"
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by toufka 10y ago
The author is the FCC Chairman.
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by toufka 10y ago
After thinking about it a while, I think part of the numbers come from a time-based valuation. Apple's chief council is likely not the only lawyer who could 'do his job' for that price. But I need someone to do his job this
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by toufka 10y ago
So YouTube likely was showing ads for the video, but the revenue wasn't going to the uploader, rather going to http://www.omniamedia.co/ There are a lot of thumbs in this pie.
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by toufka 10y ago
There are other ways to do biomedical science than p-hacking at large data sets. Some of the best science I've seen were experiments where the result was guaranteed to be one of a few different possibilities - and therefore any concret
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by toufka 10y ago
>I would much rather see slow, difficult, tentative studies instead of the high-speed spray of nearly meaningless results we see every day. A major hurdle is the experiments do keep getting slower and slower. As a recently graduated b
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by toufka 10y ago
You do realize that the power of Cas9 is not it's ability to cut or even induce non-homologous-end-joining, but rather to co-localize with an exact sequence of DNA (that can be changed in a day for a few dollars). Cutting DNA is certai
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by toufka 10y ago
I believe most if not all of thier staff is English-speaking (and not Chinese/Russian-speaking). They'd have to find different staff to work in yhose other languages, or to even inderstand the documents' importance.
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by toufka 10y ago
The threat in this model is not the government, but rather from a private isp selling usage data attached to your name. As you are a paying customer it is not in Digital Ocean's interest to sell usage stats attached to real identities.
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by toufka 10y ago
Likely true. However those particular topics are specifically ones where people with no informed background flippanlty reject the knowledgebase of people with professional background. And that casual disdain for life-long experience also ca
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by toufka 10y ago
The sequences have only recently been found, and the interesting proteins don't share much homology. Check out http://kumamushi.org for a lot if technical detail in the genome. jfarlow in comments below points to one of the
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by toufka 10y ago
The modern biotech sector as a whole (excluding pure pharmaceutical therapeutics) is a pretty small compared with the tech sector. It's really challenging to build a company in a new ecosystem like that. Getting resources into the sys
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by toufka 10y ago
Not only is the material made from water, sugar and heat instead of oil (compared to synthetic fabrics), but it also comes from a known genetically encoded template. That genetic template can be varied by an atom here or an atom here with
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by toufka 10y ago
This quality/price curve you describe seems to come about naturally now in our world of mass-produced things. Cameras, Furniture, housing construction, appliances, cars, etc. It's straightforward to find 'crappy', and
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by toufka 10y ago
The information age seems to want for clarification of the 'old rules' of society immemorial. Addiction, theft, privacy, economic theory, etc. We don't seem to yet have clear articulation about how those rules should be newl
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by toufka 10y ago
I don't think the doves are creating space junk. They're not high enough to maintain an orbit for more than a year (?) or so. Maybe a few years in the more odd orbits. They experience significant atmospheric drag, and are small
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by toufka 10y ago
That's precisely why the experts are asked their opinion. And a jury takes that opinion into account. "Dr. Soandso, do you believe, based on your experience, that such an action would constitute a flagrant abuse? Of a kind that i
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by toufka 10y ago
So like a lexical DNS service for figuring out DNS names. A Domain Name Name Service - DNNS!
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by toufka 10y ago
To a scientist's eyes it looks like a standard science presentation with all the interesting bits taken out. It's a great study on the clash of cultures. A standard scientific presentation will have those exact slides, along with
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by toufka 10y ago
Because the price/capability curve over time for modern electronics is nowhere near linear. So to get a new phone at the front of the capability curve is very expensive, and will be considered nowhere near the front within a single sea
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by toufka 10y ago
We really don't have a good grasp even on the variety of plants and animals. We do know a lot about the foundations of each organism's genetics, but we're just now peeking into their variation. And that is precisely why
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by toufka 10y ago
How does this jive with the Posse Comitatus Act? The NSA is a military operation, and the FBI is a domestic operation. Surely there is information that should be shared between them, but a firehose from one to the other, no matter how limi
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by toufka 10y ago
>It's still early days for external GPUs. Exactly. The trashcan Mac Pro had the same idea. But if I recall correctly there were some licensing issues that prevented many manufacturers from adopting the concept, and the cost did it
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by toufka 10y ago
Silk is a protein. That means it's encoded by DNA. Kevlar is ultimately a chemical - not dissimilar from a complicated sugar. To make complicated property changes to a small molecule requires significant R&D and is ultimately not
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You are falling into a linguistic trap. The idea of a 'gene' 150 years ago was a "unit of heritable information". We didn't actually know how that information was stored - but we knew it was there (see Mendel'
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by toufka 10y ago
LOTS of things affect epigenetics. It currently appears to be a messy, relatively non-deterministic process with lots of different pathways crossing wires with lots of other different pathways. A snapshot of my mental model of epigenetics (
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by toufka 10y ago
See my comment above. DNA can be commented in/out during an organism's lifetime. And these comments/silencing capabilities are in fact transferable to a child with some fidelity. And in that way those changes are heritable
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by toufka 10y ago
I'll quote myself from a previous comment regarding epigenetics. Epigenetics. It's the make-file for your genetic source code. Certain conditions can cause certain parts of your genetic code to be uncommented or commented-out. The

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