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by hodwik 10y ago
This opens a lot of possibilities for genetic manipulation, especially in connection with CRISPR. I imagine the X and Y bases are being kept secret for proprietary reason
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by hodwik 10y ago
This is an interesting article, and its position is a bit surprising, coming from The Weekly Standard. I want to go out and get that Bio now, for sure.
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by hodwik 10y ago
I did not expect myself to be in accord with the list, but really... it's perfect. I read around one third of those and they were all 10/10 for me.
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by hodwik 10y ago
I was confused by that as well. I was under the impression HP made working memristors years ago.
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by hodwik 10y ago
Any idea where HP TRIM, HP Records Manager, Autonomy, Autonomy IDOL & Autonomy Records Manager/CA are landing?
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by hodwik 10y ago
I work for a software company very much like Valve in structure, who has been operating this way since the 70s. Support still gets done, because when you hire you specifically hire people who love doing support. Those people exist, and they
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by hodwik 10y ago
I've noticed a number of security-related companies opting against HTTPS for their website. Does anyone have any idea why that might be the case?
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by hodwik 10y ago
Python has all of the constituent parts of an OO language, save explicit types, but it is never written in an OO style. Using classes != OO. Generally, Python programmers treat objects as structs with associated methods, basically the Go mo
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by hodwik 10y ago
It acknowledges that some people think it is a problem, but it does not itself make any statement about whether or not it's a problem. For those of us who believe economic inequality is both good and natural, this is a great rhetorical
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by hodwik 10y ago
Uh oh, this doesn't fit the class-war narrative so no one is going to touch it.
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by hodwik 10y ago
How does it compare to *BSD?
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by hodwik 10y ago
You'll have to take that up with the public at large. We use "internet" to refer to the world wide web. Try to sell someone a computer that has "the internet", but won't do tcp/IP, you'll get punched.
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by hodwik 10y ago
Maybe they shouldn't be watching six hours of TV a day then.
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by hodwik 10y ago
I ran into this recently on a video chat with my brother, he was trying to pin a mustache on his face but the algorithm couldn't see him. Fortunately, he didn't know why. I don't know how I would've reacted had he under
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by hodwik 10y ago
Monarchism and capital enterprise may be similar in their internal hierarchy, outside of some corporate structures, but they are rather unlike monarchies in one very important way. A capitalist enterprise (outside of a handful of extremely
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by hodwik 10y ago
Poor people, which was exactly my point. http://www.marketplace.org/2013/11/04/wealth-poverty/income-...
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by hodwik 10y ago
In discussion of economics, 'left' generally means large-scale government intervention in markets, while 'right' means truly free-markets based on the efficient market hypothesis. E.g. https://upload.wikimedia
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by hodwik 10y ago
Does anyone have a link to his "progressive kristallnact coming"?
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by hodwik 10y ago
One, FDA. Two, litigation/risk.
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by hodwik 10y ago
There are examples of more difficult media which don't get mass-media popular, not because of their quality, but because of their difficulty. These types of works make up part of the 'secret handshake' of the upper class --
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by hodwik 10y ago
Are you saying that the rest of Europe is less anti-America/anti-Capitalism than France?
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by hodwik 10y ago
That's not just a funny coincidence -- the American left has for decades been slowly allying themselves against the West. That's why no one on the left batted an eye when Google chose Yuri Kochiyama for their Google Doodle, despit
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by hodwik 10y ago
They also own a big stake in Tobii, leader in pupil tracking. Interesting to see them positioning themselves for the future here.
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by hodwik 10y ago
If that were true people with only one eye would be nauseous all of the time. As I understand it (which I may not) -- this paper (which purports to be the only paper to have tested this effect), says that they test divergence by having the
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by hodwik 10y ago
Wide DOF
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by hodwik 10y ago
> "Your brain uses the feedback from the eye muscles to ascertain distance." Source? I'm under the impression that focus is a brain-first, muscles-second process. If the object was already in focus, I don't think your
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by hodwik 10y ago
That's a really cool idea.
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by hodwik 10y ago
But 'all' you have to do is track the pupil, and push focus on the object they're looking at. We're already rendering the focal length live in most games, there's no reason we couldn't shift the focal length af
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by hodwik 10y ago
Agreed. I was very VR skeptical until I tried the Vive last month. Now I'm convinced this is around the corner.
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by hodwik 10y ago
"moving images on the screen aroused a physiological feeling of horror in the audience (shots of an onrushing train) or physical nausea (shots taken from a great height or with a swaying camera)" -Jurij Lotman You could research t

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