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All this was an excuse to use the word brobdingnagian.

This reminds me of the lifetime movie classic starring Mare Winningham, "Who is Julia?"

Them too, but heroku runs on aws and basically provides this, too, but instead of free, it's very very expensive

This destroys heroku, right?

Heroku and imitators are dead in the water with this, IMHO

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

ok, that makes sense! S and C are fairly close together on the keyboard. Pretty funny typo ;)

does anyone else think it's sort of an odd choice for an example bucket name? s3://come-bucket ??? WTF! If you have s3cmd installed, read the --help: --configure Invoke interactive…

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.n…

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 pr…

...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.

"Expedia for..." sounds pretty weird. Think of something else. I can't remember what actual Expedia is for.

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 ins…

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-vacci…

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 …

One of the wonderful things about the internet is that no one knows you're a...(something you're not)... unless you tell them.

And op's point is that we do not have an open market due to ill conceived regulations like dodd frank.

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…

"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

Do people really pay $250k to engineers right out of college, or is that an exaggeration?

Um, actually, on the other hand - re: Sangamo Genetics: http://seekingalpha.com/article/1705622-sangamo-a-fiery-biot... Yikes!

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...

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 …