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by yholio 8y ago
The reality is that often, neither the patents or the processes are available for licensing or through an acquisition and merger. Trade secrets and IP are used adversarialy, to limit competition and often times governments are deeply involv
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by yholio 8y ago
As I anticipated, it's hard to relate to somebody living in a profoundly corrupt society. My gripe with the university was not that it was exploiting postdocs or killing the environment; rather, that it failed to setup and enforce a sy
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by yholio 8y ago
There is another, even more direct route that works regardless of backup settings: WhatsApp already includes a backdoor that allows it to decrypt all messages and send them to Facebook servers, conditioned on a single UI authorization from
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by yholio 8y ago
The headphone was a very small analogue receiver that had it's own micro-battery, an inductor and amplifier - all about 4mm wide and 8mm long. You would place it deep inside the ear channel and it was invisible even to a person standin
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by yholio 8y ago
Ethics is not something that gets decided by the Dean and laid down in a code of academic ethics. The University is just a part of society and it has it's own perverse and quite unethical practices; for example, the tendency to grab on
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by yholio 8y ago
A few weeks in total, but it was a labor of love so it was quite fun. The hard part was reading all the lectures out loud, it took about a week during which my family, probably hearing my from my room, was impressed of my new found and neve
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by yholio 8y ago
I somehow decided I needed to cheat to pass a certain exam because I was basically crap at memorizing stuff. So I used an analogue wireless headphone, an induction loop around my neck and a mobile phone. Since I lacked an accomplice to dict
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by yholio 8y ago
To illustrate your point: if I paint an unique painting of myself sitting on the toilet, that's quite a scarce item, there is only one in the world, yet, it's utterly worthless. Purely social forces somehow came to the (in my opin
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by yholio 8y ago
> The 2nd process only detects that the 1st process has crashed, then removes the offending datum from the queue. Thereby hiding away the problem, diminishing the urgency of a fix while strongly favouring it's exploitation. Somethin
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A simple fix for that is to put up a big sign that says "Tourist tax in effect" and make a $25 rebate for any regular customer or person that can prove a local address; or simply assert with a straight face to the staff they live
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by yholio 8y ago
The actual text of the resolution, for those with low tolerance for dumbed-down PR releases: https://www.bipm.org/utils/en/pdf/CGPM/Draft-Resolution-A-EN...
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Because he's not releasing nuclear codes or instructions to build centrifuges - rather, sensitive information relevant to internal politics. This idea that you could "destabilize" a country by posting newsworthy material cove
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by yholio 8y ago
Nonetheless, he's still a journalist even when he does that. Media and free speech can be biased. You might not want to follow and give credence to such outlets, but they still have freedom of speech, else the credibility of everybody
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by yholio 8y ago
And yet, those are still legitimate actions for media. As a general rule, if Fox News can do it, so can Wikileaks - and it was precisely traditional media that made the dump politically damaging as opposed to Wikileaks itself, which is an o
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by yholio 8y ago
All governments use the media, that does not mean the media should not be free. Even journalists from Russia Today should not be imprisoned for what they write, for example. By selectively prosecuting non-violent speech, a state denies free
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Sure, messing with any medical device could be fatal - but so can the medical condition itself. I would like to live in a world where I can make those decisions on my own and improve my life by taking calculated risks, as opposed to a world
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by yholio 8y ago
I disagree with your own line of thinking. Coddling the renters as should mean creating oversupply of building and housing so that renting prices go down. There is no contradiction in doing that at the same time as improving public service
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by yholio 8y ago
> Instead he advocates the use of such scores when choosing between candidates for a job. What a ridiculous and offensive suggestion, widespread genetic discrimination. You don't have to be a scientist to understand why that's
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by yholio 8y ago
That's a forced consent design if I ever saw one.
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by yholio 8y ago
The trouble with cash is that you cannot really control high-school dropouts to charge $10 for a $2 beer without skimming a bit on the side. Hence this whole "here's some fake money that only works here" BS.
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by yholio 8y ago
> Presumably, someone who the journalists wrote about alleged that the journalists were not complying with GDPR in how they obtained and used the data. That somebody is the chief of the ruling party, Liviu Dragnea, president of one house
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by yholio 8y ago
Taurine sounds like the perfect cool sounding ingredient that can be safely added with absolutely no effects: "The amounts of guarana, taurine, and ginseng found in popular energy drinks are far below the amounts expected to deliver ei
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by yholio 8y ago
> Prove that it’s legal money. A clear abuse, it's the government's job to prove illegal deeds. Holding customers funds hostage under the threat of bankruptcy, while the company navigates the complex legal minefield the governm
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by yholio 8y ago
There doesn't seem to be any particular new development, just a string of unsubstantiated rumors and hoaxes: https://blokt.com/news/too-much-fud-bitcoin-pumps-tether-dum... That's not to say that Tether does
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by yholio 8y ago
> we are being forced to pay the onerous data price even by companies we have no contractual dealings with and that provide us no services whatsoever.
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> What do a I care that Google is tracking my preferences? What would I have to pay for a product with the kind of investment Google Search, GMail and Youtube have alone? Some of us care about tracking and are unwilling to pay what we co
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by yholio 8y ago
As a consequence, the ad-driven web is much more open and inclusive. The marginal cost of serving another page view to a Pakistani reader is zero, while a $10 subscription is a massive expense for someone who might earn just $100 a month. S
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by yholio 8y ago
It's somewhat easier to just browse in Firefox's private mode all the time with trakingprotection enabled and no 3rd party cookies. Nothing is shared with the tracking networks and any cookie set by the site itself is deleted at t
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Sure, but the jump is still tempting for the scientific top brass. There's only so much that can be learned in the visible spectrum and only so many Noble prizes, PhDs, tenures and grants to be had. Staying on Hubble is scraping the ba
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(Cut to Elon Musk, who begins to furiously sketch some plans on a paper napkin)

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