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I guess this can be said about your entire stack, OS, webserver, used libraries, etc.

Well we were looking world wide so that would be a lot of governments. Having said that, here in the Netherlands I could see it happen, the gouvernement does have (had) quite a few open data initiatives.

I once was on a project that started out with OSM, but then realised there was nothing that compared to Google's Places API (might be different now) in terms of completeness and correctness. And your are not (or at least were not) allowed to use Places API on top of / in combination with OSM).

That's what you get when your consumer directed products are 'free' and thus widely used and thus lot's of stake holders ensure their place is correctly in their database (probably in combination with other, possibly community based, efforts).

We relied heavily on Places API and thus were bound to Google Maps API, we did just not see a reasonable way around that.

I've used this once! Warcraft 2, playing against a friend over a null-modem, it all started out great but the swapping became worse and worse during the game. It lagged both our games, but he (actually having the physical RAM required) at least had a responsive UI, that was too big of competitive advantage.

In the spirit of parent post (and for a whole lot of reasons by itself) then change the system.

1) What we had was not complete because sequencing happened for (relatively) small chunks. Due to overlap the sequence could be reconstructed, but not for areas with a lot of repeats.

2) This incomplete sequence has nevertheless been VERY useful, because these repeats mostly are outside of protein encoding regions ('genes').

3) 'The' human genome is of course non existent because you and I have a different one. What is meant is that this has been done for a 'bunch' of individual humans.

4) Because we're much more alike than we are different in our genome, this is still very informative.

Did you purposely leave out what type of food or was that a typo? Because that would be an (the) interesting part of your experience!

One solution could be to just extend those limits?

Haha yes the most commonly used argument is (afaik) that if we could create a 'complete' virtual world, we would, and projects like this and how enthusiastic we are about it suggest that that's indeed the case.

(The argument then of course continues that if we would, our world's inhabitants would some day too, ad infinitum. Given such a stack, the chance that we're actually still in the top layer is very small.)

But how much of what is traded in is actually repurposed?

I was the opposite, I loved programming so low level, optimising using bitshifts instead of multiplications, writing essential code in assembly, writing 16 or 32 bits at a time (as processors developed).

Continuously learning from the scarce resources I had (books from the local library and a floppy disk with txt files).

I was too young (mid teens) / unexperienced to get anything finished but did manage smooth vertical scrolling and almost got the horizontal stuff working, double buffering a rotating 3D cube (z buffering, math, line by line polygon drawing).

Then came DirectX and you lost all touch with the machine, a rotating 3D cube was breeze, I didn't see the fun in that.

The way you put it, it's like a captcha (but stronger, and with a high risk of unwanted side effects)?

Like many others in this thread you stack so many assumptions on top of each other. Why? I don't think that helps.

Will this person's bank implement WEI in such a way that none of this person's devices (computer, phone) are supported and will this person not be willing or able to switch banks, only then buying a new computer comes into view. Without knowing anything about this person, assuming average, the chances for this must be low or the bank will have no happy customers left.

I fully agree with the underlying worries you and others in this thread have, but to extrapolate that without any nuance into a world where we all become privacy-less, ad consuming, eye tracked zombies on newly bought computers is not helping the case (in my view).

I assume you agree with the worry about the first part (fake pretending to be real). For the second part, I left out the word, and was more thinking about 'wondering', but I agree the sentence structure suggests 'worry'.

I agree it is not a worry, at least not of the same kind. I do worry a bit though about assuming something and reasoning/discussing with that premise, which is nullified if the premise was wrong.

That's true. And the term mechanical turk by itself refers to an even (much) older 'fake' AI!

So in addition to worrying about fake AI stuff that is presented as real, we now also have real stuff presented as fake AI.

DNA is not really processed like that, afaik. Mostly, each 3 bases code for an amino acid, which are glued together to a string (protein), which folds in a 3D structure based on the characteristics of all amino acids.

Some DNA is used to attract other proteins, or even interact with DNA elsewhere on the strand, or is translated to RNA (one-on-one) which can then have a function based on its sequence or the structure it folds into.

Any 'logic' there is, is built _on top_ of this.

DNA mostly relies on the fact that there's 2 strands that are (logically speaking) a mirror copy of each other (a C is paired with a G and vice versa, an A to a T and vice versa), it's like RAID 3 with only 2 disks (one being parity).

Apart from repairing structural damage such as missing bonds, the cell can even repair missing bases or non-straight breaks without loss. This mechanism is also used for replication: the entire strand is split and each half is completed with its mirror counterpart.

If you extrapolate those criteria further; less nice, less transport and storage and more inventory you end up with e-books. But I absolutely understand that your personal preference is somewhere in the middle (while mine is at the end).

Kind of odd that it's a different font, if they'd work closely with the publishers there would be no need for that just take the closest paper size available on-demand, adjust the margins accordingly and otherwise print it exactly as it was intended.

I played with it a long time ago (doing actual work, mainly to understand the platform better, especially from a worker perspective) and back then it was all or almost all paid by task.

The fact that he measures the back of the plywood controls for quite a bit I think. At 3m27s into the vid you see the plywood that has the 'paint' on the _other_ side is even cooler than the square that had been in the shade all along.

The insulator is just to prevent the plywood side that is measured to be heated by the ambient temp.

Tbf the author doesn't hold this against aspartame but rather uses this sentence to set the mood before making a case for aspartame (being safe).

Absolutely agree with the taste aspect. I (male) went 0% when my gf went off of birth control and kept it that way throughout pregnancy until now (baby's 9 months) and I certainly miss some of the tastes (beers, wines, liqueur). My luck is that I enjoy drinking Heineken 0.0 and most of the 0.3%/0.5% IPA's they sell now (at least here, Netherlands). As for 0% alternatives for wines and liqueur, they haven't come close to me yet to enjoy them.

For me, there's nothing 'principal' about it btw, it just works, for now. The upside is of course no negative effects (ie hangover) and much less threshold to open one, even on the rare occasion we have a warm meal during lunch time (I work from home).

Or just ctrl-a + ctrl-b

If it lands on a street it lets you roam around, but others only let you look and zoom around, they are harder if not impossible for mere mortals.

so where 0 and 4 ;)

Or Rd6++ for check mate

Same here, I retried at least ten times if, sometimes stumbling over a copy paste error that got Paul killed, but keeping the chicken alive was the choke point for me. Perhaps it would be allowed to encode part of the url?

Also wouldn't url's with roman numbers in it fail the entire thing as 35 only can be obtained by multiplying 5 and 7? Ah right, or 35, true that but still same issue.

Yep, same here with Re and then something