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anonmeow

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    Comment #10717470

    It's more straightforward to tax snapchats and facebooks some more and put the money into cancer research.

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    Comment #10608857

    Looks like I hit a nerve here, haven't I? Note that my advice is rational and completely unironic. It is rational to follow the clique if you want to succeed in tech. I act like th…

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    Comment #10608822

    >Just having a 'compiler' will not change much about that understanding The compiler is called "genetic engineering" and it's a 30 years old field. In particular genetic engineerin…

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    Comment #10608776

    It may not be the solution you expected, but you could try upwork. Pay can be decent and it allows you to live while traveling across exotic countries. I know a programmer that liv…

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    Comment #10608750

    To use the YC/dev culture to your advantage you have to play your cards in a smart way. Make yourself a name (make a cool html5 website promoting yourself as a professional). Make …

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    Comment #10608734

    Sadly, skills won't make any difference if you don't meet requirements for visa. You could take your time and get relevant degree though (anything CS related should work). Also you…

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    Comment #10608715

    I doubt that anybody will help you here. This website is filled with affluent first-worlders (many of them ivy graduates) that live inside their silicon valley bubble. Their rent p…

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    Comment #10608706

    Start with researching visa laws. H1B is a very common way to come into US for work. EU has alternatives. Note that these visa require BS degree. As to what to write in your resume…

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    Comment #10493703

    The Moore's law has ended (doubling time has become longer than 2 years, and looks like 10nm-7nm will be the last manufacturing process for a long time). From now on we will see mo…

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    Comment #10477127

    The same could be said about startups.

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    Comment #10435307

    When the civilization is confined to one small planet while hitting the physical limits to growth, the fixed pie is a good analogy. There is fixed and diminishing amount of arable …

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    Comment #10413343

    Server CPUs have >2x memory channels when compared to consumer CPUs. IBM Power CPUs show that it's possible to get even more memory bandwidth than in mainstream Xeons. Looks like l…

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    Comment #10410040

    If the PR is good this could create a positive public attitude towards life extension. You'd get more funding in the end.

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    Comment #10410016

    If governments and FDAs of the developed world were more cooperative it wouldn't happen this way. Startups don't have a billion dollars for FDA trials.

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    Comment #10409994

    There is a quite large database of genes that affect aging in model organisms: http://genomics.senescence.info/genes/stats.php In this database there are 126 mouse genes. It looks …

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    Comment #10408867

    >In fact, there’s actually no such thing as big science; we should really be calling it big engineering. This is so true. Engineering is undervalued in comparison to science. It's …

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    Comment #10404253

    >It's a really, really, really big sea of possibilities nowadays for developers. If you are in the silicon valley or at least in some 1st world country - sure, you have a lot of po…

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    Comment #10384235

    You can 3d print a relatively decent actuated humanoid arm: http://www.thingiverse.com/search/page:1?q=inmoov&sa= looks quite disruptive compared to your average web-mobile-whateve…

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    Comment #10384196

    The Diamond Age is a great book. Neal Stephenson is known for researching concepts he writes about, so the technology present in the setting is based on Drexler's thesis. I wouldn'…

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    Comment #10384157

    If someone is interested in real technical description of molecular manufacturing, you may read Eric Drexler's "Nanosystems: Molecular Machinery, Manufacturing and Computation". Mo…

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    Comment #10384048

    The ribosome, DNA replication complex and ATP-synthase (and other complex enzymes) qualify as precise molecular manufacturing, if you relax the definition a little. Ribosomes are a…

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    Comment #10383953

    It is entirely possible http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gy5g33S0Gzo , but there is no market for a domestic robot. Not even for an AiBo. You see: poor people are accustomed to doing…

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    Comment #10371407

    Given enough data and a good model (recurrent neural network can model arbitrary algorithms, for example) you can learn algorithmic regularities in data, including learning itself.…

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    Comment #10371188

    Small volume of mouse cortex is already successfully scanned at 3x3x20nm voxel resolution, with smallest synaptic details being visible http://www.cell.com/abstract/S0092-8674(15)0…

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    Comment #10371130

    If you want a hard science-fiction novel about digital humans you could read Greg Egan's Permutation City, it's a masterpiece.