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by j2d3 1y ago
All this was an excuse to use the word brobdingnagian.
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by j2d3 7y ago
This reminds me of the lifetime movie classic starring Mare Winningham, "Who is Julia?"
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by j2d3 12y ago
Them too, but heroku runs on aws and basically provides this, too, but instead of free, it's very very expensive
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by j2d3 12y ago
This destroys heroku, right?
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Heroku is DEAD: ec2 container service announced
1 points by j2d3 12y ago|0 comments
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by j2d3 12y ago
I checked and it's corrected in the most current version: https://github.com/s3tools/s3cmd/blob/master/s3cmd#L2048 The version I have with the typo is 1.5.0-alpha1
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by j2d3 12y ago
ok, that makes sense! S and C are fairly close together on the keyboard. Pretty funny typo ;)
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S3://come-bucket
5 points by j2d3 12y ago|3 comments
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by j2d3 12y ago
Tamiflu is made by Gilead. Donald Rumsfeld was on the board. Mexico (among other countries) borrowed millions from the world bank to buy Tamiflu during the H1N1 craze. http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2011&
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by j2d3 12y ago
CEO is inherently a political role - a CEO is the face of the company. If the CEOs political views are at odds with most of the employees of the company as well as the company's product's userbase, it's hardly surprising that
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by j2d3 13y ago
...that said, I do like the idea - have a 3 year old, and trying to understand what is available out there is incredibly difficult and haphazard.
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by j2d3 13y ago
"Expedia for..." sounds pretty weird. Think of something else. I can't remember what actual Expedia is for.
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by j2d3 13y ago
There are many millions of people who have HIV but not AIDS. Their immune systems work well, and their viral levels are controlled by medications. These people are on US health insurance and are highly monitored already, and easy to enroll
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by j2d3 13y ago
This story discusses other HIV vaccine efforts that are targeted at already infected and stop the dependence on the HIV meds: http://www.livescience.com/18107-hiv-therapeutic-vaccines-pr... according to that article there a
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by j2d3 13y ago
Hi Howie, can you elaborate? You didn't really address the why / why not aspect of the question. Since the Immunity Project concept relies on training the immune system to mount a successful response against HIV, why would it not
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by j2d3 13y ago
One of the wonderful things about the internet is that no one knows you're a...(something you're not)... unless you tell them.
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by j2d3 13y ago
And op's point is that we do not have an open market due to ill conceived regulations like dodd frank.
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Thought Creates(spiritscienceandmetaphysics.com)
2 points by j2d3 13y ago|0 comments
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by j2d3 13y ago
I thought this was going to be a joke post along the lines of "disrupt threadmaking" -> "disrupt sewing machines" -> "disrupt sweatshop labor issues" -> "disrupt textile design and manufacturing p
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by j2d3 13y ago
"Because we’re in this transition period between PHP and Ruby, we couldn’t use PostgreSQL on Heroku because PHP doesn’t speak PostgreSQL." sigh
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by j2d3 13y ago
Do people really pay $250k to engineers right out of college, or is that an exaggeration?
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by j2d3 13y ago
Um, actually, on the other hand - re: Sangamo Genetics: http://seekingalpha.com/article/1705622-sangamo-a-fiery-biot... Yikes!
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by j2d3 13y ago
This approach seems roughly similar to what Sangamo Genetics has been trying for HIV - with some recent success - http://www.aidsmeds.com/articles/Sangamo_genetics_1667_24579...
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by j2d3 13y ago
What if we tied a basic income to accepting 24x7 monitoring of the body and all communications from the body's point of view in space... i.e., a monitoring band that tracks health biometrics, as well as audio and video, ambient temp, h
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CircleCi's MongoDB was exposed for 10 days?
1 points by j2d3 13y ago|0 comments
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by j2d3 13y ago
I dunno, Paris h. as media hacker could actually be an interesting discussion.
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by j2d3 13y ago
This is probably bound to catch on fast in the us where teachers and their unions are thought (by an unnerving possible majority) to be one of the primary factors in our ongoing economic problems.
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by j2d3 13y ago
This seems more like your observation rather than a point of the article, but I agree 100%
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by j2d3 13y ago
So far there's nothing to stop!
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by j2d3 13y ago
This article is overly focused on cost, which is dumb because they're in development. Clearly costs will not be the same when they become generally available, and the ownership model is going to change completely, too. Car service

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