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Re:Cost of a 51% Attack for Different Cryptocurrencies on Sunday June 06, 2021 @11:38AM (#27413860)
Government actor says hold my beer
https://github.com/Murtnowski/Alz23andMe

I made a script to examine the raw text dump from 23andMe. See the README for a list of interesting genes to check.

23andMe does have the raw data you can look up. You can use the raw explorer on the site or download the data to text and then examine it.

Recently they just got permission in the US to do some health screening again and now they let you opt in to a Alzheimer health section.

I find looking at the raw data to be easiest.

Re:A link between polygamy and war on Tuesday December 26, 2017 @11:01AM (#16009135)
You’ve reached your article limit
Why? Houston was been flooded several times before. Particularly in 1929 and 1935 when the county finally decided to form a flood control agency. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harris_County_Flood_Control_... Climate change is real, but if every time we get bad weather you call it that it’s a little like crying wolf.
Why is this still a thing?
Been running anonember.com for a while now without issue
Re:Has Amazon been hacked (wrong author attributions) on Friday April 14, 2017 @09:05PM (#14118735)
No
Re:Jeff Bezos’ Annual Letter on Friday April 14, 2017 @10:20AM (#14114588)
How would you fix it?
Re:The TSA Must Go (2016) on Monday March 20, 2017 @12:37AM (#13911734)
I don't fly because of the TSA. I have zero fear of terrorism on my flight.
Re:Site Reliability Engineering on Saturday January 28, 2017 @09:44AM (#13506489)
Does Amazon have an equivalent position as an SRE?
Wouldn't a better idea be to give it to people with lower middle income which is more indicitive of the average household
Re:Let’s replace Twitter with something much better on Sunday November 20, 2016 @02:13PM (#13000548)
Why replace twitter? just do your own thing and let twitter do its thing
Re:This year we can end the death penalty in California on Tuesday November 01, 2016 @02:44PM (#12848944)
I never said you said it wasn't
Re:This year we can end the death penalty in California on Tuesday November 01, 2016 @02:06PM (#12848577)
It is a fact that Charles Mason was relieved from execution. Just like it is a fact that because of the court rulings around 1972 he became eligible for parole.

Charles Manson and other 106 inmates on death row in 1972 were all convicted killers who were relieved from the death penalty.

Many victim's family members were upset by the courts decision.

Re:This year we can end the death penalty in California on Tuesday November 01, 2016 @01:47PM (#12848348)
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/11/13/wrongly-con...

While the innocence project has saved many innocent people, it's important to remember that they also are wrong sometimes.

Re:This year we can end the death penalty in California on Tuesday November 01, 2016 @01:34PM (#12848188)
I'm not making an argument. I'm stating facts. I never said I was OK with it.
Re:This year we can end the death penalty in California on Tuesday November 01, 2016 @01:05PM (#12847826)
California already removed the death penalty in 1972 then later reinstated it. This resulted in killers like Charles Mason being relieved from execution and denying many victim's family member from obtaining a measure of justice they wanted.

Since being reinstated only 13 people have been executed. And none in the past 10 years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_Californ...

Re:Stackoverflow needs redesign on Saturday October 15, 2016 @11:51PM (#12716792)
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/30948205/excel-customtask...

This was a very tough issue SO helped me to solve. I used a comment someone left to help me start my own research and create the code snippet I needed. I then asked someone for a indepth description on why my snippet worked and what was really going on.

While I don't use SO as much as my early coding days, I still feel it's very helpful.

Re:Stackoverflow needs redesign on Saturday October 15, 2016 @09:19PM (#12716366)
If stack overflow users hate newbie questions they should add a filter option to ignor questions with users under 100 points.
WebRTC has no built in peer discovery to bootstrap the startup. At minimum a signaling server is will be needed for exchanging descriptions. You may also need to exchange ICE candidate information. So while this isn't serverless, it could be really great for reducing bandwidth costs until you consider that this design does not play well with mobile devices which have usage caps.
Don't they already have steaming music
About a week. Which cities are you applying to?
There have been plenty of historical examples of automated mental effort from Wall Street trading, to telephone switching, to legal research, to librarians, record keeping, accounting, logistics management, forestry overwatch, security, safety regulation, meter reader, parking enforcement, communication, art, banking, many examples throughout history.
This has already happened many times throughout history with industrialization and new technologies.
Re:Apalachin Meeting on Friday April 01, 2016 @09:28PM (#11409784)
Hacker news?
And here I was thinking the New Yorker couldn't get any worse.