rational-future

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Comment · 11 years ago
The trial in genetic programming is too random, compared to what a human researcher would try.
Comment · 11 years ago
Why would you run a "critical payment application" in US East? This datacenter has 10x the downtime of West or Ireland.
Comment · 11 years ago
Lucas did see a number of German and Soviet SciFi movies before making Star Wars. Some of the influence in costumes and space ships is quite obvious.
Comment · 11 years ago
That's an interesting argument, but it misses the fact that the US is effectively subsidizing the healthcare in the rest of the world.
Comment · 11 years ago
You have NO idea what you're talking about.

>> JS have to be interpreted

Yeah, because the Bible, the Quaran and the Declaration of Independence say so ...

Comment · 11 years ago
You are completely ignoring the other big reason for surrender - USSR declaration of war.
Comment · 11 years ago
So many wrong statements.

The performance differences, between CSS styles applied from a JS file and a CSS file are very small on modern browsers, with JS being faster sometime.

JS files are cached.

Preprocessors are not fine, they complicate and slow down the development process.

Inlining CSS is not stupid, OP discusses the numerous advantages it brings...

Comment · 11 years ago
>> addressing the underlying cause of the leak

There are problem causes that are very hard to address. E.g. alcohol consumption causing a lot of traffic accidents.

Or massive corporations, with huge lobbying budgets, releasing toxins in the environment. Toxins that cause no obvious harm, but kill a lot of bees or cause cancer in some humans after 20 years of exposure.

Comment · 11 years ago
Comment · 11 years ago
I've done some diving in the Black Sea and have stumbled upon a number of structures that looked like human-made artifacts. They are near the shore lines as they were before the end of the last glacial period. I'm personally 99% sure there was a somewhat advanced civilization at that time.
Comment · 11 years ago
Is there a video online?
Comment · 11 years ago
or will patients have to go through evil health provider gatekeeping?

FTFY :)

Comment · 11 years ago
Hey Dave, how does RNA sequencing work for an individual customer? Do you plan to have something like the 23andMe collection kit?

In my understanding human cells have may different types of RNA, which one are you sequencing?

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