jrl

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by jrl 6mo ago
"Basic things like TCP connections between VMs would mysteriously hang" This is like a car that can't even get you two blocks from home. Amazing.
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by jrl 6y ago
Even the 70% backing number is too high. According to the findings of the NYAG: "Because of Tether’s inability to conduct significant banking activity during this time, it could not itself hold dollars sufficient to back the hundreds o
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How to protect the future web from its founders' own frailty(boingboing.net)
2 points by jrl 10y ago|1 comments
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by jrl 10y ago
This is one of the reasons why I love a simple website without too many whistles and bells.
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Billion-dollar Apple iPod antitrust lawsuit gets under way in US court(theguardian.com)
2 points by jrl 12y ago|0 comments
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Google begged Steve Jobs for permission to hire engineers for its Paris office(pando.com)
20 points by jrl 12y ago|2 comments
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Twitter pictures have been blocked in Venezuela(twitter.com)
1 points by jrl 13y ago|0 comments
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by jrl 13y ago
"Can you use such a construction to create carbon nanotubes or equivalent and then lay them out in a three dimensional lattice structure with nanometer precision and six-sigma workpiece reliability?" I can use biochemistry to buil
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by jrl 13y ago
Enzymes can add hydroxyl groups to molecules in specific locations. A hydroxyl group contains only two atoms. Enzymes can also remove a couple of hydrogen atoms and their electrons in particular places of a molecule. By combining these and
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by jrl 14y ago
Octave is a nice language for doing matrix operations, I'm glad someone made a port for Android.
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by jrl 14y ago
It´s also blocked in my country! Not a titanic task to circumvent the blockade though.
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by jrl 14y ago
If governments can censor for a "good" purpose, they can also censor for a "bad" one. For example, the laws and technology that allow you to interrupt access to a piracy website could be used to censor any controversial content (note that m
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by jrl 14y ago
I have asked myself the same question, why doesn't Mozilla file an antitrust complain or something like that against Apple? They're not only bundling their own browser, but also actively preventing competitors from using the platform.
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by jrl 14y ago
Yes, it's worse than Microsoft's dominance of PCs in the 1990s. Back then, at least you could install whatever software you wanted in your machine. Now it's completely locked down in the iPhone and Windows Phone. What happened to the hacker
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by jrl 14y ago
FirefoxOS might make the mobile web better. It will give web developers more access to the device's hardware, unlike a website running stock Android browser. Everybody has been saying it for years, native apps can do more than web apps in i
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by jrl 14y ago
Very interesting. I wonder what other researchers think about this.
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by jrl 14y ago
That sounds like a very cool science fiction idea :-)
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by jrl 14y ago
It looks like cells under the microscope. Very interesting stuff.
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by jrl 14y ago
This is great, I love it. I can read PDF files without leaving the browser, in any browser. I find it slightly distracting to switch to a third-party application.
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by jrl 14y ago
"...Apple has crafted a marketplace that offends nobody." Apple could keep this curated marketplace and at the same time allow sideloading of applications, like many Android phones do. By taking that simple step, concerns about censorship w
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by jrl 14y ago
Another reason why allowing side-loading is essential. Giving too much power to a company over your digital life is a mistake. All those problems could be avoided by directly contacting the developer of the app and asking for a file to upgr
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by jrl 14y ago
"It is also important to dispute the dissent's analogy to snapping a leaf from a tree. With respect, no one could contemplate that snapping a leaf from a tree would be worthy of a patent, whereas isolating genes to provide useful diagnostic