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by naterator 12y ago
> Do you understand how widespread this kind of research is? Literally everyone does this. One of the main objections I'm seeing from people (in my bubble) isn't that Facebook did this, but that Cornell, UCSF, and PNAS partic
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by naterator 12y ago
Silicon Valley and the tech sector is full of adult babies. Watching the twitter reaction to this news (and others) is pretty fascinating. You're all so doom-and-gloom the first second the government tries to regulate something. Let&#x
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by naterator 12y ago
>They could have just surveyed users back then to find out where they were screwing up, but in typical Google fashion, that would have involved actually engaging with their users, which Google is borderline allergic to. Yup. Google never
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by naterator 12y ago
That's not a clear-cut mistake, and in my opinion totally forgivable. http://www.betterwritingskills.com/tip-w005.html
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by naterator 12y ago
I think it's a very valid criticism if your best people (not talking about "most" people, who don't start companies and create new stuff) can easily move to another country (or other state inside the US) and earn WAY mor
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by naterator 12y ago
Yea, the lesson is: If you find yourself in a situation like that, bail out as fast as you can. When we're young we are often not taught—or more importantly we do not have the opportunity—to simply GTFO of the crappy situation we'
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by naterator 12y ago
Indeed, here was the link: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/215201435/dart-the-worl...
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by naterator 12y ago
Isn't this the type of thing a place like Bell Labs would, or Google X should, be on top of? And not fruitlessly rehashing the space elevator idea?
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by naterator 12y ago
IMO it's definitely Second-system syndrome. Maps worked fine and didn't need much added/changed, but someone decided that they needed to keep iterating and now we're stuck with all the cludge built on top of it now.
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by naterator 12y ago
What surprised me more was that the Canary Islands was one of the first markets for IKEA (before 1985). I mean, the Canary Islands before Madrid or New York? WTF? I can only assume they were using as a test market, like Kansas City for Goog
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by naterator 12y ago
Yea, that's great and all but what happens when China and it's 1.4 billion people get their stuff together? It's astounding that it seems that few in the US government seem to acknowledge that we may not be on top always, and
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by naterator 12y ago
> This is the easy way out for them. As far as I understand they wanted to restructure but they are not being allowed to by the court. The first line[1] in the doc essentially says this. This happens when the court doesn't think the
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by naterator 12y ago
Meta: I love that lately there have been more health and biology related submissions here on HN. Dovetails nicely with YC new shift/interest, and matches one of my great personal interests. Do other like this as well, or do people wish
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by naterator 12y ago
Shouldn't there be some kind of formula for this kind of thing? Some kind of way to gauge how much salary/year you should give up based on how likely you think they will be successful. For example, [% annual salary haircut] = [lik
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by naterator 12y ago
An interesting theory, but the problem with it is that the pool of potential devs is effectively limitless (well, not really but it might as well be). They would have to pay me multiple $10ks to stop dev and shut up. And offering that to
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Portraits of Reconciliation(nytimes.com)
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by naterator 12y ago
It should be noted that a parallel study[1] at the National Institute for Aging (NIA) found that this was not the case. The authors of this study (UW) claim (as far as I understand) that the NIA study was flawed because both Control and Cal
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by naterator 12y ago
There are people fighting for those rights as well. And I don't think they're insane (as you seem to imply). As long as it's clearly agreed upon between consenting adults, it's not so ridiculous. Perhaps the logistics of
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by naterator 12y ago
>They'll literally kill people, for profit and profit alone. And how many people would they be "killing" if they had decided to not develop the drug at all because there is no chance of making money? Should they have done
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by naterator 12y ago
> neither my name or Coinbase-only email address was in this list That doesn't really mean anything, since it clearly says at the top: "Here is a partial list of Coinbase user emails and their full names. Full list much bigger.
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by naterator 12y ago
I understand why people are upset about Facebook's acquisition of OVR, especially the hardcore gamers. I was surprised and upset when I first heard the news, too. However, from Facebook's perspective and the perspective of anyone
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by naterator 12y ago
Working link to actual article: http://www.cell.com/retrieve/pii/S0092867413015213
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by naterator 13y ago
> [1]"Airbnb doesn’t even own a bed, but its backers think it’s more valuable than Hyatt" Sure, certainly an important thing to consider if you take the pessimistic view. On the very optimistic side, consider the possibility th
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by naterator 13y ago
Terrorism is also a non-0 probability possibility, which must also be considered.
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by naterator 13y ago
> Crisprs is supposed to be somewhat noisy Since you seem knowledgeable: Do you know how they compare to other kinds of methods for cutting/splicing new genes into DNA, such as Zinc fingers or homing endonucleases? Specificity (non-
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by naterator 13y ago
These kinds of things are daily discussions in laboratories all over the world. Everyone knows there's no future in academia, and so everyone is looking for an exit plan. I actively discourage people from doing a PhD. Academia is a hor
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by naterator 13y ago
You don't even need to look at tax code. Just consider the fact that many people who work for places like Walmart also get Food Stamps and Medicaid. Many US corporations would not be be profitable (or at least structured the same way)
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by naterator 13y ago
Not sure if it is/was, but having at least three people review code before merge should be standard practice for security critical stuff like this. Something I plan to implement in the future.
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by naterator 13y ago
While I'm sure you mean well, and it's not like HN is full of trolls who want to trick you, you shouldn't just be asking for PayPal accounts that you'll willy-nilly send money to. You have no idea if this story is true o
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by naterator 13y ago
I came late to the Bitcoin party, so when I started mining other coins mid-last year the first thing I did was download the wallet client and encrypt, and backed it up. And I still didn't fully trust that my coins were safe, and that

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