But you're also forgetting that you actually need to buy hardware, network connectivity, fast storage and support all of it. If you factor it in, AWS simply can't be beaten on price. And right now spot market for high-end cluster computing instances is very sweet if you can tolerate (short) periods of unavailability.
Also, starting 1000 nodes at once for a task is nothing short of awesome.
Definitely though this isn't legislation (i.e. governement dictated and legally enforced), it is a much more localised preference about what goes on in a particulat home/business/whatever. It is more akin to banning someone playing loud music in the corner of the pub or not letting someone back in your garden unless they promise not to urinate on the rabbit like they did last time.
So is DRM. It's just a part of a contract, with its terms enforced by civil and criminal law. So?
Unfortunately we live in an imperfect world full of imperfect people who will make judgements based on infomation recorded in this manner and distributed accidentally or with the intention of doing harm - it isn't practical to expect legislation (or common sense) to fix that any more than it can fix the privacy issues in the first place. I'm not sure how we can, as a society, fix that.
Look at LGBT. At the very start of the movement there were similar suggestions - hide and use privacy laws to suppress any dissemination of private information. Instead LGBT people choose to defy society and go into the open - and they succeeded. So it can be done, and with privacy it'll be easier - you can bet that your boss would also have some embarrassing secrets. As do most of other people.
And the point of blinking green is that you don't need to _guess_. The tagline on Slashdot is very appropriate: "Remember folks. Street lights timed for 35 mph are also timed for 70 mph. -- Jim Samuels" - I've actually seen people accelerating to pass through 'stale' pedestrian crossings (button-operated).
Yes, and they really help (in NYC, for example). But they are not universally available or visible, it actually takes some time and concentration to find them. Besides, some places now actually try to _conceal_ them from drivers (because of one bullshitt study that suggested that they might increase the rate of accidents).
Further, most people need to be reminded that at a yellow light, you are supposed to STOP unless you can't stop safely.
You're driving 35-40mph and you're 30-50 meters away from intersection. Then the yellow light turns on and you have to decide immediately - your travel path is about 2 seconds which MIGHT cause you to run the red light. But you also must brake pretty hard to stop at this distance.
A lot of people I know in this cases put the pedal to the metal. I'm personally more cautious and I almost always prefer to brake. So I was rear-ended once _already_ (a minor fender-bender, but still).
That's a lot of notice, and that seems like it would increase accidents as people spend the time between when it begins flashing and when it changes either rushing to beat it, or looking for an exit.
Most drivers know that you should start stopping when the green light starts flashing. Even with all the crazy Russian driving (see Youtube) I've only seen people running red lights there maybe one or two times a _year_. In US I'm seeing people running red lights every week or so.
Come to think about it, US traffic lights have delays before the green signal for cross traffic lights on exactly because of this. In Russia the cross-traffic green signal turns on immediately, saving at least a few seconds.
If you're not speeding, it's only a problem in cases where the yellow time has been illegally decreased in order to produce traffic camera revenues.
It IS a problem. BTW, I'm not insisting on using flashing green - any other type of indication is fine.
What's the concept of yellow light, then? To shock drivers? Wiki says that flashing green is used in Turkey, Austria, Serbia, Croatia, Lithuania and Latvia amongst European countries.
What I really would like to see in the US is the introduction of flashing green. In xUSSR countries and in lots of European countries, green traffic light starts flashing about 5-10 seconds before the yellow light.
I'm so used to it that I'm still shocked by the sudden switches to yellow in the US - you have a split second to decide whether to stop immediately or continue driving and risk running the red light.
Classic privacy is dead, get over it. Attempting to stop technology by legislative means are futile. It's funny how people criticize MAFIAA for legislating its business model and trying to stop the technological progress, but at the same time cry foul when new technology invades their privacy. The next battle is for total openness - if state and corporations can watch over us, then we should have power to watch over them.
And about that 'but imagine that your employer sees your drunken pictures' argument, it's high time for everyone to recognize that nobody is perfect and learn to ignore such things.
Well, our startup has been recently acquired by Illumina so I might be a little biased. But from our previous experience, IonTorrent produces much worse data and it's not that cheap. Illumina also owns a company producing very nice enzyme (Nextera) that makes life much easier for molecular biologists. Staying quiet is actually a nice feature of Illumina - it just delivers results without much fanfare. IonTorrent in comparison overpromises and underdelivers.
There are other companies to watch - nanopore-based sequencing is interesting and in theory it can revolutionize everything, but it's also incredibly complicated.
