anshumanf | 7 years ago | on: Why does America still use Soyuz rockets to put its astronauts in space?
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anshumanf | 7 years ago | on: Google’s new conversational AI could eventually undermine our sense of identity
> Not sure I'm looking forward to a continual game of "guess when it's a robot".
Something that already happens on dating services, for example. And makes one cynical.
anshumanf | 9 years ago | on: Uber's 'hustle-oriented' culture becomes a black mark on employees' résumés
> hasn't broken the law on a catastrophic scale yet
Debatable?
anshumanf | 9 years ago | on: Mark Zuckerberg Says He's Not Running for President
This [1] submission and the associated HN discussion collects the reasons this was being thought about as a possibility.
anshumanf | 9 years ago | on: Zuckerberg could run Facebook while serving in government forever
This[1] article from December points to a lawsuit reported by Bloomberg allegging that Marc Andreessen helped Zuckerberg push a measure through a special committee of shareholders that would allow him to maintain "voting control of the company, even if he sells most of his stock".
[1] http://www.cnbc.com/2016/12/09/mark-zuckerberg-may-be-eyeing...
anshumanf | 9 years ago | on: Ultrasound Tracking Could Be Used to Deanonymize Tor Users
From some quick digging I did in a Github repo attempting to reverse-engineer the 'audio beacons', the frequencies used by at least one startup using the technique are in the 18kHz range[1].
https://github.com/MAVProxyUser/SilverPushUnmasked/commit/bc...
anshumanf | 9 years ago | on: Ultrasound Tracking Could Be Used to Deanonymize Tor Users
Does Android have a similar indicator for background apps recording audio?
anshumanf | 10 years ago | on: Radiant Zinc Fireworks Reveal Quality of Human Egg
I'm wondering what "the release of zinc at the time of fertilization is a conserved phenomenon" means. Maybe that is relevant?
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