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Wow that took a long time to load.
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I found this article written by the CEO in a journal outlining some technical details. https://www.cell.com/joule/pdf/S2542-4351(20)30002-7.pdf

His breakthrough technology is supposed to be the carbon nanotube membrane as explained here. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19842240

But, the two papers he cited in the Joule article don't go as far as actually separating water and ethanol. It's questionable whether this is possible or has been done successfully yet. https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1674-0068/25/04/4... https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.1700938

Comment · 5 years ago
It's not strictly required, but you need a high reputation email address verification. For example, a custom domain email will not work, but gmail or outlook.com will allow you to make an account without a phone.
Comment · 5 years ago
Meanwhile, I see fleets of user-bots happily chugging along under the radar hoovering up data. Just like the post author said:

> the crux of malicious bots were, and still are, user-bots.

Seems almost laughable that Discord is making hoops for legitimate bot developers to jump through while taking little action against user-bots.

I suspect that Discord wants to get a chunk of the big money that game bot developers are making, and are pushing bot developers into a more rigid API that will eventually include in-app-purchases. The article author also said:

> No longer will bots thrive with a sandbox limited only by your imagination, but instead Discord is now the sole gatekeeper of approved use cases. The future of Discord bots relies solely on the interaction system; things have to be explicitly written and supported by Discord employees

Comment · 5 years ago
Tried to ask the Matrix devs about room emotes being broken on Android (though they work on web) and they just ignored me completely. Matrix is simply half baked and somehow barely works so that I keep using it. But they aren't even close to the point where things just work.
Comment · 5 years ago
Mate luddite here checking in. It hasn't changed since 2009.
Comment · 5 years ago
They call it prioritizing "authoritative sources" over organic results.

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