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"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.

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 no…

This is one of the reasons why I love a simple website without too many whistles and bells.

"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 work…

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…

Octave is a nice language for doing matrix operations, I'm glad someone made a port for Android.

It´s also blocked in my country! Not a titanic task to circumvent the blockade though.

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 co…

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 ac…

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 …

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 say…

Very interesting. I wonder what other researchers think about this.

That sounds like a very cool science fiction idea :-)

It looks like cells under the microscope. Very interesting stuff.

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.

"...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…

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 conta…

"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 …