IonTorrent has been promising wonderful new machines _just_ next quarter for almost two years now. So far, they have delivered only a few machines to select customers under NDAs. And they still haven't solved a couple of crippling problems: homopolymer resolution and fairly short read length.
Also, they haven't showed anything on this year's AGBT (it's like CES, only for biotech) last week. So I won't be holding my breath waiting for $1k genome sequencing machines.
No it doesn't. There are no channels by which QE can affect the T-Bill interest rate.
Look, T-Bill rate means that investors have no trust in the economic growth, so they are vary of putting their money into the stock market or any other risky investment. Instead they seek a safe haven in T-Bills.
For example: after the bailout, prime interest rate lockdown, and the first QE, it took a couple of years for your grocery bill to start going up.
Bing! Wrong. Inflation has been low since the start of the crisis. We even got a couple of minor transient deflation episodes. Meanwhile, the monetary base has expanded by 3 times (300%!). Do you see inflation in excess of 300%? I surely don't. Yet according to the same "crowding out" theory we should have had a hyperinflation like 3 years ago.
I wish el-stupido ron paul fanatics would stop spouting this nonsense. QE doesn't have the effect on T-Bill interest rate, it's set by the market itself. As a proof - last year after the QE stopped the interest rate have actually gone a little bit lower.
Not really. They can't legally open any "locked" doors, even if it requires to simply turn the doorknob. Though if you leave your garage door wide open then the police might still search the house because of the "crime in progress" suspicion rules.
Since the "true vacuum" bubble moves at lightspeed, there's no way for observers to perceive it. In effect, its effects are simply culled from the global many-worlds history.
Actually, it's a case for the many-world interpretation. According to it, the Universe is constantly being destroyed - we just perceive the event branches in which it's not destroyed. Since 'true vacuum' bubble nucleation is probably a quantum event there should always be a branch that avoids its nucleation.
No, T-cells are not region-specific, there might be different abundance of them in different fluids, but there are no semen-specific or blood-specific T-cells.
No, each T-cell "line" has its own unique mutation. So each individual would have a specific for him set of nearly-unique mutations. More than enough for forensic testing.
You get a certain amount of somatic mutations. Also, there are T-cells which have regions of DNA that mutate all the time (that's how your immune system creates immune cells adapted to kill certain diseases). So there's a near certain chance that your blood has large amount of T-cells with unique sequences. So you need to get samples from the rapes, get T-cells out of there, sequence them and then compare to sequenced T-cells from each twin.
I own a Volt and my daily commute is 32 miles. It fits comfortably into the 40 miles of its all-electric range. So you should look into it. Though right now I'd be the first to admit that Volt isn't really that cost-effective because of its high price.
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That's actually true because sea salt contains a bit of potassium chloride. There's even "low-sodium" salt in some supermarkets :)
But you're also forgetting that you actually need to buy hardware, network connectivity, fast storage and support all of it. If you factor it in, AWS simply can't be beaten on price. And right now spot market for high-end cluster computing instances is very sweet if you can tolerate (short) periods of unavailability.
Also, starting 1000 nodes at once for a task is nothing short of awesome.
So is DRM. It's just a part of a contract, with its terms enforced by civil and criminal law. So?
Look at LGBT. At the very start of the movement there were similar suggestions - hide and use privacy laws to suppress any dissemination of private information. Instead LGBT people choose to defy society and go into the open - and they succeeded. So it can be done, and with privacy it'll be easier - you can bet that your boss would also have some embarrassing secrets. As do most of other people.
And the point of blinking green is that you don't need to _guess_. The tagline on Slashdot is very appropriate: "Remember folks. Street lights timed for 35 mph are also timed for 70 mph. -- Jim Samuels" - I've actually seen people accelerating to pass through 'stale' pedestrian crossings (button-operated).
Yes, and they really help (in NYC, for example). But they are not universally available or visible, it actually takes some time and concentration to find them. Besides, some places now actually try to _conceal_ them from drivers (because of one bullshitt study that suggested that they might increase the rate of accidents).
You're driving 35-40mph and you're 30-50 meters away from intersection. Then the yellow light turns on and you have to decide immediately - your travel path is about 2 seconds which MIGHT cause you to run the red light. But you also must brake pretty hard to stop at this distance.
A lot of people I know in this cases put the pedal to the metal. I'm personally more cautious and I almost always prefer to brake. So I was rear-ended once _already_ (a minor fender-bender, but still).
Most drivers know that you should start stopping when the green light starts flashing. Even with all the crazy Russian driving (see Youtube) I've only seen people running red lights there maybe one or two times a _year_. In US I'm seeing people running red lights every week or so.
