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final··on Can a Computer Replace Your Doctor?
Of all mainstream professions (including software developers) medical doctors have the highest average IQ. They understood very well how dangerous for their mortgages and standard of living a computer doctor can be. The MD lobby in US have fought tooth and nail since the 1980s to stall advance in this area.
final··on Europeans drawn from three ancient 'tribes'
Farmers expand to the north slowly, a few miles a generation. Women with the lightest skin have many healthy children, the rest don't. Those healthy children grow and survive, as there's plenty of food and little competition. The next generation moves a little bit further north, where a little bit lighter skin is required to have healthy children.
final··on Japanese woman is first recipient of next-generation stem cells
> I'm curious to know if these are expected to develop into normal retinae

I don't think so. My life is working in US on stem cell regeneration of limbs. As far as I understand the development of macro structures requires an inter cell grid, than no one so far has managed to artificially create.

final··on Sysadmins see evidence that they have been hacked by GCHQ [video]
Yeah, I'd bet in a few years the breaks in her car will malfunction or she'll get the wrong drug or murdered some other way.
final··on Sysadmins see evidence that they have been hacked by GCHQ [video]
Not to mention that the government has trusted signing keys and can generate SSL certificates for any site, that your browser and other apps will accept. Combined with control over the Internet level 1 infrastructure makes MITM attacks trivial. Gotta love our brave new fascist state, soon to go global.
final··on Sysadmins see evidence that they have been hacked by GCHQ [video]
From the standpoint of the NSA you are the most dangerous adversary in the world. You are the only real danger to the US establishment and no effort will be spared in spying on you.

EDIT: thanks Mr krapp.

final··on Paket: Package manager for .NET and Mono
Sure, in these long, cold winter nights what else is one to do...

If you have any analytics, compare the number of visitors to the main and to faq pages ...

final··on How Google’s CDN prevents your site from loading in China
Because in OP's world GitHub is very important, and he believes Chinese bureaucrats are like him.

I currently do consulting work for a Fortune 20 corporation and their firewall blocks cloning of Github repositories. They have over a thousand developers on site ... I'm thinking of writing a scraper, that clones from the Web pages, which do open.

final··on How Google’s CDN prevents your site from loading in China
Or maybe just use the standard fonts and don't use a CDN. 99.99999% of the sites on the internet gain very little from CDN. Yeah it's a cool technology, it's nice to pretend you're important, but in the end CDN is an expensive (in complexity and risks) toy.
final··on Paket: Package manager for .NET and Mono
The front page doesn't answer THE question, why would I use Paket instead of NuGet. Realistically in the .NET ecosystem, once Microsoft introduces a passable product (such as NuGet) the chances of any alternative to gain adoption are veeery swim.
final··on First set of Android apps for ChromeOS
OK, so Linux can run Windows apps (Wine) and Windows can run Linux apps (Cygwin). When do Microsoft and RedHat merge their platforms?
final··on First set of Android apps for ChromeOS
You are living in the past, when Windows was the holy graal for the software companies. Today Android is waaaay outselling Windows. Its like advising Ford to change his cars in such ways as to allow clients to use horses, instead of motors. And yes there are markets for horse cars and laptops today, but those are not the markets where the big profits are.
final··on Stripe and Apple Pay
Web is the enemy of Apple. iOs devices need unique features to sell, not Web stuff that is easy to duplicate by the competition.
final··on With genetic testing, I gave my parents the gift of divorce
There is a team in Denmark, working on building body and face models from persons genetic code. Stuff like age, height range, skin, hair, eye color, big/small/regular nose, wide/narrow face.
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