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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

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.

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.

I was confused by that as well. I was under the impression HP made working memristors years ago.

Any idea where HP TRIM, HP Records Manager, Autonomy, Autonomy IDOL & Autonomy Records Manager/CA are landing?

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…

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?

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 obj…

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 inequali…

Uh oh, this doesn't fit the class-war narrative so no one is going to touch it.

How does it compare to *BSD?

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,…

Maybe they shouldn't be watching six hours of TV a day then.

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 k…

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.…

Poor people, which was exactly my point. http://www.marketplace.org/2013/11/04/wealth-poverty/income-...

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. …

Does anyone have a link to his "progressive kristallnact coming"?

One, FDA. Two, litigation/risk.

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 t…

Are you saying that the rest of Europe is less anti-America/anti-Capitalism than France?

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 ch…

They also own a big stake in Tobii, leader in pupil tracking. Interesting to see them positioning themselves for the future here.

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…