Come to think about it, US traffic lights have delays before the green signal for cross traffic lights on exactly because of this. In Russia the cross-traffic green signal turns on immediately, saving at least a few seconds.
It IS a problem. BTW, I'm not insisting on using flashing green - any other type of indication is fine.
What's the concept of yellow light, then? To shock drivers? Wiki says that flashing green is used in Turkey, Austria, Serbia, Croatia, Lithuania and Latvia amongst European countries.
I actually have this feature in my navigator - it beeps when I exceed the speed limit by 8mph outside of cities and 5mph inside. I really like it.
What I really would like to see in the US is the introduction of flashing green. In xUSSR countries and in lots of European countries, green traffic light starts flashing about 5-10 seconds before the yellow light.
I'm so used to it that I'm still shocked by the sudden switches to yellow in the US - you have a split second to decide whether to stop immediately or continue driving and risk running the red light.
Well, actually yes.
Classic privacy is dead, get over it. Attempting to stop technology by legislative means are futile. It's funny how people criticize MAFIAA for legislating its business model and trying to stop the technological progress, but at the same time cry foul when new technology invades their privacy. The next battle is for total openness - if state and corporations can watch over us, then we should have power to watch over them.
And about that 'but imagine that your employer sees your drunken pictures' argument, it's high time for everyone to recognize that nobody is perfect and learn to ignore such things.
Cellphones don't record & upload constantly
Mine does.
Well, our startup has been recently acquired by Illumina so I might be a little biased. But from our previous experience, IonTorrent produces much worse data and it's not that cheap. Illumina also owns a company producing very nice enzyme (Nextera) that makes life much easier for molecular biologists. Staying quiet is actually a nice feature of Illumina - it just delivers results without much fanfare. IonTorrent in comparison overpromises and underdelivers.
There are other companies to watch - nanopore-based sequencing is interesting and in theory it can revolutionize everything, but it's also incredibly complicated.
IonTorrent has been promising wonderful new machines _just_ next quarter for almost two years now. So far, they have delivered only a few machines to select customers under NDAs. And they still haven't solved a couple of crippling problems: homopolymer resolution and fairly short read length.
Also, they haven't showed anything on this year's AGBT (it's like CES, only for biotech) last week. So I won't be holding my breath waiting for $1k genome sequencing machines.
Look, T-Bill rate means that investors have no trust in the economic growth, so they are vary of putting their money into the stock market or any other risky investment. Instead they seek a safe haven in T-Bills.
Bing! Wrong. Inflation has been low since the start of the crisis. We even got a couple of minor transient deflation episodes. Meanwhile, the monetary base has expanded by 3 times (300%!). Do you see inflation in excess of 300%? I surely don't. Yet according to the same "crowding out" theory we should have had a hyperinflation like 3 years ago.
I wish el-stupido ron paul fanatics would stop spouting this nonsense. QE doesn't have the effect on T-Bill interest rate, it's set by the market itself. As a proof - last year after the QE stopped the interest rate have actually gone a little bit lower.
Not really. They can't legally open any "locked" doors, even if it requires to simply turn the doorknob. Though if you leave your garage door wide open then the police might still search the house because of the "crime in progress" suspicion rules.
Since the "true vacuum" bubble moves at lightspeed, there's no way for observers to perceive it. In effect, its effects are simply culled from the global many-worlds history.
Actually, it's a case for the many-world interpretation. According to it, the Universe is constantly being destroyed - we just perceive the event branches in which it's not destroyed. Since 'true vacuum' bubble nucleation is probably a quantum event there should always be a branch that avoids its nucleation.
No, T-cells are not region-specific, there might be different abundance of them in different fluids, but there are no semen-specific or blood-specific T-cells.
No, each T-cell "line" has its own unique mutation. So each individual would have a specific for him set of nearly-unique mutations. More than enough for forensic testing.
Analysis cost is about $20k per genome for good enough coverage to distinguish CNV (and I work for a DNA sequencing company).
You get a certain amount of somatic mutations. Also, there are T-cells which have regions of DNA that mutate all the time (that's how your immune system creates immune cells adapted to kill certain diseases). So there's a near certain chance that your blood has large amount of T-cells with unique sequences. So you need to get samples from the rapes, get T-cells out of there, sequence them and then compare to sequenced T-cells from each twin.
I own a Volt and my daily commute is 32 miles. It fits comfortably into the 40 miles of its all-electric range. So you should look into it. Though right now I'd be the first to admit that Volt isn't really that cost-effective because of its high price.
Voice control is getting better. I can do almost everything that required physical interactions earlier with just voice commands on new cars.